Chapter Summaries

Yu Sheng and Eileen discovered that Eileen could inhabit her puppet body only within a limited distance of the painting that remained her foundation. Eileen adapted by strapping the painting to her back, and the pair prepared to study the passage back to the valley.

• Eileen repeatedly switched between her painting and puppet body as Yu Sheng tested the distance that kept her connected.
• Yu Sheng and Eileen concluded that the painting remained her foundation and that her puppet body lost its connection when she moved too far away.
• Eileen asked whether carrying her prison meant she had escaped, then tried to carry the oversized painting herself.
• Yu Sheng tied ropes to the frame so Eileen could wear it on her back, letting her move around without exceeding the distance limit.
• Eileen cheered up and joined Yu Sheng to make dinner and begin studying the passage back to the valley.

Li Lin and Xu Jiali met Little Red Riding Hood, who joined their investigation of anomalies on Wutong Road. At home, Eileen celebrated her newfound mobility, then agreed to help Yu Sheng confront the fox and demonstrated her doll abilities.

• Li Lin and Xu Jiali discussed Xu Jiali’s beam dagger and the equipment restricted by customs in The Crossroads.
• Little Red Riding Hood introduced herself to Li Lin and Xu Jiali as their temporary specialist for the neighborhood, then left in the shape of a shadowy wolf.
• Eileen eagerly ran around Yu Sheng’s home carrying her painting, climbed onto furniture, and turned on the television herself.
• Eileen explained that carrying the painting made her feel secure, and she confirmed she still planned to go with Yu Sheng to deal with the fox.
• Eileen admitted her small body limited her in a head-on fight, then showed Yu Sheng how black threads spread from her fingertips and formed a net.

Yu Sheng and Eileen planned to use a dream connection through Huli to locate the Otherworld valley, despite the risk of exposing Yu Sheng to Entity-Hunger. Eileen guided Yu Sheng into Huli’s dream, but discovered she had entered it trapped inside her painting again.

• Eileen proposed linking to Huli’s senses through a dream so Yu Sheng could establish a navigation point to the valley, warning that the connection could expose him to Entity-Hunger.
• Yu Sheng agreed to try the plan, and Eileen promised to help him enter the right dream while warning him not to test the danger by dying.
• Eileen stumbled off the sofa and got caught in her painting frame, then kept distracting Yu Sheng as he prepared to sleep.
• Eileen guided Yu Sheng into Huli’s dream, where he saw the silver-white demon fox sleeping in the wilderness.
• Yu Sheng noticed Eileen was guiding him from inside her painting, and Eileen realized she had been pulled into it again.

Yu Sheng entered Huli’s dream to establish a direct connection and prepare to rescue her from the valley. As Hunger overwhelmed him, he remained conscious in The Depths and finally glimpsed enormous limbs or shadows within the darkness.

• Eileen warned Yu Sheng that Hunger would notice him in Huli’s dream and promised to pull him out if his mind became unstable.
• Yu Sheng and Eileen descended into Huli’s dream, where he found her beside the wreckage of a massive crashed vessel.
• Yu Sheng told Huli he would save her and asked her to let him sense her surroundings through their connection; Huli agreed and felt less hungry.
• Eileen helped Yu Sheng form a stronger connection with Huli, allowing him to sense the valley’s cold, decayed atmosphere.
• Hunger’s madness overwhelmed Yu Sheng, who watched his soul be devoured and revived while he wandered through The Depths.
• Yu Sheng remained beneath Hunger’s gaze and eventually spotted enormous limbs or shadows floating in The Depths.

Yu Sheng established a deep link with the entity of hunger and discovered that it was developing genuine thought, but the contact left hunger rooted in his mind. He woke in pain, and Eileen warned that the influence could grow as they prepared to hunt the entity instance.

• Yu Sheng's mind connected with hunger, which tried to consume him as he sensed himself feeding on the entity.
• Eileen's cry interrupted the connection, and Yu Sheng was forcibly awakened in agony.
• Yu Sheng told Eileen that hunger was learning to think and explained what he had seen through their link.
• Eileen panicked that hunger had taken root in Yu Sheng's mind, and Yu Sheng suggested they kill the entity instance before it could grow.
• Yu Sheng tried to get up, discovered bite marks on his arm, and Eileen admitted she had bitten him to wake him before fleeing the room.

Yu Sheng opened an unusually large passage to the Otherworld while trying to take Eileen and supplies to Huli, pulling a nearby Special Operations Bureau surveillance team and Little Red Riding Hood into a night-shrouded valley. The agents realized they had fallen into a Wilderness-type Otherworld, while Li Lin offered them instant noodles.

• Yu Sheng caught Eileen as she tried to run, forgave her for biting him, and said they would head to the valley.
• Xu Jiali and Li Lin watched the quiet neighborhood while Little Red Riding Hood monitored the street from a rooftop and did her homework.
• Eileen armed herself with a kitchen cleaver, and Yu Sheng prepared food for Huli before opening the door.
• Yu Sheng opened a passage far larger than expected, causing the neighborhood to begin transforming into an Otherworld.
• Xu Jiali and Li Lin were dragged into a night-shrouded valley with Little Red Riding Hood, and Xu Jiali identified it as a Wilderness-type Otherworld.
• Li Lin looked at the two agents and Little Red Riding Hood and offered them instant noodles.

Yu Sheng and Eileen entered Nightfall Valley to find Huli, while Li Lin, Xu Jiali, and Little Red Riding Hood struggled to prepare for the dangerous Hunger entity. Yu Sheng reunited with Huli and promised she would have plenty of food.

• Yu Sheng and Eileen crossed into the desolate valley, carrying supplies and heading toward the ruined temple to search for Huli.
• Li Lin and Xu Jiali identified the area as a dangerous wilderness-type Otherworld and injected sanity blockers to guard against Hunger's mental attacks.
• Xu Jiali told Little Red Riding Hood to preserve her strength for battle, warning Li Lin that her wolves would eat her if hunger overcame her.
• Yu Sheng and Eileen searched the temple ruins until Huli emerged and joyfully recognized Yu Sheng.
• Yu Sheng set down the food he had brought and promised Huli she would no longer go hungry.

Yu Sheng fed the starving Huli and helped stabilize her, while the Hunger Entity stirred in the valley. Elsewhere in the forest, Little Red Riding Hood, Li Lin, and Xu Jiali fought the monster before it vanished into thickening fog, forcing them to flee.

• Yu Sheng gave Huli food, and she ate ravenously before sharing bread with him and calming down enough to meet Eileen.
• Eileen explained that she had helped Yu Sheng contact Huli, while Huli tried to share her biscuits with the living doll.
• Yu Sheng sensed that feeding Huli had stirred the Hunger Entity, and the group heard wolves howling nearby.
• Little Red Riding Hood and a pack of wolves confronted the fleshly beast as Li Lin and Xu Jiali ambushed it.
• The monster vanished into thickening fog as strange phantoms appeared throughout the forest, and Xu Jiali urged everyone to run out.

Yu Sheng and Eileen confronted Entity—Hunger as the Otherworld stirred around them, and Yu Sheng used a doorway to a lake of magma as his weapon. The monster was trapped in Eileen’s threads, but its fate remained unresolved as Yu Sheng prepared to throw it through the portal.

• Huli trembled and repeated that the valley’s ominous awakening had happened when the immortal died.
• Entity—Hunger appeared near the ruined temple, and Yu Sheng warned Eileen about its shifting limbs and told Huli to stay back.
• Yu Sheng and Eileen agreed to attack together, with Eileen restraining the monster while Yu Sheng opened a door into a lake of magma.
• Yu Sheng sensed the monster’s attack in advance and rushed through its strike while Eileen’s black threads bound its body.
• Yu Sheng opened a large portal to the magma lake and shouted for Eileen to throw Entity—Hunger inside.

Yu Sheng, Eileen, and their unexpected allies forced the flesh monster through Yu Sheng’s gate into Hellfire, with Huli’s explosive tail attack delivering the final blow. After the gate vanished, Huli warned Yu Sheng that the danger was not over.

• Eileen’s spiderweb dragged the flesh monster toward Yu Sheng’s gate, but the creature tore apart its own body and adapted to escape the threads.
• A pack of phantom wolves and a burly man arrived to help drive the monster toward the gate, but Eileen’s web broke and the monster began regenerating.
• Huli charged the monster despite being pinned by bone spikes, then launched one of her tails as a blue-flamed projectile and knocked the creature fully through the gate.
• Yu Sheng closed the gate after the monster disappeared, and Eileen collapsed while the newly arrived allies gathered among the ruins.
• Yu Sheng discovered Huli had lost a tail, and she warned him that they could not rest because the danger was not over.

Yu Sheng and the others tried to escape the valley as a greater horror awakened, but a flesh-and-blood behemoth killed Yu Sheng before they could leave. As the valley filled with monsters and its sky opened into an enormous eye, Xu Jiali recognized the threat as the Dark Angel.

• Huli told Yu Sheng that something had awakened in the valley when the Immortal died, and that everyone who went outside had later been found dead.
• Yu Sheng carried the badly damaged Eileen, opened a door to No. 66 Wutong Road, and urged Huli, Li Lin, Xu Jiali, and the other stranger to escape.
• A flesh-and-blood behemoth attacked Yu Sheng from behind and pierced his chest, causing the illusory door to vanish.
• Eileen told Huli that Yu Sheng would resurrect in twenty or thirty minutes, and Huli picked up Eileen and the oil painting as monsters gathered around them.
• Li Lin and Xu Jiali saw the valley transform as an enormous eye opened across the Otherworld's sky, and Xu Jiali identified it as the Dark Angel.

As the Dark Angel’s eye watched the valley, Eileen led Huli and the others toward a cave where they could hide, leaving Yu Sheng’s body behind. Dead in the darkness, Yu Sheng awakened to a new connection with the valley and realized he could respond to the eye through the Otherworld itself.

• Li Lin and Xu Jiali realized a Dark Angel had appeared, while the monsters around the ruined temple remained strangely still.
• Eileen asked Huli to lead them to the cave where her parents had once hidden from a similar event, and told her to leave Yu Sheng’s body behind.
• The mountains and forest split open as flesh and tentacles emerged, forcing Huli, Eileen, Li Lin, Xu Jiali, and Little Red Riding Hood’s group to flee toward the cave.
• Little Red Riding Hood sent a wolf toward Yu Sheng’s remains, but it turned back; she then led the others after Huli.
• The Hunger Entities began devouring one another as Yu Sheng’s blood spread through the soil.
• Yu Sheng sensed the Dark Angel’s gaze while dead and realized he had connected to the valley, perceiving the gaze through the Otherworld.

Yu Sheng connected with the valley and discovered that Hunger had awakened the Otherworld into a living, predatory creature. As his companions sheltered in a cave, Yu Sheng revealed that he had taken root inside Hunger, and the entity began devouring itself.

• Yu Sheng sensed the enormous eye watching him before it turned its attention elsewhere, and he realized the valley had become a hungry living creature.
• Huli led Li Lin, Xu Jiali, Little Red Riding Hood, and the damaged Eileen into a cave as monstrous growths overtook the valley.
• Eileen told Huli that Yu Sheng would repair her, then warned her not to mention his apparent death to their companions.
• The valley fell silent, then filled with a strange scraping sound as everyone in the cave sensed that something had changed.
• Yu Sheng contacted Eileen and explained that Hunger had not taken root in his mind; instead, he had taken root in Hunger, which had begun devouring itself.

Yu Sheng returned to the cave after the Hunger Entities devoured one another, and Xu Jiali identified the giant eye above the valley as a Dark Angel. The eye withdrew, leaving the survivors to celebrate and prepare to report what happened.

• Li Lin, Huli, and Eileen saw Yu Sheng outside the cave and called him back to safety.
• Yu Sheng explained that the giant eye was an outsider that had long occupied the sky, and Xu Jiali described it as a Dark Angel.
• Yu Sheng introduced himself and his friends to Xu Jiali, Little Red Riding Hood, and Li Lin.
• Xu Jiali asked whether Yu Sheng had caused the ruined valley, and Yu Sheng said he had found the entities' weakness.
• Eileen noticed the giant eye rising and shrinking until it disappeared from the sky.
• Xu Jiali said they should celebrate before he returned to write a report.

After the Dark Angel’s eye left the Otherworld, Yu Sheng learned that Li Lin and Xu Jiali were agents of the Special Operations Bureau and prepared to return home with everyone. Before leaving, Huli asked Yu Sheng to accompany her to the woods where her parents were buried, and the group reached the ruined site.

• The Dark Angel’s eye departed, and Xu Jiali explained that Dark Angels acted unpredictably.
• Yu Sheng recognized Li Lin from a small supermarket, and Li Lin and Xu Jiali introduced themselves as members of the Special Operations Bureau; Little Red Riding Hood said she was a holiday worker.
• Yu Sheng and the others left the cave and found the valley devastated, while Eileen said the Hunger Entity would eventually return.
• After Huli said she was no longer cold or hungry, she stopped Yu Sheng from opening a door home and asked him to take her to the woods where her parents were buried.
• The group reached the blackened wasteland where the woods had stood, and Huli said she had buried her parents very deep.

Huli found her parents’ skeletons in the wasteland and brought their teeth home, while Yu Sheng returned her and the others to his house on Wutong Road. There, he told Li Lin and Xu Jiali that he had been looking for all of them, especially professionals like them.

• Huli dug through the wasteland until she found her parents’ skeletons and curled up beside them.
• Huli took one canine tooth from each skeleton, explaining that carrying the teeth home meant her parents had gone home too.
• Yu Sheng retrieved the intact food left at the abandoned temple, then opened a gate to his home and brought Huli, Li Lin, Xu Jiali, and Little Red Riding Hood through.
• Li Lin, Xu Jiali, and Little Red Riding Hood sensed that Yu Sheng’s home was still an Anomaly space, but hesitated to investigate it openly.
• Li Lin asked whether they were still in Boundary City, and Yu Sheng confirmed they were on Wutong Road.
• Yu Sheng said he had been looking for all of them, particularly professionals like Li Lin and Xu Jiali.

Yu Sheng introduced himself to the Special Operations Bureau agents as a novice seeking answers about the Otherworld, but his house and abilities left Li Lin and Xu Jiali deeply suspicious. After exchanging contact information, the agents discovered his address did not exist, and they left to report the situation and consult their superiors about Dark Angel.

• Yu Sheng told Li Lin, Xu Jiali, and Little Red Riding Hood that he had only recently encountered the Otherworld and wanted help understanding it.
• Li Lin and Xu Jiali examined Yu Sheng's identity card and found that No. 66 Wutong Road did not exist.
• Xu Jiali gave Yu Sheng her contact information and said the bureau would arrange a formal contact and registration procedure.
• Little Red Riding Hood realized that an entity had destroyed her homework and furiously lamented the loss of her three days of work.
• Li Lin, Xu Jiali, and Little Red Riding Hood left Yu Sheng's house and found only a wall where its entrance had been.
• Xu Jiali and Li Lin decided to return to the bureau and report the situation, which involved Dark Angel.

Yu Sheng brought Huli home and helped her prepare to bathe while Eileen waited to have her broken limbs repaired. The chapter left Yu Sheng ready to experiment with using an expensive lotus root as material for Eileen’s repairs, syringe in hand.

• Yu Sheng took Huli to the bathroom, explained how to use its fixtures and supplies, and left her a set of his clothes for after her bath.
• Huli hid cans of porridge and packs of biscuits inside her tail, then revealed that her tail had grown back after she launched it before.
• Yu Sheng carried Eileen to the attic to repair her broken arms and cracked legs, while Eileen explained the process.
• Yu Sheng admitted that the clay for Eileen’s repairs had run out and produced a lotus root he had saved to test as an alchemy material.
• Eileen objected that the process required Yu Sheng’s blood, but Yu Sheng pulled out a syringe, leaving her aghast.

Yu Sheng successfully gave Eileen lotus-root arms and used blood-infused epoxy putty to repair her cracked leg. Eileen asked him to cautiously seek help from the Special Operations Bureau in contacting Alice's Cabin, and Yu Sheng prepared to see whether she could stand.

• Yu Sheng reassured Eileen that her lotus-root arms worked, though she was shocked that his alchemy had succeeded.
• Eileen tested her new hands and found them usable, then warned Yu Sheng not to repair her legs with lotus-root starch.
• Yu Sheng examined Eileen's cracked leg, mixed his blood into epoxy putty, and applied it to the wounds.
• Eileen told Yu Sheng she wanted to ask the Special Operations Bureau agents about contacting Alice's Cabin but had felt uneasy around them.
• Eileen asked Yu Sheng to inquire about Alice's Cabin if he confirmed the agents were genuine, and Yu Sheng reset her knee and told her to try standing.

After Yu Sheng repaired Eileen’s limbs, Huli joined them in the attic and revealed she had put away her tails. Unable to recall her home and content to have found her parents in the canine teeth she carried, Huli accepted Yu Sheng’s offer to live with him and help him face future dangers.

• Yu Sheng finished repairing Eileen’s leg, and she happily ran around the attic again.
• Huli found Yu Sheng and Eileen, mistook Eileen for a puppet, and accidentally knocked her over when she unfurled her tails.
• Huli said she did not remember her hometown and felt she had already found her parents in the two canine teeth she carried.
• Yu Sheng offered Huli a room and food in exchange for helping him fight dangerous Entities and explore Otherworlds.
• Huli worried that she might get trapped again, then agreed to help Yu Sheng after he reminded her of his Netherworld Passage.