Recaps

Lin Yu, Li Nian, and Chen Zhuo entered the Despair Train Express game aboard a speeding three-wheeled scooter, where they learned they needed to obtain a ticket to clear the instance. After the train announced that six passengers had boarded, Li Nian attacked something invisible in their seemingly empty carriage.

• Lin Yu met Li Nian and Chen Zhuo at Shengjiang Plaza Subway Station, where Chen Zhuo took them to his grandmother’s three-wheeled scooter.
• Chen Zhuo drove the scooter with Lin Yu and Li Nian squeezed into the back, and the vehicle suddenly accelerated as midnight arrived.
• The three were transported into a futuristic train and learned that the game was called Despair Train Express and required them to obtain a ticket.
• Li Nian warned Lin Yu that the instance was savage, so Lin Yu took out his pistol and the Fear Torch while Li Nian readied a utility knife.
• The train announced that six new passengers had boarded at D-4, D-5, and D-13, and Li Nian threw her knife at something invisible in their carriage.

Lin Yu used his fear-burning torch to reveal and destroy the invisible spirits attacking the group aboard the train. After Chen Zhuo nearly exposed Lin Yu’s identity, Lin Yu redirected the conversation and asked Li Nian what the train was about.

• Li Nian explained that her sunglasses let her see incorporeal creatures, then revealed that the spirits were weak but everywhere and could cause deadly cold.
• Lin Yu used his torch to expose the pufferfish-like spirits, which fled from its flames.
• Lin Yu ignited the spirits on himself and Chen Zhuo, triggering a chain reaction that spread pale flames through the train car.
• Chen Zhuo began to call Lin Yu the Administrator, but Lin Yu stopped him and reminded him to keep the identity secret.
• Chen Zhuo covered by praising Lin Yu’s torch, and Lin Yu asked Li Nian what the train was about.

After Lin Yu and Li Nian discussed how he obtained the Fear Torch, Li Nian explained that the Despair Train belonged to Truth Company, a powerful alchemy-focused force. With the monsters burned away, the group prepared for the next trial.

• Lin Yu told Li Nian that a friend who owed him a favor had given him the Fear Torch, and Li Nian teased him about his relationship with May.
• Li Nian tried to claim that the Freedom Alliance required background checks, but Lin Yu called out her fabricated rule.
• Li Nian explained that the Despair Train was an express train belonging to Truth Company, and Lin Yu described the company's soul-conversion alchemy.
• Li Nian demanded points from Chen Zhuo for sharing classified information, briefly took his Honeycomb Charging Shield, then returned it.
• The last invisible pufferfish burned to ashes, and Li Nian told the others to prepare for the next trial.

Li Nian used her hidden ability to shut down seven robots that attacked the group aboard the train. After the fight, she called her gloves and elusive movement her trump card and claimed that robots and puppets were easy prey for her.

• Li Nian explained that several more trial rounds awaited them and that they would eventually need to obtain a ticket from a powerful monster.
• Seven armed robots entered the train car, and Li Nian told Lin Yu to protect Chen Zhuo while she handled them herself.
• Wearing thin white gloves, Li Nian evaded the robots' volleys and touched each machine, causing all seven to shut down.
• Chen Zhuo praised Li Nian's performance, and she emerged from beneath a seat, tossed scarlet beads onto the table, and called her ability her trump card.

Lin Yu and Li Nian explained how Li Nian defeated the Hate Sentries and discussed Tier authorities before an Elite Monster appeared. As the enemy charged, Lin Yu and Li Nian prepared to fight together.

• Li Nian explained that she had defeated the Hate Sentries by removing their Vengeance Crystal cores and kept the crystal as her spoils.
• Lin Yu guessed that Tier 2 authority allowed people to bring certain things out of an Instance, while Li Nian offered to explain more and he declined.
• Li Nian gave Chen Zhuo a toy spinning top, then warned him to retreat when a tall man marked F-6 appeared with an electric baton.
• Chen Zhuo activated the Honeycomb Charging Shield, while Lin Yu used three Immortal Brew buffs and told Li Nian that his revolver had six bullets with different effects.
• Li Nian recognized Lin Yu's Mithril Standard Revolver and promised to cover him; Lin Yu's trust caused the Counterfeit to become genuine.
• The F-6 Elite Monster roared and lunged at Li Nian.

Li Nian and Lin Yu worked together to subdue the tall, thin man in the gray uniform aboard the carriage. The man was left asleep under [Mercy], while Li Nian and Lin Yu prepared to tie him up.

• Li Nian stole a card from the tall, thin man and drew him toward Lin Yu.
• Lin Yu fired [Doctrine], whose threads bound the man, but he broke free and seized Li Nian.
• Li Nian distracted the man with a blade, then used a Paralysis Potion to weaken him and escape his grasp.
• Lin Yu fired [Mercy], putting the man into a deep sleep, and told Li Nian to move farther away before they tied him up.
• Li Nian explained how she had used the potion, and Lin Yu admitted he had not known the next bullet would be [Mercy].

Lin Yu and Li Nian subdued Veil Valetti, a Truth Company security leader, and decided to bring him along for questioning. With Chen Zhuo carrying the captive, they entered the dark passage between carriages and discovered rows of jars filled with watching eyeballs.

• Li Nian tied up Veil Valetti and revealed his Truth Company identification card, hoping to question him about the Despair Train.
• Lin Yu warned that Veil Valetti might be irrational, but Li Nian planned to try to get him to cooperate once he woke.
• Li Nian told Chen Zhuo to carry Veil Valetti, and Lin Yu secured the captive to Chen Zhuo's back before they headed for the next carriage.
• Li Nian shone her flashlight into the dark carriage connection, revealing rows of jars filled with eyeballs that all turned toward the group.

Li Nian and Chen Zhuo investigated a sealed door guarded by a password terminal, and Lin Yu opened it with Veil Valetti’s Identity card. The group noticed that Veil and the unconscious employee shared a surname, raising questions about their connection.

• Li Nian examined the strange eyeballs in a container and guessed they were surveillance devices.
• Li Nian used the thin, tall man’s Identity card, but the terminal demanded a four-digit dynamic password.
• Li Nian searched the unconscious man for clues while Lin Yu decided to open the door quickly.
• Lin Yu swiped Veil Valetti’s Identity card, and the door opened without requiring a password.
• Li Nian, Chen Zhuo, and Lin Yu noticed that Veil Valetti and the employee both had the surname Valetti.

Lin Yu, Li Nian, and Chen Zhuo searched the luxurious D-12 dining car and found it apparently safe. After Li Nian woke the bound Pankto Feng Valetti, they realized he could communicate and might not have attacked them willingly.

• Lin Yu declined Li Nian’s offer of Mist Island Manor wine, while Li Nian drank a glass and briefly lost focus.
• Li Nian removed Pankto Feng Valetti’s mask, and Lin Yu noticed his features somewhat resembled Veil Valetti’s.
• Li Nian sprayed water on Pankto Feng Valetti and woke him.
• Pankto Feng Valetti demanded to know who had bound him, and Lin Yu and Li Nian realized he could communicate and might not have acted of his own will during the earlier attack.

Lin Yu, Li Nian, and Chen Zhuo discovered that Pankto’s suppressor had malfunctioned, but Pankto’s shock at learning he was on the Despair Train and had become an exiled team leader sent him into a new panic. Li Nian and Lin Yu restrained him and told him that he was in the future.

• Chen Zhuo inspected Pankto’s back and found his suppressor damaged, and Pankto apologized for attacking them while it was malfunctioning.
• Pankto offered to compensate Li Nian and recommend the group to Truth Company, then became confused when she told him they were aboard the Despair Train.
• Lin Yu showed Pankto his Identity card, revealing that he was a C-2-level field operations team leader, and Pankto panicked at the sight of his changed identity and appearance.
• Pankto accused them of being spies and demanded that the test end, so Li Nian and Lin Yu restrained him with a gun and a blade.
• Li Nian told Pankto that they were exiles on the Despair Train and that he appeared to be several years in the future, and Lin Yu welcomed him to it.

Pankto explained that the Despair Train had been turned from a failed transit project into a prison whose passengers’ despair powered the City That Never Sleeps. Lin Yu invited Pankto to join them in searching for a way off the train, but Pankto’s reaction to Veil Valetti’s identity card and notebook revealed that Veil was his great-granduncle.

• Pankto described how the Despair Train’s unstoppable furnace led Truth Company to convert it into a prison and energy supplier.
• Lin Yu asked Pankto about the ticket rumored to let passengers leave, but Pankto said he knew nothing about it.
• Lin Yu invited Pankto to cooperate with him and Li Nian in finding a way off the train, but Pankto asked for time alone.
• Lin Yu showed Pankto Veil Valetti’s identity card and notebook to earn his trust.
• Pankto recognized the identity card and revealed that Veil Valetti was his great-granduncle.

Lin Yu recruited Pankto Feng Valetti after learning about his family’s long search for Veil Valetti, then led the group through the door to carriage D-3. There, they found a blood-soaked carriage and the man responsible, whom Li Nian recognized as Brother Wang.

• Pankto Feng Valetti joined Lin Yu’s team and told him how his grandfather and father had tried to uncover what happened to Veil Valetti.
• Lin Yu told Pankto that Veil’s fate was roughly known, and Pankto thanked him before worrying whether he would escape the Instance.
• The group found four doors at the end of the dining car and discussed which carriage to enter.
• Lin Yu used Veil Valetti’s card to open the door marked D-3, and the group entered the carriage.
• The group found a dozen recently killed people and a man cooking spaghetti behind the bar.
• Li Nian recognized the man as Brother Wang, who was surprised to see her in the Instance.

Lin Yu met Wang Yuyang and his girlfriend, Pan Yuqiang, during an Instance and learned that she was a B-Class assassin in the Psychology Society's Executive Department. Pan Yuqiang recognized Lin Yu as the S-Class potential newcomer who had failed to become a Player.

• Li Nian introduced Lin Yu and Chen Zhuo to Wang Yuyang, the Freedom Alliance's designer.
• Wang Yuyang cooked pasta and explained that he often brought his girlfriend, Yuqiang, into Instances with Team-up Cards.
• Li Nian told Lin Yu that Wang Yuyang's girlfriend belonged to the Psychology Society, making Lin Yu wary.
• Pan Yuqiang emerged from a pile of corpses carrying scraps of a ticket and introduced herself as Citalopram, a B-Class operative.
• Pan Yuqiang recognized Lin Yu from internal files as the S-Class potential newcomer who had failed to become a Player.

Lin Yu used the Tooth of Prophecy to make the players believe Xia Yue’s fabricated backstory and blame the Psychology Society for mistakenly attacking her. The group then learned that a high-ranking Truth Company employee was likely aboard the Despair Train.

• Lin Yu challenged Pan Yuqiang’s claim about Xia Yue’s S-Class potential and explained that the Psychology Society had mistaken her for an ordinary person who had not become a player.
• Lin Yu described the harm caused by the Psychology Society’s operation and used the Tooth of Prophecy to make Wang Yuyang, Pan Yuqiang, Li Nian, and Chen Zhuo believe that he had died twice.
• Wang Yuyang, Pan Yuqiang, and Li Nian apologized and comforted Lin Yu, accepting the story he had told about Xia Yue.
• Pankto searched the corpses in Car D-3 and found a communicator reserved for Truth Company supervisors, department heads, and directors.

Lin Yu and the others learned how the Despair Train rewarded violence and how Truth Company’s confidential communicator worked. Pan Yuqiang explained the train’s factions and weapon attacks, leaving the group aware that a devastating Great Purge occurred roughly every seventy-two hours.

• Pankto explained that the confidential communicator required an authenticated, calm, conscious user, and Lin Yu confirmed its description before sharing it with the others.
• Pankto identified the communicator’s dead owner as a likely gang member rather than a company supervisor, and Wang Yuyang said the man had held authority in the dining car.
• Pan Yuqiang revealed that she had questioned the newly dead with her Spirit Summoning Ring and learned about the Despair Train’s layout and rules.
• Pan Yuqiang said passengers could earn supplies and Ticket Fragments by harming people with souls and emotions, then assemble enough fragments into a ticket to leave the train.
• Pan Yuqiang described how veterans hunted newcomers or tried to recruit capable ones, and explained that Truth Company deployed random weapons every twenty-four hours and began a train-wide Great Purge about every seventy-two hours.

Lin Yu and her companions learned about the Despair Train’s gangs and planned to question the factions in Dining Car 9 about the Baron and the tickets. Wang Yuyang objected to keeping Pankto in the group, but Pankto refused to leave unless Lin Yu asked him to.

• Pan Yuqiang explained that the Great Purges and the train’s faction structure forced passengers to cooperate while fueling suspicion and conflict, and named the Lion Gang, Blue Blood Team, and Iron Thorn Gang as the other groups.
• Wang Yuyang proposed killing the remaining gangs to collect tickets, but Pan Yuqiang rejected the plan, and Lin Yu suggested posing as Airport Gang members to learn about the Baron from the gangs in Dining Car 9.
• Chen Zhuo asked why Dining Car 12 was empty, and Pan Yuqiang explained that a powerful, indiscriminate killer was entrenched there.
• Wang Yuyang realized that Pankto was the feared killer and said the risk of keeping him outweighed the benefits, while Li Nian explained that she had hidden the truth to prevent Wang from confronting him.
• Pankto told Wang Yuyang he could not promise to remain lucid, but insisted he would not leave the group unless Lin Yu asked him to.

Lin Yu’s group entered Carriage 9 to ask about the Baron and negotiated with the Blue Blood Team and Iron Thorns. After their Airport Gang cover story was exposed, Lin Yu threatened them and revealed Pankto, leaving the carriage stunned.

• Lin Yu vouched for Pankto, and Wang Yuyang reluctantly let him join the group while warning Lin Yu not to trust the Truth Company.
• Lin Yu’s group entered Carriage 9, where the Blue Blood Team and Iron Thorns occupied separate sides of the carriage.
• Lin Yu provoked the Iron Thorns and asked them about the Baron, prompting the Blue Blood Team to challenge his presence.
• The Iron Thorns’ middle-aged man exposed Lin Yu’s Airport Gang disguise, and Lin Yu admitted his group had dealt with the gang and demanded their cooperation.
• Lin Yu had Pankto reveal his Truth Company uniform and insignia, silencing the carriage as Lin Yu asked them to help him reach the Baron.

Lin Yu used Pankto's appearance and a confident guess about the Baron's hiding place to persuade Iron Thorns to contact him. After the Baron agreed to meet, Lin Yu postponed the meeting, saying he first planned to find the person from carriage D-5 who had boarded with him.

• Pankto's arrival made the passengers in carriage 9 fear Lin Yu and led Iron Thorns to offer to contact the Baron.
• Lin Yu told Iron Thorns to pass on that he knew the Baron was beyond carriage 3 and could be reached through random doors by changing the probability.
• The Baron spoke through the communicator, acknowledged Lin Yu's B-3 Permission card and restoration of the Delta Squad leader, and agreed to meet him.
• Lin Yu declined to meet immediately and told the Baron he would first find the fellow who had boarded with him in carriage D-5.

Lin Yu explained why she had made the Baron believe the group needed his knowledge of the train, then proposed searching Carriage 6 for the missing Player. The group left Carriage 3 with Chen Zhuo and Pankto, whose conversation about anime had unexpectedly comforted him.

• Lin Yu explained that revealing the group's limits could encourage the Baron to cooperate by making him feel his train permissions were valuable.
• Lin Yu and the others discussed why they wanted to find the remaining Player and concluded that Carriage 6 was the next place to search.
• Li Nian called Chen Zhuo back from talking with Pankto, and the group decided to head to Carriage 6.
• Pankto praised Chen Zhuo for comforting him with fables, and Chen Zhuo explained that he had shared anime stories and famous lines.

Lin Yu and the others searched the dining cars for the last Player, then learned he might still be in Carriage Five. They entered the carriage and found Fu Luo being chased by a tiny boxing robot.

• Wang Yuyang used weapons he created from thin air to defeat the Lion Gang members in Carriage Six.
• The group learned from a Lion Gang member that the newcomer from Carriage Five had not yet triggered the dining car’s challenge notice.
• Wang Yuyang decided to meet the missing Player, and the group headed for Carriage Five.
• Lin Yu used Pankto’s Permission card to open the sealed door to Carriage Five.
• Lin Yu recognized Fu Luo, who was fleeing a small boxing robot and begging it to stop.

Fu Luo was rescued by Wang Yuyang, then introduced himself as the Detective and reunited with Chen Zhuo, revealing their bitter forum feud over Conan and Ai Haibara. When Li Nian tried to explain the group’s affiliations, Fu Luo abruptly knelt and reversed all his previous insults to win Chen Zhuo’s favor.

• Pan Yuqiang recognized Fu Luo and urged Wang Yuyang to rescue him, so Wang disabled the robot with two throwing knives.
• Fu Luo introduced himself as Sherlock, and Chen Zhuo recognized him as Fu Dog, the forum user he had argued with as Ai-chan.
• Fu Luo and Chen Zhuo argued over Fu Luo’s insults about Conan and Ai Haibara, leaving the others baffled.
• Lin Yu asked Li Nian to stop the argument, and Li Nian introduced the group and their affiliations to Fu Luo.
• Fu Luo suddenly knelt, grabbed Chen Zhuo’s hand, and declared Ai Haibara the most perfect woman in the world while praising Conan.

Fu Luo recognized the train’s connection to Truth Company and warned that Baron Coleman and Pankto were tied to a deadly factional struggle. As the group sought the baron for tickets before the next Great Purge, Li Nian pressured Fu Luo to stop hesitating and help investigate.

• Chen Zhu and Fu Luo reconciled, and Fu Luo agreed to work with the group, claiming he knew Truth Company well.
• Li Nian told Fu Luo they were seeking a baron, and Fu Luo identified him as Baron Coleman, who had allegedly been executed for trying to assassinate Truth Company’s president.
• Pankto revealed that he had once befriended Jerry Coleman, and Lin Yu explained that Pankto had been the leader of the δ Group.
• Fu Luo explained that Coleman and the δ Group leader had supposedly died seven years earlier, and warned that their case involved a power struggle within Truth Company and his Rank Advancement Trial.
• Lin Yu said they needed to find the baron to obtain train tickets before the Great Purge, and Li Nian used Wang Yuyang’s fearsome reputation to push Fu Luo into action.

Lin Yu and his companions entered Carriage 2, where Fu Luo explained the train’s containers and tried to draw Baron Coleman out. Lin Yu identified the baron hidden among the bodies, and the baron finally revealed himself.

• Lin Yu led the group into Carriage 2, where they found jars of organs and preserved human bodies.
• Fu Luo identified the jars as Emotion Amplification devices and the bodies as reserve material, impressing the group with his knowledge.
• Fu Luo guessed that Baron Coleman was hiding in Carriage 2 and called for him to come out, but received no response.
• Lin Yu spotted a healthy-looking man in a container and reasoned that his build, protective posture, and life-support liquid set him apart from the other bodies.
• The man opened his eyes, stretched out, and greeted Lin Yu as the honored lady.

Lin Yu negotiated with Baron Coleman for a way to obtain a ticket off the Despair Train, offering to help with Coleman's unfinished mission against President Paris. After Lin Yu revealed the divine mark on his wrist, Coleman accepted his abilities but questioned whether he would keep his promise.

• Pankto recognized Baron Coleman, and the two exchanged familiar teasing despite Pankto's incomplete memories.
• Lin Yu asked Coleman how to obtain a ticket quickly and offered to help him in exchange for the information.
• Coleman revealed that he had once intended to kill Truth Company's current president, Paris, and warned that Paris had become even more terrifying.
• Lin Yu showed Coleman Veil Valetti's Identity card and claimed to be him in a sense, then revealed the gray mark on his wrist.
• Coleman recognized the mark as a sign bestowed by a god, drained the tank, and told Lin Yu that he believed in his abilities but doubted he would honor his promise.

Lin Yu secured Baron Coleman’s cooperation, and Coleman agreed to lead the group to the train tickets. At the sealed entrance to Carriage One, Li Nian opened the mechanical lock herself.

• Baron Coleman explained that he had spent six years in the tank and could access only carriage reports and basic sentry controls, not fully control the train.
• Lin Yu inferred that Coleman had been spared because Truth Company’s leaders wanted something he possessed, but Coleman refused to reveal the secret yet.
• Coleman announced that he would show the group the most convenient way to find train tickets and led them toward Carriage One.
• Coleman explained that the key to Carriage One was kept in an exterior maintenance box, but Li Nian rejected the proposed detour.
• Li Nian used her master-thief skills to open Carriage One’s mechanical lock in an instant.