Recaps

Yi Chen and his teammates explored the abandoned Twilight Clinic, finding its main building eerily empty and its sealed tower filled with signs of brutal experiments. The chapter left Yi Chen wondering why the clinic had tortured the Sick Ones to produce Twilight Silver Liquid.

• The coachman dropped Yi Chen, Edmund, Dagobert, and Julianna at the mountain road and told them where to meet after the mission.
• Dagobert forced open the clinic’s iron gate, and the team entered Twilight Clinic together.
• The team explored the three-story main building and found its treatment areas, wards, operating rooms, and storage rooms, but no place related to Secret Medicine.
• The team discovered a sealed tower in the backyard and entered its destroyed Material Refining Area.
• Yi Chen examined the bloodstained torture equipment and wondered why the clinic had used such cruel methods to extract materials from the Sick Ones.

During their first night at the Twilight Clinic, Yi Chen and Edmund woke to find Dagobert and Julianna missing as the moon appeared and Gray Fog began transforming the building. A sound like a nurse’s high heels approached their room as the clinic entered a dangerous Gray Erosion.

• The four explorers settled into an apprentice room on the third floor, and Edmund told Yi Chen he could sleep instead of taking a watch shift.
• At midnight, the moon emerged through the fog, and Gray Fog spread through the clinic as strange noises came from the second-floor Hospital Ward.
• Yi Chen and Edmund awoke to discover that Dagobert and Julianna had disappeared without opening the room’s door.
• Yi Chen spotted the moon through a shard of glass, and he and Edmund suspected the False Moon Incident’s remnant had returned.
• Gray Fog seeped into their room, prompting Yi Chen to identify the danger as Gray Erosion.
• High heels clicked outside their door, cutting off Yi Chen’s explanation of Gray Erosion.

Yi Chen and Edmund hid from a deformed Female Doctor patrolling the clinic and decided to search for their missing teammates, Dagobert and the others. As they prepared to leave the rooftop, a huge shadow with an eyeball in a liquid tank appeared at the entrance, and Little Grape excitedly called out, “Grape!”

• Yi Chen sent Little Grape to inspect the neighboring dormitory from the window without leaving his body.
• Little Grape saw that the Female Doctor was a severed lower body attached to an infusion stand, with a hair-covered head impaled above it.
• Edmund identified the creature as a Non-Normality Patient and guessed that the clinic’s graying had reached its later stages after a past battle.
• Yi Chen and Edmund escaped through a window to the rooftop while the Female Doctor searched their empty dormitory.
• Yi Chen and Edmund prepared to descend into the clinic and look for Dagobert and the others, but a huge shadow with an eyeball in a liquid tank appeared at the rooftop entrance.
• Little Grape emerged from Yi Chen’s shoulder and excitedly shouted, “Grape!”

Yi Chen and Edmund confronted the Male Doctor, Francisco Holt, on the rooftop. Yi Chen exposed the Pathogen inside Francisco’s heart monitor, and Edmund destroyed it with a silver bullet.

• Edmund prepared to fight Francisco Holt while Yi Chen rushed forward to engage him.
• Yi Chen used Visual Lock-on to stun Francisco, and Little Grape caught and ate the eyeball from his shattered fluid tank.
• Yi Chen cut into Francisco’s back and used Plant Root Tendrils to locate the Pathogen sealed inside his heart monitor.
• Francisco recovered, struck Yi Chen with an electrified palm, and sent him flying toward the rooftop’s edge.
• Yi Chen pointed out Francisco’s chest monitor, allowing Edmund to shoot it and corrode the Pathogen with a Silver Bullet.

Yi Chen and Edmund confirmed that the Male Doctor was dead, then Yi Chen absorbed the Sick One’s brain to replenish his mental strength and gain fragmented memories. They decided to hunt isolated Sick Ones during their nighttime exploration before heading down to investigate the clinic.

• Yi Chen climbed back onto the rooftop after Edmund shot the Male Doctor, and his self-repairing coat healed the damage from the attack.
• Yi Chen explained that he had deliberately taken the Male Doctor’s palm strike so Edmund could kill him, and Edmund followed him to examine the corpse.
• Yi Chen opened the corpse’s chest and absorbed its brain through plant tendrils, replenishing his mental strength and receiving unclear fragments of memories from the False Moon Incident.
• Yi Chen told Edmund they should kill isolated Sick Ones to use their brains, while Edmund collected the Male Doctor’s skin and Pathogen tissue for rewards.
• Yi Chen and Edmund climbed down to the first floor to investigate the clinic.

Yi Chen and Edmund discovered that the clinic had transformed into a living structure within a moon-created Parallel Space, and learned that Mr. Lee wanted to meet them. With the nurse threatening to trap and pursue them if they refused, Yi Chen agreed to follow her into the blood-red elevator.

• Yi Chen and Edmund reasoned that the moon had drawn them into a Parallel Space where the clinic was undergoing severe graying.
• They entered the clinic and found its walls corrupted, the elevator restored, and a bloodied nurse waiting at the counter.
• The nurse said Mr. Lee, the clinic's leader and an existence close to the 'Moon Scar,' had watched their actions and demanded a meeting.
• Yi Chen concluded that meeting Mr. Lee was their only chance of survival and offered to handle the encounter.
• Yi Chen agreed to follow the nurse, who limped into an elevator with buttons shaped like fleshy bubbles and marked with negative numbers.

Yi Chen and Edmund reached Mr. Lee in the clinic’s deepest underground ward and learned that he had used the Twilight Silver Liquid to survive and create the Moonlight Clinic. After the nurse injected them with a Plague Conversion Agent, Mr. Lee offered freedom, the empty bottle, and an antidote in exchange for intact Moon Mark skin collected from Moonification Disease Patients in Vinal City.

• The nurse led Yi Chen and Edmund through a maze of rats on Underground Level Thirteen to Mr. Lee’s ward.
• Yi Chen recognized Mr. Lee’s Moon Mark and Gentleman’s Attire, while Mr. Lee revealed that he had used all the Twilight Silver Liquid.
• Mr. Lee offered the two men three rewards if they completed a task, and the nurse injected them with a Plague Conversion Agent that would take effect within a week.
• Yi Chen introduced himself as William Berens and agreed to collect intact Moon Mark skin from Moonification Disease Patients in Vinal City.
• Mr. Lee told Yi Chen and Edmund to return to the dormitory, sleep, and prepare to go back to the Surface Layer.

Yi Chen and Edmund learned that sleep and moonlight could transfer them between worlds, while Little Grape revealed it had swallowed Yi Chen’s pathogen injection. The next morning, the team chose to stay in Vinal City and hunt the Moonified to gain leverage against Mr. Lee and secure a real antidote.

• After Edmund fell asleep, moonlight transferred him back to the Surface Layer, and Yi Chen inferred that sleep and moonlight triggered the transition.
• Little Grape revealed that it had swallowed the pathogen injected into Yi Chen, and Yi Chen promised it a grape feast if they killed Mr. Lee.
• Yi Chen bathed in moonlight and considered that the clinic’s problems might connect to the former False Moon Incident and the organization’s intentions.
• Julianna urged the team to abandon the mission and seek medical help, but Yi Chen argued that collecting the remaining Moon Skin would give them leverage over Mr. Lee.
• Edmund agreed to hunt the Moonified with the team, and Julianna warned him she would kill him if he showed signs of disease.

Yi Chen and his team entered Vinal City to hunt Moonified survivors and followed signs of activity into the sewers, where they met an elderly Moonified man guarding a Chihuahua. Yi Chen uncovered the man’s connection to the Old John Theater, but the encounter ended with a Silver Bullet striking the back of his head.

• Edmund assessed the Moonified threat in Vinal City, and the team used Little Grape to locate watchers near the Old John Theater before slipping into the sewers.
• The team found fresh blood trails and followed them to a hidden dwelling behind a rusted Iron Gate.
• Yi Chen sat by a bonfire with an elderly man who roasted corpses and fed the meat to his Chihuahua, Millet.
• The old man told Yi Chen that survivors were gathering at the Old John Theater for a Leader Selection and might leave the city together afterward.
• Yi Chen accused the old man of being a theater member assigned to watch the sewers, and a Silver Bullet struck the back of the man’s head.

Yi Chen and his companions fought the Moonified old man and killed him by removing the skin bearing his Moon Mark. Yi Chen absorbed the Cerebral Fluid from the corpse and gained memories and information about the Old John Theater and the Moonified.

• Edmund shot the old man with silver bullets, but the man was immune to silver and continued roasting meat with his dog, Milly.
• The old man merged Milly into his right arm and attacked Yi Chen, while Dagobert and Miss Anna struck him from behind.
• The old man fled along the ceiling, but Edmund shot through his leg and Yi Chen pursued him.
• Yi Chen split the old man's dog-like arm with an axe and used Mental Power to blank his consciousness.
• Miss Anna cut away the skin bearing the Moon Mark, killing the old man, and Yi Chen absorbed Cerebral Fluid from his brain to obtain memories and information.

Julianna, Yi Chen, Edmund, and Dagobert learned that the surviving Moonified had gathered in the Old John Theater, and Yi Chen’s bluff prompted most of them to evacuate. The four entered the theater at night, where its owner remained and proposed recreating Vinal City’s False Moon Night.

• Julianna collected an intact Moonified skin, and Edmund discovered a rare crystalline Pathogen Core attached to it.
• Yi Chen finished Central Taste and shared memories revealing that at least six Sick Ones and around twenty early-stage Moonified were inside the Old John Theater.
• Yi Chen explained that he had tricked the Moonified into believing a large force of gentlemen was coming, prompting them to evacuate.
• Julianna sensed a commotion above the sewers and confirmed that the Moonified were evacuating; the team waited until dusk before entering the theater.
• The four found the theater empty until its owner illuminated the stage and invited them to recreate Vinal City's False Moon Night.

At Old John Theater, Yi Chen and his team performed the False Moon Incident for Elton John, the theater’s Moon-marked Boss. After Yi Chen defeated him as part of the play, the team chose to spare him and asked for his help.

• Elton John introduced himself as the theater’s Boss and offered to help if the team performed a play with him.
• Edmund assigned Yi Chen to negotiate, and Yi Chen took the role of Doctor Maco in the play, “Moonlit Night.”
• Elton John staged the False Moon Incident with Moonified citizens, and Yi Chen’s team stripped their moon-marked skin as part of the performance.
• Yi Chen fought Elton John in the final scene, deliberately let him badly injure his right side, and ended the battle by cleaving his mask in two.
• Elton John praised Yi Chen’s acting and offered his Moon Mark, but Yi Chen said the team would spare him if he agreed to help.

Yi Chen learned that Doctor Maco had ties to Moon Scar and persuaded the theater Boss, Mr. John, to help the team kill the rat beneath the abandoned clinic. After confirming the moon’s Parallel Space did not affect the city, Yi Chen told Edmund about his past dealings with Sick Ones, and Edmund called him a madman who could adapt to the diseased world while retaining himself.

• Yi Chen questioned Mr. John about Doctor Maco and learned that Moon Scar had once been a Special Patient at the clinic.
• Dagobert suggested the organization had concealed the clinic’s involvement in the False Moon Incident, and Yi Chen proposed that the mission tested their ability to uncover hidden truths.
• Yi Chen asked Mr. John to help kill the rat beneath the abandoned clinic, and Mr. John agreed after explaining that the rat had eaten two Moonfolk companions.
• The team waited until midnight and confirmed that the moon’s Parallel Space affected the Twilight Clinic but not the city.
• Edmund asked Yi Chen how he had learned to deal with Sick Ones, and Yi Chen described trusting the innkeeping siblings in Green Lake Town.
• Edmund said Yi Chen was the sort of person who could adapt to the diseased world while keeping his sense of self, calling him a madman.

Yi Chen and his companions prepared to confront Mr. Lee, a Severe Diseased, while the theater Boss forged Yi Chen a new axe from the guard dog's corpse. The chapter ended with Yi Chen receiving the bloodied, bone-crafted weapon before their planned operation.

• Yi Chen and Edmund covered their bodies with Moon Skin, giving them enough leverage to negotiate with Mr. Lee.
• The group rehearsed their plan and agreed that Yi Chen and Julianna would search for Mr. Lee's Pathogen Core while Dagobert and the theater Boss created openings for them.
• Edmund warned William that his Basic Weapon would be ineffective against Mr. Lee, and the Boss offered to forge a stronger axe from the guard dog's corpse.
• Yi Chen gave the Boss his hand axe and meditated while the Boss worked through the day.
• The theater Boss presented Yi Chen with a hand axe crafted from the guard dog's bones and body, and Yi Chen praised it as a good thing.

Yi Chen and his allies prepared a convincing delivery of Moonfolk moon skins and returned to the clinic ahead of schedule. Mr. Lee accepted Yi Chen’s explanation and moved to complete their final transaction.

• Yi Chen tested the Dog-Jaw Axe, and he and the theater Boss led a sparring session to prepare for the night’s plan.
• The group staged a bloody fight, packed their bags with chunks of material, and returned to the clinic before dawn.
• The Bandaged Nurse woke Yi Chen and Edmund and escorted them underground to Mr. Lee’s ward.
• Yi Chen told Mr. Lee that they had killed the remaining Moonfolk in Vinal City and collected their moon skins, explaining that many had already evacuated.
• After White Rats inspected Yi Chen and Edmund and found nothing suspicious, Mr. Lee believed Yi Chen and proposed completing the final transaction.

Yi Chen and Edmund traded Moonfolk skin to Mr. Lee for plague serum, then lured him into accepting Julianna and the sealed remains of a special Moonfolk. As Mr. Lee took the secret-medicine bottle, Edmund and Julianna struck, and the Moonfolk began reassembling while a dog-shaped shadow attacked Mr. Lee.

• Yi Chen demanded that Mr. Lee inject him and Edmund with the antidote before they surrendered their Moonfolk skin, and Mr. Lee agreed.
• After the antidote worked, Yi Chen claimed they had captured an unusually strong Moonfolk and persuaded Mr. Lee to let Julianna bring its disassembled remains downstairs.
• Dagobert stayed by the elevator with his greatsword while Julianna carried the backpacks to the underground ward.
• Mr. Lee accepted the remains and gave Yi Chen an empty secret-medicine bottle, believing their transaction was complete.
• Edmund killed the Female Doctor and three nurses as Julianna dumped out the Moonfolk's flesh, which began reassembling; a dog-shaped shadow then bit open Mr. Lee's head.

Edmund, Yi Chen, and their allies pushed the Rat Extermination Plan into its final stage, but Mr. Lee’s body revealed itself to be a nest of rats. Yi Chen lost his left hand and the Moon Skin was swallowed as Mr. Lee’s Pathogen Core activated, leaving the group facing a more dangerous enemy.

• Edmund’s gunfire and sword strikes distracted Mr. Lee while Boss transformed and left to protect the ward from intruders outside.
• Julianna set the prepared fuel alight at the doorway to keep more rats from entering the ward.
• Yi Chen struck Mr. Lee with the Spine Axe, exposing a body cavity made of rats, and grabbed the Moon Skin.
• Mr. Lee’s rats formed a huge mouth that bit off Yi Chen’s left hand and swallowed the Moon Skin before returning to repair his body.
• The rats and the bodies of the shot nurses and Doctors returned to Mr. Lee, while moonlight activated his Pathogen Core and freed him partly from the bed.
• Mr. Lee faced Yi Chen and the others as rats crawled from his mouth and asked whether they would make him eat them.

As Edmund attacked Mr. Lee, Yi Chen deduced that the moving Pathogen Core might be hidden inside one of the mice. Mr. Lee revealed his grotesque rat-based form and lunged at Edmund, who parried his claws and shot him in the mouth.

• Yi Chen realized that Mr. Lee's Pathogen Core might be concealed in one of the mice making up his body.
• Edmund drew Mr. Lee's attention while Yi Chen and Anna searched for the Pathogen Core.
• Mr. Lee transformed his arm and spine into powerful rat-based weapons and attacked Edmund.
• Edmund deflected Mr. Lee's claws with his blade, then used the Sword-Gun Parry to fire into his mouth.

Edmund, Anna, Julianna, and Yi Chen fought Mr. Lee while searching for the Pathogen Core hidden among the rats inside his body. As Mr. Lee overwhelmed the team, Yi Chen used Little Grape’s help to reappear behind him and sever the Silver Blood Vessels feeding him.

• Edmund used Gun-Sword Parry to shoot apart Mr. Lee’s head, giving Yi Chen and Julianna an opening to study the rats inside him.
• Yi Chen memorized the rats’ movements while Julianna used Vibrational Echo to investigate them, and the two tried to identify which rat was different.
• Anna drew a curse-powered sword and joined Edmund, but Mr. Lee’s repaired head, rapid regeneration, and powerful attacks forced the pair back.
• As Mr. Lee suppressed the team, Yi Chen continued observing the rats until Little Grape entered his severed wrist and helped him return to the fight.
• Yi Chen appeared behind Mr. Lee and cut the Silver Blood Vessels connected to his back, revealing a restored left hand covered by a strange black-furred glove.

Yi Chen, Edmund, and Julianna fought Mr. Lee while Yi Chen searched for the Pathogen Core. After finding it, Yi Chen seized the Pathogen Rat inside Mr. Lee and crushed it, leaving Mr. Lee convulsing as the chapter ended.

• Edmund and Miss Anna used injections to recover, while Yi Chen's left hand was restored by Little Grape.
• Julianna and Yi Chen's attacks opened Mr. Lee's body, allowing Yi Chen to observe the rats and identify the Pathogen Core.
• Mr. Lee evolved and severely injured Julianna and Edmund, but Yi Chen announced that he had found the core and charged in.
• Mr. Lee briefly succumbed to Little Grape's mental attack, then trapped Yi Chen's axe in his teeth and bit him with his Living Rat Tail.
• Edmund deflected Mr. Lee's right arm, and Julianna severed his left arm, giving Yi Chen the chance to break through his teeth and reach the Pathogen Rat in his throat.
• Yi Chen grabbed the Pathogen Rat and crushed it despite Mr. Lee's plea for mercy.

Yi Chen killed Jasmin. Lee and extracted his memories, learning that Twilight Clinic’s secret medicine and hidden experiments had caused the disaster. The team reunited at the elevator, but the moon grew larger, and the silver-haired young man from the sewer appeared outside the clinic.

• Yi Chen and Edmund stabilized Julianna after she helped kill Mr. Lee, then Yi Chen extracted Mr. Lee’s brain and learned his history and the clinic’s secrets.
• Yi Chen packed Mr. Lee’s corpse while Edmund carried Julianna, and they left the underground area to return to the clinic’s surface.
• Yi Chen and Edmund reached the lobby and found Dagobert guarding the elevator; after confirming Mr. Lee was dead, Dagobert collapsed from exhaustion.
• Yi Chen sensed the moonlight had intensified and found the moon larger instead of disappearing.
• A silver-haired young man emerged from the hillside outside the clinic, applauding and praising Yi Chen.

Yi Chen identified Moon Scar—Lorien as the survivor of the False Moon Incident, who had concealed himself while recovering and searching for a new counterpart. When Moon Scar invited Yi Chen to join him on the moon, Yi Chen refused, and a cane shattered the moon as two figures entered the Parallel Space.

• Little Grape woke and warned William to escape if he could, but to surrender if escape proved impossible.
• Yi Chen recognized Moon Scar—Lorien as the Open Source Patient and deduced that one of his two bodies had died while he recovered and sought a replacement.
• Moon Scar praised Yi Chen’s reasoning and explained that Doctor Maco had killed his False Moon Body, while he had hidden in the city and created the clinic’s staff and Parallel Space.
• Moon Scar said Mr. Lee and Elton John were possible candidates but declared Yi Chen the perfect choice, then invited him to walk onto the moon.
• Yi Chen refused Moon Scar’s invitation, and a top-hatted cane pierced the shattered moon to form a partition as a black figure and a white figure entered.

Chamberson and Aige joined Yi Chen’s group to confront Moonscar, but the powerful Open Source Patient survived their attacks and escaped. The group returned to Zion, where the wounded received care and Yi Chen learned Doctor Maco’s brain had been preserved after his body was executed.

• Chamberson and Aige attacked Moonscar, but Moonscar shielded the Female Doctor, endured their blows, and escaped after warning that they would meet again.
• Chamberson searched the mountain with magical owls before leading the group back to Zion.
• Chamberson assessed the group’s injuries and promised to seek top-level treatment for Julianna and Edmund.
• Aige said the mission’s report would use a special, non-public procedure because the group had learned secret information about Twilight Clinic from Jesmine Lee.
• Yi Chen asked about Doctor Maco, and Aige told him that Maco’s body had been executed while his brain was preserved.

At the Major-Hospital-of-Hippocrates, Yi Chen, Dagobert, Edmund, and Julianna recovered from their injuries after the mission, though Julianna faced a long rehabilitation and might not return to Disease Removal work. After a month, Supervisor Aige picked them up for a confidential settlement meeting about the Secret Medicine Recovery mission.

• Yi Chen received a reconstructed left hand and remained hospitalized for a week of examinations because he had contacted the Moon Mark.
• On the fourth day, Yi Chen, Dagobert, and Edmund shared a sickroom, where they learned Edmund needed an arm amputation and reconstruction because rat fur had taken root in his bones.
• The hospital told Edmund that Julianna was out of danger but might suffer lasting injuries, and Edmund broke down emotionally at the news.
• After a month, the four were discharged; Edmund had adjusted to his reconstructed arm, while Julianna continued her recovery in a wheelchair.
• Supervisor Aige met them outside the hospital and took them to a confidential settlement meeting where organizational leaders would question them about the mission.

Yi Chen and his teammates attended a closed-door review of their mission, where Doctor André Vesari questioned their choices and Supervisor Aige explained the mission’s true purpose. Yi Chen then began revealing what he had uncovered about Twilight Clinic.

• Supervisor Aige told the team their mission performance would earn them greater rewards and confirmed Mr. Lee’s corpse had been turned into Diseased Crystallization for them to share.
• At Gentleman Hall, Yi Chen recognized Doctor André Vesari, the vice president of Major Hospital of Hippocrates, as a doctor he had met before in Zion City.
• Yi Chen recounted the mission, and André Vesari praised his decisions before asking why he had chosen to fight Mr. Lee.
• Edmund said his principles as a gentleman had compelled him to confront Mr. Lee, while Yi Chen admitted he had feared betrayal, wanted to test himself, and hoped to earn greater rewards.
• Supervisor Aige revealed the mission had been designed to identify New Gentlemen with investigative potential, then asked the team to describe what they had learned about Twilight Clinic.
• Yi Chen began explaining the clinic’s hidden truth as the emblem on the back of his head started to squirm.