Chapter Summaries

Yu Sheng and Baili Qing questioned the captured Argraidean soldier, who identified the lab director as Lovell before Baili Qing began treating his memories. Back at No. 66 Wutong Road, Yu Sheng repaired Eileen’s cracked arm as the others joked and bickered.

• Yu Sheng saw that the captured Black Dot soldier was an Argraidean elf, and the soldier recognized Baili Qing as the “evil spirit of the Crossroads.”
• The soldier claimed he was only a Class D contract guard and named Lovell as the facility’s lab director, prompting Yu Sheng to suspect he was stalling.
• Baili Qing said she would use her Memory Recovery Technique on the soldier, while Yu Sheng returned home with Luna to repair Eileen’s arm.
• At No. 66 Wutong Road, Yu Sheng repaired Eileen’s cracked arm while she and Huli joked about turning it into a lotus-root sandwich.
• Luna quietly recorded the lively scene and uploaded it to the Otherworld Inn database.

Yu Sheng and Baili Qing questioned a Black Dot soldier, who revealed that the laboratory had been studying a fragment of the World Bridge called the Zolda Black Stone. The Black Dot Group had pursued dangerous experiments for seven years, and the stone had recently begun responding more actively, leaving Yu Sheng concerned about what might happen next.

• Yu Sheng accompanied Baili Qing to question the Black Dot soldier, who explained that the Zolda Black Stone had been found on a ruined planet and later brought to the laboratory.
• The soldier said researchers believed the Black Stone was a fragment of an enormous device for traveling between worlds, leading Yu Sheng and Eileen to identify it as part of the World Bridge.
• The soldier revealed that the Black Dot Group had spent about seven years trying to study or restore the device and had buried a nuclear bomb beneath the laboratory as a safety measure.
• Baili Qing asked about the Black Dot Group's targeting of The Crossroads and the Infiltrator Sun Chen, but the soldier said those matters were outside his knowledge.
• The soldier said the Black Stone had become more active in recent months, responding to commands and opening increasingly stable passages.

Yu Sheng connected the Black Dot Group’s laboratory activity to Eileen’s release from the painting and warned her to report any changes, then hurried off to buy ingredients for Huli. In Mist City, Xu Jiali’s Deep Dive Team cleared a fog-zone barrier, but their advance was interrupted when Bell felt something grab her and a teammate called for help.

• Yu Sheng learned that a Deep Dive Team had found the Black Dot Group’s silver-white cylinder in Dark Alley, though its purpose and connection to the rift remained uncertain.
• Yu Sheng suspected the rise in Zolda Black Stone activity had begun around the time he made Eileen her first body and freed her from the painting, and he told her to report anything unusual.
• Yu Sheng left Eileen at home and went to the supermarket to buy lotus root and ground meat for Huli’s lotus-root sandwiches.
• Xu Jiali’s Deep Dive Team destroyed a Clown entity and prepared to cross Qinghe District toward East Forest Plaza to help establish a communications relay.
• Bell stopped as the team crossed the foggy streets, saying something had tripped her and left her freezing, before another teammate shouted that something had wrapped around him.

Xu Jiali's Deep Dive Team encountered invisible threads that disrupted their communications and trapped them in Mist City. The team then witnessed a colossal structure pass through the city like a phantom, with people inside briefly noticing them before it vanished.

• Xu Jiali recognized the black threads as Eileen's and ordered the affected Deep Divers to retreat carefully as the threads spread across the city and then disappeared.
• Xu Jiali discovered that communications and emergency surfacing had failed, so he ordered the team to continue toward a nearby communications node and Safe House.
• Xu Jiali led the team to a strange alloy road and a towering wall embedded in the surrounding buildings.
• The wall rushed toward the team, but passed through them and Mist City as a silent phantom, revealing researchers and Argraideans inside before vanishing.

After a space station vanished into Mist City, the Deep Dive Team reported signs of the Omen Goddess and a possible Black Dot Group presence. Baili Qing warned the group, then witnessed black threads cover the rifts of The Crossroads before they disappeared; elsewhere, Yu Sheng sketched weapons for Mo Ran to make.

• Xu Jiali and the Deep Dive Team escaped Mist City after a massive space station passed silently into the ground, and their communications were restored.
• Song Cheng reported that the team was mostly unharmed and suspected the black threads were tied to the Omen Goddess, while the space station might belong to the Black Dot Group.
• Baili Qing warned the Black Dot Group to stop pushing beyond reason and ordered more Deep Dive Teams to monitor Mist City and issue a risk warning.
• Baili Qing and Baili Xue saw black spider silk emerge from every rift in The Crossroads, covering the city before vanishing; Baili Qing called it a bad omen.
• Eileen sneezed off the coffee table, then questioned Yu Sheng's rough weapon designs, including his Water Gun for spreading fungal mats while avoiding death.

Yu Sheng planned blood-based ranged weapons and arranged for Mo Ran to have evil cultivators research them. A call reported strange events in Mist City, so Yu Sheng transported No. 66 Wutong Road there to investigate.

• Yu Sheng explained his plans for blood grenades, a Blood Spear, and a Blood Needle Launcher, and Eileen questioned how useful they would be and whether they would still work after his death.
• Yu Sheng explained that his resurrection only reset things within the boundaries of the death event, so blood prepared and stored in advance would remain usable.
• Yu Sheng contacted Mo Ran and proposed recruiting expert evil cultivators from the Demon Suppressing Tower of the Great Void Spiritual Pivot to help develop his weapons.
• The Steel-Faced Poker called Yu Sheng and reported that Xu Jiali's Deep Dive Team encountered black spiderwebs and a Black Dot Group space station in Mist City.
• Yu Sheng took a heavy doll and transported No. 66 Wutong Road into Mist City.

Yu Sheng and his companions entered Mist City’s foggy district to investigate the vanishing spiderwebs reported by Xu Jiali’s team. When Zheng Zhi spotted a brief overlap showing two strangers in white coats, the group attacked the spot and caused rifts to appear.

• Yu Sheng took Huli, Eileen, and Zheng Zhi into the fog while assigning Li Lin to watch the safe zone around No. 66 Wutong Road.
• At the cordon, Eileen searched for traces of the spiderwebs, while Zheng Zhi reported seeing familiar apparitions in the fog.
• Yu Sheng borrowed Zheng Zhi’s life-monitoring pocket watch, whose dial shattered after its hands spun wildly in his presence.
• Zheng Zhi glimpsed two strangers in white coats during a momentary overlap, but they vanished before he could show the others.
• Huli fired Fox Carrot Missiles at the spot, Eileen sent spiderwebs after them, and Yu Sheng and Eileen joined the attack, causing rifts to appear.

Yu Sheng and his companions forced open a rift into the Black Dot Laboratory, where the World Bridge fragment was causing an emergency. As the rift began to collapse, Huli launched Yu Sheng through it, and he reached the laboratory despite being riddled with bullets.

• Yu Sheng and his companions attacked the unstable space, and Eileen held open the main rift with spider silk while striking it with Ominous Wandering Star.
• The rift revealed the Black Dot Laboratory, where technicians tried to shut down the rift generator and soldiers opened fire through the passage.
• Eileen summoned mass-produced dolls to fight the Black Dot soldiers as Yu Sheng called Huli and climbed onto her tail.
• The Black Dot side blew up the rift generator, causing the passage to destabilize and Eileen's spider silk to snap.
• Huli launched Yu Sheng through the rift, and he flew into the laboratory under heavy fire just before the passage closed.

Yu Sheng infiltrated the Black Dot Group’s orbital laboratory, where he briefly revived after being shot before dying again and being taken for examination. Meanwhile, technicians in Boundary City discovered that the device left at Dark Alley contained a fusion bomb.

• Eileen confirmed that Yu Sheng was barely clinging to life after entering the passage, while Zheng Zhi asked whether he was all right.
• Yu Sheng stood up in the orbital laboratory despite his fatal wounds, thanked the Black Dot soldiers, and died again as they tried to capture him.
• The Black Dot commander ordered Yu Sheng’s body taken to the medical bay and learned that the Boss was on her way to the laboratory.
• Deep Dive Team members and technicians dismantled the silver-white device at Dark Alley after the spiderweb corrosion receded.
• An engineer identified the device inside as a KK-I-type fusion bomb.

The Blonde Elf returned to Black Stone Station, found the Zolda Black Stone intact, and was overwhelmed by its bizarre revelations before asking to see the Infiltrator. Yu Sheng revived in a dark, web-covered corridor, with no one else in sight.

• Black Dot soldiers carried the invader’s body bag to the infirmary while discussing strange occurrences on the station.
• The Blonde Elf arrived at Black Stone Station and received a report that the attack had killed three clone soldiers, wounded six, and destroyed the rift generator and four communication devices.
• The Blonde Elf visited the Zolda Black Stone, listened to its revelations, and collapsed when a chaotic torrent of information overwhelmed her.
• The Blonde Elf asked to see the Infiltrator, whose severe mutations had left him in a life-support container.
• Yu Sheng revived after a prolonged period of death and opened his eyes in a dim corridor covered in black spiderwebs.

Yu Sheng entered the Black Dot Group’s research facility and found it transformed into a silent, distorted space where black webs trapped shadowy figures. Near the Zolda Black Stone’s apparent core, he encountered an Eileen-like doll calculating the universe’s final solution to activate a sanctuary.

• Yu Sheng found the facility empty and realized his portals were malfunctioning in an altered dimension, though his bloodstains still guided him toward the circular laboratory.
• Yu Sheng encountered spectral Black Dot soldiers and technicians, along with figures cocooned in black webs.
• Yu Sheng sensed the dimensional boundaries growing weaker as he neared the Zolda Black Stone and saw more signs of the real facility beyond the strange space.
• Yu Sheng found a black-dressed doll resembling Eileen, who said the end of the world was coming and described the Omen as an object of fear and worship.
• The doll told Yu Sheng that her calculations were the universe’s final solution and that solving them would activate the sanctuary.

Yu Sheng met a shadowy doll who resembled Eileen and learned she remembered only an apocalyptic mission and him. After she vanished, he entered the Black Dot Laboratory, where Eileen awakened him in the real world; Yu Sheng charged toward the Zolda Black Stone, apparently choosing to die again.

• Yu Sheng questioned the shadowy doll about the sanctuary, but she remembered only an apocalypse and a mission to calculate its activation equation.
• The doll wrote Yu Sheng’s name and fragments of memories, then pointed him toward the laboratory door before disappearing.
• Yu Sheng entered the Black Dot Laboratory’s web-covered dimension and saw a shadowy figure communicating with the black mass at its center.
• Eileen recognized Yu Sheng and used Sudden Awakening to pull him back into the real world, where a blonde elf mechanic and security forces confronted him.
• Yu Sheng opened a door, took out a spiked mace, and charged toward the Zolda Black Stone as the soldiers opened fire.
• Yu Sheng died again, prompting Eileen to ask how he had managed to die only two minutes after coming back to life.

A strange intruder’s blood revealed a message near the Zolda Black Stone, prompting the Blonde Elf to order the body launched into space and destroyed. As anomalies spread across The Crossroads, Baili Qing linked them to Luo’s Black Dot Group research, but Luo denied losing control and ended the call.

• The Blonde Elf sensed danger in the intruder’s blood, saw it form the words “Oh my, you found me,” and burned it with psychic fire.
• The Blonde Elf ordered the body sealed in an ejection pod, launched into space, and destroyed with a “Falling Star” missile.
• Baili Qing reviewed reports of widespread spatiotemporal anomalies, Argraidean projections, and spider silk appearing across Otherworlds.
• Baili Qing warned Luo that the Zolda Black Stone project was out of control, but Luo insisted everything was under control and blamed the Special Operations Bureau for interfering.
• After Luo ended the call, Baili Qing crushed her earring in anger, then repaired it while Baili Xue teased her.

Li Lin guarded No. 66 Wutong Road while the others explored Mist City, then witnessed a gigantic spider Othergod crossing the sky. After the creature recognized him as a friend of Yu Sheng and left, Li Lin took shelter inside No. 66 with Eileen.

• Li Lin chatted with Special Operations Bureau colleagues while waiting near No. 66 Wutong Road for Zheng Zhi, Yu Sheng, and the others to return.
• A bone-deep chill spread through the fog, and Li Lin saw a gigantic spider Othergod crawling across a web above Mist City.
• The spider fixed its scarlet eyes on Li Lin, then recognized him as a friend of Yu Sheng and crawled away while muttering about repairing a web and collecting fragments.
• Li Lin injected rationality blockers and called Zheng Zhi, who said they were returning; Eileen told Li Lin to come inside No. 66 Wutong Road.
• Three Eileens opened the gate for Li Lin, and after he entered, one Eileen watched the fading phantom of the spider through the window.

Yu Sheng connected Li Lin’s encounter in the fog to the Omen Goddess fragments he had seen aboard the Black Dot space station and decided to consult Baili Qing about the growing danger. Meanwhile, Mo Ran’s imprisoned experts reported that Yu Sheng’s blood could not be replicated or controlled, though they might craft auxiliary artifacts for it.

• Li Lin described seeing a vast spider-like apparition, and Yu Sheng said it and the presence aboard the Black Dot station might both be incomplete fragments or echoes of the Omen Goddess.
• Yu Sheng worried that the Black Dot Laboratory had long been out of control and that rifts opening near Boundary City signaled a major threat, so he planned to speak with Baili Qing.
• Yu Sheng asked Luna to draw blood for Mo Ran’s research, warning her not to hit an artery.
• Mo Ran questioned Elder Ku Ting, Blood Young Master, and Bone Gnawing Immortal about reproducing or amplifying Yu Sheng’s blood outside the body.
• Elder Ku Ting said ordinary blood-refining methods could not affect the blood and that the experts could only try to make auxiliary artifacts.

Baili Qing told Yu Sheng that Lo, a Black Dot Group researcher, was likely behind the escalating laboratory incidents, and Yu Sheng opened a door directly into Lo’s facility. After learning that Lo’s project involved the Zolda Black Stone and that she had triggered an emergency code, Yu Sheng and Baili Qing watched as Eileen’s hidden threads brought a group of dolls through the doorway to seize Lo.

• Baili Qing identified Lo as the likely culprit behind the increasingly severe incidents linked to the Black Dot Laboratory.
• Baili Qing explained that she had worked with Lo before and believed the researcher’s project had gone out of control.
• Yu Sheng opened a doorway to Lo’s maintenance room, allowing Baili Qing to confront her face-to-face.
• Baili Qing challenged Lo about the Zolda Black Stone, but Lo insisted her laboratory was in perfect condition.
• Lo revealed that she had activated an emergency code, while Eileen sent hidden threads through the doorway.
• A group of mass-produced dolls rushed into the room, grabbed Lo, and carried her toward the doorway.

Yu Sheng and Baili Qing captured Luo to confront her about the dangerous Zolda Black Stone, and the encounter helped break the stone’s hold on her mind. As Luo offered to help stop the crisis, they discovered that both bombs she had planned to use were already in their possession.

• Yu Sheng sent a swarm of Mass-produced Eileens to seize Luo and carry her into Baili Qing’s office.
• Eileen’s presence and the dolls’ scarlet eyes jolted Luo out of her dazed fascination with the Zolda Black Stone, and she realized something was wrong with it.
• Luo asked the Special Operations Bureau for help, and Baili Qing said Yu Sheng and the Inn might be needed to shut down her laboratory.
• Luo learned that the first nuclear bomb was already in the Special Operations Bureau’s hands and that it had apparently fallen into Otherworld through a spatial rift.
• Song Cheng reported that agents had found a fusion bomb belonging to the Black Dot Group in the museum, revealing that Luo’s backup bomb was gone too.

Yu Sheng warned Luo that Zolda Black Stone had begun influencing its surroundings and dismantling the space station restraining it. As an invasion struck the Special Operations Bureau, Baili Qing deployed forces to the customs floor, and Yu Sheng, Luo, and Eileen prepared to respond.

• Luo explained that the space station was a cage for the Black Stone, and that its nuclear-bomb triggers were meant to return it to dormancy without destroying its restraints.
• Yu Sheng said the Black Stone's current agitation had another cause, and Baili Qing confirmed that he was an expert; Luo realized she had brought the stone back for research.
• Yu Sheng warned that the Black Stone could corrupt people around it and make them protect it, possibly turning the station's researchers and security forces against their own interests.
• An alarm reported abnormal masses tearing through the spatial barrier on the Second Customs Floor, and Baili Qing ordered an evacuation and sent Song Cheng with security forces.
• Baili Qing took Yu Sheng and Luo to the customs floor, while Eileen summoned a dozen mass-produced dolls to join her army.

Yu Sheng and Baili Qing entered a vast, fractured space where Special Operations Bureau troops and Black Dot forces fought creatures emerging from spatial rifts. Huli learned that the Zolda Black Stone had vanished from its sealed laboratory, triggering the space station’s disintegration.

• Baili Qing led Yu Sheng, Huli, and the Eileens through a mural into a gigantic elevator filled with armed Special Operations Bureau and Deep Dive Team forces.
• The elevator opened onto a shattered, shifting space, where Bureau soldiers and Black Dot security squads fought creatures pouring from spatial rifts.
• Baili Qing ordered reinforcements, including Xu Jiali and the Cat Head girl, to hold the creatures back while the Technology Department studied the rifts.
• Baili Qing brought nearby Black Dot soldiers to Huli, and their leader reported that the Zolda Black Stone had disappeared from its sealed laboratory.
• The Black Dot soldier explained that the laboratory staff and station defenses had rebelled, the nuclear bomb had failed to detonate, and the space station began disintegrating after the Black Stone vanished.

Yu Sheng decided to enter the corrupted Black Stone Space Station to investigate and try to close the cracks from the other side. He crossed over with Luo and Eileen, leaving Baili Qing to hold back the monsters as they began exploring the station.

• A Black Dot soldier told Yu Sheng and the others that the Black Stone's disappearance had torn open the space station and let strange matter seep inside.
• Yu Sheng sensed interference through the blood connection to the station and saw a dangerous phantom before Eileen and the puppets pulled him back.
• Yu Sheng decided to cross to the station and attempt to close the cracks, while Baili Qing agreed to keep the monsters occupied.
• Luo insisted on joining Yu Sheng because the station was hers, and Yu Sheng brought Eileen and one mass-produced puppet along.
• Yu Sheng opened a phantom door and crossed into the corrupted station with Luo and Eileen, leaving Baili Qing behind to defend their side.
• Luo recovered from the sight of the ruined station and offered to lead the group onward.