Recaps

Robin reflected on Fluoxetine’s true strength and the Night Watchers’ support as she devised a way to stop her. After returning from the Ground of No Return, Robin decided to create a painting capable of killing Fluoxetine: Hell of Endless Torment Eternal Descent.

• Robin estimated that Fluoxetine was around twentieth on the leaderboard, noting that her playful fighting style concealed her true ability.
• Robin considered asking for someone else to watch Fluoxetine but knew the Night Watchers had few available members and had supported her in many ways.
• Robin studied Fluoxetine’s abilities and concluded that stopping her required a wide-area restraint, sustained damage, and a durable trap.
• After returning from the Ground of No Return, Robin decided to create a new [Item] rather than rely on existing ones.
• Robin painted Hell of Endless Torment Eternal Descent, her most advanced work and a masterpiece designed to kill Fluoxetine.

Fluoxetine survived Zhigeng and Chongming’s attempt to kill her, then attacked them again after warning that she was no longer holding back. Tengshe arrived in time to block her axe, joining the battle in the server cavern.

• Zhigeng’s hellish artwork overwhelmed Fluoxetine, who broke her own neck and appeared to die as flames and ghost hands consumed her.
• Fluoxetine’s [Blood Sand of Reversal] transformed her ashes into white hyacinths, from which she resurrected.
• Fluoxetine praised Zhigeng and Chongming, then warned them that the fight was not over and attacked them with a Hand Axe.
• A wisp of smoke blocked Fluoxetine’s axe, and Chongming revealed that she and Zhigeng had only been holding Fluoxetine back while awaiting reinforcements.
• Tengshe entered the server cavern after fighting Dilaudid, Lacan, Jung, and Wundt, and Chongming warned him to stop using his e-cigarette.

Fluoxetine summoned Freud when Tengshe confronted the Psychology Society in Jiang City. Freud avoided fighting him and used a diversion to retreat with Fluoxetine, leaving Tengshe to deal with the dangerous sphere she threw.

• Fluoxetine recognized Tengshe as a powerful defensive specialist and chose not to fight him.
• Tengshe said Order had commissioned him to prevent trouble in Jiang City and protect against all Psychology Society members there.
• Fluoxetine summoned Freud, who revealed that another player had stolen her lighter but given her a replacement Item.
• Freud and Tengshe faced off, but Freud grabbed Fluoxetine and threw a black-and-blue sphere before retreating with her through static.
• Tengshe changed course and rushed toward the sphere when he sensed its terrifying energy.

After Freud destroyed the forum’s underground servers with a Singularity Bomb, Chongming, Tengshe, and Robin survived the cave collapse but found the forum unable to update. The Night Watcher began assessing the damage and searching for Freud, whose sudden movement far along the vertical axis left her location unclear.

• Tengshe’s defenses protected Chongming and Robin from the Singularity Bomb and the resulting cave collapse, though the mission failed and the servers were badly damaged.
• Robin and Chongming checked the forum app and found that it could open but no longer refresh posts or replies.
• Robin suspected the bomb was an item extracted from a game, prompting Chongming and Tengshe to worry about the Freedom Alliance’s connection to the Psychology Society.
• Chongming told Tengshe to report the damage to Carrier Pigeon, negotiate with Order, and check whether Freud remained in Jiang City.
• Tengshe scanned for Freud and found that she and the S-rank entity had moved far away along the Z-axis, after which the Night Watcher turned to handling the sinkhole and server wreckage.

Freud and Fluoxetine intercepted the plane carrying Potassium Chloride and White Sand after discovering that a Pillar-level Demon was attacking them. As the two Players faced a massive Lava Ball, Potassium Chloride sensed that their boss had arrived.

• Freud and Fluoxetine rode a Flying Carpet toward the plane after Freud's life-monitoring device warned that Potassium Chloride was close to death.
• Freud and Fluoxetine sensed Abyssal energy and identified a Pillar-level Demon from Night Valley aboard the approaching plane.
• Freud sent her powerful soul out to envelop the plane while Fluoxetine guarded her body against the Player who had summoned the demon.
• Hershakanus battered Potassium Chloride and White Sand with powerful spells while an unseen Player disrupted their movements and attacks.
• Potassium Chloride gave White Sand some of his Recovery Spray as a huge Lava Ball formed above them, then said he sensed their boss had arrived.

Lin Yu used Hershakanus to attack White Sand and Potassium Chloride, but Freud and the Diviner rescued them. Lin Yu then revealed himself as Schreiber and killed them with death magic, even as their leaders watched.

• Hershakanus trapped White Sand and Potassium Chloride in lava, but a young man's water magic shielded and healed them.
• Freud and the Diviner rescued White Sand and Potassium Chloride from the Abyssal Rift and agreed to pursue their attackers.
• Lin Yu told Hershakanus that White Sand and Potassium Chloride were already doomed and transformed into Schreiber.
• Schreiber erased White Sand and Potassium Chloride's self-awareness, killing them in front of Freud and the Diviner.
• Schreiber introduced himself as the Successor of the previous generation's Freud.

Posing as Schreiber, Lin Yu used soul fragments, death power, and the Fraudster’s ability to make Potassium Chloride and White Sand’s deaths irreversible. His feat drew the Diviner and Freud’s attention, and both confronted him with threats of death.

• Lin Yu used the Dream Casket to collect Potassium Chloride and White Sand’s thoughts of impending death and combined them with their soul fragments to create a conviction that they were already dead.
• Lin Yu infused their bodies with death power from [Life or Death], then used the Fraudster’s ability and the Tooth of Prophecy to turn their apparent deaths into absolute truth.
• Schreiber’s success at killing Potassium Chloride and White Sand brought him greater renown than the Director and Zhu Ming.
• Freud accused Schreiber of impersonation and killing an S-class Specialist, while the Diviner threatened him for killing a trusted member of the organization.

Lin Yu used Schreiber’s identity to provoke the Diviner and Freud into trying to capture him alive, then called on Hershakanus to create a chance to escape. The contract’s payment was Lin Yu’s entire soul, and the Abyss began to claim it.

• Lin Yu denied killing Potassium Chloride and White Sand, while the Diviner and Freud declared their intent to attack him.
• Lin Yu transformed into a spirit body and fled, but the Diviner’s compass confined him and Freud’s soul power seized him.
• Lin Yu realized the pair wanted to capture Schreiber alive and used their overlapping control to call on Hershakanus.
• Hershakanus unleashed an attack on the Diviner and Freud to fulfill their contract, then announced that he would take Lin Yu’s soul as payment.

Lin Yu arranged for the Abyss Will to claim his soul as payment, planning to split it and preserve fragments in the Ancient Notebook if necessary. When the Diviner and Freud interrupted the Abyss Will and fought Hershakanus over the Abyssal Rift, Lin Yu found an opening to carry out the next step of his plan.

• Lin Yu planned to use the contract with Hershakanus to make the Abyss Will take his soul, with a backup plan to save soul fragments in the Ancient Notebook.
• The Diviner stopped the Abyss Will from taking Lin Yu's soul, while Freud attacked the Abyssal Rift with her Soul Power.
• Hershakanus fought Freud to protect the Abyssal Lord's ability to collect its payment.
• As the Diviner, Freud, the Abyssal Will, and Hershakanus battled, Lin Yu took out a quill while their attention was elsewhere.

Lin Yu used a brief Mental Power shock and a staged teleportation attempt to make the Diviner and Freud believe Schreiber had escaped. He then revealed himself as the “Director,” beginning the most dangerous part of his deception.

• While Freud found a weakness in Hershakanus’s domain, Lin Yu struck her and the Diviner with a Mental Power shock that dazed them for 0.1 seconds.
• Lin Yu timed the failed Mind-State Teleportation Gun activation to make the spatial ripples seem like an escape attempt.
• Lin Yu used a recording of Schreiber’s voice and Narrative Trick to make the Diviner and Freud believe Schreiber had passed the Trial and escaped.
• Lin Yu appeared as the “Director,” and the Diviner and Freud reacted with astonishment.
• Lin Yu feigned confusion and wariness, asking why he was there.

Lin Yu used [Narrative Trick] to make the Diviner and Freud believe that Schreiber had escaped through a soul exchange, while he appeared as the Director. The deception succeeded, and the two powerful Players left Lin Yu alone as they focused on destroying the Abyssal Rift and searching for Schreiber.

• Lin Yu returned [Mask] to his Item Space, revealing his original appearance as the Director while [Narrative Trick] shaped the Diviner and Freud’s interpretation of his escape.
• The Diviner and Freud concluded that Schreiber had used an ability like 'exchange' to bypass the spatial lockdown.
• Lin Yu convinced the two that he was the genuine, confused Director, whose survival they both wanted to protect.
• The Diviner and Freud ignored Lin Yu and continued destroying the Abyssal Rift, driving Hershakanus and the Abyssal Lord's will out of the world.
• The Diviner and Freud extended their senses to search for Schreiber.

Lin Yu had survived the plane crisis and arranged for passengers and crew to believe the flight had gone normally. After reporting the incident to Li Hua and Good Night, he discovered that Fluoxetine had boarded the plane disguised as a flight attendant.

• The Diviner and Freud left after failing to rescue Potassium Chloride and White Sand, partly because they feared the General and wanted to pursue the nonexistent Schreiber.
• Lin Yu returned to his business-class seat and reflected that the deaths of White Sand and Potassium Chloride had reduced the danger to him and increased Schreiber's prestige.
• Lin Yu prepared to conceal the incident by blurring passengers' memories, implanting suggestions, and using the Wind Vein Technique to keep the damaged luggage compartment from becoming dangerous.
• Lin Yu reported the crisis to Li Hua and Good Night through [Social], describing the abyssal aura and the golden Nine Palaces Eight Trigrams diagram without mentioning Schreiber.
• Lin Yu declined immediate reinforcements and then saw Fluoxetine, disguised as a flight attendant, offering drinks beside his seat.

Fluoxetine infiltrated the airplane and questioned Lin Yu about Schreiber, hoping to find him before Freud and the Diviner. She used Potassium Chloride’s Soul Fragment to make Lin Yu sleep again, unaware that he could deceive her in dreams too.

• Fluoxetine disguised herself as a flight attendant and boarded the airplane while Freud, the Diviner, and Hershakanus fought outside.
• Fluoxetine told Lin Yu that Schreiber had killed Potassium Chloride and White Sand after they were rescued, then escaped Freud and the Diviner.
• Fluoxetine questioned Lin Yu about Schreiber’s whereabouts, but Lin Yu denied having any clues.
• Fluoxetine revealed Potassium Chloride’s Soul Fragment and summoned the phantom of her Succubus Tail to put Lin Yu to sleep again.
• Lin Yu recognized Fluoxetine’s attempt and prepared to deceive her within the dream.

Lin Yu recognized that Fluoxetine was trying to question him in a shared dream, but he remained able to act and deceive her there. Fluoxetine approached him as a high-school junior with a script about the Director and a psychologist, leaving Lin Yu to play along as he awaited her next move.

• Lin Yu concluded that Fluoxetine's dream interrogation could not reveal the truth because he could still act within dreams and control consciousness spaces.
• Lin Yu awoke in the shared dream, where his home connected to another household, and wondered whether it belonged to Fluoxetine's adoptive family.
• Fluoxetine appeared as a high-school student, introduced herself as Wang Xiaoling from the Drama club, and claimed she wanted Lin Yu to review her script.
• Lin Yu played along as Fluoxetine presented a notebook containing a story about the Director and a psychologist.

Lin Yu recognized that Fluoxetine had written a play to uncover the connection between his identities as the Director and Schreiber. He used his feedback to steer her toward discussing how the two characters knew each other, but Fluoxetine instead began seriously revising the script.

• Lin Yu read Fluoxetine's script about a Director and a Doctor whose misfortunes repeatedly intertwined before they met at an airport.
• Lin Yu noticed that the ending lacked foreshadowing and realized Fluoxetine had left the gap to prompt him to explain the characters' relationship.
• Lin Yu decided to use the script discussion to guide Fluoxetine toward the connection between the Director and Schreiber.
• Lin Yu praised Fluoxetine's writing and suggested improving the dialogue, reducing coincidences, adding foreshadowing, and expanding the stage directions.
• Fluoxetine asked Lin Yu for specific advice and began studying his notes, leaving him surprised by her genuine interest in polishing the script.

Fluoxetine used a dream script to draw out Lin Yu’s thoughts about the Director, the Doctor, and Schreiber, then awakened him inside the dream. She revealed that she had inferred Lin Yu and Schreiber were cooperating and proposed that she and Lin Yu become partners.

• Fluoxetine asked Lin Yu for his views on the Director, the Doctor, and their relationship, and Lin Yu described the Director as exploitative and the Doctor as deeply obsessive.
• Lin Yu suggested the Doctor and Director had met through the Doctor’s psychology-teacher, who had advised the Director.
• Fluoxetine changed the dream into Jiangcheng Media University’s drama club activity center and recreated their first meeting, trying to awaken Lin Yu.
• Lin Yu acted as though he had just awakened and accused Fluoxetine of choosing the scene where she had killed him.
• Fluoxetine said she had used the dream to gather clues and inferred that Lin Yu and Schreiber cooperated through the first-generation Freud.
• Fluoxetine proposed that she and Lin Yu work together and become forever super best friends.

Lin Yu rejected Fluoxetine’s offer of clues about Sherlock’s murderer, saying he already knew the culprit, and asked her for her real name and past instead. Fluoxetine showed him her family home and claimed she was Wang Xiaoling, leaving Lin Yu puzzled because he knew her as Bai You.

• Fluoxetine offered Lin Yu clues about Sherlock’s murderer in exchange for his friendship, but he refused and said Sherlock’s clues were enough.
• Fluoxetine insisted on repaying Lin Yu with information, and he asked her to reveal her real name and past.
• Fluoxetine brought Lin Yu to her complete family home and described her parents, older sister, school years, and stay in a mental hospital.
• Fluoxetine said her name was Wang Xiaoling and showed Lin Yu her family portrait and trophies.
• Lin Yu noticed that the name Wang Xiaoling contradicted the information he knew, which identified her as Bai You.

Lin Yu questioned Fluoxetine’s account of her past after learning she had used the names Bai You and Wang Xiaoling, then refused her invitation to the Amusement Park Garden Party. He suspected Fluoxetine wanted to pit Zhu Ming and the Director against each other, leaving the party’s risks and purpose uncertain.

• Lin Yu noticed that Fluoxetine’s story as Wang Xiaoling contradicted Bai You’s history in the Ancient Notebook and could not determine which account was false.
• Fluoxetine insisted her past was true, said she had no ID because she had lived undocumented since entering a mental hospital at fifteen, and refused to answer more questions.
• Fluoxetine invited Lin Yu to the Amusement Park Garden Party and claimed it was safe, fun, and rewarding despite admitting there was some risk.
• Lin Yu declined the invitation, and Fluoxetine threatened to give her last ticket to someone else.
• Lin Yu suspected Fluoxetine wanted Zhu Ming and the Director to attend together so she could test whether they would compete or turn against each other.

Lin Yu landed in Shenzhen after a dream encounter with Fluoxetine and was met by Good Night, Nicholas, Ren Gu, and Loquat Candy. They explained that the flight had involved multiple dangerous Players and revealed that the Psychology Society had damaged the Forum’s server in Jiang City, leaving the Forum temporarily offline.

• Fluoxetine ended Lin Yu’s dream and left a small white flower pinned to his collar before disappearing.
• Lin Yu and Lu Xi left the plane in Shenzhen, where Good Night and Nicholas were waiting to escort Lin Yu.
• Ren Gu and Loquat Candy joined the group, and Good Night explained that White Sand, Potassium Chloride, and Schreiber had been involved in the flight’s dangers.
• Ren Gu said White Sand and Potassium Chloride may have come to kill Lin Yu, while Schreiber had used him to draw out the Diviner and Freud.
• Ren Gu revealed that the Psychology Society had damaged part of the Forum’s physical server in Jiang City, temporarily taking the Forum out of operation.
• Loquat Candy joked that Tengshe could watch Freud next time she appeared, and Good Night responded that he had been joking.

The Diviner learned that Schreiber had killed White Sand and placed a bounty on him, while Freud resolved to kill Schreiber for Potassium Chloride’s death and for impersonating Zheng Jianshen’s successor. Freud then concluded that Zheng Jianshen had arranged Schreiber as a trial for him and the Psychology Society.

• At an empty factory in Shenzhen, the Diviner asked Chestnut about preparations and discussed the mysterious group assisting them against Order.
• The Diviner revealed that Schreiber had killed White Sand and ordered Chestnut to announce a bounty offering any Item on his person for Schreiber’s capture or location.
• Freud and Wundt discussed Schreiber aboard a cruise ship, and Freud condemned him as an unworthy successor to Zheng Jianshen.
• Freud vowed to kill Schreiber for Potassium Chloride’s death and for claiming to succeed Zheng Jianshen.
• Freud suddenly concluded that Zheng Jianshen had arranged Schreiber as a trial for him and the Psychology Society.

Lin Yu arrived in Shenzhen for the Player Mutual Aid Society presidential election, where he would serve as deputy commander under Good Night. Loquat Candy hinted that Lin Yu was expected to guide the operation and warned him that some apparent allies might not be trustworthy.

• Loquat Candy drove Lin Yu, Good Night, and Ren Gu to the hotel rented for the election, where the Order members were staying.
• Good Night joked with Ren Gu about owning a large Shenzhen home, and Ren Gu explained that it belonged to his parents.
• Loquat Candy told Lin Yu that he and Ren Gu would coordinate South China Region support and suggested that Lin Yu was effectively leading the operation.
• Lin Yu declined to confirm Li Hua's arrangements and said he would follow Good Night's orders while helping where he could.
• Loquat Candy warned Lin Yu to be cautious around allies whose interests might conflict and said prominent figures would likely visit him.

Lin Yu considered whether Loquat Candy might be tied to the Copper Furnace mole while recognizing that the doctor had likely identified suspicious people within Order. After Good Night tested Ren Gu, he and Lin Yu discussed the investigation and learned Ren Gu did not seem suspicious for now.

• Lin Yu suspected Loquat Candy might be hinting at people he had already flagged, but kept him among the possible suspects because Copper Furnace members might have altered memories and cognition.
• Lin Yu and Good Night entered the hotel after parting from Loquat Candy, Ren Gu, and Nicholas.
• Good Night warned Lin Yu to avoid speaking openly and explained that Li Hua's mission was difficult.
• Good Night said Sherlock's death had narrowed the suspects to a small group and that Ren Gu needed to be cleared of suspicion before they could operate in South China.
• Lin Yu inferred that Li Hua had relayed the initial test results and learned Ren Gu was not suspicious for now, surprising Good Night.

Lin Yu learned that Li Hua had been secretly communicating with Liang Ye through implanted Soul Gold Particles and had tasked Liang Ye with covering Lin Yu’s actions. At the top floor, Knight arrived to summon them for a serious discussion with the Secretary and Professor, and Yin Lan introduced herself as Dionysus.

• Lin Yu deduced that Liang Ye’s unusual remarks were being guided by Li Hua, and Liang Ye explained their secret Soul Gold Particles communication.
• Liang Ye relayed Li Hua’s warning that he had always guarded against Order members losing their principles, and said Li Hua wanted him to cover Lin Yu’s actions.
• The elevator reached the top floor, where Knight greeted Liang Ye and said the Secretary and Professor wanted to speak with him and Lin Yu.
• Liang Ye joked about the Secretary and Professor, while Yin Lan revealed she had recorded his earlier complaints and teased him about them.
• Yin Lan identified herself as a member of the Southwest Region from Yucheng and gave her codename as Dionysus.

Good Night and Lin Yu met Dionysus and the Knight, who said the Professor wanted to speak with them privately. Lin Yu delayed the meeting by claiming Hacker had assigned him a mission, then explained to Good Night that he suspected their hosts were also wary of them.

• Good Night apologized to Dionysus for his earlier behavior and learned that the Professor was secretly waiting nearby.
• Lin Yu asked the Professor to wait while he handled another mission, claiming Hacker had assigned him forum-related work.
• Dionysus accepted Lin Yu’s explanation and let him leave with Good Night, though she questioned why Hacker had chosen him.
• Good Night asked whether Hacker had truly given Lin Yu a secret mission, and Lin Yu admitted she had not.
• Lin Yu told Good Night that Dionysus and the Knight were also on guard against them, and that Dionysus had briefly considered subduing him.

Lin Yu and Good Night realized that Professor and Secretary’s suspicion of them could be part of a deliberate attempt to frame them, but Lin Yu saw the trap as a chance to strike back. He brought Good Night to Huaqiangbei and asked how much money he had saved.

• Good Night spotted a van following their rideshare, and Lin Yu explained that Professor and Secretary had to verify their loyalty because the operation left little room for error.
• Lin Yu rejected factional infighting as the cause of their suspicion and argued that a hidden organization was trying to discredit them before they uncovered it.
• Lin Yu said that the bounty on him and Sherlock’s death confirmed they were getting closer to the hidden organization, and that its trap could give them a chance to retaliate.
• Lin Yu took Good Night to Huaqiangbei and asked how much money he had saved.
• Good Night said he had less than a million, and Lin Yu said he might need to borrow some.