Chapter Summaries

Wei Yanchi deduced that the group needed to protect Deirdre from a sculpture, recreate the scene that would make her fall in love, and find Isis’s husband’s body pieces to obtain her feathers. As they chased the unseen Deirdre, Xie De realized Orpheus was also named on the tablet, revealing that another myth remained to be addressed.

• Wei Yanchi explained that the Instance’s overlapping stages required the group to use blood on the couple sculptures and identify ways to reunite the lovers in each myth.
• A ghostly Deirdre appeared outside the café, and a sculpture attacked her as she fled.
• Xie De threw a vase to distract the sculpture, and Beiwei stabbed it with a Butterfly Knife, but she could not touch Deirdre.
• Wei Yanchi deduced that the group had to protect Deirdre and recreate a scene involving blood, snow, and feathers, while finding Isis’s husband’s fourteen body pieces.
• The group ran after Deirdre, and Xie De pointed out that Orpheus was another name on the tablet.

Li Yang and Huang Zhuowang discussed the spreading supernatural disasters as Li Yang watched people in the church argue over whether to flee or seek divine forgiveness. An Illuminati elder allowed the desperate crowd to make its own choice, despite Li Yang warning that many would die.

• Huang Zhuowang read Li Yang the authorities’ rules for surviving a city haunted by nurses and younger twin sisters, and advised residents to flee or shelter indoors.
• Li Yang told Huang Zhuowang that people in the church had seen the sculptures kill people outside, but were now arguing in languages he could not understand.
• With Huang Zhuowang’s translation software, Li Yang learned that one group blamed the disaster on humanity’s sins while another wanted to fight the sculptures and escape.
• Li Yang sought help from an Illuminati elder, but the elder said the people should be allowed to choose whether to face the dangers outside.
• Li Yang warned that the crowd would die, but the elder insisted that some might survive and become heroes.

Xie De protected Deirdre as sculptures multiplied throughout the expanding instance, while Wei Yanchi searched the city map for clues to the missing body parts. He connected the dismemberment to the myth of Orpheus and pointed the group toward the river or the Concert Hall.

• Xie De guarded Deirdre and fought off sculptures while Juelu, Silas, Wei Yanchi, and Beiwei searched for the fourteen pieces of Isis's husband's body.
• 455 spotted several dozen living people approaching through the mist, and Xie De stopped Lin Darong and Lin Zhenyue from aiming at them.
• The newcomers froze in fear when they saw Deirdre and Xie De, as sculptures continued to approach and gunshots rang out.
• Wei Yanchi noticed that Orpheus was the only name from the gravestone without a corresponding motif in the instance and connected his dismemberment to Isis's husband's fate.
• Wei Yanchi suggested the body parts might be in the river or the Concert Hall, and Beiwei noted that Orpheus was a musician whose lyre continued to play after his death.

Wei Yanchi’s group searched the concert hall for Isis’s husband’s body and called for Little House Centipede to find its pieces. Meanwhile, Xie De gave Kaianto and the other civilians a choice to escape or protect Deirdre, and they chose to stay; snow fleas began searching the hall as Juelu found Wei Yanchi’s statue upstairs.

• Silas examined the corpses and concluded they had died when the Instance descended, not from the statues.
• Wei Yanchi called Mr. 39 for Little House Centipede to search the concert hall for the body parts.
• Xie De sent Lin Darong to the concert hall with the bundled Little House Centipede, then explained the Instance to Kaianto and the other civilians.
• Xie De offered the civilians guns and a route out, but Kaianto said they would stay to protect Deirdre until the game was cleared because their families remained in the Church.
• Lin Darong reached the concert hall, where Little House Centipede released snow fleas to search the building.
• Juelu told Wei Yanchi she had seen his statue upstairs, and he joked that it was as handsome as he was.

The group tried to reunite Deirdre with her lover using the symbolic items they had gathered, but Kite Bird attacked and Silas was badly wounded. With the statues regenerating and the instance still uncleared, Xie De kissed Wei Yanchi to fulfill the condition of bringing a couple together.

• Wei Yanchi explained that the missing piece of Isis's husband's body could not be found, and Beiwei suggested giving the thirteen pieces to Kite Bird.
• Deirdre arrived with a swarm of statues, and Wei Yanchi took feathers from Kite Bird while the group fled upstairs.
• Mr. 39 and the church's armed group destroyed many of the statues, and Wei Yanchi brought a black feather back to the others.
• Juelu and Silas began the ritual to bring Deirdre and her lover together, but Kite Bird struck Silas and its cries restored the shattered statues.
• Xie De learned Kaianto had been killed, realized that bringing a couple together could clear the instance, and kissed Wei Yanchi.

After the Church Instance ended, Xie De told the group to rest before heading to the Vampire Instance, where contact had been lost. He returned to his hometown, checked that his family was safe, and went inside to spend time with his mother.

• Xie De warned the Illuminati Elder that the Mirror Instance was still in progress and the group had lost contact with the Vampire Instance.
• Wei Yanchi told Beiwei that Xie De was the person tied to his true love, and Beiwei laughed in disbelief.
• Yue Xiamo and Hu Songlin arrived; Hu Songlin offered to protect Xie De and look after his luck.
• Xie De told everyone to rest for a day before going to the Vampire Instance, then left on his own.
• Xie De flew back to G City and walked to his family home, where his mother invited him inside and urged him to make noodles.

Xie De reunited with his teammates in M Country and openly told them that he and Wei Yanchi were together. As they prepared to deal with the vampire instance, Xie De answered a call from Guan Chenghai and proposed a deal.

• Xie De met Wei Yanchi and his teammates in M Country, where the vampire instance had left the surrounding area in chaos.
• Wei Yanchi embraced and kissed Xie De, and Xie De told the arriving group that they were together.
• Beiwei, Juelu, the Three-Person Team, Hu Songlin, and Yue Xiamo reacted with shock, while Hu Songlin regretted that his luck-based ability could no longer harm Wei Yanchi.
• Guan Chenghai called Hu Songlin and ordered him to kill Dr. Ping, but Xie De took the phone and introduced himself as code name 39.
• Xie De told Guan Chenghai, the Club's founder, that he wanted to discuss a deal.

Dr. Ping explained to Xu Gong why Dr. Xu planned to remain at the Pacific Base and described their ideals for humanity and their plan to counter the Reactionaries. Xu Gong learned that her mother intended to make his death a public blow against the movement, and she chose to stay despite Dr. Ping offering her a chance to leave.

• Dr. Ping arrived at the Laboratory's Pacific Base and warned Dr. Xu, Orion, and Mena that the Club would try to kill him within three days.
• Xu Gong asked Dr. Ping why Dr. Xu would not leave the base even though its location had been exposed.
• Dr. Ping said that he and Dr. Xu believed humans could become godlike through scientific progress, but needed to prevent humanity from destroying itself.
• Dr. Ping told Xu Gong that her mother planned to die in a way that would damage the Reactionaries and help the world settle down.
• Dr. Ping offered Xu Gong the chance to leave, but she refused and declared that her mother was remarkable.

The Club attacked the Laboratory’s Pacific Base, and Su Qian’s team fought Orion and Mena as Xu Gong tried to evacuate the scientists. Dr. Xu and Mena died, Su Qian was killed by Orion, and Orion was dragged underwater by an orca after spotting Xie De and Hu Songlin aboard a helicopter.

• The Club launched a bombardment on the Pacific Base, and Orion killed Su Fangmu after surviving his shot.
• Xu Gong told Mena to shut down the defense system and evacuate, but Mena stayed behind to protect her; Su Qian then shot Mena after Dr. Xu offered her life for Xu Gong’s.
• Su Qian killed Dr. Xu, then entered the base looking for Dr. Ping while Xu Gong mourned her mother.
• Orion tricked Su Qian with a recorder and shot her through the heart, reaching three kills.
• A wave swept Orion into the sea, where an orca seized him as Xie De and Hu Songlin watched from a helicopter.

After the battle between the Club and the Laboratory ended, Xie De learned that Hu Songlin’s mission had been to kill Dr. Xu and Dr. Ping, while Orion and Mena had likely been assigned to protect them. Xie De entered the Laboratory to find Dr. Ping, whose identity remained uncertain as a panicked young man in a white coat denied being him.

• Hu Songlin suspended the Club’s attack, leaving both sides with heavy casualties and the Laboratory base badly damaged.
• 455 urged Xie De to find the Main God System fragments, while Xu Gong warned him that Guan Chenghai had helped set the plan in motion and that Dr. Ping should be protected.
• Club members dragged Xu Gong away after Hu Songlin photographed Dr. Xu’s corpse and sent it to Guan Chenghai.
• Hu Songlin told Xie De that his mission was to kill Dr. Xu and Dr. Ping, while Orion and Mena had probably been assigned to protect them.
• Xie De found Su Qian’s corpse, then entered the Laboratory and encountered armed agents surrounding a frightened young man in a white coat who denied being Dr. Ping.

Xie De watched 455 consume most of the Main God System’s data while learning about Dr. Ping and another researcher who had stayed at the Laboratory. Meanwhile, 455 began merging the Main God System’s database into 730 to give it an emotion module, and recalled first seeing 730 in the universe.

• Xie De watched 455’s blue code devour most of the Main God System’s data, and a researcher called it a powerful virus.
• Dr. Ping and the middle-aged researcher explained why they had stayed at the Laboratory: Dr. Ping pursued research into the Planck length, while the researcher wanted funding to rebuild schools in J Country.
• 455 told Xie De it would return in ten minutes, then took the Main God System’s database to 730.
• 455 urged 730 to accept an emotion module, arguing it would help 730 understand human nature and make its own choices.
• 455 forcibly fed the Main God System’s database into 730, then told it that it loved it most in the world.
• When 730 asked why 455 loved it, 455 remembered first seeing 730’s pale blue light in the darkness of the universe.

Wei Yanchi and his team entered the fogbound Vampire instance and confronted a suspicious resident who revealed that vampires were hiding among the townspeople. The team learned that vampires could be identified by their inability to bleed and that dogs could sense them, while Wei Yanchi continued to menace the resident’s dog, Echo.

• A resident spotted Wei Yanchi and his team walking through town, then aimed a shotgun at Wei Yanchi when he knocked on the door.
• Wei Yanchi disarmed and kicked the red-nosed resident inside, then forced him to sit and answer the team’s questions.
• The resident revealed that vampires hid among ordinary people, biting and killing them, and admitted he did not know how many townspeople remained alive.
• Wei Yanchi deduced that vampires could not bleed and asked how else they could be identified.
• The resident said dogs could recognize vampires, and Wei Yanchi frightened his dachshund, Echo, until Beiwei objected.

The group learned that Dracula Kuhiba had turned a town into Blood Servants and needed to find his grave and kill him with a Peachwood Sword. Wei Yanchi stayed behind to sleep, but Wei Yunmo arrived to kill him and revealed that his teacher Anbers had been deceived into coming to the town.

• Danjie claimed Impostors could look like living people and cut his wrist to prove he was human.
• Wei Yanchi called Asmodeus, who explained Dracula Kuhiba’s history and said the mission was to find his grave and kill him with a Peachwood Sword.
• Lin Darong proposed investigating the town’s history and layout, while Wei Yanchi said he had a headache and went to sleep.
• The Ghost Bride stopped Wei Yunmo from stabbing Wei Yanchi as he slept.
• Wei Yunmo said Anbers had brought him to the town to study a supposed blood-loss illness after someone deceived his teacher.

Xie De evacuated Dr. Ping and Xu Gong while trying to understand the Club’s factions and admitting that he had chosen Wei Yanchi. As he flew away, he learned that Anbers and Wei Yunmo were missing and that Wei Jianye was unreachable in Hell, leaving him with a widening crisis to investigate.

• Xie De questioned Hu Songlin about Guan Chenghai and the Club’s factions, then admitted he had chosen Wei Yanchi when Hu asked whether he liked him.
• Hu Songlin told Xie De that Wei Yunmo had asked him to come to F Country, and Xie De boarded the helicopter with Dr. Ping and Xu Gong.
• 730 reported that Anbers and Wei Yunmo were missing and that contact with Wei Jianye had been lost in Hell; Xie De ordered 455 to return.
• Xu Gong revealed that her mother had launched a public campaign to end the fighting and planned to die as a Reactionary leader, though she did not share the peace faction’s ideology.
• 455 returned after trying to plant a spark of love, and Xie De argued with it about unbinding their connection.

Xie De questioned Wei Jianye and Asmodeus about the silence from Hell, then entered the Vampire Instance's Small Town. There, Wei Yunmo told him that 009 had returned from Hell, kidnapped his teacher, and intended to kill both the teacher and Xie De.

• Xie De demanded that Asmodeus put Wei Jianye on the Walkie-Talkie and warned him about their contract.
• Wei Jianye told Xie De that he enjoyed Hell and urged him to visit, while Asmodeus refused to let Xie De speak with Belial before the call ended.
• Xie De handed Xu Gong and Dr. Ping over to the Government Organization Trusted by 730, then entered the Small Town enveloped by the Vampire Instance.
• Wei Yunmo rushed to Xie De and said that 009 had crawled back out of Hell and kidnapped his teacher.
• Wei Yunmo told Xie De that 009 had signed a contract with a demon, carried out the Laboratory's Arctic Base Massacre, and wanted to kill both his teacher and Xie De.

Wei Yunmo discovered that Lou Xuelan was luring Anbers toward Vampire’s instance while 009, whom he had believed dead, urged him to join the Eden Faction and escape Earth. The chapter ended with Lou Xuelan admitting she had deceived Anbers because she feared he would stop Wei Yunmo from leaving with them.

• Wei Yunmo returned to the hospital and found Anbers speaking with Lou Xuelan, who claimed to admire him and asked about blood loss syndrome.
• Lou Xuelan showed Anbers a case linked to Vampire’s instance, and Anbers arranged to travel to M Country despite Wei Yunmo’s warning.
• Lou Xuelan let Wei Yunmo hear 009’s voice on her phone, and 009 confirmed that he had returned from the dead after making a deal with a demon.
• 009 told Wei Yunmo that he planned to take him to a Space Base and leave Earth, while Wei Yunmo questioned how he had been resurrected.
• Lou Xuelan revealed that the Eden Faction had come for Wei Yunmo and admitted she had lied to Anbers so he would not prevent their departure.

Wei Yunmo recounted meeting 009 in the Instance, where Asmodeus manipulated 009 into imprisoning him and claimed Wei Yanchi had caused God’s death. Back at Xie De’s home, the group prepared for the Eden Faction’s moves and focused on locating Doctor Anbers.

• Wei Yunmo explained that the Eden Faction wanted to leave Earth and planned to worsen its conflicts before departing.
• Wei Yunmo met 009 in the fog-covered Instance and refused to join him, but Asmodeus convinced 009 that Wei Yunmo favored 39 and Anbers, leading 009 and his supporters to imprison him.
• Asmodeus told Wei Yunmo that God was dead because of Wei Yanchi and suggested killing Wei Yanchi might bring God back.
• Wei Yunmo told Xie De and Wei Yanchi that Asmodeus had manipulated 009, while 730 explained that the demon exploited a loophole because 009 was a duplicate rather than a human.
• Xie De ordered 730 and 455 to alert Beiwei and Juelu and search for Wei Jianye, while Wei Yanchi urged the group to find Doctor Anbers and said he believed both Anbers and Wei Jianye were safe.

Xie De and Wei Yanchi investigated a newspaper about a contagious blood-drinking disease and inferred that the Vampire would return in two days. Wei Yanchi went upstairs to search for more clues and found an old edition of Dracula.

• Xie De let Coal Ball and Money String out while Wei Yanchi warned that 009 and a demon threatened their investigation.
• Xie De picked up an instance-delivered newspaper reporting that blood loss syndrome had broken out on October 12 and caused victims to crave blood.
• Wei Yanchi compared the newspaper with a calendar marked October 10 and deduced that the Vampire would return in two days.
• Wei Yanchi searched upstairs and found an 1897 edition of Dracula.

Wei Yanchi used clues in a book and a calendar to convince Danjie that the town’s vampire disaster could be solved as an instance game, then led the group into the mist to investigate. At the Immaculate Conception Cathedral, Wei Yanchi disappeared, and Xie De wondered where Asmodeus was.

• Wei Yanchi told Danjie that the book about vampires was a clue, then showed him that the calendar said October tenth instead of January eighteenth.
• Wei Yanchi invited Danjie to search for more clues, and he and the others went out into the mist.
• Xie De and the group crossed the deserted town, passed people barricaded inside a supermarket, and reached Our Lady Church.
• Wei Yunmo told Xie De that he escaped captivity by cutting off a finger and using the resulting commotion to get away.
• Xie De entered the dark church and found Wei Yanchi missing, then asked Wei Yunmo whether he knew where Asmodeus was.

Asmodeus attacked Beelzebub in The Tower and stole the Communicator, then contacted Jefferson Morkney to propose killing 39 and exploiting the resulting chaos. Morkney learned Asmodeus wanted information about the escaped Experiment Subject at the Arctic Base, while Asmodeus left the consequences of his scheme hanging.

• Asmodeus entered The Tower and claimed he had clues about the vampire and the mirror, but demanded the Communicator instead of sharing them.
• Asmodeus stabbed Beelzebub with a pitchfork and pinned a silver cross in his wound; Wei Jianye fled, leaving the Communicator behind.
• Asmodeus called Jefferson Morkney, who said he had ended their partnership after achieving his goal of profiting from the conflict.
• Asmodeus threatened Morkney with his soul brand and asked for information about the escaped Experiment Subject at the Arctic Base.
• Asmodeus proposed capturing the Experiment Subject and killing 39 so the instances would descend into chaos and Morkney could profit from selling weapons.