Recaps

Bai Yi tested Li Zihua and Mu Mu in his modification room while Xie Xu helped investigate Mu Mu’s strange behavior. A scan revealed that Mu Mu had been dead for some time and that a Brain-Stealing Slug had replaced her brain.

• Wang Ziyi cleaned up the rotting corpses while Tang Zheng stayed to make amends for leaving the shelter.
• Bai Yi returned to his shelter with Xie Xu, Li Zihua, and Mu Mu to assess their modification costs and investigate Mu Mu.
• Li Zihua completed his test, and Bai Yi confirmed that his modification would cost 1600 flesh and blood and 800 bones.
• Xie Xu and Li Zihua told Bai Yi that Mu Mu had been drinking unusually large amounts of water, prompting him to scan her body.
• Bai Yi’s scan revealed that translucent Brain-Stealing Slugs had consumed Mu Mu’s brain and were controlling her body.

After Mu Mu died from a Brain-Stealing Slug, Bai Yi confronted his teammates about their carelessness and helped them grieve before testing the range of his [Autism] status. He gathered flesh and bones by killing Rotting Corpses, then ordered the shelter to crush the horde covering it.

• Mu Mu died when a Brain-Stealing Slug parasitized her brain, and Bai Yi told Xie Xu that the team lacked caution and respect for the Misty Land.
• Bai Yi shared information about the Brain-Stealing Slug, while Xie Xu and Li Zihua ate Rotting Corpse meat and mourned Mu Mu.
• Bai Yi and Xie Xu tested [Autism] and found it triggered when Bai Yi was about 100 meters from the shelter.
• Bai Yi left the shelter and killed more than thirty Rotting Corpses, turning one into a White Bone Tang Dao while the Flesh Fungus Mat collected their bodies.
• Bai Yi retreated as a tide of Rotting Corpses covered the shelter and ordered it to crush them.

Bai Yi repeatedly used [Autism] to draw in and kill waves of Rotting Corpses, amassing enough resources to craft weapons and meet his shelter’s upgrade requirements. As the black fog thickened, he stopped farming, equipped his allies, and received a modified revolver with improved ammunition capacity and effects.

• Bai Yi used the shelter’s bone spikes to kill a horde of Rotting Corpses and explained to Xie Xu why he believed farming waves was worth the risk.
• Xie Xu determined [Autism]’s activation conditions and shared them with the group while Bai Yi repeatedly activated the ability and crafted weapons.
• Bai Yi collected the corpses after three waves and built up large reserves of Flesh and Bones.
• As the black fog grew too dense to farm safely, Bai Yi gave Xie Xu weapons and prepared equipment for Tang Zheng and other squad members.
• Bai Yi traded the reserved weapons to his teammates, saved some Mist Coins, and received the completed modification of [Shepherd’s Mercy].

Bai Yi upgraded his shelter and discovered that the black fog caused the Dark Erosion status, which slowly damaged shelters and rapidly killed players outside. After the system shop added Faint Candlelight to counter the fog, he shared the discovery and prepared to explore before treasure chests refreshed.

• Bai Yi upgraded his shelter to level seven and decided to save resources rather than upgrade it again.
• Bai Yi watched the black fog reach his shelter and learned that Dark Erosion slowly reduced its durability and caused food to decay faster.
• Bai Yi read Xie Xu's report that players could survive only one minute in the black fog and concluded that the event threatened everyone.
• Bai Yi read the system update announcing eternal night, upcoming Wilderness Treasure Chests, and a shop update, then bought ten Faint Candlelight items.
• Bai Yi discovered that an old candle in his shelter was also Faint Candlelight and shared the information with his teammates and the regional channel.
• Bai Yi selected his equipment and prepared to explore before the treasure chests refreshed.

Bai Yi ventured into the black mist to investigate the treasure chest countdown, but anxiety affected him as he searched empty streets and buildings. In an underground supermarket, he found evidence of vanished residents and uncovered a hidden basement, where he realized he had fallen into a trap.

• Bai Yi entered the black mist with a candle and found no creatures as he cautiously followed the highway.
• Bai Yi’s anxiety rose to its limit, and he realized the darkness was affecting his emotions; he recalled Zhang Zhen’s talent had found no creatures within five kilometers.
• Bai Yi replaced his candle, searched malls and other buildings, and found a locked underground supermarket storeroom with signs that at least thirteen people had lived there.
• Bai Yi discovered a hidden passage beneath the bedding and descended into a circular basement with a foul stench and a floor of strange, dark-red flesh.
• Bai Yi drew his revolver and continued into the basement, then realized he had already fallen into a trap.

Bai Yi was trapped inside a spatially distorted aberrant demon and discovered that its stomach was filling with corrosive liquid. As he searched for a way out, an impossible color bewitched him and consumed his thoughts.

• Bai Yi realized he could not escape the black fog because the space around the lumps of flesh had been distorted.
• Bai Yi was transported into a sealed chamber covered in bones and identified it as the stomach of an immobile aberrant demon.
• Bai Yi used Flesh-Bone Conversion to make a bone umbrella and shield himself from the dripping stomach acid.
• Bai Yi searched beneath the bones for a way out as the air grew thin and an unnameable color below drew him into a frenzy.
• Bai Yi was jolted awake when stomach acid burned his exposed arm, but the color took over his thoughts and left him focused only on it.

Bai Yi discovered that [Autism] had drawn him to the Star-Color egg, where the juvenile Superior Species emerged and filled the basement with color. After overwhelming him with knowledge and nearly killing him, Star-Color withdrew it, restored his sanity, and apologized.

• Bai Yi traced the color in his mind to an oval egg and learned that it was a juvenile Superior Species called Color from the Stars.
• Bai Yi followed Star-Color's message, picked up the egg, and broke it, releasing color that carried him back to the basement.
• Star-Color spread through the basement, overcame the flesh-membrane construct, and turned the surrounding flesh into crystals as black mist eroded it.
• Star-Color poured knowledge into Bai Yi, driving his sanity down to 1 and leaving him in extreme pain until it stopped and erased the knowledge from his memories.
• Star-Color restored Bai Yi's sanity to 200, and Bai Yi collapsed as it sent him a message: "Sor... ry".

Bai Yi gained the Rhythm of All Things talent and a spatial ring after meeting Star-Color, then tested his new abilities back at the shelter. He discovered that responding to rhythms worked on living beings and turned his attention to Little White.

• Bai Yi learned that Star-Color had drawn him over because it needed to be born, and Star-Color apologized for nearly killing him.
• Star-Color transformed the Phase Stomach Sac into a Phase Ring, gave it to Bai Yi as a symbol of friendship, and returned to the stars.
• Bai Yi lit his candle, escaped the spreading black mist, and returned to his shelter, where he ate and examined his gains.
• Bai Yi tested the Phase Ring and found that it stored objects but not living creatures, and that he could not use it to store part of an object or anything larger than its space.
• Bai Yi tested Rhythm of All Things, shattering a cup, damaging a Bone Pickaxe, and disabling a tentacle by disrupting their rhythms.
• Bai Yi found that responding to rhythms had no effect on nonliving objects but worked powerfully on living beings, and he looked toward Little White to test it.

Bai Yi teased Little White before preparing for the next stage of survival, then modified both of them and investigated the abnormal status [Wail of the Dead]. He discovered that a specific infrasound frequency could suppress it, giving him an idea for helping others.

• Bai Yi pranked Little White with a voice in its mind, then calmed the angry wolf with steak.
• Bai Yi spent five Rotting Corpse corpses, vegetables, fruit, and saved junk at the Wishing Well, receiving only wood and weeds.
• Bai Yi reviewed the newly opened forum and marketplace and waited for squad members to share useful information.
• Bai Yi began Basic Physical Modification for himself and Little White while continuing to learn Flesh Alchemy.
• After his modification, Bai Yi detected [Wail of the Dead] and found that blocking his ear canals weakened its rhythm.
• Bai Yi adjusted the shelter mask's infrasound until [Wail of the Dead] vanished, then considered how to use the discovery to help others.

Bai Yi discovered that [Wail of the Dead] was caused by infrasound and turned a medical pod into a Hibernation Pod that counteracted it. After selling one to Tang Zheng, he stayed awake to practice his second talent while waiting for the treasure chests to refresh.

• Bai Yi modified a medical pod to use infrasound against [Wail of the Dead] and redesigned its interior into a more comfortable Hibernation Pod.
• Bai Yi created a converter that powered the Hibernation Pod using fresh flesh and added constant-temperature and massage modes.
• Bai Yi offered the Hibernation Pod to the group and Tang Zheng agreed to buy one because his Sanity had fallen below 70.
• Bai Yi sold Tang Zheng a Hibernation Pod for 1,210 Mist Coins and gave him two units of fresh flesh for free.
• Bai Yi checked on Little White, then practiced his second talent while waiting for the treasure chests to refresh.

Bai Yi sold Hibernation Pods and joined his squad at Wang Ziyi’s shelter after Xie Xu warned that fiends would appear with the treasure chests. Xie Xu revealed an Eternal Bond Scroll that could block Autism, and proposed that the squad act together to prepare for the danger ahead.

• Bai Yi sold a Hibernation Pod to Li Zihua for 2,000 Mist Coins and offered Tian Dong’s guild a discounted bulk order.
• Wang Ziyi, Zhang Zhen, and Wei Fen each bought a Hibernation Pod, while Xie Xu warned the squad that fiends would appear when treasure chests refreshed.
• Bai Yi gathered with the squad at Wang Ziyi’s shelter, where Xie Xu called a meeting and urged them to practice working together.
• Xie Xu revealed an Eternal Bond Scroll that unlocked a team skill capable of blocking Autism for ten hours, and said he had obtained it from a rotting corpse.

Xie Xu organized a team combat exercise, and Bai Yi revealed a second talent that let him communicate telepathically and sense nearby creatures’ strength. As the team prepared to hunt demonic aberrations, Bai Yi sparred with Tang Zheng and knocked him down using his talent, leaving the others puzzled.

• Xie Xu proposed that Zhang Zhen scout for treasure chests and demonic aberrations while Bai Yi and Tang Zheng held the line during team exercises.
• Bai Yi revealed his second talent, which let him speak directly into the team’s minds and sense the strength of nearby living creatures.
• The team agreed to set out together when treasure chests refreshed, with Bai Yi warning them of danger while the others handled threats.
• Tang Zheng asked Bai Yi to spar, and they revealed their attributes before facing off in the training hall.
• Bai Yi dodged Tang Zheng’s charge and swept his fingers through the air, causing Tang Zheng to collapse without being touched.
• Xie Xu suspected Bai Yi had used his talent, and Bai Yi confirmed it.

Bai Yi held a sparring session that revealed Xie Xu could predict actions two seconds ahead, then offered the group enhancement surgeries. When the Wilderness Treasure Chests refreshed, Zhang Zhen used his talent to scan for them and spotted something.

• Tang Zheng quit sparring with Bai Yi, and Wang Ziyi faced Bai Yi, overcoming her fear enough to throw a punch before Xie Xu caught her as she lost balance.
• The others took turns attacking Bai Yi, then Xie Xu used his talent to anticipate Bai Yi's moves and keep him on the defensive until Bai Yi changed tactics and forced him to surrender.
• Xie Xu explained that his talent let him predict a person's actions two seconds in advance.
• Bai Yi offered to enhance Strength and Constitution up to 15 points, and the group discussed scheduling the surgeries.
• After the Wilderness Treasure Chests refreshed, Zhang Zhen activated All-Domain Perception and announced that he had found something.

Zhang Zhen mapped nearby treasure chests, and the group set out through the black fog to collect them and gain combat experience. After opening a chest that contained two Fog Lamps, they found their next target was surrounded by powerful aberrations and would require them to fight.

• Zhang Zhen drew a map showing nearby creatures, items, resources, and five treasure chests of different gold qualities.
• Bai Yi led the group into the black fog, where Wang Ziyi killed two Rotting Corpses with her bow.
• The team fought several more groups of Rotting Corpses, giving Zhang Zhen, Li Zihua, Wei Fen, and Wang Ziyi combat practice.
• The group opened a Dark Gold chest and found two Fog Lamps that could disperse black fog within a 10-meter radius.
• Bai Yi sensed that powerful aberrations surrounded their next treasure chest, leaving the group no way to reach it without fighting at least one.

Bai Yi led the team into battle against a Bone-Cleft Whisperer so they could train against a stronger aberration. The team gradually coordinated their attacks, but just as the fight stabilized, a sudden change occurred.

• Bai Yi chose the Bone-Cleft Whisperer as the team’s opponent and blocked its first attack to assess its strength.
• The aberration knocked Zhang Zhen aside, and Wang Ziyi wounded it with an energy arrow while Zhang Zhen and Li Zihua attacked its openings.
• The Bone-Cleft Whisperer threw its stolen blade at Li Zihua, but Xie Xu shot it off course and rescued him.
• Wei Fen, Zhang Zhen, and Li Zihua coordinated to hold the aberration in place as Wang Ziyi attacked from range and Xie Xu protected the team.
• The team stabilized the fight, but a sudden change occurred.

Xie Xu and the others defeated the Bone-Cleft Whisperer after Xie Xu risked his life to reach and sever its whip-like arms. The team collected all five mapped treasure chests and, after recognizing that stronger aberrant demons guarded rarer chests, set out toward the final one.

• The Bone-Cleft Whisperer transformed its arms into bone-covered whips and badly injured Zhang Zhen as the group struggled to evade its attacks.
• Xie Xu took Li Zihua’s bone blade and charged the aberration while his teammates distracted it and helped him close in.
• Xie Xu severed the aberration’s arms, and the team cut it apart and pinned its head to a tree, killing it.
• Li Zihua treated Xie Xu’s injuries and restored his sanity, after which Xie Xu chose to continue the treasure-chest search.
• Bai Yi led the group to collect the bright-gold chest and then the three dark-gold chests, while they learned that stronger aberrant demons guarded rarer chests.
• The group agreed to advance toward the final treasure chest, expecting its guardian to be more powerful.

Bai Yi confronted the Inverse-Bone Walker near the last treasure chest, but found it could not be moved while it meditated and the chest lay beneath its stone. He broke the creature’s meditation by severing its rhythm, then flew backward out of the black mist and warned everyone to take cover.

• Bai Yi led Tang Zheng and the others toward the last treasure chest and went into the black mist to lure out the Inverse-Bone Walker.
• Bai Yi shot at the Inverse-Bone Walker, fought it briefly, and discovered that it returned to meditating instead of pursuing him.
• Bai Yi found that the treasure chest was beneath the stone where the Inverse-Bone Walker sat, and his attempts to move it or dig underneath failed.
• Bai Yi repeatedly slashed the Inverse-Bone Walker’s rhythm until it shattered, forcing the creature out of its meditation.
• The Inverse-Bone Walker dodged Bai Yi’s shots as its rhythm turned chaotic, while the waiting group worried about his absence.
• Bai Yi’s voice warned everyone to take cover and told Tang Zheng to cover him, then Bai Yi flew backward out of the black mist.

Bai Yi and Tang Zheng fought the Inverse-Bone Walker together, with Tang Zheng supporting Bai Yi as he battled the stronger aberration. Bai Yi killed it after crippling its limbs and repeatedly shooting through its skull.

• Bai Yi and the Inverse-Bone Walker emerged from the fog, and Tang Zheng used his talent to blast the aberration away with a powerful bullet.
• The Inverse-Bone Walker ignited itself with phosphorous fire and advanced, while Bai Yi charged it using Boiling Blood.
• Bai Yi and the aberration exchanged lethal blows as Tang Zheng attacked its back, and phosphorous fire spread across Bai Yi’s body.
• Tang Zheng recovered his sanity with an elixir while Bai Yi continued fighting the wounded Inverse-Bone Walker.
• Bai Yi crippled the aberration’s right arm, tripped it, pinned it with his bone blade, and fired seven shots into its skull, killing it.

After defeating two aberrant demons and claiming a golden treasure chest, Bai Yi’s team was ambushed by the Pulse-Wheel Albatross on their way back to the shelter. Tang Zheng lost both legs and Li Zihua lost his right arm, while the surviving members were scattered and still fleeing the creature.

• Bai Yi recovered his sanity after the battle, and the team cleared the battlefield before lifting the stone and taking the golden treasure chest.
• A mouth emerged from the fog and swallowed Tang Zheng, but Bai Yi caught him after Xie Xu warned them and carried him away with both legs bitten off.
• The Pulse-Wheel Albatross revealed itself and struck the fleeing group with pale-blue pulses, while Bai Yi carried the unconscious Tang Zheng toward the shelter.
• Tang Zheng offered to sacrifice himself and fire his gun at the creature, but Bai Yi took the pistol and refused to leave him behind.
• Bai Yi dropped into the black fog to stop Tang Zheng’s bleeding as the bird attacked again, tearing off Li Zihua’s right arm before he cut it free and escaped its beak.
• Xie Xu went to find Li Zihua while Wei Fen roused Zhang Zhen, and the three remaining by the second fog lamp evaded another attack 2.7 kilometers from the shelter.

Bai Yi and his teammates tried to escape the Pulse-Wheel Albatross by crossing one of its vacuum zones, enduring severe injuries as the monster attacked them. They left the vacuum, but Xie Xu could not save Wang Ziyi from being torn apart, and the group remained a kilometer from the shelter.

• Bai Yi failed to cut through the Pulse-Wheel Albatross's tough rhythm, but disrupted it enough to make the monster fling him away.
• Xie Xu warned the group about a vacuum zone, and they emptied their lungs and ran through it while the vacuum caused their bodies increasing harm.
• Xie Xu foresaw an attack, and Bai Yi pulled Wei Fen out of its path and shoved Zhang Zhen aside, but the Pulse-Wheel Albatross struck Zhang Zhen with a pulse and shattered his bones.
• Wang Ziyi lost consciousness as the group reached the end of the vacuum zone, and Xie Xu pulled her partly out of the monster's beak but could not prevent it from tearing away half her body.
• Xie Xu tried to hold Wang Ziyi together and urged her to keep fighting, while the group remained a kilometer from the shelter.

Bai Yi rescued the survivors and sent them back to the shelter while he stayed behind to lure the Pulse-Wheel Albatross away. Exhausted and nearly out of sanity, he led the demon toward another powerful presence, and its teeth closed in as a sly smile appeared on his face.

• Bai Yi returned with Zhang Zhen and Tang Zheng, provided emergency medical pods, and reassured the survivors that they would live.
• Xie Xu loaded Wang Ziyi, Zhang Zhen, and Tang Zheng for the return to the shelter while Bai Yi stayed behind to draw the Pulse-Wheel Albatross away.
• Bai Yi blinded the Pulse-Wheel Albatross by stabbing its eye, then escaped its dive and fled through the forest.
• Bai Yi ran for three minutes as the demon pursued him, and his sanity fell to 1 while his talent effect dwindled.
• Bai Yi sensed a powerful rhythm ahead and led the pursuing demon toward it, then slowed as the Albatross closed in to tear him apart.

Bai Yi lures the Pulse-Wheel Albatross into a clash with the Molten Iron Curse-Binder, then escapes through the black mist and finds a treasure chest. He sets off to return to the shelter while the two aberrations fight.

• Bai Yi dodges the Pulse-Wheel Albatross as the Molten Iron Curse-Binder strikes it with a chained sword stele.
• The Molten Iron Curse-Binder throws its sword stele at Bai Yi, shattering his fog lantern and forcing him to flee into the black mist.
• The Pulse-Wheel Albatross attacks the Molten Iron Curse-Binder, and their collision sends Bai Yi flying; he lights a candle and realizes the aberrations are fighting.
• Bai Yi detours around the battlefield and finds a glowing treasure chest beneath a chained iron throne, then stores it in his ring.
• Bai Yi confirms the route he took to reach the area and starts back toward the shelter.

Severely injured and short on candles, Bai Yi hurried back toward the shelter while discovering that Blessing of the Stars had greatly strengthened his mental resistance. A Man in the Mist ambushed him, but even after Bai Yi exposed its hidden core and attacked, it escaped by dissolving into black fog.

• After Steel Spine Will ended, Bai Yi deactivated Boiling Blood, treated his injuries, and set out for the shelter with only one candle left.
• Bai Yi realized Blessing of the Stars reduced sanity loss and the cost of his talents, and he reconsidered Flesh-Bone Conversion as a defensive ability.
• Bai Yi reached the enormous rock where the Inverse-Bone Walker had meditated and estimated that he was four kilometers from the shelter.
• A Man in the Mist attacked Bai Yi from the fog, and he used Boiling Blood to break its fingers and cut through its body.
• Bai Yi baited the Man in the Mist into attacking again, hacked it apart, and spotted a glowing black crystal before it dissolved and reformed beyond his reach.

Bai Yi fought the Man in the Mist while the black mist and the demon steadily drained his strength, but he finally killed it with a hidden shot at its core. He collapsed as his candle went out, then a newcomer carrying a fog lamp reached him and promised to take him home.

• Bai Yi retrieved Faint Candlelight and learned that the Man in the Mist could turn its core into black mist, then continued toward the shelter while its attacks wore him down.
• Bai Yi ran through the mist and fought off rotting corpses as his sanity, candlelight, and strength dwindled, insisting that he still had people to save and family to find.
• Bai Yi feigned collapse and severed the Man in the Mist's waist, but the demon revealed that its core had moved to its abdomen and impaled him.
• Bai Yi concealed his left hand, aimed at the core, and fired, shattering it and killing the Man in the Mist.
• A gentle light dispersed the black mist as a newcomer carrying a fog lamp reached Bai Yi and reassured him that he would not die.

After killing the Man in the Mist, Bai Yi was rescued by Xie Xu and brought with the injured group to his shelter for treatment. As everyone entered the medical pods to rest, Wei Fen panicked at Bai Yi’s living shelter, while Bai Yi secretly witnessed her reaction.

• Xie Xu found Bai Yi after he killed the Man in the Mist, treated his injuries, and helped him return to consciousness.
• Bai Yi led the injured group through the portal to his shelter, where tentacles carried them and the medical pods into the expanded modification room.
• Bai Yi arranged for everyone to sleep for an hour in medical pods, promising to restore missing limbs and address their shelter damage afterward.
• Wei Fen was frightened by an eyeball growing from a tentacle, then calmed down and put on her mask to sleep.
• Bai Yi watched Wei Fen’s panic through the tentacle’s neural signals and decided to keep what he saw to himself.