Chapter Summaries

Bo Yi visited his injured father, Bo Zheyuan, at the detention center and taunted him about his suspected role in the Scientific Research Institute disaster. Bo Zheyuan hinted that he still had a way to threaten Bo Yi, leaving their confrontation unresolved.

• Bo Yi agreed to meet Bo Zheyuan after detention center staff said his father wanted to speak with him.
• Bo Yi arrived at the detention center with Mitian posing as his bodyguard and was struck by how much Bo Zheyuan had aged.
• Bo Yi mocked Bo Zheyuan for suspecting him of causing the accident and suggested his injuries were retribution for his wicked deeds.
• Bo Zheyuan calmed down and told Bo Yi that he seemed to think his father could no longer threaten him.

Bo Zheyuan tried to kill Bo Yi by activating the chip implanted in his body, but Bo Yi revealed that he had removed it long ago. Bo Yi had Mitian call for medical staff, intending to keep Bo Zheyuan alive to witness his eventual fate.

• Bo Zheyuan claimed he had activated Bo Yi’s chip and counted down to its supposed detonation.
• When nothing happened, Bo Zheyuan demanded to know why the chip had failed to kill Bo Yi.
• Bo Yi explained that he had studied the chip and removed it long ago.
• Bo Zheyuan refused to believe Bo Yi could have disabled the chip without the research documents.
• Bo Yi and Mitian discussed Bo Zheyuan’s worsening injuries and called for staff to treat him.

Bo Yi told Mitian about his childhood as an experimental subject at the Scientific Research Institute and how he learned to long for the normal world. He ended by showing Mitian a news photo of his younger self, leaving Mitian astonished by how cute Bo Yi had been as a child.

• Bo Yi explained that Bo Zheyuan had created him using his own genes and Anomaly genes, and that he had been raised as Number One in the Laboratory.
• Bo Yi recalled how another boy brought in from outside taught him that life beyond the testing chambers was normal, but the boy died during an experiment.
• Bo Yi said he could not remember how he escaped the Institute, but after waking in a hospital he exposed it to the government, though it was not completely shut down.
• Mitian listened with heartache, and Bo Yi grew flustered before changing the subject by finding an old news article about himself.
• Mitian saw Bo Yi’s childhood photo and was amazed by how cute he had looked.

Mitian dreamed that he met a badly injured chibi Bo Yi, who had summoned him and asked to live. Mitian granted the wish by healing Bo Yi and strengthening his healing ability, though the dream left the outcome uncertain.

• Mitian appeared in a corpse-filled room and found chibi Bo Yi lying among the bodies.
• Mitian teased Bo Yi, who asked whether he was an evil god and whether he could grant a wish.
• Bo Yi revealed that he wanted to live, and Mitian discovered how gravely damaged his body was.
• Mitian agreed to grant Bo Yi's wish and used black mist to heal his wounds and strengthen his healing ability.

Mitian and Bo Yi received invitations to a newly established Instance, which Mitian recognized as a trap laid by a thief who had stolen and imprisoned something of his. Mitian decided to enter despite losing his powers there, then realized his vivid dream might not have been a dream after all.

• Bo Yi told Mitian he had received a purple invitation to a new Instance and gave him an identical one bearing Mitian's name.
• Mitian confirmed he could use his invitation, though entering would seal his Evil God powers and make him an ordinary player.
• Mitian called the sender a thief and decided to enter the Instance to confront his opponent, believing their strength was now evenly matched.
• Bo Yi reminded Mitian that some of his power remained inside him, prompting Mitian to wonder whether his dream had really happened.

Bo Yi entered True Heart Amusement Park with 99 other players and learned they had to gain the park owner's approval. After using his invitation to enter and receiving a points card, he explored the abandoned park as its owner began addressing the players over a loudspeaker.

• Bo Yi entered the amusement park and spotted Mitian standing alone among the players.
• The system announced that all 100 players had arrived and set the objective of gaining the amusement park owner's approval.
• Bo Yi used his purple invitation to pass through a ticket gate and received a red points card.
• Luo Yong and Xin Ruoyu scanned their invitations, and the other players began entering the park.
• Bo Yi explored the overgrown, silent attractions as a loudspeaker crackled to life.
• A shrill male voice welcomed everyone to his amusement park.

Mitian and Bo Yi entered True Heart Amusement Park and learned that only its attractions were free, while food and other necessities required points. Bo Yi realized the rides might help them earn points and hurried Mitian toward them.

• Mitian joined Bo Yi in the park and confirmed that the voice over the loudspeakers belonged to the thief who had invited them.
• The park owner announced that every attraction was free, but did not appear or explain how players could earn his approval.
• Bo Yi and Mitian searched the park and found no employees, broadcasting station, or obvious way to earn money.
• Bo Yi tried to pay at a drink shop and deduced that the park used points as currency.
• Bo Yi decided that the rides were the key and urged Mitian to go on them.

Bo Yi and Mitian joined other players at the carousel to test what seemed to be the safest ride in the amusement park. After the ticket gate turned one player away because all seats were occupied, the remaining players mounted the worn wooden horses, and the ride announced that it was about to begin.

• Bo Yi led Mitian to the carousel and invited the players gathered there to join them.
• More players arrived, while others watched to see whether the ride was safe before trying it themselves.
• The ticket gate accepted point cards until it announced that all seats were occupied and sent one player to wait outside.
• Bo Yi and Mitian chose wooden horses, and the other admitted players climbed onto the carousel.
• The carousel lit up, played its music, and instructed the riders to hold on and stay seated until the game ended.

Bo Yi and Mitian discovered that the carousel’s empty seats had filled with stitched-together visitors who began attacking the players. Bo Yi realized the bloody, slippery horses and the visitors’ thrown heads were meant to make players fall before the ride ended.

• When the carousel started, Bo Yi saw the seats filled with motionless, blue-gray visitors while the other players shouted in alarm.
• Mitian pointed out the visitors’ stitch marks, and Bo Yi realized their limbs had been pieced together from mismatched parts.
• A visitor turned toward Bo Yi, invited him to play, and pulled its head off before hurling it at him.
• Bo Yi dodged the flying head but began sliding off his horse, and Mitian caught him and helped him sit upright again.
• Bo Yi found blood slicking his horse and understood that the blood and the visitors’ attacks were meant to make players dismount.

Bo Yi and Mitian endured a carousel ride where severed body parts attacked the players, while Mitian explained that the ride’s difficulty had only seemed manageable because they were unusually capable. Bo Yi realized that surviving by dodging was not enough and concluded they had to fight back against the visitors.

• Bo Yi noticed the carousel poles growing colder, and Mitian gave him strips of cloth to wrap around his hands.
• The visitors began throwing their severed limbs and organs at the players, forcing them to dodge while clinging to their horses.
• Mitian revealed he had drawn attacks away from Bo Yi by using himself as bait, then told Bo Yi the ride was only easy for them.
• Mitian reasoned that the carousel’s increasing speed and growing number of attackers would eventually exhaust the players.
• Bo Yi watched the visitors and concluded that the players needed to return the attacks to make the dodgeball game fair.

Bo Yi and Mitian discovered that knocking the headless visitors off their wooden horses eliminated them and their attacking body parts, helping the players clear the carousel. When the ride stopped, Bo Yi realized it was not safe to leave, but another player stepped onto the ground as the lights went out and grayish-blue arms reached for him.

• Bo Yi and Mitian knocked a headless visitor off its wooden horse by throwing severed body parts at it, causing its scattered limbs to lose their power.
• Bo Yi and Mitian showed the other players how to eliminate visitors, and the players copied them to clear the carousel.
• Mitian knocked down visitors with nearly every throw while Bo Yi passed him body parts, and the players eventually eliminated the remaining visitors.
• The music stopped and the carousel slowed to a halt, making the players believe the game was over.
• Bo Yi warned the players not to dismount, but one player touched the ground just as the lights went out and grayish-blue arms reached for him.

The players escaped the carousel after the Instance claimed a player who dismounted when the ride first stopped. Bo Yi discovered that the amusement park had awarded points for the attraction and began to understand how the scores were calculated.

• The carousel’s lights went out, and when they returned, the players were back in the amusement park while the player who had dismounted early was missing.
• The electronic voice announced that the game had ended, and Bo Yi searched the carousel floor for the missing player before Mitian urged him to leave.
• Bo Yi and Mitian found the players gathered by the exit, where the amusement park had returned their point cards with carousel scores stamped on them.
• Bo Yi saw that Mitian had scored 120 points while he and most of the other players had scored 60.
• Bo Yi compared the players’ scores with their actions on the carousel and worked out how the points had been calculated.

Bo Yi deduced how the Carousel awarded points, while the players who survived it shared what they had learned and watched others take their turn. As night fell, the park’s loudspeakers crackled and the familiar announcer greeted the visitors again.

• Bo Yi worked out that Mitian earned 70 bonus points by taking down seven visitors, while he earned 10 by taking down one.
• The surviving players left the Carousel, and the players waiting outside learned that black mist had blocked them from seeing or hearing what happened inside.
• Bo Yi and Mitian realized that the Instance prevented outsiders from freely benefiting from other players’ experiences unless clues were shared voluntarily.
• Bo Yi stopped Mitian from spending his 120 points on skull-shaped cotton candy and watched another group enter the Carousel.
• Night fell, and the loudspeakers crackled before the announcer greeted the visitors.

The amusement park’s host summoned the players to the central plaza and revealed a points ranking, where Mitian had taken first place. The host then spotlighted Mitian before the crowd, leaving Bo Yi’s warning unspoken.

• The host broadcast an invitation for all players to gather in the central plaza for presents, and Bo Yi led Mitian and the others there.
• The host appeared on the plaza’s screen wearing a clown mask and announced the day’s points rankings.
• The players discovered that points had been earned by riding attractions, and the Veteran Players regretted avoiding the rides.
• The ranking showed Mitian in first place with 120 points, twice as many as the player in second place.
• The host called attention to the first-place player and shone a spotlight on Mitian as Bo Yi tried to warn him.

Mr. "Clown" announced that only the top ten players would reach his trial, then selected ten players tied for last place for erasure. Mitian and Bo Yi realized they would need to stay in the top ten to meet him.

• Mr. "Clown" revealed that the top ten players in the rankings would be allowed to take his trial, where they could earn the amusement park owner's approval.
• Mitian and Bo Yi recognized that the invitation to meet Mr. "Clown" was meant for them and understood they both needed to stay in the top ten.
• Mr. "Clown" announced that the bottom ten players would face punishment and found that most players had tied with zero points.
• Ten beams of light selected ten players from the zero-point group, and Mr. "Clown" announced that erasure would begin.

Mr. "Clown" executed the ten lowest-ranked players, then announced that limited safe houses would protect the survivors at night but required payment. Bo Yi noticed the card readers beside the doors, and one safe house finally opened after someone paid 20 points.

• The ten players caught in the beams were covered in red lines that burst and drained their blood before their bodies shattered.
• Mr. "Clown" announced that the punishment was over for the day, and Bo Yi realized the lowest-ranked players would be eliminated daily.
• Mr. "Clown" showed the players the safe houses and warned that their number was limited, sending most of the survivors rushing to find one.
• Bo Yi spotted card slots beside every safe house door and suspected that shelter would cost points.
• Players who tried to enter a safe house received payment-failed messages and despaired when they could not afford access.
• A mechanical voice announced that payment of 20 points had succeeded and opened safe house 025.

Bo Yi and the other players discovered that points opened Safe Houses, while players without points tried and failed to claim shelter by force. Mitian rejected two players’ plea for help by pulling Bo Yi into his arms and declaring him his baby.

• Bo Yi used his points card to open a Safe House, revealing that players could spend points to enter for the night.
• Players without points regretted skipping the rides, while other point-holders opened Safe Houses and learned each entry cost twenty points.
• Mitian threw a player who tried to rush into a Safe House toward a trash can, and another player dragged out a squatter who had stolen a spot.
• Two newcomers approached Mitian and asked him to pay for their Safe House, pointing out that he had paid for Bo Yi.
• Mitian pulled Bo Yi into his arms and told the newcomers that Bo Yi was his baby.

Bo Yi and Mitian drove away two players who tried to take advantage of them, then inspected their safe house and argued over whether to share a room. A scream drew them to the window, where they saw the amusement park darkened and filled with wandering stitched visitors, while a player hid outside.

• Mitian and Bo Yi pretended to be an affectionate couple until the two players gave up on asking them to pay for a room and left.
• Bo Yi inspected the two-story safe house, including its overpriced vending machine and the bedrooms with private bathrooms.
• Mitian followed Bo Yi into his room and insisted they should sleep together because Bo Yi had called him “hubby.”
• A piercing scream interrupted them, and Bo Yi and Mitian went to the hallway window to look outside.
• Bo Yi and Mitian saw the darkened park filled with gray-blue, stitched visitors and a frightened player hiding behind a flower bed.

Bo Yi and Mitian watched the visitors hunt players outside the Safe Houses, including players who had died earlier, and realized the park’s threats would keep growing. After a night of rest in the Safe Houses, the players gathered to see the new rankings, where they noticed that many people were missing.

• Bo Yi recognized a dead carousel player among the visitors chasing a player through the streets.
• Mitian pointed out that players eliminated by the clown had also become visitors, and Bo Yi realized that preventing ride deaths would not stop the dead from accumulating.
• Mitian shut the window and sent Bo Yi to rest before the next day’s likely battle; Bo Yi called him “Hubby” before closing his door.
• The Safe House players left before the houses disappeared at eight, then gathered in the central plaza when the clown summoned them.
• The players checked the updated rankings and cried out when they noticed that many people were missing.

Bo Yi and Mitian led a group of players to try the Ferris wheel and pirate ship as they searched for points, while the rides proved deadly for many. Back at the carousel, Bo Yi learned that a player had stolen medicine from an injured newcomer and killed her.

• The players discovered that fifteen people had died overnight, and the Veteran Players learned they could not replay the carousel for points.
• At the group’s urging, Mitian deferred to Bo Yi, who suggested the Ferris wheel, but its entrance rejected them because all seats were supposedly occupied.
• The group boarded the pirate ship, survived its dangerous ride, and returned with two fewer players than before.
• Bo Yi found a crowd gathered near the carousel and learned that a newcomer had cleared the ride, bought medicine for her injuries, and been robbed and killed by another player.