Recaps

Bai Zuo used the greedy Heart Gu to stop a panicked crowd, while Ji Wu and Xu Zhou reacted to the anomaly. At the Divine Altar, Kong Yubo recognized the Holy Prince as a dangerous threat and fired at him.

• Bai Zuo's giant spider spun silk strands that marked and immobilized the crowd, including the girl Xu Zhou had watched fall.
• Ji Wu raised his gun toward Bai Zuo, but a gunshot rang out before he could fire, shocking him and Xu Zhou.
• Kong Yubo's team searched Anyang Island and tracked Ji Wu and Xu Zhou to the Divine Palanquin.
• Kong Yubo saw the Holy Prince on the Divine Altar and sensed intense malice beneath the actor's convincing appearance.
• The procession departed from its traditional program, and the crowd panicked as the giant spider darkened the sky.
• Kong Yubo aimed at the Holy Prince and fired a bullet toward his heart.

Bai Zuo used his Ghost Domain to protect everyone on Anyang Island from another Ghost Domain that was trying to swallow them. As the island flooded with Wandering Souls, he sent the controlled crowd to fight them.

• Bai Zuo stopped Ji Wu's bullet with a web and controlled the people in his Ghost Domain, while Ji Wu and Xu Zhou confronted him.
• Xu Zhou recognized the opposing Ghost Domain as the one that had taken the form of Anyang Island, and realized Bai Zuo had unfurled his domain to protect everyone from being swallowed.
• Ji Wu understood Bai Zuo's actions and felt guilty for shooting at him, while the opposing Ghost Domain flooded Anyang Island with murky water and Wandering Souls.
• Xu Zhou fought the Wandering Souls with his sword, and Ji Wu tried to shoot them as their numbers overwhelmed both men.
• Bai Zuo ordered his spider to tear the Wandering Souls apart, then made the motionless crowd attack them until they were trampled underfoot.

Xu Zhou learned more about Bai Zuo’s ability as the controlled crowds overwhelmed the anomalies, while Kong Yubo’s dispatch team escaped the danger. Kong recognized the giant spider as the feared Contract Anomalist and worried about the consequences of having shot at him, as an artifact called Information Cocoon unlocked.

• Xu Zhou asked Ji Wu whether the Anomaly Containment Association feared Bai Zuo would mark its members, and Ji Wu said the Chairman kept Contract Anomalists in line.
• Kong Yubo and his injured teammates fled the anomalies and found the streets flooded with murky water and monsters.
• Kong Yubo watched crowds of tourists charge the anomalies with unnatural strength and movements, and suspected the giant spider controlled them.
• Kong Yubo identified the spider as the demon who manipulated people's hearts, and his teammates recognized the Holy Prince as a Contract Anomalist.
• Kong Yubo feared the man would retaliate for the shots fired at him, while Character Perfection increased and the Information Cocoon artifact unlocked.

Shen Yu drew the S-rank Character Card Skywing and sent him to Anyang Island to support Bai Zuo's difficult fight against the powerful anomaly. Skywing watched from above as Bai Zuo continued battling, while the others wondered why the Anomaly Containment Association's support had not arrived.

• Shen Yu examined the B-rank Information Cocoon and realized Bai Zuo needed stronger offensive support to capture the anomaly on Anyang Island.
• Shen Yu spent 5,000 Construction Points on a ten-pull and drew four Employee Cards before receiving an S-rank Character Card: Skywing.
• Shen Yu activated Skywing, whose contracted Nameless Bird could command powerful storms, and sent him to Anyang Island.
• Skywing arrived above the island and watched Bai Zuo fight the enormous spider, saying he would help only after it begged him.
• Ji Wu questioned why the Anomaly Containment Association's support had not arrived, and Xu Zhou learned that support was supposed to arrive within ten minutes of a report.

Bai Zuo’s Ghost Domain broke into the anomaly’s domain, triggering the Lamp Mansion Festival multiplayer dungeon and revealing its deadly clear conditions. As Shen Yu explained that humanity would have to clear dungeons to keep anomalies from consuming Blue Star, the chapter left the trapped Conquerors facing a new struggle.

• Xu Zhou worried that the summoned Contract Anomalist had not arrived, while Ji Wu explained that Bai Zuo could win the clash of Ghost Domains but would still face the domain’s master and its anomalies.
• Ji Wu explained that the anomalies within a Ghost Domain belonged to its master, and Kong Yubo and Tian Hua reflected on the failed mission that had cost most of their Special Dispatch Team.
• Kong Yubo watched Bai Zuo fight and wished he could become a Contract Anomalist to save people from anomalies.
• Bai Zuo’s enormous Spider tore through the opposing Ghost Domain, and its little spiders covered the domain in webs as Yellow Spring water poured out.
• Bai Zuo, Xu Zhou, Ji Wu, Kong Yubo, and Tian Hua triggered the B-rank Lamp Mansion Festival dungeon, which offered clear conditions ranging from escorting a sacrifice to killing Yama.
• Shen Yu explained that the Horror Game had turned Blue Star into a game world and that people would have to clear dungeons to keep anomalies from escaping.

After the group became trapped inside the Anyang Island Dungeon, Ji Wu explained that their original escape conditions were no longer possible and that defeating Yama would require a costly fight. As Kong Yubo and the others volunteered to help, Bai Zuo sensed a hated bird overhead, and illusory feathers began falling as a gale swept across them.

• White Mist cut off the group from the outside world, and Ji Wu warned Kong Yubo that neither escaping through the mist nor completing the Lamp Mansion Festival would get them home.
• Ji Wu revealed that Xu Zhou and Bai Zuo were Contract Anomalists and that their target, Yama, was a B-Class Malignant Curse.
• Kong Yubo, Tian Hua, their teammates, and Xu Zhou volunteered to let Bai Zuo control them so they could help fight Yama.
• When Bai Zuo stayed silent and stared at the sky, he complained about the stench of a repulsive bird.
• Illusory white feathers fell from above, and a clear cry unleashed a gale that forced everyone to shut their eyes.

Skywing A arrived to help Bai Zuo and the others confront the Malignant Curse, though he and Bai Zuo spent their first moments trading insults. When Yama appeared and began draining the life force of the people below, Bai Zuo's spiders attacked the glowing heads while Ji Wu ordered civilians to take shelter.

• Skywing A appeared in a gust of wind, greeted Xu Zhou, and mocked Bai Zuo for struggling against the anomaly.
• Bai Zuo and Skywing A traded insults, and Ji Wu explained to Xu Zhou that spiders and birds were natural predators.
• Yama arrived in a sedan chair surrounded by white-robed spirits, and his glowing human-head lanterns began draining the life force of the people below.
• Kong Yubo fired at the glowing heads, but his bullets failed to harm them.
• Bai Zuo sent spiders to bite, web, and cocoon the glowing heads as Ji Wu ordered him to shelter the elderly and children.

Bai Zuo used the Power of Contract to control Kong Yubo and his teammates, giving them the strength to defeat Yama’s underlings. Yama then unleashed a flood of Yellow Spring Water that knocked everyone down and began corroding them.

• Bai Zuo offered Kong Yubo power, and Kong accepted after seeing his teammates get injured.
• Bai Zuo used Mind Control to unleash Kong Yubo’s strength and control him and his teammates, allowing them to harm the supernatural beings.
• Xu Zhou, Ji Wu, Kong Yubo, and the others joined forces and defeated Yama’s underlings, which returned to Yama as black mist.
• Yama stood and sent a wave of Yellow Spring Water crashing over everyone, leaving Kong Yubo injured and the group exposed to its corrosive supernatural aura.

After Yama’s attack left Xu Zhou and the others badly injured, Skywing A unleashed his S-Rank power and defeated Yama. Bai Zuo rescued the people trapped in a collapsing building, and Skywing A contained the anomalous creature, leaving Xu Zhou to collapse from exhaustion.

• Kong Yubo and the others struggled to rise after Yama’s single devastating blow, while Xu Zhou forced himself to stay standing despite his injuries.
• Skywing A summoned a powerful gale that pinned Yama down and swept away the Yellow Spring Water.
• Yama revealed its true form as a huge swamp-like monster and attacked the nearby building, but Xu Zhou and Ji Wu carried teammates to safety while Bai Zuo’s spiders rescued the cocooned people inside.
• Bai Zuo watched over the rescued people as potential food for Heart Gu, while Yama tried to chase them.
• Skywing A filled the air with razor-sharp feathers that sliced Yama apart, then contained it in the Anomaly Cage.
• Xu Zhou collapsed to the ground after Skywing A declared the fight over.

After Skywing A defeated the Dungeon Boss and encouraged Xu Zhou to be more confident, the Horror Game announced the Xia Kingdom’s first clear of the Lamp Mansion Festival Dungeon. The news revealed the game’s existence to the world, while the Xia Kingdom began rescuing the injured and gained eight hours of daily safe time for a week.

• Skywing A praised Xu Zhou for his potential, urged him to live more freely, and gave him a feather before flying away.
• The Horror Game declared the Lamp Mansion Festival Dungeon permanently conquered and awarded its contributors money, Healing Cards, and Achievement Points.
• The game announced the Xia Kingdom’s first B-rank Dungeon clear worldwide and granted the country eight hours of daytime safe time each day for one week.
• Xia Kingdom officials reached Anyang Island after the White Mist cleared and arranged medical help for the injured survivors.
• People around the world reacted with fear as memories of the Horror Game returned, while many Xia Kingdom residents celebrated the clear and discussed conquering Dungeons for rewards.

After the Dungeon incident on Anyang Island, Kong Yubo and his team recovered from their injuries while Xu Zhou and Ji Wu treated the other wounded. Kong Yubo chose to trust Ji Wu’s group, and the chapter ended with the authorities arriving to manage the frightened survivors while Xu Zhou faced a mountain of reports.

• The authorities warned the public that ordinary weapons could not harm supernatural entities, discouraging people from entering Dungeons for profit.
• Xu Zhou used the Healing Cards to treat Kong Yubo’s team and give the remaining cards to the most severely injured.
• Ji Wu exchanged contact information with Kong Yubo, who acknowledged their shared work and chose to trust him and the Contract Anomalists.
• Xu Zhou noticed the survivors panicking after recovering from Bai Zuo’s Ghost Domain, and Ji Wu assigned him to write the follow-up reports.
• Kong Yubo said that his people were already on their way to handle the survivors, while Ji Wu explained why his group usually avoided public attention.

After containing Yan Luo on Anyang Island, Shen Yu recovered in the hospital, checked his new system rewards, and searched for other anomalies in Anyang City. The chapter ended when he noticed ninety-nine anonymous emails sent on the night of the first and opened one.

• Kong Yubo took charge of the aftermath on Anyang Island as Ji Wu left with Xu Zhou.
• Shen Yu learned that containing Yan Luo earned him 50,000 Construction Points and unlocked the Shop, where he bought a Mental Recovery Potion and Time Rewind.
• Shen Yu searched local online posts for genuine anomaly reports and exchanged messages with Song Xiaojie, who asked to meet and offered to visit him in the hospital.
• While reviewing posts and clearing messages during his hospital meal, Shen Yu noticed ninety-nine anonymous emails sent on the night of the first and opened one.

Shen Yu received ninety-nine undeletable, obsessive love letters that appeared to come from an anomaly, then got a strange call from someone he identified as Song Xiaojie. He planned to have Xu Zhou and the others investigate seven possible anomaly sites while waiting for the anomaly to find him.

• Shen Yu found an anonymous love letter among ninety-nine emails, including a secretly taken photo of him at school, and discovered none of the messages existed in the website's database.
• Shen Yu suspected an anomaly was targeting him and considered whether someone at his school had helped it, but decided to wait for it to appear rather than confront Song Xiaojie without evidence.
• Shen Yu finished reviewing videos and identified seven possible locations where anomalies might have appeared, planning to send Xu Zhou and the others to investigate.
• Shen Yu answered a call from a woman who apologized and said she was glad he was safe, then hung up abruptly.
• Shen Yu used the caller's voice and speech patterns to identify her as his classmate Song Xiaojie.

Shen Yu faced a ghost in the hospital bathroom that tried to pull him into a mirror and tempt him with a love letter. He resisted its mental attack, while the black-haired girl in the mirror watched him leave and became covered in blood.

• Shen Yu called the disconnected number back and wondered whether Song Xiaojie’s ghostly contact was connected to danger.
• Shen Yu entered the hospital bathroom, where flickering lights and a running shower signaled a ghost’s presence.
• Black hair spilled from the mirror, wrapped around Shen Yu, and tried to drag him inside, but it retreated when he grabbed it.
• A black-haired girl appeared in the mirror and repeated that she liked Shen Yu, then dropped a love letter that tried to compel him to pick it up.
• Heart Gu injured the ghost with its mental attack, and Shen Yu left the untouched letter in the sink.
• After Shen Yu left, the girl gazed after him tenderly before blood covered her body.

Shen Yu assigned Ji Wu and Xu Zhou to investigate new anomalous locations, while Xu Zhou worked through the night on a report praising Bai Zuo’s actions at the Lamp Mansion Festival. When Kong Yubo reported that fifteen people were missing after the building collapse, Ji Wu suspected their disappearance was connected to something Bai Zuo had noticed.

• Shen Yu sent Ji Wu the addresses of anomalous locations and told him to take Xu Zhou to investigate.
• Xu Zhou finished a report describing how Bai Zuo had saved people from the Lamp Mansion Festival and praised his conduct to support easing his restrictions.
• Ji Wu corrected Xu Zhou’s report and submitted it after they had both worked all night.
• Kong Yubo told Ji Wu that fifteen people were missing after the building collapsed during the Lamp Mansion Festival.
• Ji Wu suspected the missing people were unusual and said he would question Bai Zuo, who arrived at the office while support staff brought him food.

Yang Su worried that the company would run out of money, while Ji Wu confronted Bai Zuo about fifteen people who disappeared during the Lamp Mansion Festival on Anyang Island. The company expected help from Headquarters, and Yang Su found only a news report about a building collapse on the island.

• Yang Su told Deng Xiaorui that the company had little money left, and the employees worried it would go bankrupt within two months.
• Yang Su overheard Ji Wu accuse Bai Zuo of knowing where the fifteen missing people from the Lamp Mansion Festival had gone.
• Ji Wu warned Bai Zuo that Headquarters—and possibly the Chairman—would soon arrive to question him, and Bai Zuo eagerly went to prepare.
• Yang Su asked Ji Wu about the company's finances, and he said Headquarters would bring products related to energy and transportation.
• Yang Su searched for news about the missing people but found only a report that an old residential building on Anyang Island had collapsed.

Yang Su realized the Execution Department handled dangerous Horror Game missions and decided to stay in Logistics. Bai Zuo triggered the Strange Food Dungeon at a breakfast shop, then decapitated the enraged hotel owner inside its banquet hall.

• Yang Su connected the Anyang Island mission to a Horror Game Dungeon and abandoned her plan to join the Execution Department.
• Bai Zuo gathered the people drawn to a breakfast shop and triggered the level D multiplayer Dungeon Strange Food by attacking its owner.
• The seventeen participants appeared in a banquet hall, where the wounded hotel owner tried to seize Bai Zuo's knife.
• Bai Zuo taunted the hotel owner and led him around the hall until the man took the knife and attacked wildly.
• The hotel owner suddenly found his head severed while his body remained standing.

Bai Zuo watched the Pig Head Man kill the restaurant owner, then left the dining hall with the survivors. After an elevator crushed its passengers, the remaining group gathered to plan how to escape the restaurant within seven days.

• The Pig Head Man decapitated the restaurant owner and dragged his body into the kitchen as Bai Zuo and the others fled the dining hall.
• Several survivors rushed to an elevator, and the bespectacled man urged the group to work together and seek clues instead.
• The elevator passengers became trapped near the fourth floor, then the car shot upward and crushed them against the top floor.
• The survivors recoiled from the blood and agreed not to try the other elevator, while the bespectacled man argued they needed to clear the dungeon step by step.
• Li Ke, Han Shitao, Qiang Ge, Hua Zi, Du Jiashi, and Xu Rou introduced themselves to the remaining group.

Bai Zuo joined the others as they searched the floor of the horror game’s restaurant for clues and keys. The group found hints by sitting in chairs beside food, but after searching all six rooms, they still had not found the key.

• Li Ke urged Bai Zuo to join the group, but Bai Zuo mocked their speeches before introducing himself.
• The group decided to search the floor for clues instead of testing the stairs.
• Bai Zuo sat in a chair in dining room 2401 and triggered a hint about finding a key hidden on the floor.
• Li Ke and the others sat down and heard hints about the chef, the keys, the food, mice, and cockroaches.
• The group searched all six dining rooms but found no key, and Qiang Ge began to doubt the hint.

Han Shitao’s group searched for the key to the twenty-fifth floor as the Pig Head Man’s patrol drew near, while Bai Zuo eventually pointed out the key hidden in a ceiling lamp. After they descended to the twenty-third floor, the Pig Head Man appeared in the stairwell and began patrolling.

• Li Ke led the group in searching the dark stairwell and cafeteria, but they failed to find the key as the patrol deadline approached.
• Qiang Ge grabbed Li Ke and threatened to sacrifice him to the Pig Head Man, while the others refused to intervene.
• Bai Zuo told the group he had found the key, and Qiang Ge retrieved it from a lampshade in the private dining room.
• Qiang Ge unlocked the stairwell door, and the group quickly descended past the twenty-fourth floor to the twenty-third.
• The Pig Head Man came down the stairwell carrying a bloodied Fleshing Knife, and the group panicked and searched for hiding places.

Bai Zuo watched the group search for keys in the hotel while the Pig Head Man hunted them, and Hua Zi was killed after a glass gave away his hiding place. By the time the group reached the 14th floor, Du Jiashi confronted Bai Zuo, accusing him of pretending and manipulating the others.

• Hua Zi hid on a balcony, but a fallen glass drew the Pig Head Man back, and it killed him.
• Li Ke and Qiang Ge emerged from hiding after the Pig Head Man left, and the group resumed searching for keys.
• Bai Zuo checked that his contracted Heart Gu was satisfied, then the group found food on the 22nd floor and resisted eating it after a warning appeared.
• The group found the remaining keys, avoided the Pig Head Man, and eventually reached the 14th floor.
• Xu Rou cozied up to Qiang Ge, while Bai Zuo made a pointed remark to Han Shitao that left her visibly uneasy.
• Du Jiashi stopped Bai Zuo and accused him of having found a key early and deliberately stirring up trouble among the group.

Bai Zuo manipulated Du Jiashi into confronting his guilt, then made him a puppet through a contract. After the group reached the tenth floor, a waiter arrived at midnight demanding payment.

• Du Jiashi confronted Bai Zuo, who exposed his past animal torture and stirred up his guilt.
• Du Jiashi decided he wanted to atone, but Bai Zuo stopped short of erasing his memories because the ability was forbidden.
• Bai Zuo told Du Jiashi to offer up his body, and a spider entered his head to establish a Mind Control contract.
• Bai Zuo and the others found keys and reached the tenth floor, where they waited in darkness for the waiter.
• The waiter found Qiang Ge and Xu Rou hiding on the balcony and demanded payment.

The waiter collected body parts as payment from guests who could not pay, but Bai Zuo and Du Jiashi avoided punishment by complaining about a cockroach in their food. The next morning, the group found Qiang Ge eating despite the warning, seemingly oblivious to his missing arm and the blood loss.

• Qiang Ge shoved Xu Rou toward the waiter, who cut off her ear before pursuing Qiang Ge and severing part of his arm.
• The waiter took a finger each from Li Ke and Han Shitao, then went to Bai Zuo and Du Jiashi.
• Bai Zuo had Du Jiashi point out a cockroach in the food, and the waiter apologized, replaced the dishes, and waived their bill.
• Bai Zuo slept in a private room while Du Jiashi kept watch, and the others endured the night in fear and pain.
• The next morning, Xu Rou told Li Ke and the others that Qiang Ge had betrayed her, then led them to find him eating at a fresh table of food.
• Li Ke saw that Qiang Ge had lost an arm and was bleeding, but Qiang Ge kept stuffing food into his mouth as if he felt nothing.

Bai Zuo and Du Jiashi confronted the group after Qiang Ge died from compulsively eating the food, and they forced Li Ke and Han Shitao to face the same danger. Xu Rou confessed her past, then accepted Bai Zuo’s strange intervention and joined Du Jiashi’s group, believing she had found peace and a chance to atone.

• Han Shitao, Xu Rou, and Li Ke found Qiang Ge stuffing himself until his stomach burst, then hurried away in terror.
• Li Ke confronted Bai Zuo and Du Jiashi about escaping injury, and Bai Zuo ordered Du Jiashi to punish the group.
• Du Jiashi forced Li Ke and Han Shitao to eat, while Bai Zuo used telepathy to expose Han Shitao’s hidden hatred.
• Xu Rou confessed that her abusive husband had died after eating her food, and Du Jiashi reassured her that she had been trapped by guilt.
• Bai Zuo sent a furry creature into Xu Rou’s brain, freeing her from guilt as she revisited her husband’s death and accepted Du Jiashi’s invitation to join the group.

Bai Zuo used Du Jiashi and Xu Rou to defeat and contain the Pig Head Man, then led them to clear the Strange Food dungeon. The three returned to the deserted street outside the breakfast shop after receiving their rewards.

• Bai Zuo ambushed the Pig Head Man with a fire extinguisher and used spider silk to control Du Jiashi and Xu Rou during the fight.
• Du Jiashi and Xu Rou disarmed and brutally defeated the Pig Head Man, while Bai Zuo took its keys and contained it in a Anomaly Cage.
• Bai Zuo controlled Du Jiashi and Xu Rou as they used the keys to unlock the route to the restaurant entrance.
• The system announced that Bai Zuo, Xu Rou, and Du Jiashi had conquered the Strange Food dungeon, listing rewards and a first-clear daytime safety buff.
• The three were teleported outside the breakfast shop and found the street cordoned off and deserted.