Recaps

Bo Yi investigated Doll Castle’s deadly portrait and doll mysteries while the players died one by one and the master tried to make a perfect doll. After Bo Yi stopped the master, the remaining players entered the banquet hall and found it filled with the silent guests from behind the iron door.

• Bo Yi entered Doll Castle, where the host told the ten players to attend a banquet in three days, and a woman’s ghost attacked him after he inspected the portraits.
• Bo Yi and Zhao Yi’s group discovered that portrait oil and doll-like doubles were connected to the deaths, while Wang Xing died after smashing a doll that resembled him.
• Bo Yi traced Tian Xiuyun’s disappearance to the master’s workshop, where the master tried to take his eyes, and Bo Yi stabbed the master before escaping with evidence of the doll-making work.
• Black fog returned to the castle, the master resumed his pursuit, and Pan Lulu tried to lead him to Bo Yi before the master killed her.
• Bo Yi found the eyeless Butler Doll and fitted the master’s eyes into its sockets, causing the master to vanish as his knife fell.
• Bo Yi led the surviving players to the banquet hall, where they found silent, pale guests whose eyes were closed and told Zhao Yi they had been behind the iron door.

Bo Yi investigated a village whose residents worshipped a many-armed Lady, uncovering a link between the villagers’ hunger, black fish, and the body parts kept in the temple and a hidden cave. The villagers discovered Bo Yi in the cave, but someone pulled him away before they could reach him.

• Bo Yi restored the Girl Doll’s eyes, allowing her to turn the dolls against the fleeing Male Host, and then escaped the instance with the other players.
• Bo Yi accepted Mitian’s offer to enter instances and gather research materials, then joined a high-level village instance with Bo Yu and other students.
• Bo Yi investigated the sealed wells, fish-laced meals, and attacks on the players, while discovering that the village’s influence drove people to consume fish and blood.
• Bo Yi and Bo Yu saw villagers restore a severed arm and attach it to the many-armed Lady statue, while Bo Yi later fought the soaked woman and took a lock of her hair.
• Bo Yi used the hair to help the players resist the village’s influence, then led them to investigate the graveyard and uncovered a hidden cave full of coffins and severed arms.
• Bo Yi realized the villagers were storing bodies and arms in the cave for their worship of the Lady, but they found him hiding among the coffins.
• A wet arm followed Bo Yi as the villagers closed in, until someone covered his mouth and dragged him away.

Bo Yi exposed the village’s hidden history and helped a new Lady destroy the Maiden Statue before escaping the instance. After Mitian rescued him from the Scientific Research Institute, they entered a new instance centered on the sick student Xu Jingqi, where Ma Xiaochen died and the players uncovered evidence of conflict in her family.

• Bo Yi hid with Mitian in a cave, escaped the villagers, and discovered that the village was hiding the waking occupants of its coffins.
• Bo Yi found the Village Records and a notebook revealing that the villagers had killed Old Li’s daughter in a ritual and that her haunting had preceded further deaths.
• Bo Yi led the players in bringing the coffins to the temple and offering the fish’s preserved arms, summoning a new Lady during the villagers’ worship.
• Bo Yi helped the new Lady defeat the villagers and the Maiden Statue, then escaped the instance and returned to his laboratory with Mitian and the black fish.
• Mitian searched for Bo Yi after he disappeared, found him confined at the Scientific Research Institute, and helped him escape as the institute went into alarm.
• Bo Yi and Mitian entered a new Mist instance and joined players visiting the bedridden Xu Jingqi, whose mother insisted that she remain under her quilt.
• Bo Yi noticed suspicious food and water at Xu Jingqi’s home and concluded that her mother had used incense ash to make the players sick and keep them there.
• Bo Yi and Mitian searched the apartment building and learned from a neighbor that Xu Jingqi’s parents had argued about her schoolwork, her father’s absence, and getting her medical care, and they returned to find Ma Xiaochen dead.

Bo Yi and the others uncovered Qiqi’s Mom’s dangerous attempts to treat Xu Jingqi and searched for proof of what had happened to the girl. They rescued Xu Jingqi from a barrel of black liquid, and Bo Yi confronted the gatekeeper after deducing he was her father.

• Bo Yi found evidence that Ma Xiaochen had been killed with a sharp object and discovered hidden holes in the players’ apartment walls while Qiqi’s Mom watched them.
• During Xu Jingqi’s test-paper grading, wrong answers triggered visions of her abuse, and the players learned that Qiqi’s Mom was preparing a seven-day ritual with an elderly woman.
• Bo Yi followed Qiqi’s Mom to the elderly woman and overheard them discuss Xu Jingqi’s treatment, then learned that the missing Xu Kexin had become a notebook made of human skin.
• Bo Yi and the others found medical records identifying Qiqi’s Mom as Huang Li-fen and uncovered ritual materials and documents in Room 404, but they still lacked proof that Xu Jingqi was not ill.
• The group saw Qiqi’s Mom lower Xu Jingqi into a barrel of black liquid and restrained her while Bo Yi pulled the girl out.
• Xu Jingqi offered to show Bo Yi the paper in her hand if he gave her his eraser, then threw it aside and revealed words etched into it.
• Bo Yi carried the old gatekeeper upstairs and told him he had deduced he was Xu Jingqi’s father from the unchanged security office and the aged building.