Chapter Summaries

1810’s team gathered to discuss rescuing Yogurt, but Black Swan challenged 1810’s motives and revealed that Yogurt was his secret daughter. Zhang Heng and Shen Xixi arrived as the confrontation peaked.

• 1810 and his teammates waited for Zhang Heng at Dong Lai Shun while arguing over the cost of rescuing Yogurt.
• 1810 insisted that the team would save Yogurt, and Black Swan criticized his leadership and rejected his appeal to loyalty.
• Black Swan accused 1810 of recruiting Yogurt because she was his daughter, born from his first love.
• Zhang Heng and Shen Xixi entered the private room while the team’s argument was still unresolved.

1810 and his teammates asked Zhang Heng to help rescue Yogurt after discovering that a mechanical army might be involved. They offered him points and game items as compensation, and Zhang Heng focused on the bird-foot-shaped item Mole placed on the table.

• Zhang Heng accepted 1810’s apology and joined the group’s discussion about Yogurt.
• 1810 explained that Dumbledore had attacked the team and kidnapped Yogurt after being controlled by someone.
• Black Swan reasoned that Dumbledore had been commanded to return, and 1810 said the team had spotted the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles and Master Yoda on surveillance footage.
• 1810 offered Zhang Heng four hundred points and two game items in exchange for helping rescue Yogurt.
• Black Swan, Little Yellow Duck, and Mole put items on the table for Zhang Heng to choose from, and his attention went to Mole’s bird-foot-shaped item.

Zhang Heng chose Shadow Foot and Marble Soda as payment for helping 1810 rescue Yogurt, then agreed to investigate with Shen Xixi. As they left dinner, Shen Xixi confirmed that Yogurt was 1810’s daughter, a fact Zhang Heng had already deduced.

• Mole and 1810 explained Shadow Foot’s limited use, but Zhang Heng chose it because it could combine with his other Shadow Set items.
• Zhang Heng chose the Marble Soda bottle cap and agreed to pay the remaining four hundred points after finding Yogurt.
• Zhang Heng said he wanted to investigate alone, but agreed to work with Shen Xixi after she offered to accompany him.
• Black Swan gave Zhang Heng tickets to her musical and thanked him for not taking her choker.
• Shen Xixi told Zhang Heng that some of her early teammates had not survived, then asked why 1810 was so determined to recover Yogurt.
• Zhang Heng said he had already figured out that Yogurt was 1810’s daughter.

Zhang Heng planned to draw Master Yoda out by disguising himself as the Emperor, and he and Shen Xixi tracked down cosplay costumes for the scheme. Zhang Heng finished his transformation, while Shen Xixi acquired a Hermione outfit and prepared to join him.

• Zhang Heng explained that the fictional characters had followed their original behavior and proposed using that pattern to lure Master Yoda out.
• Zhang Heng and Shen Xixi decided he would disguise himself as the Emperor, and Shen Xixi arranged to borrow costumes through Rabbit’s cosplay contacts.
• Zhang Heng bought a convincing Emperor costume from a bespectacled cosplayer for two thousand yuan.
• Shen Xixi asked the cosplayer for a Voldemort outfit, but he offered her a complete Hermione costume instead.
• Zhang Heng put on the Emperor costume, and Shen Xixi compared their plan to going to a Halloween party.

Zhang Heng and Shen Xixi searched near the river for the player behind the mechanical figurines and discussed why they needed to find him before he caused greater harm. Shen Xixi revealed that she suspected Zhang Heng had been the mysterious sniper and promised she would try to bring him back if he ever lost himself.

• Zhang Heng and Shen Xixi prepared their cosplay props and equipment, and Shen Xixi took their first photo together.
• They walked along the river while discussing the player behind the Sphinx, Dumbledore, and Yogurt incidents.
• Shen Xixi said she wanted to find the player, rescue Yogurt, and guide the culprit away from causing further harm.
• Shen Xixi told Zhang Heng she suspected he had been the mysterious sniper during The Consortium's fight with Guanghu.
• Shen Xixi promised that if Zhang Heng ever lost himself in darkness, she would try to bring him back.

Zhang Heng and Shen Xixi staged a crime to draw out a superhero, but Spider-Man appeared and attacked Zhang Heng. Their first exchange ended evenly, and Zhang Heng recognized how difficult Spider-Man’s unpredictable movement and web attacks would be to handle.

• Zhang Heng and Shen Xixi failed to lure Master Yoda out and decided to stage a crime scene instead.
• Shen Xixi pretended to be a drunken woman asleep in an alley while Zhang Heng posed as the villain who tried to carry her away.
• Spider-Man arrived and fired webbing at Zhang Heng, who recognized him and set Shen Xixi down.
• Zhang Heng drew a Tachi and fought Spider-Man, who dodged and changed direction with his webs.
• Zhang Heng blocked Spider-Man’s attacks in their first exchange but realized his movement and webbing made him a troublesome opponent.

Zhang Heng and Shen Xixi fought Spider-Man in an alley, where Zhang Heng used an Anti-materiel Rifle to damage him and make him flee. Zhang Heng revealed that he had secretly tracked Spider-Man and planned to follow him to whoever was controlling the events.

• Shen Xixi watched Zhang Heng hold his own against Spider-Man and recognized his exceptional Blade Technique and combat experience.
• Zhang Heng withdrew from the fight and discarded his tachi as Shen Xixi brought him the Anti-materiel Rifle.
• Zhang Heng shot Spider-Man's wrist, damaging his web-shooting mechanism, then hit the spider emblem on his chest and knocked him down.
• Spider-Man feigned defeat, kicked Zhang Heng, and escaped over a wall into the darkness.
• Zhang Heng told Shen Xixi that he had attached a tracker to Spider-Man, and they returned to the car to follow him.

Zhang Heng and Shen Xixi tracked Spider-Man to an apartment building, where Zhang fought and disabled him while another person escaped with Yogurt. After noticing signs that Yogurt had been living there willingly, Zhang suspected she had staged the kidnapping herself.

• Zhang Heng and Shen Xixi followed the tracker to an ordinary residential complex, but its signal vanished as they arrived.
• Shen Xixi showed Zhang Heng her scale, then stayed downstairs while he climbed the building to investigate.
• Zhang Heng entered a darkened apartment and fought Spider-Man as a woman urged someone to hurry away.
• Zhang Heng used an electric shock device to disable Spider-Man, then learned Shen Xixi had failed to stop the escapee with her scale.
• Zhang Heng spotted women's belongings in the apartment and concluded that Yogurt had likely staged the kidnapping herself.

Zhang Heng and Shen Xixi investigated Yogurt’s disappearance and found signs that she had not been held captive. Their suspicions shifted toward 1810’s motives, while Black Swan explained that the team might turn against him and Yogurt if they learned she had staged the disappearance.

• Zhang Heng and Shen Xixi examined Yogurt’s apartment and concluded that she probably had not been living there as a captive.
• 1810 arrived and questioned whether Yogurt might be involved, but he insisted Zhang Heng and Shen Xixi continue searching for her before leaving quickly.
• Shen Xixi noted 1810’s unusual behavior, and Zhang Heng observed that he smelled strongly of cigarette smoke from his drive over.
• Zhang Heng called Black Swan, who explained that revelations about Yogurt had weakened 1810’s authority within the team.
• Black Swan said the team might not forgive Yogurt and 1810 if Yogurt had faked her disappearance to make them spend five hundred points.

Shen Xixi, Black Swan, and Zhang Heng realized 1810 might kill Shen Dongxing to avoid paying his 500-point debt, while Yogurt and Shen Dongxing hid in a McDonald's. Yogurt rejected Shen Dongxing’s suggestion that they stop, intent on ruining her father’s life for abandoning her mother.

• Black Swan explained that 1810 might kill Shen Dongxing to prevent him from exposing the staged kidnapping and the unpaid points.
• Shen Xixi decided they had to find Shen Dongxing and Yogurt before 1810 could reach them.
• Yogurt returned to their McDonald's table with food and drinks while Shen Dongxing worried about their lack of money and the danger they faced.
• Shen Dongxing suggested Yogurt go home, but Yogurt insisted that taking her father’s C-rank item was not enough and described the harm he had caused her mother.
• Yogurt revealed that she had infiltrated her father’s team to carry out her plan to ruin his life.

Yogurt used Shen Dongxing’s affection for her while pursuing her plan to force 1810 to abandon her. After 1810 threatened to expose Shen Dongxing, Yogurt rejected his offer to surrender and ordered Shen to demand one thousand points and one of 1810’s hands before dawn.

• Yogurt reassured Shen Dongxing, fed him a French fry, and promised to protect him.
• Yogurt reflected on how she had extorted a C-rank item and three hundred points from 1810, hoping to expose his selfishness.
• Yogurt received an email from 1810 warning that he knew Shen Dongxing’s identity and offering to negotiate if Shen safely delivered Yogurt.
• Shen Dongxing panicked and suggested joining Guanghu, but Yogurt refused because she wanted to continue her revenge.
• Yogurt told Shen Dongxing to demand one thousand points and one of 1810’s hands before dawn, threatening that 1810 would otherwise receive her corpse.

Yogurt staged a brutal-looking torture scene to convince her father that she and Shen Dongxing were enemies, then bandaged her wounds while they talked about their feelings. Shen Dongxing admitted he loved her despite knowing she was using him and would never return his feelings.

• Yogurt cut herself repeatedly and smeared her blood on Shen Dongxing so they could record evidence of a convincing torture scene.
• Shen Dongxing filmed Yogurt begging for mercy, chased her for another clip, and took photos before helping bandage her wounds.
• Yogurt emailed the footage to 1810 and asked Shen Dongxing whether her actions had frightened him.
• Shen Dongxing recalled how Yogurt had once stopped upperclassmen from beating him and said that was when he fell in love with her.
• Shen Dongxing admitted he knew Yogurt liked girls and was using him, but said the illusion of being loved by her still made him happy.

Yogurt arranged a nighttime meeting with 1810, planning to make him confront the harm he had caused while Shen Dongxing stayed hidden and used Captain America to protect her. As 1810 arrived, Shen Dongxing began to suspect Yogurt had concealed a dangerous part of her plan, but he could only watch anxiously from afar.

• Yogurt told Shen Dongxing she intended to make 1810 pay and said they could discuss their relationship afterward.
• Yogurt revealed that 1810 had agreed to meet after receiving the videos and photos, while Shen Dongxing prepared Captain America to pose as him and protect her.
• Yogurt met 1810 at a closed shopping mall while Shen Dongxing watched through Captain America from an internet café.
• Yogurt gave Captain America a farewell message about protecting himself and not trusting people too easily.
• Shen Dongxing realized Yogurt had not explained her full plan and worried that the meeting would endanger her.

Shen Dongxing and Yogurt’s plan to ransom her went awry when a hidden shooter killed 1810 and then targeted Yogurt. As the Avengers rushed to the mall, Yogurt realized 1810 had been trying to warn them, but she could not communicate the danger to Iron Man.

• 1810 cautiously entered the mall and found Yogurt bound in a display window beside a trail of gasoline.
• 1810 tried to negotiate with Captain America, while Shen Dongxing used the lighter to keep him at a distance.
• An unseen shooter killed 1810 with a headshot, then fired at Yogurt’s display window.
• Captain America shielded Yogurt, freed her, and started leading her toward the exit as Yogurt questioned the timing of the attack.
• Black Widow, Hawkeye, Hulk, and Iron Man left the internet café and raced to the mall.
• Yogurt recognized that 1810 had been trying to warn them and shouted for Iron Man to turn back, but he misunderstood her.

1810 used Death Illusion and a staged gunshot to lure Shen Dongxing into the open so he could kill him, but Shen Xixi confronted him before he could fire. Zhang Heng disarmed 1810, and Shen Xixi began judging his past crimes with the Scales of Justice.

• 1810 revealed that he had used Death Illusion to create a convincing decoy while secretly leaving the mall to hunt Shen Dongxing.
• 1810 fired a shot to destroy the illusion and provoke Shen Dongxing into revealing his position, then found him in an internet café.
• Shen Xixi confronted 1810 as he prepared to shoot Shen Dongxing, and he threatened her while defending his plan.
• Zhang Heng emerged from the internet café and shot the weapon from 1810's hand, forcing him to surrender.
• Shen Xixi brought out the Scales of Justice, and 1810 fell to his knees as she began judging the evil he had committed in the past.

Shen Xixi punished 1810 by taking away his ability to feel fulfillment until he saved three hundred people. Black Swan confronted Shen Dongxing, then urged him to make sure Yogurt stopped trying to kill herself.

• Shen Xixi used her power on 1810, forcing him to relive his past betrayals and wrongdoing.
• Shen Xixi told 1810 he would feel no fulfillment until he saved three hundred people.
• Shen Dongxing hid beneath a table when he spotted the group, and Black Swan found him there.
• Black Swan teased Shen Dongxing about Yogurt and reflected on the risks of love and self-protection.
• Black Swan saw Yogurt leaving through the mall entrance and told Shen Dongxing to make sure she stopped trying to kill herself.

After helping resolve the conflict involving Yogurt and 1810, Zhang Heng collected the remaining Shadow items and began the trial to inherit their original owner’s power. The cigar-induced ritual ended with Zhang Heng facing an unfamiliar scene.

• Zhang Heng revealed that he had secretly tracked Yogurt and Shen Dongxing, and he accepted 1810’s C-rank Death Illusion as payment.
• Black Swan hinted at teaming up with Zhang Heng, but he declined and collected the remaining payment from 1810.
• Zhang Heng brought the four Shadow items to the Game Point and asked the Bartender Lady to begin the inheritance trial.
• The Bartender Lady prepared a ritual cigar and warned Zhang Heng that using the Shadow Key and his newly acquired item would consume their remaining uses.
• Zhang Heng placed the four items against his skin, smoked the cigar, and entered a dreamlike state before the smoke cleared and he frowned at the scene before him.

Zhang Heng entered a gloomy seaside town through the smoke, recognizing it as the place from his earlier dream and suspecting it was connected to the secrets within him. As night fell, he explored the town and encountered the old man again, who urged him to find somewhere to stay without answering his questions.

• Zhang Heng realized the tobacco had returned him to the strange seaside town rather than bringing him into contact with the Shadow Set's original owner.
• Zhang Heng decided to continue exploring the town, which he suspected was connected to his origins.
• Zhang Heng found more residents than during his previous visit, including grotesquely deformed older people preparing for a nighttime gathering.
• Zhang Heng approached an ancient Gothic church as its bell rang at six in the evening.
• The old man from Zhang Heng's previous visit appeared and told him to find somewhere to stay, ignoring Zhang Heng's question about the town.

Zhang Heng followed an old man to the Gilman Hostel while learning about the town’s decline and the strange changes among its people. He checked in despite lacking money and learned that another guest was already staying there.

• Zhang Heng followed the old man after spotting a shadowy, crowned figure inside the town’s church.
• The old man told Zhang Heng it was July 15, 1927, and explained that the bus would not run that night because of the celebration.
• Zhang Heng learned that the town had once prospered but declined after the Civil War, as residents disappeared and some newborns grew up with changed appearances.
• The old man led Zhang Heng to the decaying Gilman Hostel, where the clerk said there were already two guests.
• Zhang Heng admitted he had no money to pay for room 427, leaving the old man and the clerk staring at each other.

Zhang Heng checked into the dilapidated Gilman Hostel, where another wary outsider was staying across the hall. As evening fell and the town prepared for its strange celebration, Zhang Heng sought out the other guest to get food and prepare for the night.

• The old man paid Zhang Heng's one-dollar room fee, and Zhang Heng checked into Gilman Hostel.
• A nervous outsider arrived and took room 428, then shut himself away from Zhang Heng.
• Zhang Heng inspected his room and found broken plumbing, filthy furnishings, and a door that could be opened from outside.
• Zhang Heng watched cult members prepare for the celebration and saw two figures jump from the breakwater into the sea.
• After the church bells rang seven, Zhang Heng knocked on the other guest's door and invited him to get food; the man opened it after a pause.