Recaps

Qin Yiguan pursued a nutrient pod and uncovered more about his fractured mind while the Experimental Zone began manifesting his fears as impossible phenomena. He entered the zone, reunited with Meng Jihe, and later met Jiu Zhengxuan at school as his class prepared to explore Snow City of Heavenly Light.

• Qin Yiguan reenacted a killer’s methods for Officer Wang, helping the police identify and arrest Suspect Six, then returned to his life as a Castoff in Rust City.
• Qin Yiguan secretly entered Central City No. 003, visited the sleeping boy Ninth Brother, and learned about the Metaverse’s vast, autonomous Experimental Zone.
• Qin Yiguan admitted that his adoptive parents had been murdered and that another self inside him might have killed them, while Officer Wang revealed the case remained unsolved.
• After Qin Yiguan’s hundredth nutrient pod application was rejected, he accepted Officer Wang’s offer to investigate who had exposed his address to Suspect Six.
• A battle-hardened personality inside Qin Yiguan stopped a falling stone trap, and the Gemini Superbrain announced an anomalous intruder as strange code-like light appeared in Qin’s veins.
• Qin Yiguan entered the Experimental Zone with zero percent integration and reunited with Meng Jihe, but his fear-driven perception coincided with mechanical crows attacking Meng Jihe’s building and abducting Rong Qian.
• The Research Society classified the unexplained phenomenon as Brain Restricted Zone No. 001, while Qin Yiguan’s clinic visit revealed Dr. House’s theories about psychological conditions manifesting in the Experimental Zone.
• Qin Yiguan returned to school, recognized Jiu Zhengxuan as the boy from the nutrient pod and Experimental Zone, and learned his class would travel to Snow City of Heavenly Light despite his inability to enter the zone.

Qin Yiguan uncovered his divided personalities and began raising his Fusion Rate while joining the Dog Gang. He accepted an assassination contract against Jiao Shensan and infiltrated the airborne fortress, where Jiao revealed that he knew Qin’s identity and expected to die that day.

• Qin Yiguan entered the Experimental Zone without equipment, met God's Abandoned, and learned that Mu Qingkuang was Teacher Qing, whose Snow City of Heavenly Light soon crashed.
• Qin Yiguan rescued Rong Qian from Ke Qiming, escaped the Research Society, and discovered that Black Calamity and Guardian were personalities within him with abilities he could develop by increasing his Fusion Rate.
• Jiu Zhengxuan impressed Commander Lu Zun and became captain of the new Youth Order Squad, while Qin Yiguan joined the Dog Gang after learning that killing could raise his Fusion Rate.
• Qin Yiguan became boss of the Dog Gang's 157th Hall and recruited Chen Mudou and Jingye Meinan as underlings.
• Qin Yiguan's group accepted a level 10 assassination contract on Jiao Shensan, while Jiu Zhengxuan's squad received orders to protect the target.
• Jingye Meinan used his ability to secure the group's passage onto a Research Society transport, and Qin Yiguan's team slipped aboard the airborne fortress.
• Qin Yiguan infiltrated the fortress through its ventilation system and overheard scientists discussing Jiao Shensan's lack of records or Neural Helmet.
• Jiao Shensan dismissed the scientists, sealed the room, and told Qin Yiguan that he knew his identity and that he himself would die that day, as Jiu Zhengxuan forced his way toward the room.