Recaps

Zao confronted the Diviner, who had stolen Max’s body and intended to claim the raw soul of the Lord of Mist Island. Though the Diviner badly injured her, Zao revealed she had disrupted his ritual, unleashing the soul’s mist from the wine cellar.

• Zao returned to the asylum and confronted the Diviner, who wore Max’s appearance and admitted he had removed her soul to take her Tier 1 identity.
• Zao refused to leave and attacked the Diviner with paintings made from her blood, seeking revenge for Max.
• The Diviner countered Zao’s reality-warping paintings with lightning, leaving her badly injured.
• Zao taunted the Diviner and revealed she knew what he wanted: the raw soul of the Lord of Mist Island.
• Zao’s blood-red ground collapsed into the wine cellar, and white mist poured out as the soul’s cries spread across the island.

Robin confronted the Diviner and tried to prevent him from claiming the Lord of Mist Island's soul, but his original body arrived and trapped her. An illusion of A'yu distracted the Diviner, allowing a tiny Octopus to escape into the sea with Robin.

• Robin explained that the Diviner's possessed body and single compass had allowed her to disrupt his plan, and she refused to give up despite her injuries.
• The Diviner returned Max's body to Robin, then revealed that he had come to the island in person as a safeguard and gathered the dispersing mist into his hand.
• Robin prepared to fight the Diviner, accepting that she might die but vowing to make his invasion costly.
• A'yu appeared and asked the Diviner to capture Robin alive, but the Diviner realized she was an illusion and struck it with lightning.
• A tiny Octopus darted from the rocks into the sea, and Robin disappeared along with it.

Lin Yu returned to save Zhigeng, but the Diviner found them and trapped them in his Heart Domain. The Diviner revealed that a confusing divination involving Lin Yu and Zhigeng had led him to believe Lin Yu was special, though he had only just understood why.

• Lin Yu hid with Zhigeng inside [Shady Corner] and said he had returned because saving a Tier 3 Night Watcher would benefit his future.
• Zhigeng explained that the Diviner might be constrained by his Tier 4 status, but warned that he held grudges and was skilled at finding people.
• The Diviner tore apart [Shady Corner] and used his Heart Domain to weigh Lin Yu and Zhigeng down.
• Lin Yu challenged the Diviner to kill them quickly and reasoned that he had spared Lin Yu because he wanted something from him.
• The Diviner explained that A'yu had asked him to divine her confusion, and that his own attempt to seek a clearer revelation had entangled Lin Yu and Zhigeng in a bizarre prediction.
• The Diviner said that after the events of the Instance and Lin Yu's question, he had finally understood the twists and turns of destiny.

Lin Yu and Zhigeng tried to escape the island while Freud’s resurrected monsters distracted the Diviner, but the Diviner’s Heart Domain caught them and brought them back. After he knocked them unconscious, intense music suddenly sounded from Lin Yu’s body.

• The Diviner revealed that he intended to shatter Lin Yu’s soul, and Zhigeng realized he planned to do the same to Max.
• Lin Yu told Zhigeng to run with him, explaining that Freud and the asylum’s resurrected corpses could distract the Diviner.
• Zhigeng drew a raft, and she and Lin Yu jumped from the island’s cliff toward the sea.
• The Diviner used his Heart Domain to halt their fall and return them to his side, where the corpses lay destroyed.
• The Diviner knocked Lin Yu and Zhigeng unconscious, then powerful music began coming from Lin Yu’s body.

The Diviner confronted the Hacker, who used a Digital Barrier to keep gods and other high-dimensional entities away while pleading for Lin Yu’s life. The Diviner refused to relent, but just as he prepared to kill Lin Yu, Grandmaster appeared and challenged him.

• A pink phone hidden in Lin Yu’s coat rang, and the Diviner answered a call from the Hacker.
• The Hacker raised a Digital Barrier over the island and expelled a ball of fluff, declaring that high-dimensional entities could not enter.
• The Diviner rejected the Hacker’s request to spare Lin Yu and said he intended to kill him.
• The Hacker ended the call, claiming it was not too late to stop the Diviner, and the Diviner sensed danger as he moved toward Lin Yu.
• Grandmaster caught the falling phone with her toes, greeted the Diviner, and took a Baji Quan stance.

After clearing “One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest,” Lin Yu reunited with Zhigeng in the Settlement Space and reflected on how his survival fit the role he had been playing. He collected his rewards, including a powerful pocket watch and Freud's brain, and left with new resources for his plans.

• Lin Yu found himself in the Settlement Space with Zhigeng, while Max remained behind on Mist Island.
• Lin Yu thanked Zhigeng and apologized for Max's fate, and Zhigeng told him they could seek revenge together after growing stronger.
• Lin Yu received seven days of Survival Time and earned the “Unraveling the Clues” rating, which granted him a Madhouse Patient Uniform and a Repaired Mist Pocket Watch.
• Lin Yu considered the uniform's risks and recognized that the pocket watch could rewind an object by sacrificing a soul.
• Lin Yu discovered that Freud's brain had become an Item and concluded that the founder of the Psychology Society could help him.

After escaping the instance, Lin Yu reported his encounter with the Diviner to Order and tested the items he had acquired. He summoned Freud’s brain and began discussing how it could cooperate with him, leaving its abilities still unknown.

• Lin Yu messaged Good Night about encountering the Diviner, and Good Night sent him a link to submit a report.
• Lin Yu filed a report describing the instance and the Diviner while omitting his deception and possession of Freud’s brain.
• Lin Yu told Good Night he had submitted the report, then decided which of his new items to test.
• Lin Yu summoned the Sage’s Active Brain, and the First Generation Freud rejoiced at returning to Earth.
• Lin Yu proposed that he and Freud had a foundation for cooperation and asked what Freud could do as his item.

Lin Yu learned that First Generation Freud could still control one Remnant Soul and interfere with people’s memories under strict conditions. Freud also explained that Tier 4 players fused their Items and Permissions into a Heart Domain, their own Divine Kingdom.

• First Generation Freud explained that he could control one Remnant Soul, but only through a recently dead body whose soul had already been incomplete.
• Freud described how he could erase memories and implant subconscious suggestions if he directly caused someone to lose consciousness.
• Freud said his former ability to turn controlled people into gigantic monsters came from his Heart Domain, which he could no longer open as a brain.
• Freud explained how Rank Advancement and its Items and Permissions made Players increasingly unique and more like gods.
• Freud told Lin Yu that a Tier 3 Player formed a Heart Domain by fusing their Items and Permissions and gaining a clear understanding of themselves and the world.

Lin Yu learned more about the Death game and discussed his revenge against the Psychology Society with Old Zheng, who offered to help him make the confrontation fair. Old Zheng recognized Fluoxetine as an unusually special player and revealed that she had caused his current state while only Tier 2.

• Old Zheng explained the Heart Domain and the Death game's deeper nature, then asked Lin Yu to call him Old Zheng.
• Old Zheng said he wanted to support Lin Yu because of his potential, and Lin Yu revealed that he was S-class and had been killed by the Psychology Society's execution department.
• Lin Yu said he wanted revenge on those who ordered and carried out his death, and Old Zheng offered to provide information so the conflict could become an evenly matched Trial.
• Lin Yu identified Fluoxetine as the S-class Specialist who carried out the order, and Old Zheng reacted with excitement at the prospect of the two S-class players becoming enemies.
• Old Zheng said Fluoxetine was exceptionally special and had put him in his current state when she was only Tier 2.

Lin Yu learned more about Fluoxetine’s unusual entry into the Death game and told Old Zheng about his rapid advancement. After Good Night summoned him urgently to Tom Supermarket, Lin Yu slipped out of his home with Old Zheng and Hannah in his backpack.

• Old Zheng explained that Fluoxetine had entered the Death game after committing suicide, leaving the Psychology Society unable to understand her desire to live.
• Lin Yu revealed that he had cleared six Instances, reached Tier 1, and was due to receive a Rank Advancement Trial in his next Instance.
• Good Night called Lin Yu and urgently asked him to come to Tom Supermarket by Old Alley Road.
• Lin Yu packed Old Zheng and Hannah into his backpack, then told Lin Zhao he had an urgent filming assignment.
• Lin Yu left home, and Old Zheng remarked that Lin Zhao was beautiful.

Lin Yu joined Good Night on an urgent Order operation investigating the murder of Radish and the theft of a dangerous Item. Good Night outfitted Lin Yu with a Tier 2 Item Integration Set before they headed toward the case.

• Lin Yu met Good Night at Tom Supermarket, where Good Night explained that Sherlock and Gambler had recruited Lin Yu to assist with an investigation.
• Good Night told Lin Yu that Radish, a founder of the Player Mutual Aid Society, had been murdered in a Sea City hotel and that a dangerous Item had been stolen.
• Good Night said the case was too serious to involve many people and led Lin Yu to the supermarket's Cargo Hold to collect equipment.
• Good Night obtained a Tier 2 Item Integration Set from a logistics worker and gave the ownerless box to Lin Yu to bind.
• Lin Yu bound the box and received four Items: a protective suit, a dagger, a healing potion, and a buff potion.

Lin Yu learned why Order grew into a powerful organization and heard that its Haicheng operation might be compromised by internal conflicts in the Player Mutual Aid Society. As Lin Yu and Good Night waited for a ride, Order inspector Nicholas arrived in a flying reindeer sled, looking unmistakably like Santa Claus.

• Good Night explained that Order built its strength by gathering Players and promised to improve its members’ chances of survival in exchange for their duty to uphold fairness and justice.
• Good Night warned Lin Yu not to risk his life recklessly and revealed that Order suspected the Haicheng case involved internal conflicts within the Player Mutual Aid Society, so even local allies might be untrustworthy.
• Lin Yu and Good Night waited by the highway for transportation to their assignment.
• A bearded man in red arrived on a flying sled pulled by eight reindeer, and Good Night introduced him as Nicholas, an inspector for Order’s Central China division.
• Lin Yu pointed out that Nicholas and his arrival looked exactly like Santa Claus, despite Good Night’s insistence otherwise.

Lin Yu and Good Night arrived in Sea City and met Li Hua, who recruited Lin Yu to investigate a dangerous case involving a missing Item. Li Hua offered substantial rewards for useful contributions, and Lin Yu agreed to give the investigation his all as they headed to the scene.

• Nicholas flew Lin Yu and Good Night from Jiang City to Sea City in forty minutes, then departed after praising Lin Yu for making the Diviner suffer a major loss.
• Good Night told Lin Yu that his achievement had become widely known and defended him while they waited for Li Hua.
• Li Hua picked up Lin Yu and Good Night in a minivan, and Good Night pressed him to offer better compensation for bringing Lin Yu into the investigation.
• Li Hua promised Lin Yu merit, points, a free Tier 3 Instance support opportunity, and potentially a high-grade Item if he helped solve the case.
• Lin Yu agreed to investigate and asked to see the case information, which Li Hua provided on a tablet as they traveled to the scene.

Lin Yu reviewed the investigation into Radish’s death and learned that the missing Item was a dangerously addictive carrot capable of infinite multiplication. He prepared to investigate the scene and speak with Sherlock, while the threat posed by the Item remained unclear.

• Lin Yu read Order’s report on Radish’s death, the suspected curse, and the disappearance of the Item he had brought to Haicheng.
• The report described how Lotus found Radish dead after briefly falling asleep, while Cassia Seed had remained awake in the master bedroom.
• Lin Yu asked Li Hua what the missing Item was and why Order feared it could kill more than ten thousand people.
• Li Hua revealed that the Item was called [Super Genetically Modified Carrot], could multiply infinitely with energy, and was extremely addictive to most living creatures.

Lin Yu learned that the missing Super Genetically Modified Radish could regenerate after any attempted destruction and posed a catastrophic threat if it spread. After hearing the eight suspects and their lack of alibis, he arrived at the hotel, where Fu Luo welcomed him and proposed working together on the case.

• Li Hua explained that the radish was highly addictive, could provoke violent withdrawal, and regenerated after every attempt to destroy it.
• Li Hua said the Order had regulated carrot sales in Haicheng and identified eight suspects who could have reached the radish.
• Lin Yu memorized the suspects and said he needed to inspect the scene and meet them before forming an initial judgment.
• Lin Yu arrived at the hotel and met Fu Luo, who said he had preliminary ideas but wanted to hear Lin Yu's thoughts first.

Lin Yu inspected Grandpa Radish’s murder scene but found no clues, so he returned to his hotel room to rest and consult his aides. Old Zheng recognized two suspects, Huang and Hundred Refined Steel, as people who had grudges against Radish.

• Lin Yu and Fu Luo found no useful clues at the crime scene, and Lin Yu decided to question the suspects after getting some sleep.
• Fu Luo admitted he wanted to stay up for the hotel’s buffet breakfast, while Lin Yu returned to his room on the sixteenth floor.
• Lin Yu checked that Hannah and Old Zheng had detected no surveillance, then released Stiller and asked his aides for their thoughts on the case.
• Old Zheng said he had known Radish and identified Huang and Hundred Refined Steel as people who had held grudges against him.

Lin Yu learned that Radish’s past survival of a deadly Instance had left Phoenix and Hundred Refined Steel with reasons to resent him, then met a masked Player in a strange dreamscape. The man claimed he was Radish’s killer’s accomplice and offered clues in exchange for a game, which Lin Yu accepted.

• Old Zheng told Lin Yu that Radish had been the sole survivor of a twenty-five-player Instance, where Hundred Refined Steel lost two close friends and Phoenix lost her lover.
• Old Zheng explained that Radish had brought Lotus and Cassia Seed to guard against enemies, while Stiller judged Phoenix less likely to be the killer because she would be watched closely.
• Lin Yu fell asleep and found himself barefoot on a cold, dark plain, then followed a distant light to a hunter’s cabin.
• A masked man told Lin Yu that he could invade dreamscapes but could not kill people in them, and claimed he was the killer’s accomplice.
• Lin Yu agreed to play the masked man’s game in exchange for hints about the truth.

Lin Yu met the Ghost-faced Man, who called himself Consultant, in a dream and learned the rules of their Rock Paper Scissors Card game. After Lin Yu tricked Consultant into revealing that the dream itself controlled the rules, they began the game.

• Consultant explained that each player would use Rock Paper Scissors Cards to win rounds and earn questions, and that the first to win three rounds would claim victory.
• Consultant introduced five types of Support Cards and explained how players could gain them by answering or refusing questions.
• Lin Yu asked whether he could pose an impossible question, such as proving the Riemann hypothesis, and learned that the dream would decide whether a question was answerable.
• Lin Yu concluded that Consultant had created the dream but did not control it, then told him to begin the game.

Lin Yu used the Support Cards to infer the Ghost-faced Man’s hand and gain an advantage in their Rock Paper Scissors match. He won the second round after drawing scissors and tricking the Ghost-faced Man into playing paper.

• Lin Yu and the Ghost-faced Man drew their cards and agreed that Lin Yu would decide first whether to use a Support Card each round.
• Lin Yu used an Eye card and inspected two remaining golden cards, narrowing down the possible cards in the Ghost-faced Man’s hand.
• Lin Yu played rock against the Ghost-faced Man’s rock, and the first round ended in a draw.
• Lin Yu used Left Hand and drew another scissors, then discarded a scissors to mislead the Ghost-faced Man.
• The Ghost-faced Man declined to use a Support Card, and Lin Yu played scissors against his paper to win the round.

Lin Yu used card-counting and psychological misdirection to win the first game while conserving his Support Cards. He then asked the Ghost-faced Man for his ID Number, leaving the opponent’s answer—and the next game—pending.

• Lin Yu and the Ghost-faced Man both declined to use Support Cards, revealed scissors, and drew the third round, giving Lin Yu the first game.
• Lin Yu explained how he inferred that the Ghost-faced Man held paper and had used his expressions to discourage him from switching cards.
• The Ghost-faced Man acknowledged Lin Yu’s strategy and urged him to ask a question valuable enough to help identify the murderer.
• Lin Yu decided that winning the match mattered more than gaining a single Support Card and asked the Ghost-faced Man for his ID Number.

Lin Yu questioned the Ghost-faced Man for his ID Number, then used Support Cards and careful inference to uncover the opponent’s three-rock hand and win the second round. The Ghost-faced Man’s final Support Card gave Lin Yu a chance to win the Game outright.

• Lin Yu asked the Ghost-faced Man for his ID Number, but the Ghost-faced Man refused and told him to draw his cards.
• Lin Yu and the Ghost-faced Man began the second round, and the Ghost-faced Man used an ear Support Card while Lin Yu declared that his next card would not be rock.
• Lin Yu used eyes and mouth Support Cards, saw his own rock and scissors, and narrowed down the possible cards in the Ghost-faced Man’s hand.
• Lin Yu played scissors against the Ghost-faced Man’s rock, then played paper against his rock to win the round and reveal that the Ghost-faced Man held three rocks.
• Lin Yu prepared to play his final scissors, but the Ghost-faced Man used a Right Hand Support Card, giving Lin Yu a strong chance to win.

Lin Yu outmaneuvered the Ghost-faced Man in a Rock Paper Scissors round and secured a chance to ask how many questions the man had intended to ask him. As they began another round, Lin Yu exploited a loophole that could nullify the Ghost-faced Man’s Support Card, leaving the result to chance.

• Lin Yu revealed Rock while the Ghost-faced Man revealed Scissors, winning the round through a bluff that made his opponent believe he held two Papers.
• Lin Yu asked how many questions the Ghost-faced Man had planned to ask, and the man said he needed to know Lin Yu’s profession and why he entered the Death game.
• The Ghost-faced Man said he did not believe Lin Yu was a doctor and took a Support Card, giving Lin Yu one round to consider his answers.
• Lin Yu left his cards face down and argued that the Ghost-faced Man’s Mouth and Ears Support Card could not work because Lin Yu did not know what cards he held.
• Lin Yu accused the Ghost-faced Man of exploiting people and being involved in murder, then challenged him to reveal their cards and see whether chance favored Lin Yu.

After winning a Rock Paper Scissors match against the Ghost-faced Man, Lin Yu used his three questions to learn about the man's cooperation with several organizations, the missing radish item, and why he had targeted Lin Yu. Nian woke from the dream believing he had uncovered the secret of May May, while Lin Yu realized the encounter had helped him mislead the Diviner.

• Lin Yu beat the Ghost-faced Man and asked whether he belonged to or cooperated with the three organizations removed from the forum; the man said he worked with the Psychology Society and the Marauders, as well as some members of the Freedom Alliance.
• Lin Yu asked why the radish's [Super Genetically Modified Radish] had gone missing, and the Ghost-faced Man said someone planned to use its addictive power to cause havoc in the Instance worlds.
• Lin Yu asked why the Ghost-faced Man had targeted him, and the man said he was acting on someone else's request before ending the dream.
• Nian woke in a car with a Black Cat and concluded that May May was a false identity with the means to forge identities and abilities; he planned to identify Lin Yu through recent S-ranks in the Psychology Society.
• Lin Yu woke after six hours and fifteen minutes, learned from Stiller that his emotions had fluctuated during the dream, and told the brain that the Consultant's visit had helped him mislead the Diviner.

Lin Yu prepared to use his investigation of the dream-intrusion case to learn more about the mysterious person who could enter people’s dreams. He left Stiller behind and set out with Old Zheng and Hannah, only to find Fu Luo waiting outside his room with breakfast.

• Lin Yu decided to investigate the person who could enter dreams and planned to enlist Order’s resources through his identity as Order.
• Lin Yu left Stiller in the hotel room and prepared to bring Old Zheng and Hannah to find Li Hua and Good Night.
• Lin Yu found Fu Luo asleep outside his door, and Fu Luo gave him a packed breakfast.
• Fu Luo asked whether Lin Yu suspected Li Hua and Good Night, but Lin Yu explained that he wanted them along to lend authority when questioning suspects.

Lin Yu told Good Night, Li Hua, and Fu Luo about his dream encounter with a man called Consultant, who claimed to have helped kill Radish and said the thief who took the Item was someone else. Fu Luo connected Consultant to the elusive Detective Nian, but the group set that lead aside to focus on investigating Radish’s killer.

• Lin Yu told Good Night and Li Hua that Consultant had visited him in a dream and claimed the missing Item and Radish’s killer were connected to different people.
• Li Hua and Good Night suspected a powerful dream-related Nightmare Spell, while Fu Luo recognized the name Consultant from Player circles.
• Fu Luo described Consultant as an anonymous Tier 3 Detective who planned crimes for delisted Players and had left traces in cases he investigated.
• Lin Yu inferred that Fu Luo suspected Consultant’s identity, and Fu Luo said his investigation pointed to Nian, who could enter dreams.
• Good Night warned that Nian had influential connections, but Li Hua proposed setting the accusation aside and investigating Radish’s killer first.