Recaps

Su Bai and the Players endured the hotel’s treasure games while uncovering Liu Yongzhi’s deception and the waiters’ hidden passages. They learned the Strange Creatures were family to one another and threatened them to force the Inn to release the trapped Players.

• A translucent Family Member stole Liu Yongzhi’s right arm, and the hotel announced that unrecovered treasures would disappear when the game ended.
• Tan Ying led the Players up the hotel as Li Feiwen destroyed the stairs, but Ai Qing controlled Li Feiwen and the Ghost Creatures attacked.
• Su Bai’s group fell into the Lobby, where Zhi Yuan revealed that Xiao Qing was his Family Member and explained his plan to end the game early.
• The Players agreed to disrupt the afternoon game, then exposed Liu Yongzhi as a low-level recruiter whose Death Contract enslaved Players and targeted their bodies.
• The Zombie Waiter changed the treasure-hunting rules, and Su Bai split the Players into groups to pursue the hidden waiters and the stolen treasures.
• Su Bai, Wu Heng, Liang Yuyan, and Zhi Yuan entered a secret corridor and found photographs suggesting that the hotel’s waiters and Family Members had once exchanged roles.
• Ghost Creatures attacked the group, but White Snake Grandma helped drive them back before Su Bai’s party discovered that the Inn was trapping them to protect its inhabitants.
• Su Bai explained that the Strange Creatures had become family to one another, then he and Wu Heng threatened them, gambling that the Inn would release the human Players.

After the Happy Hotel vanished, Su Bai returned to Qingliu City and investigated an outbreak that turned people into mutants. He treated several victims and joined forces with Qin Ge, then began tracing the crisis to Poison Grass and the four Players from Honghuai City.

• The Happy Hotel collapsed and disappeared with its Strange Creature family, and Su Bai returned to the Real World after the other Players left.
• Su Bai found the Mist Shop in Qingliu City as monsters and infected victims spread through the city, then warned officers that the outbreak might be deliberate.
• Su Bai treated Lin Wei and his monstrous friend by removing the mutating power from their bodies, then reunited with Qin Ge at the Mist Shop.
• Qin Ge brought Su Bai to the Relevant Authorities' base, where Su Bai treated the gravely ill Sha Linghai and restored his breathing.
• Su Bai and Qin Ge discussed how the outbreak began, and Su Bai suspected a Player had engineered it after the four Honghuai City Players intervened.
• Su Bai proposed that someone had sought Poison Grass and mutant test subjects, while Qin Ge revealed that three of the four Players had seen a fire-ability user burn the first mutant's corpse.
• When Qin Ge asked how Poison Grass could benefit humans, Su Bai began explaining the hotel Lorimas.

Su Bai was lured into Qi Yan’s underground research institute, where the team had been experimenting on mutants and enslaved players to pursue greater power. He freed the captives and treated the surviving mutants, then returned to the Mist Shop and prepared to enter the Nightmare Game again.

• Su Bai treated the female mutant, then discovered Jiang Hong and Kong Rui had abducted him and taken him to the Underground Research Institute.
• Jiang Hong and Kong Rui revealed that they and Qi Yan were experimenting on mutants in hopes of gaining power and escaping the Nightmare World.
• Qi Yan forced Su Bai to treat the experimental subjects and threatened to turn him into a monster, but Su Bai secretly removed their tainted power and contracts.
• When Qi Yan’s group realized Su Bai had freed the subjects from their contracts, Qi Yan attacked him and the recovering mutants broke loose.
• The Ghost Bride and a dark-eyed boy cornered Qi Yan and his accomplices, forced them to sign Contracts, and left them immobilized for the mutants to take as captives.
• Su Bai found the rotting merfolk corpse in the institute’s lowest level, but Yao warned him that powerful beings still had threads connected to it, so he left it for Qin Ge to handle.
• Qin Ge arrived and learned from the mutants how Qi Yan’s group had deceived and tortured them, while the captives were left bound by the mutants’ Contract.
• Su Bai treated more than thirty imprisoned mutants, returned to the Mist Shop, and prepared to enter the Nightmare Game again.

Su Bai and the other Players disrupted the villa’s script, earning the director’s approval and clearing the audition. Back at the Mist Shop, Wu Heng revealed that the Nightmare Game and experiments were part of a plan to preserve the Red Moon, while a dangerous bus arrived in the Real World.

• Su Bai entered Blood Moon Lake Villa with Huo Lang and learned that the Players had been cast in a romance drama, with Su Bai as the gardener and Wu Heng as the Master.
• The first day’s scripted performances ended with the director calling the show boring and taking control of the villa, while its unseen force failed to find the hidden Doll.
• Feng Ling and the others planned to disrupt the script, but the second audition began before they could sever the Doll Strings.
• Feng Ling exposed Wu Heng’s relationship with Su Bai, and Wu Heng’s rejection of Lian Xiangyu pushed him to break free of the script and choose Shen Dong'er.
• Lian Xiangyu’s memories helped Shen Dong'er and Ning Yi resist the script, and Director #￥%% praised the unexpected performance before ending the audition, which the Administrator declared cleared.
• At the Mist Shop, Xiao Wu and Wu Heng told Su Bai that the Red Moon sustained a dying world and that the experimenters sought to merge a fixed point in time into it to prevent its demise.
• Wu Heng revealed that Su Xuan had created the fixed point within Su Bai and that the proposed ritual would consume vast numbers of human sacrifices, while hinting that a catalyst might unite the Red Moon Society’s opponents.
• Su Bai wondered whether spreading Void Sea rifts connected the Nightmare World to the Real World as a decrepit Route 666 Bus arrived and a young man warned the waiting passengers that it was dangerous.