Recaps

Lin Yu used the fallout from the dock battle to pursue revenge against Fluoxetine and create a new identity as Xia Yue. He arranged for Chen Zhuo and Li Nian to join him in an Instance, while Li Nian uncovered much of his deception and welcomed him to the Freedom Alliance.

• Gao Shan told Li Hua that May had revealed the Marauders’ stronghold, and Li Hua promised Order’s top-level help as he and Tycoon prepared to attack.
• Players from several factions gathered at the abandoned dock, where Lin Yu used Hannah disguised as Fluoxetine to stop the fighting and invite them to meet again.
• At the next meeting, the genuine Fluoxetine confronted the assembled Players, and A'yu’s explosives and Li Hua’s summoned Administrators triggered a battle that Dilaudid joined.
• Lin Yu reviewed Order’s investigation of Fluoxetine, recognized Xia Yue among her victims, and learned from Xia Yue’s coworker and mother how she had died.
• Lin Yu stole Xia Yue’s body from the police station, burned it, and decided to borrow her identity while leaving evidence that might lead others to believe she had survived.
• Lin Yu joined the Psychology Society through Li Nian, visited Tycoon to discuss his advancement, and learned how Players could deepen their connections to Instance worlds.
• Lin Yu approached Chen Zhuo and introduced himself as Xia Yue, then recruited Li Nian to help Chen Zhuo through his next Instance in exchange for 1,000 points.
• Li Nian revealed that she had found Xia Yue’s classified records and inferred Lin Yu’s deception, and Lin Yu confirmed most of her conclusions as she welcomed him to the Freedom Alliance.

Lin Yu and his companions entered the Despair Train, uncovered its rules, and gathered allies while searching for the Baron and a way to obtain tickets. Baron Coleman agreed to guide them toward tickets, and Li Nian opened the lock to Carriage One.

• Lin Yu, Li Nian, and Chen Zhuo were transported aboard the Despair Train, where Lin Yu used the Fear Torch to burn the invisible spirits attacking them.
• Li Nian defeated seven Hate Sentries, and Lin Yu and the group subdued Veil Valetti before discovering Pankto Feng Valetti, his descendant, aboard the train.
• Pankto joined Lin Yu’s group, and they met Wang Yuyang and Pan Yuqiang, who explained that passengers could assemble Ticket Fragments and that the train periodically carried out Great Purges.
• Lin Yu’s group confronted the gangs in Carriage 9, revealed Pankto’s Truth Company identity, and arranged a meeting with the Baron while deciding to find the missing Player first.
• The group found Fu Luo in Carriage 5 and recruited him after he reunited with Chen Zhuo, then learned that the Baron was Jerry Coleman, a figure tied to Pankto and Truth Company’s history.
• Lin Yu’s group found Coleman in a tank in Carriage 2, and Coleman recognized Lin Yu’s gray mark as a sign bestowed by a god.
• Coleman agreed to show the group a convenient way to find tickets and led them toward Carriage One, where Li Nian opened the mechanical lock.

Lin Yu and his companions uncovered Baron Coleman’s wrongful conviction, exposed President Paris’s schemes, and fought Truth Company aboard the Despair Train. The group escaped by golden tickets while Coleman stayed behind to destroy the Despair Furnace.

• Li Nian opened Carriage One, where Lin Yu’s group found the Despair Furnace and Baron Coleman showed them how to trick it into issuing golden tickets.
• Lin Yu persuaded the group to remain aboard, and Fu Luo revealed his mission to investigate three wrongful cases while Li Nian sought Truth Company’s inventions.
• Coleman explained that he had been framed for Reed Christopher’s murder after investigating a secret Ghost Laboratory, and Lin Yu entered the Ancient Notebook to reconstruct the crime.
• Fu Luo and Lin Yu uncovered evidence implicating Minister Paris, while Pankto’s resemblance to a dead operative and the Heer Apartments case revealed more of his forgotten past.
• President Paris and Group δ attacked the train, but Lin Yu, Li Nian, Pankto, Wang Yuyang, and Pan Yuqiang fought back until Lin Yu forced the Wrath Throne to withdraw.
• Lin Yu used the [Collar] to make the captured Group δ leader his pet, while Coleman admitted he and Paris had schemed to steal Professor Dort’s Fear research before Paris betrayed them.
• Coleman tried to send Pankto away and stay behind to destroy the furnace, but Pankto refused, and the others escaped aboard Special Car No. 008 as Coleman released his hold on the machines and was engulfed with the furnace.

Lin Yu joined the Psychology Society while investigating Fluoxetine and Xia Yue’s death, then was accepted into the Order despite his ties to the Society. The arc ended with Good Night revealing that Jiang City housed the forum and was meant to become the Player community’s central city.

• Baron Coleman’s train exploded, and Lin Yu helped Pankto escape Truth Company by taking him to the Great Wilderness.
• Lin Yu unlocked Social permissions, met Stiller, and arranged to question Fu Luo about Truth Company and his suspicious messages.
• Lin Yu rescued Fu Luo from the Marauders, then used Fluoxetine’s apparent invitation to lure her into a rooftop confrontation.
• Lin Yu survived Fluoxetine’s attack, learned about her Blood Sand of Reversal, and joined the Psychology Society as vice president of its Jiang City branch.
• Lin Yu became a full Society member under the codename Clonazepam, then visited Xia Yang and claimed he had once been Xia Yue’s lover.
• Lin Yu promised to investigate Xia Yue’s death and visited Good Night in the hospital after the Order approved his membership.
• Lin Yu defended his connection to the Society and his promise to protect Xia Yue’s family, and Good Night welcomed him into the Order.
• Lin Yu pressed Good Night and Tycoon about their secrecy, and Good Night revealed Jiang City housed the forum and was planned as the Player community’s central city.