Chapter Summaries

Bo Yi was cornered in a restroom by several grotesque patients, but discovered they mistook the blood-soaked mop for “Holy Medicine.” He realized the patients’ reaction might give him a way out.

• Bo Yi found the missing patient hanging from a ceiling pipe and escaped into a neighboring stall when it attacked him.
• A pale-faced patient spotted Bo Yi beneath the stall door and summoned others as they pounded on the door.
• Bo Yi shoved a blood-soaked mop into the patient’s mouth, and it cried out that it had found “Holy Medicine.”
• The patients grabbed the mop from outside, and Bo Yi connected their claim to the blood on the floor and figured out how to escape.

Bo Yi escaped a bathroom crowded with hungry patients by using their hunger for “Holy Medicine” to create an opening. He reached an unfamiliar corridor and stopped outside the Director’s Office.

• Bo Yi threw the upside-down patient’s chunk of meat into the crowd, distracting the patients and clearing a path through the bathroom.
• Bo Yi cut the patient’s arm, pushed him into the crowd, and escaped while the other patients attacked him for his blood.
• Bo Yi hurried up the stairs to evade patients following him through the corridor.
• Bo Yi explored an unfamiliar, dark corridor and found the Director’s Office.

Bo Yi searched the director’s office for clues to escape and found records, a birthday marked on the calendar, and a strange book about selecting and soaking vessels. He noticed the Holy Maiden figurine had returned to its original place after he moved it.

• Bo Yi entered the unlocked office and found his test result stamped “Fail” while the patients taken for retesting had passed.
• Bo Yi examined a Holy Maiden figurine and discovered the director had marked a birthday on the calendar for two days later.
• Bo Yi read a medical reference page describing how to select and maintain vessels in nutrient solution.
• Bo Yi searched the office but found no keys or other obvious escape clues.
• Bo Yi realized the Holy Maiden figurine was back at the center of the desk, though he had moved it beneath the lamp.

Bo Yi realized the Saintess Statue had trapped him in an illusion and smashed it to escape, finding Mitian unharmed in his collar. He then saw the clock showed only two minutes remained before dinner.

• The Saintess Statue summoned a faceless woman who attacked Bo Yi with deadly beams of light.
• Bo Yi noticed Mitian had vanished and deduced that the glowing Saintess Statue was the source of the illusion.
• Bo Yi dodged the beams, grabbed the statue, and smashed it against the floor.
• The illusion disappeared, and Bo Yi found that Mitian was still safe in his collar and his surroundings were undamaged.
• Bo Yi checked the clock and saw that it was 17:58, leaving two minutes until dinner.

Bo Yi returned to the ward in time for dinner, but Shi Xinyi and several other patients taken away for examinations were missing. Later, he found Ran Yan searching for Xinyi and led her to the concealed laboratory door.

• Bo Yi rushed back to the third floor before 18:00, frustrating the Veteran Players who had thought he would not return.
• Ran Yan asked Bo Yi whether he had seen Shi Xinyi, who had not returned with the patients taken away that afternoon.
• Bo Yi noticed that Shi Xinyi's group and two other patient NPCs were absent from the Dining Hall, and suspected he understood what the Holy Medicine and a 'best performance' meant.
• After dinner and prayers, Bo Yi went to the fourth floor to revisit the laboratory and found Ran Yan searching the consultation rooms for Xinyi.
• Bo Yi told Ran Yan that a dead Xinyi might have no body to find, then led her toward the concealed laboratory door.

Bo Yi took Ran Yan through the sanatorium’s laboratory, where she saw the remains of the dead and learned why their bodies could not be found. They reached a candlelit stone chamber with a blood-filled pool, where Ran Yan discovered the floating woman was not Shi Xinyi and Bo Yi recognized her as a specimen being maintained in the solution.

• Bo Yi led Ran Yan into the laboratory and showed her the bodies kept inside glass cases, leaving her grieving over what she saw.
• Ran Yan joined Bo Yi in the elevator, and they descended to a dim stone chamber filled with candles and a pool of dark red liquid.
• Ran Yan mistook a woman floating in the pool for Shi Xinyi, then realized she had never seen the woman before.
• Bo Yi examined the candles and the pool, recognized the woman from a glass case, and concluded that the solution was used to maintain the vessels.

Bo Yi and Ran Yan found ward keys in the blood pool, including the key to Shi Xinyi’s room, and Ran Yan attacked the woman in the pool in grief. After the woman withered and sank when her skin was scratched, Bo Yi realized that damaging a vessel might help him become the only one chosen.

• Bo Yi searched the blood pool and found several silver keys with Ran Yan.
• Ran Yan discovered that one of the keys belonged to Shi Xinyi’s ward, 309, and broke down in grief.
• Ran Yan accused the woman in the pool of killing Shi Xinyi and slashed her face with Shi Xinyi’s key.
• The woman’s body withered and sank after the shallow cut damaged her as a vessel.
• Bo Yi inferred that damaging a vessel could make him the only choice and asked Ran Yan if she wanted to avenge Shi Xinyi.

Ran Yan and Bo Yi discovered a room full of sleeping women resembling the figure in the blood pool, and Ran Yan tried to destroy the vessels and wound one of them. The women proved protected by resilient skin, then awoke, leaving Ran Yan and Bo Yi surrounded.

• Bo Yi revealed the glass cases, and Ran Yan realized the woman in the blood pool was only one of many vessels.
• Ran Yan smashed the glass cases while Bo Yi questioned why the vessels seemed to have no defenses.
• Ran Yan tried to slash a sleeping woman's hand, but her skin remained unharmed, while the shard cut Ran Yan's own hand.
• Bo Yi stopped Ran Yan from trying her key and warned her not to disturb the woman, who had opened her eyes.
• Ran Yan saw that all the women in the room had awakened.

Bo Yi and Ran Yan were attacked by the awakened women in the glass cases, and Ran Yan was badly injured. As Bo Yi searched for a way to fight the women, he realized they were avoiding her blood and suspected that the nutrient solution’s effective concentration was the key to defeating them.

• The women in the glass cases awakened and began surrounding Bo Yi and Ran Yan.
• Ran Yan slipped on a shard of glass and cried out, causing the women to attack at full speed.
• The women hurled Ran Yan onto the glass-covered floor, leaving her unconscious and bleeding heavily.
• Bo Yi tried to reach Ran Yan but found the women too strong and agile to defeat with ordinary attacks.
• Bo Yi noticed the women avoiding the pool of Ran Yan’s blood and connected it to the nutrient solution’s required effective concentration.

Bo Yi discovered that blood and damaged skin could destroy the women who were pursuing him, then used that weakness to defeat them with Mitian’s help. He revived Ran Yan with Holy Medicine and prepared to leave, but Mitian dropped the key to Bo Yi’s room in the laboratory.

• Bo Yi splashed Ran Yan’s blood onto a woman, shriveling her skin, then cut the damaged patch and watched the woman collapse as foul fluid poured out.
• Bo Yi and Mitian used Ran Yan’s blood to weaken and break the remaining women until all of them fell as skeletons.
• Bo Yi checked Mitian for injuries and contamination, then took a bottle of Holy Medicine from him and poured it into Ran Yan’s mouth.
• Ran Yan awoke, recognized the remains as the women, and realized Bo Yi had used the precious medicine to heal her.
• Bo Yi warned Ran Yan to avoid injury and keep her blood from the NPCs, then turned to leave with her.
• Mitian stirred in Bo Yi’s pocket and dropped the key to Bo Yi’s room onto the laboratory floor.

Bo Yi was singled out for special treatment after his test result improved, then abducted to the concealed fourth-floor laboratory. He woke restrained on the operating table as the doctor prepared to inject him, and challenged the doctor to consider that Bo Yi was his last remaining vessel.

• Ran Yan realized the patient NPC who had received the Holy Medicine had died overnight.
• During Room Inspection, Bo Yi’s test result was no longer 0, and the doctor studied it with intense interest.
• Miss Nina ordered Bo Yi from Room 310, bed 4, to receive individual special treatment, and he followed the doctor to the fourth floor.
• The doctor led Bo Yi into the concealed laboratory, where a strange odor knocked him unconscious.
• Bo Yi woke restrained on the operating table as the doctor raised a syringe of red-black liquid toward his abdomen.
• Bo Yi warned the doctor that he had no other vessels left and was about to destroy the last one, stopping the needle midair.

Bo Yi persuaded the doctor to test him as a potential vessel, and the machine showed that his body had no trace of any wounds, even healed ones. After several examinations confirmed he was an ideal vessel, the doctor discovered something implanted inside Bo Yi’s body.

• Bo Yi convinced the doctor to use his testing machine despite the doctor’s doubts about his healed injuries.
• The machine’s report showed that Bo Yi had no wounds or traces of healed wounds, astonishing the doctor and Mitian.
• The doctor accepted Bo Yi as a potential vessel and began a complete examination.
• The doctor’s final examination revealed something implanted inside Bo Yi’s body.

The doctor decided to keep Bo Yi as his vessel and began operating to remove the chip in his neck. As the procedure revealed the chip was connected to nerves and blood vessels and still running a program, the doctor became intrigued and continued examining it.

• The doctor chose to use Bo Yi as his vessel despite the chip inside him, and Bo Yi let himself fall asleep under the hypnotic gas.
• The doctor secured the unconscious Bo Yi to the examination table and marked where he believed the chip was located.
• Mitian watched nervously as the doctor cut into Bo Yi's neck, reflecting on how his feelings for Bo Yi had changed.
• The doctor found that the chip was connected to Bo Yi's nerves and blood vessels, making it dangerous to remove by force.
• The doctor noticed the chip's indicator light blinking and became intensely interested in the program still running on it.

Bo Yi endured a surgery that separated the chip from his nerves and blood vessels, allowing the doctor to remove and destroy it. The doctor then took Bo Yi to the blood pool, where Miss Nina revealed he was intended as the vessel for the Saintess’s birthday celebration.

• Mitian understood that Bo Yi had chosen the doctor because the doctor’s skills and motives made him a trustworthy choice for removing the chip.
• The doctor painstakingly separated the chip’s circuitry from Bo Yi’s nerves and blood vessels while Mitian watched anxiously.
• The doctor pulled out the chip, which overheated and exploded after its output pathways had been severed.
• The doctor pushed Bo Yi’s operating table into the elevator and brought him to the blood pool.
• Miss Nina questioned the doctor about choosing a male vessel, and he said the Saintess’s holy light would reshape Bo Yi into a suitable form.

The doctor placed the badly injured Bo Yi in a blood pool to recover, while Mitian secretly used holy water on him and waited nearby. At the ward, the players assumed Bo Yi had died and discussed the holy water, leaving Ran Yan disillusioned by their focus on its benefits rather than escaping the Instance.

• The doctor confirmed Miss Nina had prepared a fresh solution, put Bo Yi into the blood pool, and told her to begin preparing for the birthday celebration.
• After the doctor left, Mitian poured holy water over Bo Yi and stayed beside him as his color and body heat returned.
• The third-floor players assumed Bo Yi would not return and speculated about why the doctor had taken him away.
• The players focused on obtaining holy water and judged Ran Yan's teammate Ji Yu for grieving after his friend died.
• Ran Yan agreed with the players outwardly but grew disappointed that they had forgotten the Instance was an escape Instance, not a survival Instance.

Ran Yan decided to search for Bo Yi alone after losing faith in the Veteran Players, while Miss Nina recruited three players to help make Holy Wine and Holy Candles. At the blood pool, Mitian prepared to tear open a rift to rescue Bo Yi, who remained unconscious, but suddenly lost consciousness himself.

• Ran Yan judged that the Veteran Players cared only about staying alive and abandoned her plan to ask them to search for Bo Yi.
• Miss Nina arrived in the corridor and recruited volunteers for an assignment, confirming that helping her counted toward their assessment.
• Lu Wei and two other players who promised to do anything were chosen to help make Holy Wine and Holy Candles.
• Mitian waited beside the blood pool as Bo Yi remained unconscious, then decided to risk attracting the game's attention by tearing open a rift.
• As Mitian gathered black mist to open the rift, his vision went black and he plunged into darkness.

Ran Yan spent the night fleeing a flesh monster and failed to search for Bo Yi. On the Saintess’s birthday, Miss Nina led the patients and players to a celebration in the Prayer Room, where Ran Yan found Bo Yi lying motionless on a table.

• Ran Yan tried to find Bo Yi but was pursued by a flesh monster until dawn.
• Ran Yan returned to the third floor and found the NPC patients unusually tidy and lined up, while only six players remained.
• Miss Nina announced that the Saintess’s birthday celebration meant no examinations or activity schedule, and that the Saintess pardoned all transgressions.
• The patients’ cheering swept the players into the Prayer Room, where orderlies stood along the walls and the room smelled of blood.
• Ran Yan saw Bo Yi lying motionless on a table before the Saintess Statue.

Ran Yan and the other players watched a Saint Mary ritual in the Prayer Room, where Bo Yi lay unconscious on a table and the orderlies brought out mutilated people as holy offerings. The chapter ended with Lu Wei, grotesquely altered but still alive, presented as the Holy Wine.

• Ran Yan spotted Bo Yi lying on the long table, but Shen Jiayue stopped her from approaching him while the orderlies watched.
• Ran Yan saw a white pigeon with red eyes atop the Saintess Statue, but it vanished before Shen Jiayue could see it.
• A familiar-looking man in white robes appeared and recounted Saint Mary's origins before announcing that the celebration would begin.
• The orderlies unveiled two players as human-shaped Holy Candles and lit the hair on their heads.
• The orderlies presented Lu Wei as the Holy Wine, revealing that his lower body had been removed and his swollen belly held sloshing contents, though he was still alive.

The patients opened the Holy Wine, revealing that it was Lu Wei’s blood and body, while the NPCs celebrated and began the divine descent ritual. Mitian awoke atop the Saintess Statue but was trapped by a red beam as the shadow approached Bo Yi, until black mist emerged from Bo Yi’s body.

• The man in white robes stabbed the Holy Wine, bursting Lu Wei’s distended body and spraying blood and human tissue over the crowd.
• The NPCs cheered as the blood fell, then sang to Saint Mary and began the divine descent ritual.
• Mitian awoke on the Saintess Statue’s head and spotted Bo Yi lying motionless on the table below.
• Mitian tried to fly to Bo Yi, but a blood-red beam immobilized him as a shadow emerged from the statue and approached Bo Yi.
• Black mist poured from Bo Yi’s body as the shadow’s finger touched him.

Bo Yi awoke in his childhood body in the Scientific Research Institute’s Laboratory and relived the moment researchers tried to destroy the evidence of their experiments by killing him. He remained conscious as they injected him and dumped him in the waste room, intent on seeing what would happen next.

• Bo Yi realized he had returned to his childhood body, surrounded by other experimental subjects made from his genes.
• Bo Yi overheard researchers 0325 and 0412 decide to inject him with an untested drug to destroy his body and conceal their experiments.
• Researcher 0412 injected Bo Yi with the drug while 0325 restrained him.
• Researchers 0325 and 0412 carried Bo Yi to the waste room and threw him onto a pile of discarded body parts.
• Bo Yi remained conscious in the darkness after the waste room door closed.