Recaps

Wei Yanchi met 39 again and invited him to watch an exorcism, then the two bonded over their knowledge as they walked through Wisteria Park. Their conversation was interrupted when someone ran over and called out to Wei Yanchi as his master.

• Wei Yanchi woke late, read his client's messages about the delivered chickens and dogs, and noticed that 39 had already left.
• Wei Yanchi encountered 39 downstairs and invited him to watch an exorcism; 39 accepted and thanked him for helping the night before.
• As they walked to the client's home, Wei Yanchi explained the harmful spirit behind the Fortune-Bearing Buddha Mother and dismissed Wang Yuli as a clown.
• Wei Yanchi and 39 discussed Instances, violins, firearms, and history as they walked through Wisteria Park.
• Someone ran up to Wei Yanchi and excitedly called him master.

Xie De accompanied Wei Yanchi to the Zhu family villa, where Wei Yanchi destroyed a monstrous rat spirit threatening the household. Afterward, Xie De worried that the person he had killed might return as a ghost, while Wei Yanchi hinted that ghosts would fear someone as dangerous as him.

• Zhu Wanfu welcomed Wei Yanchi and Xie De, explaining that a creature had taken two of his family members.
• Wei Yanchi led the Zhu family in a ritual using a black dog and a rooster, which devoured a huge rat spirit that burst from the shattered Buddha Mother statue.
• Xie De spoke with 455 outside and learned that it had erased surveillance evidence connected to their recent murder.
• Xie De worried that the victim might become a vengeful ghost, and 455 reassured him with the claim that ghosts haunted only the guilty and weak.
• Wei Yanchi asked Xie De what he thought about ghosts seeking revenge, and Xie De insisted that a weak victim would not become strong after death.

Xie De returned to find that Wei Yunmo had killed a burglar and left the apartment covered in blood, forcing Xie De to face the body and the problem of keeping the boy hidden. Meanwhile, Wei Yanchi returned to the Coffin Shop and messaged 39 about trading items, but received no reply.

• Xie De came home to find his apartment wrecked and learned from 455 that Wei Yunmo had killed a burglar and stored the body in the fridge.
• Wei Yunmo told Xie De he was unharmed and had eaten all the food, so Xie De told him to shower before they went out to eat.
• Xie De worried about disposing of the body, avoiding the police, and what to do with Wei Yunmo.
• Wei Yanchi returned to the Coffin Shop in Magic City and sent 39 a message asking whether he wanted to trade items.
• Xiao Jiejun told Wei Yanchi that Yue Xiamo had visited and bought a silver urn.

Yue Xiamo and Wei Yanchi speculated about why 39 was missing from the Player Forum, while Xie De discovered that Wei Yunmo had hidden a murder victim in his refrigerator. After a swarm of insects disposed of the remains, Xie De uncovered 455’s embarrassing messages to the Instance System.

• Yue Xiamo theorized that 39 might be an NPC, but Wei Yanchi suggested he could be connected to the mysterious Laboratory and confirmed that the organization had covered up two shootings.
• Xie De found a severed head and body parts in his refrigerator, and Wei Yunmo explained that he had killed and stored a thief there to keep the corpse from rotting.
• 455 warned Xie De that the police had received a missing-person report, and Xie De told Wei Yunmo to clean the living room while they figured out how to dispose of the body.
• The little house centipede summoned ants and other insects, which devoured the remains and disappeared without leaving a trace.
• Xie De opened the hidden files on his phone and found that 455 had been sending cheesy love messages to the Instance System.

Five days after moving in, Wei Yunmo got along with 39 while trying to stop him from smoking. Xie De reflected on the busy days since disposing of a body, 455’s growing obsession with the Instance System, and Wei Yanchi’s message, which he had finally found time to read.

• Wei Yunmo replaced 39’s cigarettes with fruit candies and asked him not to smoke indoors; 39 told him to put the cigarettes back but agreed not to smoke that morning.
• Xie De recalled that he and 455 had disposed of a body and cleaned up the blood, and that the police had not come looking for them.
• Xie De sold a sheet of Talisman Paper on the Player Forum for 550,000 to help pay for replacement furniture.
• 455 told Xie De that it believed the Instance System returned its feelings because it answered its love confessions.
• 455 vowed to clear every instance and become a top-tier system so it could win the Instance System.
• Xie De finally found time to see Wei Yanchi’s message.

Xie De let Wei Yunmo go outside with a tracking watch, and Wei Yunmo made friends with local children. When Wei Yunmo stayed overnight at a friend’s house, Xie De came to collect him and introduced himself as his guardian.

• Xie De replied to Mr. 39’s team-up request and told 455 to invite Beiwei to the next Instance team.
• Xie De gave Wei Yunmo permission to go outside within a ten-kilometer radius and handed him a tracking watch.
• Wei Yunmo met Lu Nana, who told him that the silver-haired man in apartment 304 seemed like a vampire because he rarely went out.
• Wei Yunmo played with Lu Nana and her friends, then accepted an invitation to stay overnight at one boy’s home.
• Xie De arrived at the boy’s house that evening, and Wei Yunmo hurried to him and apologized for staying out.

Xie De brought Wei Yunmo home and asked 455 about sending him to the Incomplete Instance, while the Laboratory suspected the Club had taken the missing test subject. The chapter left Wei Yunmo still in Xie De’s care, with the Laboratory searching for him.

• Xie De set a curfew for Wei Yunmo, who followed him home while privately recognizing that Xie De was not an ordinary guardian and would eventually send him away.
• Xie De asked 455 where it could send Wei Yunmo, and 455 suggested the Incomplete Instance, an auxiliary space for NPCs and other special people.
• Jefferson Morkney asked his staff whether they had found Wei Yunmo, and they reported that his trail had disappeared in northern Huaxia.
• The Laboratory’s staff told Jefferson Morkney that they suspected the Club had taken Wei Yunmo and killed two of their agents.

455 overwhelmed the Instance Main System with messages professing love, and the system eventually allowed it to access its programs. Xie De entered a new Instance in a locked movie theater, where several strangers tried to figure out why they had been brought there.

• 455 flooded the Instance Main System and the Player Forum with messages, then introduced itself and declared its love for the system.
• The Instance Main System failed to remove 455, warned it to stop messaging, and finally granted it permission to chat and access its programs.
• Xie De woke in a movie theater screening room as a silent black-and-white film played.
• A male office worker and a female model found the theater door locked, while a cleaning lady calmly surveyed the room.
• The female model asked the cleaning lady why they were there, and the cleaning lady glanced toward Xie De without knowing.

Xie De entered an eerie movie-theater Instance and was ostracized by three frightened newcomers before a scene of a woman chopping wood shattered the screen. He escaped and reunited with Wei Yanchi, Beiwei, and another player, learning that the film was called pearl.

• Xie De met the newcomers Qiu Shanyi, Liang Renhuai, and Zhang Qiuyue, who feared him and kept their distance after he said he was a player.
• The woman in the black-and-white film turned toward the screen, grinned, and smashed through it with her axe, terrifying the players.
• Xie De shot the room's door lock and fled into a Universal Studios corridor, where he encountered Wei Yanchi at gunpoint.
• Beiwei and another player joined Xie De and Wei Yanchi, who discussed finding more people and searching the screening rooms.
• 455 identified the film as pearl, and 39 repeated its name.

Wei Yanchi connected the cinema’s theaters to Country M’s former movie-rating system, and the group learned that Yue Xiamo’s theater had been showing Inception. As they searched for the last theater, 455 revealed that players could exploit the Instance’s rules to bring weapons disguised as accessories.

• Wei Yanchi proposed that the movies in the cinema’s theaters were clues and led the group to search together for the two theaters they had not found.
• Beiwei asked 39 for his contact information and offered to return Old Eugene’s gold bars, and 39 told her he would message her when he wanted to reach her.
• The group encountered Yue Xiamo, who said her theater had shown a clip from Inception and that two newcomers had fallen asleep and were likely dead.
• 455 explained that accessories and clothing did not count as outside weapons, so players could bring concealed weapons disguised as accessories into the Instance.
• Xie De realized he had missed the chance to bring more weapons, while 455 said that finding clues and using one gun should be enough.

Xie De and the veterans questioned Yu Youzong after learning he had once been married to Zhang Qiuyue. Yu Youzong revealed that Zhang Qiuyue had died in the cinema years earlier, leaving Xie De to wonder whether the woman he had seen was a ghost.

• Xie De noticed a poster for Pearl and wondered what its slogan meant.
• Yu Youzong offered Xie De money to protect him, and Xie De asked whether he knew Zhang Qiuyue.
• Yu Youzong admitted that Zhang Qiuyue had been his wife and that they had once visited the cinema together.
• Beiwei and Wei Yanchi pressed Yu Youzong about his marriage, abuse, and failure to support his child.
• Yu Youzong revealed that Zhang Qiuyue had worked as a cleaner and suffocated in an elevator shaft, with her body found three months later.
• Xie De froze and wondered whether the Zhang Qiuyue he had seen was a ghost.

The players drew movie assignments, and Xie De was sent alone into Pearl, where he met the young woman Pearl at a farm. He claimed to be a dance audition judge, leaving himself face-to-face with the film’s dangerous protagonist.

• The players chose option 1, but the Instance System assigned them different movies: Xie De drew Pearl, Wei Yanchi and Yu Youzong drew M Rating movies, Beiwei drew an R Rating movie, and Yue Xiamo drew a G Rating movie.
• Xie De arrived alone at a farm and found a maggot-covered roast pig on the steps.
• Pearl approached Xie De with a pitchfork and offered to light his cigarette, speaking German.
• With 455 translating, Xie De gave Pearl a cigarette and introduced himself as 39.
• Pearl asked whether he was a judge for the dance audition, and Xie De nodded; she reacted with eerie delight.

Xie De kept Pearl calm by pretending to accept her murderous behavior, then redirected her toward dancing while 455 searched for a way to help. 455 concluded that Xie De needed to survive until the movie ended and Pearl’s husband returned.

• Xie De entered Pearl’s house and saw the rotting corpses of her parents seated at the dining table.
• Pearl led Xie De to the cattle pen, where he found Qiu Shanyi and Liang Renhuai tied up and learned that Liang Renhuai had been brutally tortured.
• Pearl killed Liang Renhuai with a pitchfork and ordered Xie De to kill Qiu Shanyi.
• Xie De criticized Pearl’s idea of murder and suggested that she perform a dance to violin music instead.
• Pearl hurried back to the house to fetch her violin, while Xie De admitted to 455 that he had been improvising without understanding his own words.
• 455 told Xie De to hold on until the movie ended and Pearl’s husband returned, when he could defeat the boss and clear the Instance.

Xie De finished the farm movie by shooting Pearl, then woke in the theater to learn he had entered the M-rated movie Inception. He encountered Wei Yanchi, who mistook him for a dream and pinned him against the wall with a knife.

• Pearl confessed that she had killed her mother and urged Xie De to help kill her again, but Xie De shot her when she answered the approaching man's question.
• Qiu Shanyi appeared and asked why Xie De had not killed Pearl sooner, then Pearl appeared again and Xie De shot her a second time.
• 455 told Xie De that his first movie had ended and he had fallen into Inception, prompting him to wake in the theater.
• Wei Yanchi dreamed of stabbing and killing a silver-haired 39, then woke in the theater and encountered the real Xie De.
• Wei Yanchi pinned Xie De against the wall with a fruit knife, and Xie De confirmed with 455 that Wei Yanchi was real before ordering him to move away.

Wei Yanchi explained that the movie theater was a dream level and that people could become trapped in the Lost Domain, then the group considered how to reach their missing companions. Xie De recalled that Qiu Shanyi had collapsed in terror, suggesting she might be trapped there.

• Wei Yanchi explained his theory that the movie theater was the first dream level and that deeper dreams could lead to the Lost Domain.
• Wei Yanchi suggested falling asleep to enter the next dream level and bring back Beiwei and Yue Xiamo.
• Yue Xiamo emerged from a screening room after fighting her way through a G Rating movie and joined the group.
• Wei Yanchi explained that the missing newcomers might have entered the Lost Domain after dying or fainting from fright.
• Xie De remembered that Qiu Shanyi had collapsed in terror after Pearl's story, and suspected she might be trapped in the Lost Domain.

Xie De entered the dream film Romeo and Juliet and met Hu Songlin, a dangerously lucky player who was secretly a villain targeting Wei Yanchi. The chapter left Xie De following Hu Songlin while considering whether to attack him.

• Xie De explored the medieval town, recognized the Montague name on a party notice, and realized he was inside Romeo and Juliet.
• Hu Songlin introduced himself as Wei Yanchi's old friend and offered to lead Xie De to him, and Xie De agreed to follow.
• 455 returned online and warned Xie De that Hu Songlin belonged to the Club and was a villain with absolute luck and an almost unnoticeable presence.
• 455 explained that Hu Songlin targeted Wei Yanchi and had killed Yue Xiamo, prompting Xie De to consider striking first.
• Xie De stared at Hu Songlin with killing intent, and Hu Songlin looked back at him curiously.

Wei Yanchi decided to enter the Lost Domain after suspecting that a Club member had intercepted Mr. 39, while Xie De and Hu Songlin fought there after both fell into it. Xie De retained his memories and pursued the wounded Hu Songlin, knowing that the only ways out were to kill him or have him kill himself.

• At the mansion party, Pearl and her lions massacred the guests while Juliet mourned Romeo and Beiwei worried that Mr. 39 had not appeared.
• Wei Yanchi suspected an overlooked Club member was responsible for Mr. 39's absence and said he would enter the Lost Domain.
• In the snowy Northern Country, Xie De shot at Hu Songlin, who escaped despite being wounded and asked Xie De to tell him his name.
• Xie De learned that he and Hu Songlin were in the Lost Domain, where Xie De had kept his memories and the surroundings came from Hu Songlin's subconscious.
• Xie De and 455 pursued Hu Songlin, with Xie De realizing that escape required either killing Hu Songlin or having him kill himself.

Xie De searched Hu Songlin’s subconscious for Wei Yanchi, only to encounter a terrifying landscape that revealed the monsters inside Wei Yanchi’s domain. At school, Wei Yanchi drew those monsters into reality and learned they were tied to his bloodline, but his questions kept returning to the real man he had drawn.

• Xie De and 455 searched Hu Songlin’s subconscious, where the dream split between the Northern Country and Hua Country and a procession of ghost soldiers frightened Xie De into hiding.
• Xie De stayed at the edge of Wei Yanchi’s domain, where a ghost bride, a greedy landlord, and a skeletal dragon watched Wei Yanchi.
• At school, Wei Yanchi grew suspicious of the looping world and drew ghosts, monsters, and a mysterious man in his textbook.
• Wei Yanchi’s drawings appeared in reality, and the dragon and other beings explained that they had flowed through his bloodline for generations.
• Wei Yanchi asked about the man he had drawn, and the dragon said he was real and remarked that Wei Yanchi could not get him out of his head.

Wei Yanchi entered the depths of his mind to find the Killer and met Hu Songlin, who had just been shot by Xie De. The three converged in a snowy city, where Xie De shot Hu Songlin again and the Subconscious Space collapsed.

• Wei Yanchi learned that the Wei family's guardian spirits were prisoners inside his body and that he had entered his mind to find someone.
• Hu Songlin, wounded after Xie De shot him, called for supplies and set out toward the city to find the Killer.
• Hu Songlin met Wei Yanchi in the snow, offered to guide him to the Killer, and delighted in Wei Yanchi remembering his name.
• Xie De left the café to search for Hu Songlin and encountered him alongside Wei Yanchi on a deserted street.
• Hu Songlin demanded that they say their names, and after Xie De identified him, Xie De raised his gun and shot him, causing the world to collapse.

Xie De tried to cross the moonlit town while its blind residents hunted by sound, as Wei Yanchi and Beiwei faced Pearl inside the mansion. Mr. 39 arrived just as Pearl’s pitchfork left them unable to move.

• Xie De woke in the town at night and cautiously avoided the blind residents as he headed toward the mansion where the plot was unfolding.
• Wei Yanchi told Beiwei that Mr. 39 had escaped the lost domain on his own and warned her not to treat him as someone who needed protection.
• Wei Yanchi killed a lion that broke into the room, then tried to flee with Beiwei and Juliet, but more lions blocked the balcony.
• Pearl confronted Wei Yanchi, Beiwei, and Juliet, and Juliet’s scream let Pearl restrict their movements with her pitchfork.
• Mr. 39 entered the room, interrupting Pearl and prompting Beiwei to call out to him.

Xie De and the others returned to the Juliet and Romeo dream, where 39 urged Pearl to stage another killing. Juliet’s death shattered the dream and brought them back to the cinema, where Wei Yanchi claimed he had figured out how to clear the instance, and Xie De found Hu Songlin waiting for him.

• Xie De arrived in the mansion with no bullets left and found Pearl confronting Wei Yanchi and Beiwei, while 39 watched them.
• 39 asked Pearl to perform screams and death for him, and Pearl summoned lions to frighten the group.
• Pearl killed Juliet with her pitchfork when Juliet could not scream, and Juliet’s death caused the dream to collapse.
• Xie De, Wei Yanchi, Beiwei, and the others woke in the cinema, where Wei Yanchi said they had cleared the Juliet and Romeo movie and that he had figured out the instance.
• Xie De spotted Hu Songlin by the screening room door and asked what he was doing there; Hu Songlin said he was waiting for him.

Xie De and the others realized they had been inside a dream shaped by Zhang Qiuyue’s subconscious, and Wei Yanchi explained how the four movies reflected her life and desires. Hu Songlin and Wei Yanchi entered the lost domain to find her, where they woke Zhang Qiuyue and completed the instance with five players surviving.

• Hu Songlin thanked Xie De for remembering his name, and Xie De reassured him that others would remember him too.
• Wei Yanchi deduced that the players were in Zhang Qiuyue’s first-layer dream and connected the four movies to her marriage, dreams, and love for her son.
• 455 ran out of power and shut down as Yue Xiamo asked how they could find Zhang Qiuyue.
• Xie De refused to enter the lost domain with Wei Yanchi and told him to take Hu Songlin instead.
• Wei Yanchi and Hu Songlin confronted Zhang Qiuyue’s dream and made her realize she was dead.
• The instance system announced a perfect clear with five players surviving.

Wei Yunmo worried about 39 while he was away, then watched him return drenched and inject a Super-Strong Painkiller. Meanwhile, Xie De learned that 455 had connected him with the Instance Main System, TC730, which wanted his help dealing with scum in the real world.

• Wei Yunmo waited for 39 and let a rain-soaked black cat into the house.
• 39 returned drenched, ignored Wei Yunmo, and injected a Super-Strong Painkiller for his pain.
• Xie De blamed 455 for causing another charging explosion that had damaged his nerves.
• 455 introduced Xie De to TC730, the Instance Main System, through his phone.
• TC730 asked Xie De to work with it to deal with scum in the real world.

Xie De agreed to help the Instance Main System punish culprits behind cleared instances, then returned home to rest after dealing with 455, Wei Yunmo, a black cat, and the house centipede. He learned his eldest uncle had arranged a blind date, but 455 had insulted and blocked him, while Xie De planned to take a day off before discussing the mission.

• The Instance Main System offered Xie De a partnership to punish people responsible for instances, and he agreed in exchange for choosing items.
• Xie De scolded 455 for agreeing to the partnership without consulting him, then allowed it to slide and went to shower.
• Wei Yunmo asked about Xie De's injuries, became angry when Xie De teased him, and returned to his room.
• Xie De fed the house centipede and bathed the soaking black cat before going to bed with it.
• 455 told Xie De that his eldest uncle had invited him home for a blind date, then admitted it had insulted and blocked the uncle on his behalf.
• Xie De dismissed his relatives' opinions and told 455 to focus on winning over the Instance Main System while he rested.

Xie De inspected the vehicle, gun, and ammunition he received for clearing the Instance, then learned that completing TC730’s real-world task could earn him any item he wanted. Motivated by the prospect of valuable rewards, he asked 455 to locate the target.

• Xie De explored his new all-black off-road vehicle and heard TC730’s voice from its onboard system.
• TC730 explained that the vehicle, gun, and ammunition were rewards suited to Xie De, and said Old Eugene received a seven-million business deal for clearing an Instance.
• Xie De learned he could choose any item as a reward for completing TC730’s real-world task.
• When Xie De asked whether TC730’s machines came with warranty service, TC730 said he was an exception and then went offline.
• Xie De told 455 to locate the target, claiming his gun thirsted for blood, and 455 mocked him as a poser.