Recaps

Xie De and his companions settled into Jialike’s filthy home while the Butler prepared rooms and supplies. When Xie De tried to speak with Jialike, her argument with Anbers escalated into a fight, leaving him to flee the music room.

• The Butler prepared a few rooms and gave Xie De a bottle of perfume while Emma brought in a long list of supplies.
• Xie De noticed Jialike watching the move-in, then followed her into the music room as she played piano.
• Jialike complained that the newcomers had disturbed her home and denounced the doctors who had treated her.
• Anbers confronted Jialike over her insults, and she threw a vase at him.
• Anbers and Jialike fought with their fists and hurled a piano at each other, so Xie De hurried out.

Wei Yunmo and Dunpli settled Teacher’s belongings into the instance while its owner, Jialike, asked Dunpli about doctors and the outside world. Players from the world’s major organizations soon arrived, leaving Wei Yunmo facing a crowded, tense gathering.

• Dunpli tried to persuade Wei Yunmo to trade places with him, then helped move Teacher’s belongings into Jialike’s building.
• Jialike told Dunpli she had a mysterious illness, asked to see his face, and was directed to seek help from Teacher.
• Wei Yunmo and Dunpli opened the door to find Wei Yanchi, Beiwei, Lü Yating, Zuo Shenghang, and Juelu arriving with 730’s help.
• Wei Yanchi slipped past Wei Yunmo after provoking him, and Ying Lin and Xi Yijiu entered soon afterward.
• Orion, Silas, and Mena arrived and clashed verbally with Ying Lin over the Laboratory and Illuminati.
• Su Fangmu and Haxibo entered, bringing together the major organizations in the instance.

Xie De encountered two identical women, Jialike and Jialina, and narrowly avoided Jialina’s attack before Orion arrived. He returned upstairs to find Anbers stuck in a wall and demanding help.

• Xie De heard a girl crying downstairs and met a woman who claimed to be Jialike, explaining that the woman upstairs was her mentally ill twin sister, Jialina.
• Jialike fled after warning Xie De to keep their meeting secret, and Jialina appeared behind him, demanding to know whether he had seen her sister.
• Xie De sprayed perfume at Jialina when she sniffed him, but she attacked him and accused him of taking Jialike away.
• Orion arrived and mistook Xie De’s encounter with Jialina for a lovers’ quarrel, while a terrifying wail sounded from upstairs.
• Xie De went back to the music room and found that Anbers had been making the wailing sounds while stuck in a wall.

Xie De learned that the Love Triangle instance had opened to humans and that 730 suspected an outside faction was interfering. Downstairs, Ying Lin and Xi Yijiu found themselves trapped and encountered Jialike, while the Plague Doctor’s arrival suggested the Instance Faction—and 39—were present too.

• Anbers insisted he could treat Jialina after Xie De pulled him from the wall, then left to check on the room preparations.
• 455 told Xie De and 730 that the Love Triangle instance had opened itself to anyone, and 730 revealed that it could not enter.
• 730 learned that 455 had found Xie De through the Book of Creation and suspected an outside faction had entered the instance.
• Ying Lin and Xi Yijiu failed to escape the building and met Jialike, who mistook them for doctors.
• The Plague Doctor appeared in the lobby, prompting Ying Lin to suspect that 39 and the Instance Faction were there.

Emma prepared rooms in the dilapidated building for Beiwei and Lü Yating, while Lü Yating investigated the instance’s love-triangle clues in the portraits. Orion’s cryptic remarks about Silas’s relationship problems and 39’s recruits left Lü Yating confused.

• Emma told Beiwei and Lü Yating that she had cleaned more than ten rooms for them and explained she was the Viscount’s assistant, not a player.
• Beiwei told Emma that Mr. 39 had reclaimed an ancient deserted city in Desert, and Emma excitedly asked about His Lordship the Viscount.
• Lü Yating noticed a changing pattern of love and murder in the portraits, and Emma said the instance involved a love triangle and a bad-tempered girl.
• Lü Yating asked Emma about Mr. Xie De and Huang Zhuowang, then left after hearing Silas and Juelu arguing downstairs.
• Orion introduced himself to Lü Yating, made cryptic remarks about ordinary players and Silas’s relationship problems, and Wei Yanchi angrily dismissed him as he went upstairs.

Xie De encountered Wei Yanchi waiting for him, and Wei Yanchi openly declared his interest in him in front of Wei Yunmo. Xie De then found Anbers debating religion and science with two Illuminati members, who had become his unpaid assistants.

• Wei Yanchi told Xie De he had waited twenty-seven hours and offered to become his assistant, then tried to kiss him.
• Wei Yunmo saw Wei Yanchi with Xie De, and Wei Yanchi bluntly told him they were dating; Xie De neither confirmed nor denied it.
• Xie De found Ying Lin and Xi Yijiu serving as Anbers's assistants after losing a debate about science and God.
• Wei Yunmo erupted at Wei Yanchi, who admitted he had no shame, while Ying Lin and Xi Yijiu prayed.

Xie De questioned Anbers about 730 and the S-rank NPCs, then followed him to a meal in the sanatorium’s central area. The gathered players sat divided into factions as Anbers and Xie De arrived, and Su Fangmu remarked that the Illuminati had already approached the powerful figures.

• Xie De asked Anbers whether the S-rank NPCs were planning to rebel and what 730 meant to them, and Anbers dismissed 730 as a tool and denied that the NPCs were behind the Instance opening.
• Anbers dissected a gecko and gave Xie De a jar of its tail before an announcement summoned all patients to the central area for a meal.
• Xie De and Anbers found Wei Yanchi holding Wei Yunmo, and Xie De introduced Wei Yanchi as his new assistant.
• Xie De suspected that the building was once Jialina and her sister’s residence and wondered where the other main character in the Love Triangle Instance was.
• The group reached the central area, where the players sat in separate factions, and Su Fangmu whispered that the Illuminati had hurried to cozy up to the powerful figures.

Xie De questioned the factions about their aims in the Love Triangle Instance as the Illuminati revealed they were searching for a demon they believed was hidden there. The nurse puppets then forced everyone to eat moldy steak, leaving Xie De and Jialike eating while the other Players watched.

• Xie De asked Ying Lin and the Illuminati why they had entered the Instance, and Ying Lin said they sought the demon based on their elder’s prophecy.
• Xi Yijiu revealed that the Laboratory had secretly sent people into the Instance despite refusing the Illuminati’s request to enter.
• Ying Lin insisted that the demon was real and said she would spread the word that Instances should return their duties to God, prompting Anbers to declare that God was dead.
• Nurse puppets brought moldy food into the room and dragged Jialike before the factions while Anbers complained about the meal.
• The puppets seated Jialike, Ying Lin, and Xi Yijiu and pressured everyone to eat; Xie De began eating the moldy steak alongside Jialike.

After the players endured a disgusting meal in the instance, Juelu revealed that the Laboratory had sent Silas to gather clues and pursue another agenda. Xie De agreed that the Club should cooperate with his group and blocked Su Fangmu and Haxibo from leaving.

• Xie De and the others forced themselves to eat the revolting food while the Nurse Marionettes watched, and the puppets left after collecting the dishes.
• Anbers led the Illuminati members away, while Orion, Mena, and Silas also departed the dining room.
• Juelu asked Su Fangmu and Haxibo why the Club had entered the instance, and they said they had come to watch the Laboratory make a spectacle of itself.
• Juelu told Xie De that Silas had warned her the Laboratory had sent him to extract clues and had another undisclosed agenda.
• Xie De supported Juelu's proposal to work with the Club and showed interest in its items, while Little House Centipede blocked the exit as Su Fangmu and Haxibo tried to leave.

Ying Lin searched the underground levels for a demon while Wei Yunmo followed, and Mena warned her away from a chamber containing the instance’s super Boss. Xie De’s group continued searching for Huang Zhuowang, while Lü Yating told Wei Yanchi that she had returned to the instances after a Door-Knocking Ghost threatened her young daughter, Spring Roll.

• Anbers sent Ying Lin, Xi Yijiu, and Wei Yunmo to search the building for a girl in a white dress, then told them to keep improving Wei Yunmo’s experiment success rate.
• Ying Lin followed her Compass underground and explained to Wei Yunmo that the Illuminati believed the instances disrupted the balance between the living world and Hell.
• Mena stopped Ying Lin at the underground palace entrance, warned her that entering could trigger the instance’s super Boss, and took back the Compass.
• Jialike ran underground while Jialina searched frantically for her younger sister; Wei Yanchi suggested the sisters might represent two extremes of one person, and Xie De paired off with Beiwei to search for clues.
• Lü Yating told Wei Yanchi that she had returned to the instances to gather resources and information after a Door-Knocking Ghost killed people in her apartment building, so she could better protect Spring Roll.

Xie De and Beiwei searched the untraceable sanatorium instance for Huang Zhuowang, while 730 warned that the instance had no discoverable origin or clear objective. Elsewhere, Ying Lin confronted Asmodeus and died after exposing the Laboratory’s alliance with demons, leaving Xi Yijiu to relay her warning.

• Beiwei found a notebook describing the deaths of Jialike and Jialina and a doctor’s failed surgery, while Xie De questioned 455’s silence around 730.
• Xi Yijiu joined Xie De and Beiwei, and 730 warned Xie De not to follow the instance’s chaotic broadcast because its origin could no longer be traced.
• Xie De decided to go to the Recreation Room, but a piercing scream sounded from below as the group left.
• Ying Lin listened to Mena and Orion through the Compass and recognized that Asmodeus had appeared, then pushed Wei Yunmo into hiding as the demon approached.
• Ying Lin denounced the Laboratory’s deal with demons, declared her loyalty to the Illuminati, and was killed by Jialike under Asmodeus’s influence.
• Ying Lin’s loudspeaker relayed a scream carrying her message, and Xi Yijiu told Xie De that Asmodeus was present and the Laboratory had betrayed them.

Xie De realized the Laboratory was colluding with Hell and the Main God System, and urged 730 to flee the instance while he tried to protect Wei Yanchi. Orion killed Xi Yijiu, and Xie De sent Beiwei to find Wei Yanchi as he unleashed his ghosts; elsewhere, Juelu's group encountered Silas.

• 455 and 730 suspected that the Laboratory had joined forces with Hell and a Main God System to capture Huang Zhuowang and target Xie De.
• Xie De warned that Xu Gong could cripple the instance and that Wei Yanchi was in danger, then persuaded 730 to leave and investigate Hell's infiltration.
• Orion shot Xi Yijiu dead, and Xie De pulled Beiwei to safety and told her to find Wei Yanchi and have him release the dragon.
• Xie De expanded his Domain and sent countless ghosts pouring through the building as Beiwei ran down the stairs.
• Juelu understood fragments of Ying Lin's scream about the Laboratory's betrayal but stayed silent as she, Su Fangmu, and Haxibo encountered Silas.

Yue Xiamo and the others gathered at a cemetery where an out-of-control instance was about to open, while Xu Gong left the Instance Faction and returned to the Laboratory. Inside the instance, the Laboratory’s betrayal left the teams scattered as Xie De confronted Orion.

• Yue Xiamo and the Martial Arts Hall leaders waited at the cemetery as the authorities prepared for an instance opening that could pull anyone inside.
• Xu Gong’s mother pressured her to return to the Laboratory, and Xu Gong resigned from the Instance Faction after recommending Liu Jiarui to Lin Darong’s team.
• The cemetery’s offerings blew away as 730 departed and a gray building appeared, signaling that the instance had opened.
• Zuo Shenghang told Beiwei that Wei Yanchi had gone missing and Lü Yating was fighting Laboratory agents; he sent Beiwei to seek help from the Plague Doctor and returned to assist Lü Yating.
• Orion used a shield to repel the ghosts around Xie De, and Xie De attacked him with a powerful electric current as Orion welcomed their fight.

Xie De defeated Orion and demanded to know where Huang Zhuowang was, but Asmodeus arrived and offered the information in exchange for Orion. Xie De escaped upstairs while Jialina attacked Asmodeus, who vanished in flames.

• Xie De overpowered Orion, pinned him by the throat, and asked where Huang Zhuowang was.
• Asmodeus arrived with Jialike, revealed that Huang Zhuowang was in Top-Floor Room 402, and tried to bargain for Orion.
• Asmodeus confronted Xie De about his ties to the Instances and his foreign system, while Xie De pretended to welcome his interest.
• Xie De used the Piano music to draw Jialina to the stairway, where she recognized Jialike and attacked Asmodeus for seducing her sister.
• Orion and Xie De fled as Jialina fought Asmodeus, who accused her of causing the sisters to die in one body before disappearing in flames.

Xie De reasoned that the sisters Jialike and Jialina’s tragic love had shaped the Instance, then left room 402 after Huang Zhuowang screamed and he suspected Wei Yanchi was in danger. In the lobby, Juelu shot and subdued Silas, then decided to leave the Instance with Beiwei and two Club members to investigate the rituals behind Asmodeus’s appearance.

• Xie De deduced that the Main God System feared this world’s native powers and speculated that Heaven might provide allies against Asmodeus.
• Xie De theorized that Jialike and Jialina’s divided identities and tragic deaths had formed the Love Triangle Instance.
• Huang Zhuowang screamed from room 402, and Xie De left without opening the door because he suspected Wei Yanchi was in danger.
• Beiwei met Juelu during a gunfight, and Juelu explained that she had betrayed the Laboratory after it mishandled a three-month-old corpse.
• Juelu drew Tarot Cards warning of danger and a breakup, then shot Silas when he refused to kill her and carried him away.
• Juelu told Beiwei she planned to investigate sacrificial and summoning rituals in the real world, and recruited Beiwei and two Club members to go with her.

Xie De discovered that Anbers and Wei Yunmo had escaped the instance into the real world, where Hell and the Laboratory threatened to unleash chaos. He reunited with Huang Zhuowang after Room 402 spat him out, but Wei Yanchi vanished back inside it.

• Xie De learned from Little House Centipede that Anbers had rescued Wei Yunmo from a demon and taken him outside the instance.
• Xie De realized the Laboratory and Hell were releasing NPCs into reality to destabilize 730 and cause mass deaths.
• Xie De found Room 402 in the corridor, and Wei Yanchi emerged from its fiery interior before a force pulled him back inside.
• Huang Zhuowang clung to Xie De and described being abducted, taken to Hell, and rescued by Wei Yanchi.

In Hell, Asmodeus taunted Wei Yanchi with visions of Xie De and the factions turning against him, hoping to exploit his love as a weakness. Wei Yanchi recognized the visions as illusions but remained determined to explore Hell and save Xie De.

• Asmodeus mocked Wei Yanchi and threatened to kill Xie De because Wei Yanchi loved him.
• Asmodeus cast dust over Wei Yanchi, showing him an illusion of the Instance spilling into reality and factions confronting Xie De.
• In the vision, Xie De shot an S-rank player who accused him of allying with a Demon, then left as the factions blamed the Instance.
• The Giant Dragon attacked Asmodeus, and Wei Yanchi insisted the images were fake when the illusion shattered.
• The Giant Dragon urged Wei Yanchi to stop exploring Hell, but Wei Yanchi refused, while the Ghost Bride and the Rich Landowner questioned whether Xie De needed him.

As the groups entered the building, Lü Yating and Zuo Shenghang tried to find Mr. 39 while the Laboratory, Club, and Martial Arts Hall pursued their own agendas. Xie De appeared, used a Medical Card to make Lü Yating vanish, and asked the Martial Arts Hall to work with him.

• The building broadcast ordered the patients to dinner as Nurse Puppets roamed the halls, and Zuo Shenghang and Lü Yating set out to find Mr. 39 and escape the instance.
• Su Fangmu and Haxibo attempted to snipe Dr. Xu, but her equipment deflected the bullet, forcing the Club agents to flee.
• Lü Yating and Zuo Shenghang encountered Zhang Ninde and the Martial Arts Hall, and Zuo Shenghang accused the Laboratory of betraying humanity and possibly killing Wei Yanchi.
• Nurse Puppets approached the group, but Xie De appeared and made them retreat by tossing something aside.
• Xie De gave Lü Yating a Medical Card and snapped it, causing her to vanish, then asked the Martial Arts Hall to work with him.

During a citywide lockdown, Anbers wandered into a hospital while Wei Yunmo warned the authorities about the S-Rank NPC and the threat posed by the Laboratory and Hell. The authorities learned that only Mr. 39 might persuade Anbers to return to the instance, and Wei Yunmo urged them to send help inside.

• The authorities sealed off the Cemetery area and nearby cities, while Anbers and Wei Yunmo walked through the deserted streets beneath a gathering swarm of crows.
• Anbers entered First People's Hospital to meet its doctors, and Wei Yunmo knocked an orderly unconscious before the orderly could scream.
• Anbers frightened a doctor in the intensive care unit, then disconnected an unconscious patient's oxygen and brought out his tools.
• Wei Yunmo met the authorities' representative outside and explained that Anbers was an S-Rank NPC who had been lured into the Real World through cooperation between the Laboratory and Hell.
• The authorities' researchers identified Anbers as a dangerous former Laboratory research subject, and Wei Yunmo said they needed to enter the instance and find Mr. 39 to persuade Anbers to return.

As S-Rank NPCs escaped into the Real World, factions gathered at the Martial Arts Hall and learned from Zhang Mingqi that the Laboratory had betrayed them. Daoist Liu agreed to cooperate with Mr. 39 on the condition that Wei Yanchi be rescued, while Xie De sought Wei Jianye’s help to save him.

• Representatives of factions outside the Laboratory, the Club, and the Illuminati argued at the Martial Arts Hall over whether to obey the United Nations’ laws or act on their own.
• Daoist Liu took a call from Zhang Mingqi, who reported that Nurse Puppets had entered the Real World and were forcing people to eat.
• Zhang Mingqi told Daoist Liu that Wei Yanchi was trapped in Hell and Mr. 39 wanted to join forces against the Laboratory and Hell.
• Daoist Liu agreed to cooperate with Mr. 39, making Wei Yanchi’s rescue the first condition.
• Xie De visited Wei Jianye at a temple and asked him to save Wei Yanchi.

Xie De sent Wei Jianye into Hell with an angel’s eyes to rescue Wei Yanchi, while the Laboratory escalated its campaign against 730 and the instances. The chapter ended with Emma showing Xie De that soldiers and armored vehicles had surrounded a building as puppet nurses carried in a corpse.

• Xie De explained that Wei Yanchi had been sent to Hell and gave Wei Jianye angel’s eyes to bring him back.
• Wei Jianye agreed to rescue Wei Yanchi, then disappeared when 730 dismantled the temple instance.
• Xie De told 455 that he could not safely enter Hell because he was alive, while the Laboratory publicly announced plans to overthrow 730 and merge the Surface and Underworld.
• 730 listed demon-origin instances and said it needed more cooperation to counter the Laboratory’s actions.
• Emma sent Xie De a video showing soldiers and armored vehicles surrounding a building as puppet nurses carried a corpse inside.

Wei Jianye searched Hell for Asmodeus and learned that Wei Yanchi was near a mysterious Giant Dragon. He persuaded Asmodeus to take him there, where he saw the dragon and confirmed Wei Yanchi had not been subjected to Asmodeus’s depravity.

• Wei Jianye asked a resident and Belial about Asmodeus, and Belial told him they were involved in a project connected to the Real World.
• A dragon’s cry and golden light drew Wei Jianye’s attention; 730 told him Wei Yanchi was in that direction and warned that Asmodeus was behind him.
• Asmodeus arrived and argued intimately with Belial, while Wei Jianye hurried toward the dragon’s light.
• Asmodeus caught up in his carriage and threatened to judge Wei Jianye’s sinful soul, but Wei Jianye offered to help deal with the dragon.
• Asmodeus accepted Wei Jianye’s offer and took him to the Giant Dragon, where Wei Jianye saw mountains of bones and felt relieved that Wei Yanchi had retained his decency.

Wei Yanchi and Wei Jianye became trapped in Asmodeus’s Skeleton Purgatory, where illusions mixed with real people. Wei Yanchi found a way to shatter the illusions and charged toward Asmodeus’s goat head, while Wei Jianye and the others fled and encountered Xie De.

• Wei Yanchi fought through an illusion of pale cemetery ghosts and recognized that Wei Jianye was real.
• Wei Jianye learned from the Rich Landowner that Wei Yanchi’s Wei Family bloodline allowed him to enter Hell, and he warned Wei Yanchi to avoid further conflicts.
• 730 warned Wei Jianye not to use the Angel’s Eye in Asmodeus’s strongest territory and advised him to seek a weak boundary.
• Wei Yanchi used another dragon’s cry to shatter the illusions, then charged toward Asmodeus’s goat head to escape Skeleton Purgatory.
• The Rich Landowner, the Ghost Bride, and Wei Jianye fled Skeleton Purgatory and found Xie De standing on the wasteland.

Juelu, Beiwei, and Silas entered locked-down F Country to seek the Illuminati’s help with the Mad Romance invasion. Elder Terry contacted Xie De and invited him to discuss a prophecy that faith could save the trapped and besieged.

• Juelu drove through F Country’s lockdown with a government permit, accompanied by Beiwei and Silas.
• At the cathedral, Juelu met Elder Terry and asked for the Illuminati’s help.
• Elder Terry said he had expected Juelu and wanted to speak with the person who had authority over the instances.
• Elder Terry called Xie De, told him that the prophecy said faith brought salvation, and invited him to F Country.

Xie De coordinated with Hua Country officials on confronting the Laboratory, then traveled to F Country with Emma and three former teammates to investigate the Instance incursion and the Illuminati’s warning. Meanwhile, Xu Gong returned to the Laboratory, and the government tried to manage Anbers in Magic City.

• Xie De discussed the Laboratory, Hell, and shutting down the Instances with officials Qi Zongyu and Ling Huanle, while 730 handled the diplomatic questions.
• Xie De learned that Xu Gong had resigned and gone to the Laboratory, then brought Li Yang, Lin Darong, and the third member of their trio with him to F Country.
• Xie De and Emma boarded a government-arranged private plane for F Country, while Zuo Shenghang and Huang Zhuowang stayed behind to follow 730’s instructions.
• In Magic City, Anbers killed a patient during treatment, and Wei Yunmo brewed tea while medical experts tried to keep Anbers occupied.
• On the plane, 455 reassured Xie De that information about Magic City was sealed and said it had hired workers to plow his family’s fields.