Recaps

Ke Meng investigated the Car Person and the dangerous bottles from the fishing rod, then captured Shadow Stream members across Koi Continent using the Demon Map. After the organization ordered its members to flee, Ke Meng returned home, where he learned that Cthulhu-aligned players had begun killing NPCs.

• Ke Meng tested the Famous Person’s Fishing Rod with frog-headed patients, but a bone monster dragged one angler and the rod beneath the sea, while the other casts brought up bottles bearing ominous messages.
• Ke Meng investigated the Car Person through surveillance footage and a continent-wide search, then posted videos warning the public about Shadow Creatures, the Frog Society, and the fishing rod’s dangers.
• Ke Meng followed a red thread in a dream to the ghost connected to the Message in a Bottle, then traveled with the Bandaged Man to Octopus City and captured her in the morgue.
• Ke Meng and the Investigation Bureau searched cities for Shadow Stream members, captured Xian Zhiyi and other members, and traced Deacon Zhang’s spatial escape to a neighboring province.
• Ke Meng caught Deacon Zhang and gave investigators a map of Shadow Stream members, enabling the bureau to sweep the organization’s operations across Koi Continent.
• Shadow Stream’s owner ordered members to evacuate Koi Continent, and Ke Meng ended his sweep after the remaining mentors and liaisons fled and no targets appeared for half a month.
• Ke Meng returned home with his resistance at 1,000 points, then learned that Cthulhu-aligned players had begun massacring NPCs in the Third Main City.

Ke Meng investigated a mirror-bound disappearance, uncovered the memory-erasing Future Mailbox, and learned that opening the Infinite Door could lead somewhere unknown. Meanwhile, his followers’ attacks on players ended in their arrests, and Tangyuan was launched toward orbit before the Investigation Bureau planned a rescue.

• Ke Meng sent Po Wu and the Cthulhu Followers two missions, and they recruited others to disrupt players’ skill training and find someone who knew about a plot kill.
• Ke Meng investigated the Car People, helped Si Chuncui lose her powers, and discovered a brick phone that connected White Sugar to Sand Sculpture netizens.
• A mirror double emerged in Chen Momo’s home, and Chen Momo and her family disappeared as a special field formed around their residential complex.
• Ke Meng found Mrs. Chen’s sealed letter and learned through its memories about a mailbox that sent letters to the future, then discovered that the mailbox erased senders’ memories.
• Ke Meng concluded that the Infinite Door could be opened with spirituality, but Synesthesia showed that opening it inward led to an unknown region blocked from further inspection.
• Po Wu and the Cthulhu Followers assassinated players practicing new moves, but players captured them, and Orange Star arrested and sentenced the team to death.
• Los told Ke Meng that the game developers had not programmed a plot kill for the New Game Plus boss, while Liu Siting read the news and descended into madness.
• Ke Meng tested the Reversal Chair on Tangyuan, launching the dog toward orbit, then changed the chair’s color and learned that the Investigation Bureau would mount a space mission to retrieve Tangyuan.

Ke Meng helped open the Infinite Door and explored the poisonous swamp and dangerous sea beyond it, while Liu Siting prepared the Cthulhu Followers to escape Orange Star as the planet’s authorities began mass arrests. The expedition returned with an unconscious man sealed in several items, but the seal broke and left him nearly mad.

• Ke Meng joined Director Lei to watch Tangyuan’s rocket launch, then uploaded a video of Tangyuan’s ascent while the Investigation Bureau debated opening the Infinite Door.
• Liu Siting obtained Peace Prison’s plans and taught Warship No. 37 Mirror Traversal through Ke Meng’s dream, allowing the warship to escape Orange Star’s fleet and reach a distant liquid planet.
• Ke Meng accepted the Dragon Slayer’s Blade from the Giant Dragons, recovered Tangyuan from the Space Station, and voted to open the Infinite Door with the S-Class investigators.
• Ke Meng opened the Red Wooden Door with Bandaged Man, Flaming Man, and Old Shi, and the group crossed a poisonous swamp before passing through gray fog to a small island and a dangerous sea.
• Liu Siting and the Cthulhu Followers planned a prison break and considered crippling Orange Star, but the authorities arrested roughly 400,000 suspects and threatened their execution unless Warship No. 37 was returned.
• A towering wave forced Ke Meng’s group back through the door, and they changed its opening direction after a Deep Sea monster consumed the altered contents of the Rotten Mud Jars.
• Ke Meng and his companions returned through the door to capture an unconscious man, sealed him inside several items, and transferred him to a guarded location, but the seal later broke and the man emerged nearly mad.

Ke Meng investigated the Door Organization and the dangerous Silver Steel Door while events on Orange Star spiraled into a crisis of conflicting faiths. After using the Lightning Dharma King’s ring to break Shadow Stream prisoners, he watched Warship No. 37 arrive on Orange Star with a thousand prisoners and offer to help rescue the rest.

• Ke Meng pulled Zhai Yuquan’s shadow from his body, found a dangerous Bell-Sound Tooth hidden in his mouth, and recovered a silver-painted door from its storage space.
• The Bandaged Man, Shi Jun, opened the Silver Steel Door and was overwhelmed by the knowledge beyond it, while Ke Meng later resisted the door’s influence and suspected it was alive.
• Zhai Yuquan identified himself as a Disciple of the Door, then nearly became a source of contamination, so Ke Meng sealed him inside the Immovable Wine Jar.
• Ke Meng and Luo Yuan linked strange door-related cases to the Door Organization, while Ke Meng’s video combining the Flawless Sword and Dark Cuisine Pot proved to increase investigators’ Spiritual Perception.
• On Orange Star, believers’ conflicting faiths drove many mad and transformed some men into women, while researchers tested a faith-erasing hat and sought ways to rehabilitate the captives.
• Ke Meng received the Thunder Lord’s Ring, learned it could control electricity and erase faith, and used it to make Shadow Stream Deacons Zhang and Huo renounce their faith and reveal information about the organization.
• Ke Meng found that Orange Star’s unstable Dual-Faith Believers might suffer soul damage if their unusual faith was removed, while assassins failed to recover the Thunder Lord’s Ring from the Thunder Pool.
• Warship No. 37 emerged from the ocean on Orange Star with a thousand prisoners aboard and sent an encrypted offer to rescue others without military interference.