Chapter Summaries

Mitian forced Liang Pingkang and Fang Jun through a wedding ceremony, and the Instance cleared as Fang Jun was dragged away from the exit. Bo Yi prepared to leave with Mitian, who promised he would appear as soon as Bo Yi woke up.

• Mitian ordered the wedding ceremony to begin while Liang Pingkang and Fang Jun were held up by servants.
• The paper guests welcomed Fang Jun, and he recognized the dead players, including Xiao Xiao, among them.
• The servants forced Fang Jun to bow through the ceremony, and the Instance's exit appeared at the Kang Residence gates.
• The servants dragged Fang Jun away from the exit as he struggled and cried out.
• Mitian offered to see Bo Yi out, and Bo Yi grabbed his collar to demand he not lie again.
• Mitian promised Bo Yi that he would see him as soon as Bo Yi opened his eyes.

Mitian reassured Bo Yi that his injuries were not Bo Yi’s fault, then discovered that the Scientific Research Institute’s chip had caused Bo Yi’s pain. Bo Yi rejected the institute’s offer to disable the chip’s tracking and shock functions, and the director ordered the institute to finish what it had started.

• Bo Yi realized Mitian had entered the third Instance early to help him, but Mitian assured him that the trouble was not his fault and comforted him.
• A researcher brought Bo Yi an unopened envelope from the Scientific Research Institute, and Mitian read that it contained a plan to disable the chip’s tracking and electric shock programs.
• Mitian learned that Bo Yi had been implanted with the chip as a child and that tampering with its core could trigger a self-destruct program.
• Bo Yi retrieved important documents from Mitian, asked him to keep them safe, and ordered the institute’s envelope sent back unopened.
• Old Xu reported the returned envelope to the director, who ordered the institute to finish what it had started.

A fire devastated the Research Institute, injuring its researchers and destroying equipment while Bo Yi watched the aftermath. When Mitian arrived, Bo Yi said he no longer wanted to hold back against those responsible, and Mitian promised to fulfill his wishes.

• Researchers fought the spreading fire through the night, trying to save lab equipment and research materials despite being unable to contact their superiors.
• The blaze was brought under control at dawn, leaving the Research Institute wrecked and the exhausted researchers injured.
• Bo Yi surveyed the destruction and said he had planned to wait until he could disable the chip's self-destruct program before settling the score, but he no longer wanted to hold back.
• Mitian embraced Bo Yi and promised to make every one of his wishes come true.

Mitian went to the Scientific Research Institute to punish the people who had harmed Bo Yi, but discovered that its director had burned the files Bo Yi needed to disable his chip’s self-destruct protocol. When a new batch of dangerous anomalies arrived, Mitian thought of another way to settle accounts.

• Mitian entered the Scientific Research Institute while Bo Yi stayed behind to help the injured and organize the recovery effort.
• Mitian overheard technicians mocking Bo Yi and the researchers, then used his power to make one of them pour boiling water into his mouth.
• Mitian listened outside the director’s office as the director and an Anomaly Safety Bureau official bragged about the fire and revealed they had destroyed the files Bo Yi needed.
• Mitian realized the director had ruined his plan to retrieve the files for Bo Yi.
• A technician announced the arrival of a rare, highly dangerous batch of anomalies, and Mitian came up with a new idea.

After the Scientific Research Institute’s anomalies escaped and its staff were injured, Mitian struggled to tell Bo Yi that the institute had destroyed the information about the chip in his neck. Bo Yi figured out the truth and chose the most difficult Instance, which offered the best chance of removing the chip.

• A news broadcast reported that anomalies had escaped from the Scientific Research Institute, attacking people while Bo Zheyuan and the institute’s staff were seriously injured.
• Mitian paced outside Bo Yi’s room, unsure whether to tell him that the information he sought had been destroyed.
• Bo Yi found Mitian and asked why he was pacing, so Mitian offered him several possible Instances instead.
• Bo Yi deduced that the institute had destroyed the information about his neck chip, and Mitian’s reaction confirmed it.
• Bo Yi picked the final, most difficult Instance after realizing it had the highest chance of removing the chip.

Bo Yi waited at the entrance to St. Mary's Sanatorium, where the players could not open the locked gate and the Instance would not begin until all twenty players had arrived. After Nurse Nina admitted them as patients, the gate slammed shut behind them.

• Bo Yi counted eighteen players waiting at the locked gate, then went down the mountain and found two newcomers hiding behind a dead tree.
• Bo Yi told the short-haired girl and the long-haired girl that the path led only back up the mountain, and they followed him to the summit.
• The system announced that all twenty players were present and identified the mission as escaping St. Mary's Sanatorium.
• Nurse Nina appeared beyond the gate, called the players newly admitted patients, and unlocked the gate.
• The players entered the sanatorium, and the gate slammed shut behind them.

Nina led the players into St. Mary's Sanatorium, warned them to keep quiet, and assigned them rooms and beds. Bo Yi found his assigned room in disrepair, with signs that unseen patients occupied the other beds, but no records explaining their treatment.

• Nina locked the outer gate and led the players toward the sanatorium's main building.
• Nina warned the players not to make loud noises inside because the other patients needed a suitable environment to recuperate.
• Nina unlocked the main door and assigned each player a room and bed; Bo Yi received a key to room 310, bed 4.
• Bo Yi entered his room and found three other beds with filthy bedding that suggested unseen patients slept there.
• Bo Yi searched the room but found no bedside cards or patient records to explain the occupants' treatment plans.

Bo Yi left his room and noticed players discussing a plan to switch rooms so they could stay with their teammates. As the players exchanged keys, two streaks of white light flashed through the corridor and someone screamed.

• Bo Yi put on his hospital gown and left his room to look for the other players.
• A player proposed switching rooms with another player so each could share with a teammate.
• Bo Yi read the daily schedule at the nurses' station and wondered about the group activities.
• The two players agreed to switch wards that night and exchanged keys.
• Bo Yi saw two streaks of white light flash past, followed by an agonized scream.

After two players disobeyed the sanatorium’s rule against loud noises, Miss Nina punished them by destroying their eyes. Bo Yi noticed her keys were missing as she dragged the barely alive players toward the stairwell.

• The players rushed into the corridor and found two men with syringes embedded in their eyes.
• Ran Yan stopped Shi Xinyi from screaming and reminded her of the nurse’s warning not to make loud noises.
• Miss Nina arrived and accused the injured players of disturbing the other patients.
• Miss Nina stirred the syringes in the men’s eyes until their cries faded and they lay barely alive.
• Bo Yi noticed that Miss Nina’s ring of keys had disappeared.
• Miss Nina grabbed the two men by their ankles and dragged them toward the stairwell.

After Miss Nina dragged away two players for breaking the rules, the others learned that the attack had been triggered by their attempt to switch rooms with the silver keys. Miss Nina introduced the rule to obey the sanatorium’s staff and led the players to meet the doctor, but Bo Yi noticed the blood trails had vanished from the stairs.

• A player tried to save his teammate, but another player restrained him and warned that Miss Nina was too strong to confront.
• Ji Yu and Lu Wei argued over whether Ji Yu had abandoned his teammate, until Miss Nina returned and silenced them.
• Miss Nina picked up two bloodstained keys, and Ji Yu realized his teammate had been trying to switch rooms so they could look out for each other.
• Miss Nina told the players they had to obey the doctors and nurses, then led them to have their individual files set up with the doctor.
• Bo Yi stopped at the stairwell when he saw that the two bloody drag marks had disappeared from the spotless steps.

Miss Nina brought the players to the fourth floor and asked who would enter the silent examination room first. Bo Yi volunteered, and after the doctor’s nonsensical consultation, the doctor diagnosed him with binge-eating disorder and ordered him to lie down for treatment.

• Miss Nina led the players to a quiet examination room and asked them to choose who would go in first.
• Bo Yi volunteered and entered the room alone as the other players watched with gratitude and admiration.
• The doctor questioned Bo Yi and recorded diagnoses that contradicted his answers.
• The doctor declared that Bo Yi had binge-eating disorder, opened the curtain, and told him to lie down for treatment.

Bo Yi was taken behind the curtain to a bloodstained treatment room, where the doctor tried to chain him to an iron bed and begin bloodletting. The doctor struggled to operate an old machine, and Bo Yi quietly got it working before offering to help.

• Bo Yi examined the hidden room's bloodstained walls, torture instruments, and chained iron bed as the doctor beckoned him over.
• The doctor revealed his grotesque lower body and angrily demanded that Bo Yi obey him.
• Bo Yi approached calmly and asked what treatment the doctor planned to perform.
• The doctor pushed Bo Yi onto the bed and tried to operate an antiquated bloodletting machine.
• Bo Yi pressed a button to start the machine, then asked the baffled doctor if he needed help.

Bo Yi tricked the doctor into lying on the bed and demonstrated the machine by strapping him down and starting it. The doctor screamed that he was the doctor, but Bo Yi silenced him and continued the examination.

• Bo Yi persuaded the doctor to lie on the iron bed so he could demonstrate the machine.
• Bo Yi bound the doctor to the bed with chains and inserted the machine's sampling probes into his skin.
• Bo Yi explained the machine's controls and pressed the main switch.
• The machine began operating, and the doctor cried out in pain and demanded that Bo Yi listen to him.
• Bo Yi covered the doctor's mouth and told him to stay quiet during the examination.

Bo Yi subjected the doctor to a brutal examination, and Miss Nina ended his treatment and arranged a replacement doctor. The players mistook a mangled body for Bo Yi, but he emerged unharmed and confused by their tribute.

• A player eavesdropped outside the examination room and heard screams, alarming the players gathered in the corridor.
• Miss Nina pounded on the examination room door, and Bo Yi stopped the machine and let her in.
• Miss Nina confronted Bo Yi about what he had done to the doctor, but Bo Yi argued that the doctor had ordered the examinations and that he had followed her rules.
• Miss Nina declared Bo Yi's treatment over and summoned two orderlies to carry the mangled doctor away.
• The players assumed the mangled body was Bo Yi and praised him for sacrificing himself to obtain a clue, but Bo Yi emerged from the room alive and asked why they had called his name.

Bo Yi emerged unharmed after killing the doctor during his examination, but the replacement doctor’s examination left another player severely drained. Shi Xinyi was sent into the examination room, and Ran Yan worried that the new doctor might be even more dangerous.

• The players learned that the bloody remains carried away earlier belonged to the doctor, not Bo Yi, and Miss Nina sent Bo Yi to the rest area before he could answer their questions.
• Miss Nina said a new doctor was on the way, and the players realized they would still have to undergo examinations.
• Orderlies carried out the second player, who had been drained of blood and left barely alive.
• Miss Nina selected Shi Xinyi for the next examination, and a veteran player warned her that refusing an NPC would mean certain death.
• Shi Xinyi entered the examination room, while Ran Yan worried that the replacement doctor was not the one who had examined Bo Yi.

Bo Yi investigated the doctor’s abnormal blood and emerged from the examination room unharmed, while the other players suffered severe injuries. As Miss Nina ordered them to reach the dining hall two floors below, Bo Yi demanded that the sanatorium take responsibility for the patients who could not walk.

• Bo Yi tested the doctor’s blood, found an unusually high concentration of an unknown substance, and confirmed that his own blood produced normal results.
• Miss Nina arrived before Bo Yi could finish examining the doctor, and the injured players were carried into the rest area.
• Shi Xinyi continued bleeding heavily, while Ran Yan lay unconscious with all four limbs twisted.
• Miss Nina announced that everyone had to go to dinner in the second-floor dining hall, despite the injured players being unable to walk there.
• Bo Yi told Miss Nina that the sanatorium had to take responsibility because the players had been injured while cooperating with its examinations.

Miss Nina gave the players the sanatorium’s holy medicine, which healed Shi Xinyi’s injuries, then led them to the dining hall and assigned them seats. As Bo Yi looked over the bland, unappetizing meal, he found himself thinking it looked tasty.

• Miss Nina defended the sanatorium’s treatment and announced that new patients would receive a bottle of holy medicine.
• Miss Nina forced the medicine down Shi Xinyi’s throat, and Shi Xinyi’s bleeding stopped as she regained consciousness.
• Miss Nina distributed medicine to the players, while Bo Yi saved his bottle to examine its ingredients and healing effects.
• Miss Nina led the players to the dining hall, assigned them seats, and explained that the meals were standardized.
• Bo Yi inspected the unappetizing food and unexpectedly thought it looked tasty.

Bo Yi and the other players struggled to eat the cafeteria’s terrible food, while the patient NPCs finished and waited for their next command. Bo Yi noticed that his own unnatural appetite was the opposite of another player’s growing aversion to food.

• Miss Nina announced that the patients and players could begin eating.
• Bo Yi found the food awful but felt compelled to eat it, unlike the other players, who struggled to swallow their portions.
• The patient NPCs finished their meals and sat upright, prompting the players to eat faster.
• A player offered to help his teammate finish her food after she nearly choked and admitted she felt nauseated and afraid of eating.
• Bo Yi realized that the teammate’s aversion to food seemed to be the exact opposite of his own appetite.

Bo Yi questioned a female player about her poor appetite, then watched her die when a silver spoon pierced her neck. A patient NPC called her blood “holy medicine,” and the other patients swarmed her body, leaving the players to confront what the term meant.

• Bo Yi asked the female player why she had barely eaten, and she said she had been diagnosed with anorexia and could not finish her food.
• A silver spoon flew into the female player's neck, killing her as blood splattered across the table and Bo Yi's clothes.
• A patient NPC pulled the spoon from her neck, tasted the blood, and shouted that it was holy medicine.
• The other patients rushed the dead player's body and began eating it while the players fled from the mob.
• Shi Xinyi struggled to stand as the veteran players realized the NPC had called the player holy medicine, just like the medicine they had recently drunk.

Miss Nina ordered the orderlies to subdue the frenzied patients, revealing that they had eaten a dead player. She then announced a public execution for the patient who had first called the players “medicine.”

• Miss Nina arrived with a bloodstained stun baton and ordered the orderlies to act when the patients ignored her.
• The orderlies shocked the patients until the crowd dispersed and the players saw several patients eating a dead player.
• The orderlies shocked the remaining frenzied patients and dragged the first patient who had called the players “medicine” to the front of the dining hall.
• Miss Nina announced that Room 311, bed 4 would be publicly executed for openly violating the sanatorium's prohibitions.