Recaps

Lin Yu and the other players chose contestants for the Banquet Game, expecting to assist them in a fight. The arena instead began raining food, and Ka revealed the contest was about eating, leaving the players to reconsider how to help their picks.

• Qianhuan chose White Dress, Carrot and Mosin-Nagant chose Vitian, Zhigeng chose Shadow-Type Pseudo-Human, and A'yu chose White Dress because its fur reminded her of her schnauzer.
• Lin Yu chose Shadow-Type Pseudo-Human after weighing the options, and Ka began the Banquet Game.
• The contestants were separated into sections, and Ka explained that players could use up to three items to assist their chosen contestant.
• The players prepared to send weapons and other items into the arena, but Lin Yu sensed they had misunderstood the competition.
• Food began falling from the sky, and Ka announced that the first contestant to eat all the food in their section would win the King of Gluttony Competition.

During the competitive eating contest, the Shadow-Type Pseudo-Human revealed its overwhelming eating speed, putting the factions supporting White Dress and Viten under pressure. Viten’s supporters decided to use one of their extra Support Opportunities, and Grandpa Radish prepared a Constitution Enhancement Potion.

• White Werewolf White Dress and Viten began rapidly eating the food, while the Shadow-Type Pseudo-Human piled its food without eating.
• Robin told Lin Yu that she had encountered the creature, once called the Soul-Devouring Terror Shadow, in a Ghost City Instance and believed neither White Dress nor Viten could defeat it.
• The Shadow-Type Pseudo-Human devoured one-third of its food in a single bite, shocking the other players and widening the perceived gap between the contestants.
• Li Hua, Grandpa Radish, and Mosin-Nagant discussed using one of Viten’s faction’s extra Support Opportunities to help him.
• Grandpa Radish took out a Constitution Enhancement Potion, hoping it would improve Viten’s strength, speed, constitution, and eating pace.

During the eating contest, Lin Yu realized the Delicious Paper could be used to summon food as a Support Item. He sent a massive roasted boar hind leg to Pitian, proving that supporters could help contestants by giving them more food.

• Radish used a Support chance to give Pitian a strength-enhancing potion, making him eat faster and pushing White Dress into last place.
• A'yu scolded Qianhuan for having no useful Item, and Qianhuan showed her a box of Digestive Tablets.
• Lin Yu pointed out that the Delicious Paper they had received could be used for Support and borrowed twenty sheets from Zhigeng.
• Lin Yu asked the God of Revelry for filling, high-calorie food, and the Delicious Paper produced a huge roasted mountain boar hind leg.
• Lin Yu sent the roasted hind leg to Pitian, then explained that Support could be used to give contestants more food.

Lin Yu revealed that [Delicious Paper] could be used to add food for contestants to eat, prompting the rival groups to consider cooperating. He and Zhigeng agreed to work together, and Lin Yu promised to help her win as she handed him all her paper and began painting.

• Lin Yu explained that [Delicious Paper] could be exchanged for food and used to increase the amount contestants had to eat.
• Li Hua understood the implication, and Qianhuan proposed that their groups cooperate because their combined [Delicious Paper] was limited.
• Lin Yu and Zhigeng discussed their chances against the other groups, and Lin Yu promised to let Zhigeng win if she trusted him.
• Zhigeng agreed to cooperate, gave Lin Yu all her [Delicious Paper], and began painting on her drawing board.

Lin Yu and Robin used Robin’s Geometric Shapes to block Li Hua’s attempt to support the Shadow-Type Pseudo-Human with food. A'yu then fired her flintlock pistol, declaring that violence could overwhelm their strategy and defenses.

• Li Hua exchanged twelve sheets of [Delicious Paper] for a huge pizza and tried to use a [Support Opportunity] on the Shadow-Type Pseudo-Human.
• Robin followed Lin Yu’s instructions and built a wall of gray Geometric Shapes, blocking the pizza from reaching the target’s name.
• Lin Yu explained that protecting the names before them was part of the banquet’s challenge and revealed his hidden move.
• A'yu praised Robin’s defense, drew an old flintlock pistol, and fired it.

A'yu blasted open Robin's geometric wall with her flintlock, creating a chance for the Players to attack. Qianhuan and Mosin-Nagant sent food into the area occupied by Shadow-Type Pseudo-Human, increasing its required eating attempts and turning the situation in their favor.

• A'yu used [Demon-Piercing Sacred Might] to blast a gap in Robin's wall, and Octopus Ka warned her not to use such a dangerous attack again.
• A'yu handed [Delicious Paper] to Qianhuan and urged the Players to use the opening to attack.
• Qianhuan and Mosin-Nagant exchanged [Delicious Paper] for food and sent a steamed bun and roasted meat into the areas occupied by Shadow-Type Pseudo-Human and Lin Yu.
• Qianhuan and Mosin-Nagant launched another pair of food attacks, increasing the food in Shadow-Type Pseudo-Human's area and reversing the situation.

Zhigen and Lin Yu used [Delicious Paper] to send food to rival contestants, shifting the eating contest’s standings. Lin Yu then spent all 58 sheets at once to create a threat that pressured the rival groups to compete without targeting his side.

• Zhigen used 60 sheets of [Delicious Paper] to exchange for three portions of food and sent them toward Qianhuan and Mosin-Nagant’s names.
• Qianhuan and Mosin-Nagant returned their remaining [Delicious Paper] to their teammates, leaving Bitian and White Dress nearly tied while the Shadow-Type Pseudo-Human fell behind.
• Lin Yu collapsed his Geometric Shapes city wall and criticized the others for hesitating and calculating instead of acting.
• Lin Yu scattered all 58 sheets of [Delicious Paper] and exchanged them for a paper cupcake, which might have a powerful bonus effect.
• Lin Yu told Li Hua and Qianhuan to leave his group alone, threatening to send the cupcake’s food to whichever side attacked him.

Lin Yu used the threat of sabotaging the contest to provoke a chaotic exchange of attacks between the other Players. With Biten and White Dress still neck and neck against the Shadow-Type Pseudo-Human, Lin Yu shocked everyone by eating the Cupcake himself, leaving the contest’s outcome uncertain.

• Lin Yu’s threat convinced the Players he was willing to make everyone lose, even if it cost him his own chance to win.
• A’yu exchanged seventeen Delicious Paper for a giant meatball and hit it toward Li Hua, while Qianhuan’s rabbit Assistant distracted Li Hua and the Players launched a chaotic battle.
• The Players used their remaining food and Support to send food to their targets, but Biten and White Dress still ate faster than the Shadow-Type Pseudo-Human.
• As Biten and White Dress remained evenly matched, everyone watched Lin Yu, who ate the entire Cupcake and declared that the performance had gone well.

Lin Yu revealed he had secretly kept [Delicious Paper], exchanged the remaining sheets for two portions of food, and used Zhigeng's ability to send prepared items to Pitiān and White Dress. The chapter ended as a silver-white cross emerged from the notebook in White Dress's area.

• Lin Yu revealed that the paper cupcake had not cost him 59 sheets of [Delicious Paper] and showed the others he still had 58.
• Lin Yu exchanged the remaining [Delicious Paper] for a rice ball and a burrito, drawing everyone's attention to the food.
• Lin Yu gave Zhigeng the agreed signal, and she used her ability to send a notebook to White Dress and a black box to Pitiān.
• Lin Yu explained that he had prepared the items because the food alone could not guarantee victory, and he had promised Zhigeng a 100-percent chance of winning the stage.
• The notebook opened in White Dress's area, and a silver-white cross emerged from its drawing.

Lin Yu used Painter, Fear Lens, and Ancient Notebook to conjure a silver cross that incapacitated White Dress, then used White Dress’s fear to power Chat’s Supplies and flood Bitian’s arena with food. The other players realized Lin Yu had another strategy beyond Delicious Paper, but Bitian remained uncountered.

• Lin Yu used Fear Lens to discover White Dress’s fear of silver crosses and had Painter depict one in Ancient Notebook.
• A silver cross appeared in White Dress’s arena, overwhelming White Dress with fear and leaving it unable to act.
• Painter, Qianhuan, A'yu, and the other Players reacted to White Dress’s collapse, while Qianhuan asked how Lin Yu would deal with Bitian.
• Lin Yu activated Chat’s Supplies, causing food and water to pour into Bitian’s arena as he announced the Gourmet Fountain.
• Lin Yu explained that Chat’s Supplies required fear as raw material, and White Dress’s terror was powering it.

Lin Yu and Zhigeng won the Banquet Game, and Octopus Ka began preparing their Main Dish by killing the Shadow-Type Pseudo-Human. The five losing guests survived the punishment of their chair ropes snapping, but Octopus Ka warned that losing every rope would bring an even worse threat.

• The Shadow-Type Pseudo-Human ate all the food in its arena and was declared the victor, while White Dress and Bitian fell through black voids.
• Lin Yu reminded Zhigeng that he had helped her win, and she said she owed him but complained that he had not told her the whole plan.
• Octopus Ka snapped the chair ropes of the five remaining guests, and Qianhuan, Mosin-Nagant, Li Hua, Grandpa Radish, and A'yu each used different means to stay seated.
• Octopus Ka warned that if all their chair ropes broke, he would personally drive the guests from their seats.
• Octopus Ka brought the Shadow-Type Pseudo-Human out of the screen, bound it to his iron plate, and stabbed it in the chest with a kitchen knife.

Octopus Ka cooked the Main Dish from the Shadow-Type Pseudo-Human and served it to Lin Yu and Zhigeng. Lin Yu’s final bite brought back a memory of a girl cooking fish at a modest table.

• Octopus Ka killed the Shadow-Type Pseudo-Human, extracted a black crystal from its chest, and squeezed its black liquid into a frying pan.
• Octopus Ka explained that the Shadow-Type Pseudo-Human’s life essence and the contestants’ eating abilities gave the dish its many flavors.
• Octopus Ka cooked the black liquid into a solid, torched its surface, and served portions to Lin Yu and Zhigeng as [The Blood of the Victor is Always Sweet].
• Lin Yu and Zhigeng ate the dish and marveled at its many delicious flavors.
• Lin Yu ate the final bite and remembered a girl in an apron proudly describing the fish and clams she had bought.

At the banquet, Lin Yu and Robin recalled loved ones through the main dish, and Lin Yu explained why his memory left him quickly. Ka began the dessert course, which included hidden Banquet Cards and possible punishments, and Robin volunteered to go first.

• Lin Yu remembered eating his sister Lin Zhao’s steamed fish as a child, while Robin recalled her grandmother’s cooking and cried for several minutes.
• Robin asked how quickly Lin Yu had returned from his memory, and he said he had little reason to miss people who were still alive.
• Lin Yu welcomed Robin’s threat to kill Fluoxetine, since he held a grudge against her.
• Ka announced the dessert course, explaining that each guest would receive a tailored dessert with a hidden Banquet Card and face possible punishment if they failed to find the card and finish the dessert.
• After the others hesitated, Robin volunteered to go first, and Ka served her a white-chocolate dessert called [Blank Canvas] with three bowls of sauce.

Zhigeng explained that her [Blank Canvas] dessert was tied to a Tier 2 Painter item, while Lin Yu realized the dessert stage could expose his false identity as a Killer. As Zhigeng searched for the hidden card and wondered how to enjoy the dessert, Qianhuan and Li Hua suggested she use her Painter ability on it.

• Zhigeng explained that [Blank Canvas] was a Tier 2 Painter item available only to Painters who had chosen [Paint] at Tier 1.
• Lin Yu realized he knew almost nothing about the Killer’s advancement items and feared that the dessert stage could reveal he was impersonating Fluoxetine.
• Zhigeng considered whether the card might be hidden inside the chocolate [Blank Canvas] dessert.
• Qianhuan suggested that Zhigeng use her Painter ability to draw the dessert, and Li Hua agreed that she should try it.

Zhigeng used her Painter ability to uncover Octopus Ka's hint, drew a pair of golden scissors from a memory of her first instance, and obtained the Banquet Card after finishing her dessert. The table's cooperative mood faded when Octopus Ka revealed that the Scissors Card could cut the chair ropes of any two people present.

• Qianhuan and Li Hua persuaded Zhigeng to use her Painter ability on the dessert, revealing Octopus Ka's hint to redraw her first painting.
• Zhigeng drew golden scissors, recalling that they had killed almost everyone in her first instance, and the drawing turned into a card.
• Zhigeng ate the chocolate and syrup, answered Octopus Ka's question, and passed the Dessert stage.
• Zhigeng thanked Qianhuan and Li Hua and offered to help the others with her Painter ability.
• Octopus Ka revealed that the Scissors Card could cut the ropes on any two people's chairs.

Zhigeng learned she had to use her rope-cutting Scissors Card after the Dessert phase, while Lin Yu advised her to wait and see what other cards appeared. A'yu took the next dessert, revealed it was tied to her unchosen Tier 1 Item, and said she planned to cut Qianhuan's and Li Hua's ropes if she got a card.

• Octopus Ka told Zhigeng she had to use her Scissors Card by the end of the Dessert phase or it would be used randomly, and Lin Yu advised her to wait before choosing targets.
• A'yu volunteered to take the second dessert, and Octopus Ka served her a clock-shaped cake called [Alarm Clock].
• Lin Yu asked A'yu whether the dessert was her unchosen Tier 2 Item, and A'yu revealed it was her unchosen Tier 1 Item.
• A'yu questioned Lin Yu's motives for helping her, and he said he trusted her not to target him; she promised not to cut his ropes.
• A'yu said she had already chosen two targets, and Li Hua and Qianhuan guessed they were among them before A'yu confirmed she would cut Qianhuan's ropes.

Lin Yu advised A'yu on which profession to choose for the dessert stage, concluding that Student could help her get guidance from Octopus Ka. A'yu admitted that asking for help would be difficult for her, leaving her uncertain about Lin Yu's plan.

• Qianhuan reacted to A'yu's rebuke by checking his reflection, and Lin Yu wondered whether Freedom Alliance members were shameless without realizing it.
• A'yu explained that her [Alarm Clock] let her use three professions' abilities until a randomly set alarm rang, when she would lose one of them.
• A'yu revealed that her choices were Soldier, Student, and Monk, and Lin Yu advised against Monk because her disbelief in gods made her prayers ineffective.
• Qianhuan teased A'yu about being a materialist, prompting Li Hua and Mosin-Nagant to call out his sarcasm.
• Lin Yu recommended that A'yu choose Student and ask Octopus Ka for help with the dessert stage, but A'yu said asking for help was difficult for her.

A'yu used the Student profession's negotiation ability to get Octopus Ka to explain how to obtain the card hidden in the Alarm Clock dessert. She set the clock to 8:37, received a Knot Rope Card instead of a Scissors Card, and the group hoped its power might prevent anyone from dying in the Game.

• A'yu awkwardly pleaded with Octopus Ka, activating the Student's ability and persuading him to reveal that the Alarm Clock required the most important moment of her life.
• Lin Yu explained that A'yu had to set the clock's hands to the exact time of that moment.
• A'yu set the Alarm Clock to 8:37, and it rang before producing a card.
• Qianhuan and Li Hua bickered while Lin Yu pointed out the card's design was a knotted rope, not scissors.
• Octopus Ka identified it as a Knot Rope Card that could randomly reconnect five severed ropes across the field, prompting Grandpa Radish and Zhigeng to hope no one would die.

Li Hua completed the [Dessert] stage and concluded that the players’ stages followed a shared pattern, with their professions providing clues. The chapter ended after he confirmed A'yu’s most painful memory matched the hint from his own dessert.

• A'yu used her card to reconnect five ropes, improving the safety of her own chair, Grandpa Radish’s, Li Hua’s, and Mosin-Nagant’s, while Qianhuan received none.
• Grandpa Radish offered to play next, but Li Hua took the turn and recommended that everyone keep completing stages for the best expected outcome.
• Octopus Ka served Li Hua a dessert called [Loaded Dice], and Li Hua used his abilities and the dice’s sounds to identify one loaded die.
• Li Hua crushed the loaded die, found a hint asking whether he remembered the time he had lost the most, and arranged the remaining dice into four fives and one six.
• Li Hua assembled the cards revealed inside the dice and asked A'yu whether her most important moment had been an Instance where she nearly died as many others perished.
• Lin Yu said A'yu’s defensive posture supported Li Hua’s guess, and Li Hua declared that the pattern was confirmed.

Li Hua and Grandpa Radish discovered that their desserts revealed painful memories from past Instances and granted cards that could affect the ropes. Radish used his Iron Rope Card to protect one of his ropes and a randomly chosen rope as the round continued.

• Li Hua explained his theory about the desserts and revealed a Scissors Card that randomly selected two people’s ropes to cut.
• Lin Yu worried that Li Hua might sacrifice people he considered deserving of death, and feared his own four ropes were not enough protection.
• Grandpa Radish’s dessert revealed his favorite food, and he recalled an Instance where he and five younger players died, leaving him as the sole survivor.
• Radish found an Iron Rope Card that could protect one of his ropes and a random rope from being cut once.
• Radish declared that he was using the Iron Rope Card.

Qianhuan’s random scissors card broke several ropes, leaving Li Hua, Robin, and A'yu in danger as the banquet’s rope count fell. Mosin-Nagant gained a Rope Swap Card, and Lin Yu urged him to use it immediately.

• Qianhuan transformed his candy-cane cake, lit the candle marked 5, and drew a random scissors card.
• Qianhuan used the card, breaking four ropes belonging to Li Hua, Robin, and A'yu; Li Hua lost two ropes, while Robin’s Iron Rope Card prevented another from breaking.
• Mosin-Nagant used his hunter ability to select a page in the Prey Compendium, stabbed the elk illustration, and ate the sugar book.
• Mosin-Nagant obtained a Rope Swap Card that would randomly cut one rope and repair another, then asked Li Hua whether to use it.
• Li Hua advised Mosin-Nagant not to use the card yet, but Lin Yu interrupted and recommended using it immediately.

During the [Dessert] segment, Li Hua tried to manage the rope cards by learning what cards others held, but Lin Yu disrupted his plans and used luck to survive the random outcomes. After Li Hua played his [Scissors Card], Lin Yu was left with four ropes while everyone else had only one.

• Lin Yu refused Li Hua’s attempt to learn what card he had drawn and asked Octopus Ka to let him prepare his [Dessert] after the others used their cards.
• Mosin-Nagant used his [Rope Swap Card], adding a rope behind Qianhuan while a rope behind Radish lost its metallic sheen.
• Lin Yu persuaded Robin to use her card without choosing a target, and her rope snapped; Robin replaced it with lines drawn using her marker and declared that she no longer owed Lin Yu a favor.
• Li Hua accused Lin Yu of using a luck-enhancing Item, but Lin Yu said he was simply extraordinarily lucky and revealed that his cupcake had granted [Lucky Sweetness].
• Li Hua used his [Scissors Card], snapping two ropes behind Qianhuan and two behind Mosin-Nagant, leaving Lin Yu with four ropes and everyone else with one.

Lin Yu refused Octopus Ka’s dessert and accepted the punishment of losing one rope, keeping his chair stable while avoiding a potentially dangerous dessert. He claimed the final round would cost everyone another rope and invited the surviving players to meet him in Jiang City.

• Lin Yu refused Octopus Ka’s dessert, saying he was too full, and accepted the punishment of having one rope snapped.
• Lin Yu explained that keeping four ropes let him forfeit dessert while avoiding the risks of losing more ropes.
• When Li Hua questioned his decision, Lin Yu claimed he knew the final card would make everyone lose one rope and had protected the players from dying during dessert.
• Lin Yu said he wanted the final contest to be as dramatic as possible and invited the survivors to find him above the rainbow in Jiang City at dusk, when thirty silver coins rang out.

Lin Yu and the other guests were taken to the banquet hall, where they met the God of Feasts, Wine, and Revelry and began the final drink course. Each guest received a flawed drink to improve for rewards or punishments, and A'yu angrily discovered hers was Douzhi.

• Ka pulled the seven guests through an invisible boundary to a gigantic banquet hall and introduced them to the God of Feasts, Wine, and Revelry.
• The god welcomed the guests and announced that he would personally host the final course, the [After-meal Drink].
• The god caused a glass to appear in each guest's hand, and Ka explained that they had to complete their flawed drinks for rewards or punishments.
• The guests identified their drinks, including tea for Grandpa Radish, coffee for Li Hua, and highly distilled liquor for Lin Yu.
• A'yu found Douzhi in her glass and complained that the drink was an offensive stereotype.

At a banquet hosted by the God of Feasts, Wine, and Revelry, Lin Yu drank [Best Daydream] and entered a vision of becoming a celebrated Film Emperor. He rejected the imagined award and used the vision to challenge the god’s drink, ending by smashing the trophy and declaring that the academy had no right to crown him.

• The God of Revelry served the guests [Best Daydream], and Lin Yu tasted its liquor and felt happiness and desire rise within him.
• Lin Yu envisioned himself winning the highest acting honor as crowds cheered his name.
• Lin Yu realized the drink had drawn him into a future daydream and complained that it skipped the experience of acting in the film.
• Lin Yu walked onstage in the vision, took the trophy, and denounced the academy, critics, media, colleagues, and audience.
• Lin Yu smashed the trophy and declared, “You... have no right to crown me!”