Recaps

After learning that Instructor Gu had been hospitalized following the question Lin Qiye asked him, Lin Qiye realized Gu’s treatment might help Merlin and began looking for a chance to speak with him. Instructor Hong warned Lin Qiye not to mention the True World, but Lin Qiye enlisted Baili Pangpang and Cao Yuan to help find Gu.

• Baili Pangpang excelled at free-fire practice while Lin Qiye missed the target three times, and the recruits wondered why Instructor Gu had been absent for two months.
• Instructor Hong told Lin Qiye that Gu had suffered a mental breakdown over Lin Qiye’s question and was receiving treatment in a psychiatric hospital.
• Instructor Hong said Gu was improving and might return to the Training Camp to collect his belongings before recuperating at home, and he warned Lin Qiye not to bring up the True World.
• Lin Qiye thought Gu’s treatment might work for Merlin and asked Baili Pangpang and Cao Yuan to alert him if they saw Gu.
• Baili Pangpang agreed to help and called on the other recruits for assistance.

Instructor Gu returned to Training Camp in disguise, but the recruits spotted him and alerted Lin Qiye, who persuaded him to explain how he had recovered. Lin Qiye then returned to the Psychiatric Hospital of the Gods, where Li Yifei struggled to manage Merlin and asked when another orderly would arrive.

• Instructor Gu sneaked into Training Camp to collect his belongings while avoiding people who knew about his illness.
• A recruit recognized Instructor Gu, and the others relayed his location until Lin Qiye intercepted him.
• Lin Qiye claimed he was suffering similarly and asked Instructor Gu how the doctor had treated him, so Instructor Gu took him into the office.
• At the Psychiatric Hospital of the Gods, Li Yifei sedated Merlin after chasing him around the courtyard in his starfish form.
• Li Yifei complained about his exhausting duties and asked Lin Qiye to bring another orderly, but Lin Qiye said he could not do so yet.

Lin Qiye gave Merlin medicine and argued that the world and the people in it mattered whether or not they were truly real. Merlin fell into thought, and his treatment progress began to rise, triggering a random draw of one of Merlin’s Divine Personality Abilities.

• Merlin woke in the activity room, and he and Lin Qiye discussed Merlin’s lost memories and his recent luck.
• Lin Qiye gave Merlin medicine and told him that he believed their world was real because its people and their lives mattered to him.
• Merlin fell silent and deeply considered Lin Qiye’s argument as Lin Qiye left the room.
• Lin Qiye saw Merlin’s Treatment Progress reach 2%, meeting the reward requirements and starting a random draw of Merlin’s Divine Personality Ability.

Lin Qiye learned Summoning Magic and secretly experimented with Random Summoning while Baili Pangpang slept. The experiment brought a mosquito into the room and left Baili Pangpang baffled by missing slippers and a pile of strange objects beneath his bed.

• Lin Qiye gained Merlin the Mage's knowledge of Summoning Magic and learned about its dimensional, targeted, and random forms.
• Lin Qiye used Baili Pangpang's slipper as the focus for a Random Summoning spell, which summoned a mosquito.
• The mosquito bit Baili Pangpang while he slept, and Lin Qiye quietly continued experimenting with items near his bed.
• Baili Pangpang woke with more than twenty mosquito bites and discovered his slippers were missing.
• Baili Pangpang found a pile of objects beneath his bed, including stockings, and Lin Qiye denied knowing anything about them before suggesting they belonged to Cao Yuan.

Lin Qiye, Baili Pangpang, and Cao Yuan discussed how the upcoming Score Ranking would determine their Night Watchmen assignments after graduation. Meanwhile, Yuan Gang received three captured River-level Mysteries at the Training Camp and prepared a Carnival Day for the recruits.

• Cao Yuan told Lin Qiye and Baili Pangpang that the Score Ranking would help decide where recruits were assigned after graduation.
• Lin Qiye said he hoped to remain in Cangnan, while Baili Pangpang wanted to serve in Guangshen and hoped to be assigned with Lin Qiye.
• Cao Yuan described the many training and testing criteria for the ranking, including a heavily weighted hidden score.
• Three armed transport planes landed at the Training Camp carrying three captured River-level Mysteries sealed in Black Cubes.
• Yuan Gang opened one Black Cube and announced that the new recruits' Carnival Day was about to begin.

Lin Qiye discovered that most recruits in the Training Camp had fallen into an unexplained sleep and that all instructors and staff had vanished. He suspected the situation was a test and concluded that someone was observing the remaining recruits.

• Lin Qiye woke at five thirty to find the Training Camp quiet and no instructors blowing the morning whistle.
• Lin Qiye saw Zheng Zhong, Cao Yuan, Mo Lan, and Li Shaoguang washing up, and Zheng Zhong sensed that something was wrong.
• At seven thirty, Lin Qiye tried to wake Baili Pangpang, but even forcing Mental Power through his ACE watch failed to keep him awake.
• Shen Qingzhu told Lin Qiye that roughly seventy percent of the dormitory's recruits were unresponsive and that the instructors, staff, and cafeteria workers had disappeared.
• Lin Qiye reasoned that the instructors had staged a test and were secretly observing the recruits, while Shen Qingzhu cursed and raised his middle finger at a surveillance camera.

Lin Qiye and the awake recruits investigated why others had fallen asleep and suspected something was wrong in the Training Camp. After arming themselves at the warehouse, they heard screams from the cafeteria and had to choose where to go next.

• Lin Qiye found Deng Wei asleep and realized that every awake recruit had risen before six, suggesting that those still asleep had been drawn into a mental trap.
• Lin Qiye suspected another enemy might be in the camp and learned that the girls' dormitory, Building Three, had gone silent.
• Lin Qiye ordered some recruits to guard Building One while the rest followed him to the warehouse for weapons.
• Shen Qingzhu blasted open the warehouse doors with an explosive gum bubble, and the recruits entered and took weapons.
• Lin Qiye and the others heard screams from the cafeteria, and Shen Qingzhu asked which way they should go.

Lin Qiye and the recruits found Wang Li dead in a cafeteria filled with spiderwebs, confirming that a dangerous Mystery was present. Lin Qiye entered the web-filled hall with Cao Yuan and Shen Qingzhu, discovered a giant spider using a mental attack, and hurled his Star Saber at it.

• Lin Qiye led the group to the cafeteria after hearing a scream and found its lock cut and the air tainted with blood.
• The group discovered the cafeteria covered in massive webs and found Wang Li’s mutilated body caught among them.
• Lin Qiye warned that the spider Mystery might still be nearby, then entered the cafeteria with Cao Yuan and Shen Qingzhu while keeping the other recruits outside.
• Lin Qiye carefully navigated the dense webs and spotted a giant gray-white spider clinging to the ceiling.
• The spider’s glowing scarlet eyes triggered Lin Qiye’s Azure Guard, and he threw his night-wreathed Star Saber at it.

Lin Qiye and the recruits survived an encounter with a powerful spider that fled, while two hidden figures revealed the attack had been staged. The spider boy hid in a warehouse and used his Mental Spider Web to trap the sleeping recruits’ souls, but one recruit’s soul had only just begun to wake.

• Lin Qiye missed the spider with his blade, Shen Qingzhu struck it with an explosion, and the spider fled through a window.
• Lin Qiye assigned Shen Qingzhu to guard Building One while he and Cao Yuan led the other recruits toward Building Three.
• Two hidden figures revealed that Wang Li’s apparent corpse and the spider attack were part of an effort to create an atmosphere.
• The spider transformed into a boy, hid in a warehouse, and spread a Mental Spider Web that trapped the sleeping recruits’ soul bodies.
• The spider boy noticed that one plump recruit’s soul had genuinely been asleep, and the recruit began to wake.

Baili Pangpang escaped a spiderweb that had trapped his soul and used his forbidden items to free the other recruits. After the spider boy withdrew his web, Baili Pangpang tracked him to his hiding place.

• Baili Pangpang used the Soul Severing Blade to cut himself free from the spiderweb and return to his body.
• Shen Qingzhu told Baili Pangpang that a spiderweb had trapped the recruits’ soul bodies across the Training Camp.
• Baili Pangpang used the True Sight Eye, Yaoguang, and the Soul Severing Blade to cut the web and free the recruits.
• The spider boy, pained by the severed threads, withdrew the web and released the trapped soul bodies.
• Baili Pangpang spotted where the spider boy was hiding and turned serious.

Baili Pangpang returned to the dormitory after rescuing the recruits and told Shen Qingzhu where the spider was hiding. Lin Qiye and his group entered Building Three through a spatial barrier, then rushed upstairs after hearing a girl scream.

• Baili Pangpang told Shen Qingzhu that the spider was in the second warehouse on the east side and lent him the Soul Severing Blade before leaving to save Molly in Building Three.
• Shen Qingzhu warned Baili Pangpang that the spider had killed people and planned to minimize casualties while gathering the awakened recruits.
• Lin Qiye found that Building Three was cut off from ordinary space, and Li Shaoguang used his cleaver to open a temporary entrance.
• Lin Qiye and the others entered the building, watched the outside world vanish into deep blue, and ran upstairs after hearing a girl's scream.

Lin Qiye and the recruits found that Building Three’s interior had been scrambled by a spatial Mystery, with rooms, corridors, and stairs joined in impossible arrangements. After the layout shifted and separated them from the others, Lin Qiye, Cao Yuan, and Li Shaoguang stayed together and continued exploring, stopping at a door.

• Lin Qiye recognized that the dorm room at the top of the stairs and the misaligned corridors were evidence of a spatial Mystery scrambling Building Three’s layout.
• Lin Qiye sensed nearby routes and pointed out that breaking through a wall could lead to stairs going up, while warning the group not to damage the building’s structure.
• A recruit used a gray glow to corrode a passage through the wall, but the rooms and stairs shifted while the group was crossing it, separating Lin Qiye, Cao Yuan, and Li Shaoguang from the others.
• Lin Qiye concluded that the Mystery seemed suited to trapping people rather than attacking them, but wondered what had caused the scream they had heard.
• Lin Qiye, Cao Yuan, and Li Shaoguang walked through the rearranged rooms together and stopped before a door.

Lin Qiye, Cao Yuan, and Li Shaoguang found a female recruit cut in half and suspected another powerful Mystery was inside the building. A headless man carrying an enormous Executioner's Blade appeared and killed Li Shaoguang in a single strike, leaving Lin Qiye and Cao Yuan facing the threat.

• Lin Qiye examined the severed body of a female recruit and concluded that a sharp weapon had cut her in half.
• Lin Qiye suggested that a second Mystery might be in the building, and the three heard something heavy being dragged through the corridor.
• Lin Qiye decided they should test the approaching Mystery's abilities and fight if they had an opening.
• A headless, burly man emerged while dragging a massive Executioner's Blade.
• The Headless Man rushed forward and killed Li Shaoguang with one slash, while Lin Qiye grabbed Cao Yuan's wrist and signaled him to stay quiet.

Lin Qiye and Cao Yuan escaped the Headless Man and reasoned that it attacked in response to sound, while Baili Pangpang entered Building Three and got lost in its shifting rooms. The chapter ended with Molly finding Baili Pangpang and pulling him along, warning him not to speak.

• Lin Qiye used Absolute Darkness to hide their heartbeats from the Headless Man, which moved away before the corridor shifted into a dorm room.
• Lin Qiye explained that instructors had replaced Li Shaoguang with a realistic duplicate, then theorized that the Headless Man’s speed increased in response to nearby sound.
• Lin Qiye and Cao Yuan continued searching for the second River-realm Mystery.
• Baili Pangpang used chalk to open the glass door and entered Building Three, where shifting rooms left him lost.
• Baili Pangpang shouted for Molly, Lin Qiye, and Cao Yuan, then heard a dragging sound approaching.
• Molly emerged through a wall, covered Baili Pangpang’s mouth, and told him to come with her without speaking.

Molly rescued Baili Pangpang from the Sound Hunter and explained how it had killed more than a dozen female recruits. At the hot-water room, Azi and the other soldiers mapped the buildings’ shifting layout, and Azi announced that she had found the pattern behind the spatial distortions.

• Molly and another female soldier took Baili Pangpang through a wall and hid as the Sound Hunter searched for them.
• Molly explained that the Sound Hunter tracked sounds, grew stronger amid louder noise, and had killed more than a dozen recruits before the survivors understood its weakness.
• Molly brought Baili Pangpang to the hot-water room, where Zhang Xiaoxiao used her Forbidden Ruins to let the soldiers communicate silently through mental links.
• Molly explained that she and Xiaoling scouted the rooms while the other soldiers mapped the buildings to find the pattern behind the spatial distortions.
• Azi compared the layout maps, realized she had found the pattern, and announced her discovery.

Lin Qiye and Cao Yuan tried to understand the shifting space and ambushed the Headless Man in a corridor. Their attack failed to kill it, and the chapter ended with Lin Qiye narrowly evading its counterattack.

• Lin Qiye analyzed the spatial distortions and concluded that they came from unpredictable rotations along horizontal or vertical cross-sections, though he had not found their pattern.
• When they heard the Headless Man approaching, Lin Qiye and Cao Yuan prepared to lure it out of the cramped dormitory and fight in the corridor.
• The Headless Man smashed through the dormitory door, then walked past Lin Qiye and Cao Yuan without noticing them.
• Lin Qiye and Cao Yuan launched a surprise attack, but the Headless Man struck Cao Yuan through a wall and hardened its muscles before Lin Qiye could pierce its heart.
• Lin Qiye released his swords and dodged the Headless Man's second slash, whose blade narrowly missed his forehead.

Lin Qiye discovered that the second mysterious creature was a living Rubik’s Cube controlling the shifting rooms, while Cao Yuan fought the Headless Man. Azi separately deciphered the room changes and located the creature, leaving the group ready to act on her discovery.

• Lin Qiye watched Cao Yuan repeatedly clash with the Headless Man, waiting for a chance to strike.
• A mysterious force shifted the rooms and separated Lin Qiye from the fighters, so he searched through the building with his Mental Power.
• Lin Qiye sensed a floating silver Rubik’s Cube at the center of the spatial maze and realized it was the second mysterious creature.
• Azi told Baili Pangpang that the buildings formed a Rubik’s Cube whose rotations caused the spatial disturbances, and said she could predict the next changes.
• Azi revealed that she already knew where the mysterious creature was hiding.

Lin Qiye outmaneuvered the Rubik’s Cube controlling Building Three by baiting it into disrupting space twice, then reached its void and prepared to attack. At the same time, Molly and the female soldiers began their hunt for the Sound Hunter.

• Azi and the female soldiers chose to kill the Sound Hunter first and prepared a plan for the next spatial distortion.
• Lin Qiye studied the rotating rooms and concluded that the Rubik’s Cube tested intelligence and could not disrupt space twice in a row.
• Lin Qiye tore through three walls, then retreated when the Rubik’s Cube triggered a spatial distortion.
• After the rooms shifted, Lin Qiye broke through the wall beside him and found the Rubik’s Cube in its void.
• Lin Qiye declared checkmate and leaped toward the Rubik’s Cube as Molly and the female soldiers began hunting the Sound Hunter.

The female soldiers and Baili Pangpang tracked the Sound Hunter through Building Three and found Cao Yuan fighting the Headless Man. As the group launched a coordinated attack, the building returned to normal, overturning Azi’s prediction and leaving the fight’s outcome uncertain.

• Molly explained why the female soldiers split into three groups, and Azi ordered them to prepare when they heard fighting approaching.
• Baili Pangpang’s group saw Cao Yuan battling the Headless Man, which ignored them and focused on him.
• Azi had Zhang Xiaoxiao reconnect everyone through the mental network and organized more than seventy people for a coordinated attack.
• As Cao Yuan fell and the Headless Man approached, the soldiers used their Forbidden Ruins to lift its blade and slow it down.
• The surrounding rooms shifted into a new pattern, and Building Three returned to its original appearance, proving Azi’s prediction wrong.

Lin Qiye killed the space-distorting cube Mystery on Building Three’s rooftop, while Azi’s team launched its attack on the Headless Man. At the training camp, Shen Qingzhu entered a warehouse alone to confront the spider Mystery and found a little boy lying in its web.

• Lin Qiye endured the cube’s spatial distortions, used darkness to weaken it, and hacked it into fragments before collecting them for possible summoning materials.
• Azi realized someone had killed the Mystery controlling space and ordered her team to attack the immobilized Headless Man.
• Shen Qingzhu’s team surrounded the warehouse and planted bombs along its walls while Shen prepared to check whether the spider Mystery was inside.
• Shen entered the warehouse alone and found a sleepy little boy lying on a silk bed amid dense webs, then screamed for help.

Shen Qingzhu and the recruits ambushed Spider Child, but the powerful Mystery kept fleeing and using its abilities to evade them. After escaping several attacks, Spider Child encountered a boy meditating on a rooftop.

• Spider Child transformed from a boy into a spider and fled through a warehouse vent, so Shen Qingzhu ordered the bombs detonated.
• The explosion wounded Spider Child, but it used Spider Silk to swing away while the recruits chased and attacked it.
• Spider Child struck three recruits with a mental attack and trapped others in a soul web, which Shen Qingzhu severed with his Soul Severing Blade.
• Shen Qingzhu blasted Spider Child with explosions, but it survived and continued fleeing through the Training Camp.
• Spider Child froze in midair after seeing a boy open his eyes on a nearby rooftop.

Lin Qiye killed the Spider Child during the Carnival Day drill, while Molly and the other female recruits defeated the remaining creature in Building Three. Yuan Gang ended the drill and revealed that the apparent deaths were not life-threatening, then stopped Lin Qiye from keeping the Spider Child’s corpse and asked him about the missing Cube.

• Lin Qiye used divine powers to stun the Spider Child, then killed it with his twin blades.
• Shen Qingzhu and the others found the Spider Child’s corpse, and Lin Qiye said another creature remained in Building Three.
• Molly emerged with the last creature reduced to a severed hand, explaining that she had shattered the rest with her vibration ability.
• Yuan Gang arrived with the instructors and announced that the Carnival Day drill had ended, assuring the recruits that the apparent deaths were not life-threatening.
• Yuan Gang ordered Lin Qiye to surrender the Spider Child’s corpse and questioned him about the Cube, but Lin Qiye claimed it had left no remains.

After the training exercise, Yuan Gang awarded Lin Qiye 19 points, withholding a perfect score partly to keep him from becoming arrogant. At the Psychiatric Hospital of the Gods, Lin Qiye discovered that the Soul Weaving Spider he had killed had become a frightened little boy and could be recruited as a hospital attendant.

• The instructors argued over the recruits' scores, while Yuan Gang listened to their assessment of Lin Qiye's performance.
• Instructor Hong described Lin Qiye's achievements and said he deserved at least 19 points, possibly a perfect score.
• Yuan Gang gave Lin Qiye 19 points and privately noted that he had to pay a price for taking the Cube's corpse.
• Lin Qiye visited the quiet Psychiatric Hospital of the Gods and found the Soul Weaving Spider imprisoned as a little boy.
• Lin Qiye read the boy's attendant decision panel and saw that his Fear Value toward Lin Qiye was 359.
• The frightened boy offered Lin Qiye one or two of his legs if Lin Qiye would spare him.

Lin Qiye recruited A Zhu and the Chaos Cube as orderlies for his Psychiatric Hospital. He brought them back to find Li Yifei overwhelmed with work, and the cube demonstrated its usefulness as a fully automatic appliance.

• Lin Qiye persuaded A Zhu to sign a labor contract by offering him a job as an orderly, and A Zhu became orderly number 002.
• Lin Qiye examined the Chaos Cube’s employment panel and hired it after hearing what it could offer.
• Lin Qiye brought A Zhu and the cube into the hospital and introduced them to Li Yifei.
• Li Yifei reacted with relief at the new help, and the cube demonstrated that it could wash and dry laundry, wash dishes, and play mahjong.

Lin Qiye prepared to summon a creature using the power in the Cube’s remains and chose a hidden weapons warehouse as the ritual site. After drawing the summoning array and adding the Cube fragments and his blood, he was ready to begin.

• Li Yifei discovered that the Cube could wash clothes and dishes, while A Zhu said his only skill was sleeping.
• Lin Qiye told Li Yifei to supervise A Zhu, Nyx, and Merlin as head orderly before leaving the Psychiatric Hospital.
• Baili Pangpang told Lin Qiye that he had scored first in the drill and that Baili Pangpang had tied for second.
• Lin Qiye searched the Training Camp for a place to summon a creature before the Cube’s power dissipated, then chose an unmonitored weapons warehouse.
• Lin Qiye sneaked into the warehouse at night, drew a summoning array, and placed the Cube fragments and his blood on it.