Recaps

Ke Meng investigated the Shadow Stream while Liu Siting’s experiment drew Little Peach into the Dream World and altered her village. After the villagers pushed Liu Siting into the map’s black boundary, chaotic information left her unconscious in the Dream World, and Ke Meng traced the intrusion to her connection with Little Peach.

• Liu Siting and seven followers used a detective game to draw Little Peach into the Dream World, where Clementine rescued her and Ke Meng discovered he could not probe her distant world directly.
• Ke Meng investigated Shadow Stream traces, uncovered the printer’s ability to consume trees, and tested the Bone Whistle, while White Sugar arrived with the dangerous Ding-Ding Bell.
• The Investigation Bureau separated two parasitic shadows from their hosts and interrogated them, learning that Shadow Stream had sacrificed to the Lord of Shadows and that the Whale County Travelogue threatened Whale County.
• Leon urged researchers to investigate Little Peach’s family instead of testing a second Nightmare Disease patient, while Liu Siting found the villagers feared her and Little Peach wanted to leave.
• A towering villager asked Liu Siting to marry him and escape the village, then the villagers seized her and challenged her after Little Peach revealed a black area.
• Liu Siting told the villagers she was a player outside the game, but they drove her to the map’s edge and the bully shoved her into the black region as rustling sounded through the game system.
• Authorities quarantined those who heard the rustling, and Liu Siting absorbed chaotic information in the Dream World and collapsed without waking.
• Ke Meng sensed the intrusion, traced the chaotic information to Liu Siting, recognized it from Little Peach’s dream, and considered linking the game world to the Dream World.

Ke Meng’s sacrifices and dream influence spread across Orange Star as investigators faced a mountain of blood-draining bats and a hidden evil whisper. The Dream World expanded into the sky and ocean, while Ke Meng moved into his new villa and began investigating the shadow in Lu Benwei’s video.

• Ke Meng entered Liu Siting’s deeper dream, absorbed most of its chaotic information, and woke her on Orange Star, though her remaining thoughts led the researchers to isolate her.
• Orange Star players One Dream Sea Sky and Likes Chocolate witnessed a Tree Spirit sacrifice ritual, but Ke Meng infected them through the ritual and accepted the offerings, including Hiding Tree Bark and Level-Up Fish.
• Ke Meng gave Liu Siting the Water: Mirror Traversal ability, and her dangerous reaction went unnoticed in her sealed isolation room.
• Ke Meng gave Random Buff Magic to the Dwarf Werewolves, killing half their clan, then tested the Flawless Sword and the Eerie Script Book at the Investigation Bureau.
• The Bureau investigated jealousy-driven bats on Barren Mountain, and the military bombarded the mountain after the bats drained investigators and mice.
• Luo Xiaobei and other players used the Dream World to become aircraft, dragons, whales, and other forms, while Ke Meng returned the awakened Great Whale to the sea and turned it into Whale Island.
• Ke Meng resisted the bats’ hidden evil whispers, raised his Resistance, and moved into a furnished villa after the Bureau recognized the whisper’s resemblance to the Shadow Stream Organization.
• Ke Meng uploaded a Flawless Sword review that neared its viewer target, then watched Lu Benwei’s video and focused on the shadow at his feet.

Ke Meng helped the Investigation Bureau expose and capture Shadow Stream agents while expanding his influence over Orange Star’s dreamers and managing new special items. The arc ended with Ke Meng investigating a blood-covered stadium and an erased ritual scene after an untraceable report of a killing spree.

• Ke Meng helped the Investigation Bureau capture Lu Benwei’s shadow and extract information from Shadow Stream recruits, then learned that Eagle planned to release dangerous contained items and destabilize the Koi Continent.
• Ke Meng used the Demon Map to track hostile agents across Whale City, where Tang Jin and the Golden Furball helped defeat Eagle before investigators captured him and another Shadow Stream member.
• Ke Meng posted a Honey Juice video, reassured Chen Momo that its effects were temporary, and watched Orange Star’s dreamers discover the space carrier Alan and fight a fire at the World Tree.
• Tu Ke'aisi and other masked players sacrificed to Ke Meng, who granted them random effects that helped some players while harming others and showed him how he could influence Orange Star’s adventurers.
• Ke Meng gave White Sugar a phone, filmed her learning to use it, and posted a vlog that raised his Resistance as he found Fast-Growing Seaweed to feed his Level-Up Fish.
• White Sugar’s online friend Black Spearman mistook her eagle cries for a human voice, then collapsed when he saw her true form during a video call.
• Ke Meng overfed Tangyuan a grown Level-Up Fish, then joined Luo Yuan at Whale City Stadium, where he investigated a bloodstained field and an erased ritual pattern after an anonymous killing-spree report.

Ke Meng investigated the Screaming Well, identified a child trafficker, and gained Resistance through his bell video. As Orange Star struggled to contain the expanding dream world, Ke Meng answered a player’s summoning, repaired a lamp, and welcomed Crystal Girl and her weapon to his estate.

• Ke Meng captured a Shadow Stream member, resisted the Whispering Radio, and reported its effects to the Investigation Bureau.
• Orange Star reopened World to more players as the dream world changed, and Ke Meng discovered that Tremella Lotus Seed had begun dreaming after Sze spread nightmares to artificial intelligences.
• Authorities shut down most virtual games after infected NPCs spread nightmare disease, while Liu Siting used Mirror Traversal to enter a lake through her bathtub.
• Ke Meng investigated the Screaming Well, endured its phantom children’s attacks, and used a memory from seven years earlier to identify Zhuang Jingyu as a child trafficker.
• Old Man Ming identified Zhuang Jingyu, and the Investigation Bureau captured him and dismantled his remaining trafficking operations.
• Ke Meng’s Ding-Ding Bell video made criminals around the world fear arrest and turn themselves in, completing his mission and raising his Resistance to 330.
• Players summoned Ke Meng and offered him Unknown Repair Liquid, which he used to repair the Investigation Bureau’s Size-Changing Lamp.
• Ke Meng received Crystal, a crystal fighter who bonded with him, and tested her Mysterious Gunblade before feeding her Crystal Fish until she grew stronger and turned to stone to sleep.