Recaps

After recovering from the Tongren Road incident, Ren Ye sold Gu Nian two pieces of Star Source for her Magic Talismans and discussed his next Qingliang Prefecture Star Gate entry with Yan Duoduo and Huang Wei. Yan Duoduo told him to investigate the Princess Consort’s identity and try to win her over; inside the Star Gate, Lian’er learned that the Princess Consort had been away for several days.

• Ren Ye woke after a long sleep, spoke with his father and sister, and agreed to go home for a meal before entering the Star Gate again.
• Gu Nian sold Ren Ye two Magic Talismans for two pieces of Star Source, while Xu Peng urged him to buy his poison instead.
• Ren Ye met with Yan Duoduo and Huang Wei, explained the Princess Consort’s suppressed Soul-Gathering Art, and discussed whether she might be a player.
• Yan Duoduo directed Ren Ye to sound out the Princess Consort’s identity and try to win her over during his next Star Gate entry.
• Lian’er visited the Princess Consort’s chambers, where Xue’er told her the Princess Consort had been away for several days.

Ren Ye discussed the Qingliang Prefecture Star Gate’s rules and possible Gate Eye with Yan Duoduo and Huang Wei, then learned his approved new teammate was the notorious Tang Feng. Tang Feng prepared to leave the Capital for Shanghai, asking his father for 150,000 yuan.

• Ren Ye asked whether using the Songstress Identity Card would revive Liu Ling'er, and Yan Duoduo and Huang Wei said the Star Gate would likely prevent or repair such a flaw.
• Huang Wei explained the history of Star Gates and Gate Eyes, while Yan Duoduo said Qingliang Prefecture likely had a human Gate Eye who maintained the world’s rules.
• Ren Ye and Huang Wei went to the cafeteria, where Yan Duoduo told them headquarters had approved Ren Ye’s new teammate.
• Ren Ye read Tang Feng’s file and learned that the suspended New Year's Watcher had once conspired with a Chaos Faction player to rob the Star Source Repository.
• Ren Ye objected to being paired with Tang Feng, but Huang Wei argued that Tang Feng’s abilities could prove valuable in the Star Gate’s final stage.
• In the Capital, Tang Feng told his family he was going on a business trip and asked his father to lend him 150,000 yuan to spend.

Tang Feng secured 150,000 yuan from his father by embarrassing him at a private club, then used his ability to kill his father’s sudden lust. He called Yan Duoduo to confirm he would meet his new teammate the next morning and promised to carry him.

• Tang Feng’s father refused to lend him money at dinner, while Tang Feng’s mother offered him 30,000 yuan and Tang Feng declined.
• Ren Ye questioned Huang Wei about Tang Feng’s reliability and ability as Huang Wei drove him home; Ren Ye invited Huang Wei, Xu Peng, and Gu Nian to dinner the next day.
• Tang Feng’s father went to a private club to discuss an investment with friends, and Tang Feng surprised him by joining the gathering and greeting the guests.
• Tang Feng demanded 150,000 yuan from his father in the corridor, and his father transferred the money after Tang Feng threatened to return to the room.
• Tang Feng used his ability to drain his father’s desire, then called Yan Duoduo and promised to carry his new teammate.

Ren Ye spent a nostalgic morning with his family before welcoming his colleagues, while his father asked him and Ren Qingning to write about their feelings toward him for his revised novel. Meanwhile, Yan Duoduo gave Tang Feng information about Qingliang Prefecture and revealed that his assigned Identity Card was the female Songstress, which delighted him.

• Ren Ye went grocery shopping with Ren Daguo and Ren Qingning, and learned that Ren Daguo and Editor Xu had rewritten the later plot of his historical novel as a story about a father's love.
• Ren Ye and Ren Qingning played a co-op game, and Ren Qingning argued that success depended on understanding the game's rules and designer's thinking.
• Ren Daguo offered the siblings five hundred for every thousand words they wrote about their feelings toward their father, and Ren Qingning accepted the assignment.
• Old Huang, Gu Nian, and Xu Peng arrived at Ren Ye's home with gifts and medicine, and Ren Ye welcomed them to lunch with his family.
• At Duoduo's Pet Paradise, Yan Duoduo gave Tang Feng documents about Qingliang Prefecture and told him his Identity Card was the female Songstress.
• Tang Feng reacted with excitement when Yan Duoduo asked whether he objected to playing a woman.

Ren Ye’s family hosted Huang Wei and his colleagues, where Dad asked them to keep Ren Ye safe and Yan Duoduo promised he would remain free. Meanwhile, Guo Caier revisited her childhood home to mourn Wang Hong, and Tang Feng prepared with Ren Ye for their return to the Star Gate.

• Dad served a meal to Ren Ye, Huang Wei, Gu Nian, Xu Peng, Yan Duoduo, and Tang Feng, who arrived with extravagant gifts and was introduced as Ren Ye’s new partner.
• Dad asked Ren Ye’s colleagues to bring his son home safely, and Yan Duoduo promised Ren Ye would not return to prison and that the agency would protect him.
• Tang Feng became fixated on Ren Qingning and blurted out an obscene demand to Ren Daguo, then fled to the bathroom in embarrassment.
• Guo Caier returned to the home she had shared with Wang Hong and apologized for the hurtful things she had said before Wang Hong was killed.
• Tang Feng and Ren Ye discussed a code phrase for recognizing each other inside the Star Gate, and Tang Feng suggested one based on Ren Qingning’s appearance.

Ren Ye woke in Prince Huai’s residence to begin the second act, in which the players had to enter the Former Dynasty Princess’s Tomb and survive its trials. As he planned to find allies and locate his Hidden Pawn, he learned he had slept for seven days and discovered that Guo Caier had just learned of a Prince Huai Hidden Pawn in the Court Faction.

• The Startrace Gate assigned the players new factions and quests, requiring all eleven to enter the princess’s tomb at midnight and find the spirit lost from the Nation-Guarding Sword.
• Ren Ye decided to recruit Tang Feng and the Princess Consort, seek out his Hidden Pawn, and investigate the tomb before it opened.
• Lian'er told Ren Ye he had been asleep for seven days, and Er Leng reported that the Princess Consort had helped him recover with medicine.
• Er Leng relayed Tang Poet’s coded message, and Ren Ye answered with a rhyming line to summon her back.
• Er Leng repeated Liu Ji Shan’s insulting dream-rhyme, and Ren Ye learned that Guo Caier had just heard that the Court Faction contained Prince Huai’s Hidden Pawn.

Guo Caier and Xing Tao planned to find their missing teammates before entering the Former Dynasty Princess's Tomb, while Ren Ye and Tang Feng discussed the Star Gate’s character system and prepared to act. The Princess Consort sent Ren Ye medicine and instructions as events converged on the tomb expedition.

• Guo Caier told Xing Tao that Liu Ji Shan might be a trapped player and asked him to use his battalion commander's token to rescue him before the group entered the tomb.
• Li Yan considered how to use the imprisoned Liu Ji Shan and began writing a letter while keeping his identity concealed.
• Ren Ye and Tang Feng discussed how players could inherit replacement characters and how the Star Gate’s Gate Eye might constrain the story.
• Tang Feng tried to enlist Er Leng for his sexual advances, but Ren Ye took him along to discuss an important plan.
• Xu Qingzhao ordered Xue'er to bring Ren Ye Qi-Nourishing Pills and remind him to bathe, change, and avoid pink underpants.

Liu Ji Shan escaped Prince Huai’s dungeon with help from a masked Fence-Sitter, believing the man was a comrade. The rescuer was actually Ren Ye, who planned to use Liu Ji Shan to gather information and potentially recruit him.

• Liu Ji Shan decided his only chance of survival was to seek an audience with Prince Huai, but a masked man arrived and broke him out of the dungeon.
• The masked man gave Liu Ji Shan a restorative pill, freed his restraints, and guided him past unconscious guards and approaching patrols.
• The man revealed that he was a Fence-Sitter player and told Liu Ji Shan that Celestial Master Xu had died after Prince Huai turned the tables at Tranquil Heart Hall.
• Liu Ji Shan and the masked man escaped over the courtyard wall, agreed on a password for meeting at the Princess Tomb, and fled separately.
• Ren Ye revealed his identity as Liu Ji Shan’s rescuer and explained to Tang Feng that he had let Liu Ji Shan escape to gain information and possibly recruit him.

Liu Ji Shan escaped the dungeon and sought refuge with Li Yan, who prepared a strange banquet to gather people from Prince Huai's residence. Ren Ye tested Xu Qingzhao and learned she planned to enter the Princess Tomb, then realized she was a player.

• Liu Ji Shan arrived at Li Yan's residence after escaping the dungeon, berated Li Yan for failing to rescue him, and demanded food and wine.
• Liu Ji Shan hid how he had escaped and weighed the value of working with Li Yan, who could connect him to the Court Faction.
• Li Yan ordered a grand banquet open to Prince Huai's people and used the birth of a sow as its occasion.
• Er Leng slapped Tang Feng when Tang Feng flirted with him in the side hall of Xu Qingzhao's bedchamber.
• Ren Ye teased Xu Qingzhao, then asked whether she would enter the tomb; Xu Qingzhao said yes, and Ren Ye concluded she was a player.

Tang Feng planned to infiltrate Li Yan’s Sow Banquet, and Ren Ye used his Imperial Brush to disguise him as a man. At the Chief Secretary’s Residence, an old man detected a fake Disguise Daoist Talisman and sensed a bug in Qingliang Prefecture.

• Tang Feng gave Ren Ye the Disc Order messages about Li Yan’s Sow Banquet and Liu Ji Shan’s arrival at Li Yan’s residence.
• Ren Ye explained that appearing as a woman would expose Tang Feng, so Tang Feng proposed changing into a man with the Disguise Daoist Talisman.
• Ren Ye replicated the talisman’s mystical effect with his Imperial Brush and transformed Tang Feng into an unremarkable middle-aged man, exhausting the Brush’s power for twelve double-hours.
• Tang Feng decided to attend the Sow Banquet in his new disguise and investigate the Court Faction players.
• An old man at the Chief Secretary’s Residence noticed an extra, fake Disguise Daoist Talisman, sensed across Qingliang Prefecture, and realized there was a bug.

Tang Feng attended Li Yan’s Sow Banquet to watch who approached the thatched cottage, while Guo Caier and Xing Tao prepared to expose hidden enemies. The banquet was suddenly surrounded by soldiers searching for a Southern Border Traitor, and Xing Tao was ordered to force guests—especially women—to reveal their Mystical Abilities.

• Guo Caier concluded that two enemy players were already hidden in her faction and decided to use Xing Tao’s Death Warrior Order to attack them before entering the Princess Tomb.
• Ren Ye arranged for Er Leng to protect Tang Feng in secret, and Tang Feng disguised himself as an ordinary soldier and went to Li Yan’s Sow Banquet.
• Tang Feng learned that no one had yet visited Li Yan privately, then used his Charm Skill on a maid to have her watch the thatched cottage.
• Soldiers in White Armor stormed the residence and announced they would search everyone for a Southern Border Traitor.
• Guo Caier ordered Xing Tao to prevent guests from leaving and focus on women whose identities were musicians or Songstresses, and Xing Tao eagerly agreed.

Guo Caier and Xing Tao used Qingzhou Guard soldiers to search the Sow Banquet for Liu Ling'er's successor and a Prince Huai mole, while Li Yan opposed their public sweep and accused Xing Tao of exposing their faction's strength. The chapter left Tang Feng seconds from losing his disguise as he prepared to call for help.

• Guo Caier hid outside the Chief Secretary's Residence while Xing Tao ordered the Qingzhou Guard to take over the Sow Banquet and inspect its guests.
• Soldiers surrounded the residence, seized female guests, and killed two men who tried to intervene, while Tang Feng realized they were searching for Liu Ling'er's successor.
• Tang Feng learned his disguise would expire in less than fifteen minutes, and the mean-looking woman also feared being exposed or killed.
• Li Yan revealed in the Disc Order that he belonged to the Court Faction and accused the Qingzhou Left Guard's player commander of being the traitor.
• Xing Tao admitted he was the battalion commander and said he meant to catch Liu Ling'er's successor and the Prince Huai mole, but Li Yan argued that the sweep exposed their faction's plans.
• Tang Feng heard that his disguise had less than thirty seconds left, sensed the Spring Breeze Wish-Fulfilling Painting, and prepared to shout, "Father, save me!"

Tang Feng’s disguise expired as Li Yan’s Water-Ink World plunged the Chief Secretary’s Residence into chaos, giving players a chance to flee while the Qingzhou Guard pursued them. Tang Feng escaped toward the rear of the buildings, and Er Leng watched from outside, unsure whether to intervene.

• Li Yan used Water-Ink World to darken and transform the residence, then told Court Faction players to flee and identify themselves later at the Princess Tomb.
• Tang Feng’s disguise expired, and she shouted for the guests to run before escaping as the Qingzhou Guard pursued her.
• Xing Tao entered the ink-covered residence after hearing the signal arrow, while soldiers and players clashed throughout the grounds.
• Zhang Meixuan killed a pregnant concubine, hid in a cabinet, and planned to observe events from the shadows.
• Tang Feng detected at least five or six Star Source Fluctuations as she fled, while Er Leng watched from a tree outside and hesitated to act.

Zhang Meixuan and Tang Feng were cornered by Qingzhou Guard soldiers as Li Yan intervened with his Water-Ink World Mystical Ability, allowing Zhang Meixuan to escape but leaving Tang Feng trapped in a chaotic encounter. Meanwhile, Er Leng used a newly learned blade form to cut down the soldiers guarding Guo Caier’s sedan chair and split it apart.

• Zhang Meixuan overheard the soldiers preparing to storm the steward's room, fought them when they found her, and was later transported outside the back gate by Li Yan's Water-Ink World.
• Tang Feng lured pursuing soldiers into a room and used Obsessive Illusion, but the soldiers' obsession made them act lecherously toward him.
• Xing Tao surrounded Tang Feng's hiding place, and an unknown force sealed its doors and windows before Li Yan appeared and became affected by Tang Feng's Enchantment.
• Li Yan used his Mystical Ability again to rescue Zhang Meixuan and make the groom with the long whip vanish, but he then succumbed to Enchantment and called Tang Feng his master.
• Er Leng confronted the soldiers guarding Guo Caier's sedan chair and used Hidden Maiden's first blade form to kill them and split the sedan chair down the middle.

Tang Feng escaped Xing Tao's raid with Li Yan’s help, while Er Leng failed to capture her and Guo Caier fled injured. Xing Tao withdrew after his attempt to seize Tang Feng failed, and the chapter ended with Guo Caier collapsing after warning him that the Court Faction players would isolate them.

• Tang Feng told Li Yan to use his Water-Ink World ability, and they vanished from the room before Xing Tao broke through the ink-painted surroundings.
• Li Yan dragged Tang Feng into a garden grove while the unstable illusion faded, and she later escaped and called for Er Leng.
• Er Leng found the sedan chair empty, then returned to the alley and found no trace of the missing woman; Guo Caier fled after vomiting blood.
• Xing Tao withdrew his forces when he learned the prefect was approaching, and the prefect later found Li Yan unconscious in the residence garden.
• Li Yan told the prefect he had fought a female bandit and escaped her, then hurried back to the Thatched Hall; Tang Feng reunited with Er Leng and blamed Li Yan for his behavior.
• At the Left Thousand-Household Office, Guo Caier warned Xing Tao that the Court Faction players would isolate them, then collapsed after vomiting blood.

Guo Caier investigated the suspected Hidden Pawn in the Court Faction while Li Yan secretly reached out to a teammate after saving the players at the Chief Secretary’s Residence. The chapter left Li Yan using Annals of the Thatched Cottage as a recognition token and warning his ally about Guo Caier and Xing Tao.

• Guo Caier told Xing Tao that Er Leng had wounded her, then reasoned that Li Yan had saved the players to win influence in the Court Faction.
• Guo Caier recalled that Mr. He had obtained Little War Wolf’s information linking Annals of the Thatched Cottage to Prince Huai’s Hidden Pawn, but Xing Tao had found no player using a book that night.
• Guo Caier received Li Yan’s curse over the Disc Order and suspected that he was ambitious.
• Zhang Meixuan blamed Xing Tao for the attack and decided against visiting the teammate whose identity she had confirmed.
• A servant from the women’s quarters told Li Yan that a Court Faction ally would follow his lead in the tomb.
• Li Yan gave the servant Annals of the Thatched Cottage as a recognition token and told him to warn the ally about Xing Tao and his female accomplice.

Li Yan used the banquet’s aftermath to strengthen his ties with the Court Faction and sent a secret message to the old steward, while Ren Ye tried to recruit Xu Qingzhao before the Princess Tomb expedition. Ren Ye then received a letter identifying Li Yan as the hidden pawn and realized the ally who had secretly helped him was the trendy old man he had met outside.

• An unknown Court Faction player sent Li Yan a note promising to help him in the Princess Tomb, and Li Yan burned it before writing a secret letter of his own.
• The old steward begged Li Yan to avenge his pregnant concubine, and Li Yan gave him a personal task along with the letter.
• Zhang Meixuan received the Thatched Hall Chronicle from Li Yan’s messenger as a token for recognizing allies in the tomb.
• Ren Ye deduced that Xu Qingzhao belonged to the Fence-Sitter Faction and proposed an alliance, but she warned him that her goal in the tomb could endanger his companions.
• Ren Ye and Xu Qingzhao agreed on a recognition password, and Ren Ye returned to his palace to find a secret letter waiting.
• The letter named Li Yan as the hidden pawn, listed suspected Court Faction players, and identified a password; Ren Ye connected its clue to the trendy old man who had secretly helped him.

Ren Ye pieced together how Li Yan had secretly manipulated events to gain the Court Faction’s trust, then discussed the coming Princess Tomb battle with Tang Feng. Li Yan and Liu Ji Shan agreed to share information, but Liu Ji Shan insisted that his real goal was to kill Prince Huai.

• Ren Ye reconstructed Li Yan’s past actions and realized that Li Yan had used the conflict with Prince Huai and Liu Ji Shan’s escape to build trust among the Court Faction players.
• Tang Feng told Ren Ye that he had enchanted Li Yan at the Sow Banquet and fled afterward, then asked Ren Ye to handle future communication with Li Yan.
• Tang Feng assessed the players’ numbers and likely strategy in the Princess Tomb, and Ren Ye urged him to prepare for their departure within two hours.
• At the Chief Secretary’s Residence, Li Yan proposed that he and Liu Ji Shan gather and exchange information about their factions, with Liu Ji Shan joining Li Yan if he gained control of the Court Faction.
• Liu Ji Shan accepted the proposal but said he no longer cared about winning and wanted to kill Prince Huai.

Ren Ye prepared to enter the Former Dynasty Princess's Tomb and recruited Tang Feng into his faction, while the Star Gate revealed that the tomb's trials would strip entrants of their Mystical Abilities, spells, and items. The path appeared on Qingliang Mountain, but Tang Feng vanished as Ren Ye entered alone, disguised as an ordinary scholar and facing the tomb's challenge without his powers.

• Ren Ye reviewed the letter and traced tomb diagram, then learned that the tomb had nine levels hidden within Qingliang Mountain.
• After the Star Gate announced a faction cooperation mission, Ren Ye used the Royal Edict to make Tang Feng swear loyalty and leave the Court Faction.
• Xing Tao, Guo Caier, Zhang Meixuan, Li Yan, and Liu Ji Shan reacted to Ren Ye's new faction and the all-faction announcement.
• Ren Ye and Tang Feng entered Qingliang Mountain, where Tang Feng urged him to pursue a better future for himself and his family.
• A woman's voice sounded from the summit, and a path to the tomb appeared; Tang Feng vanished, and Ren Ye used the Disguise Daoist Talisman to take on a scholar's appearance.
• The Star Gate announced that entrants could not use Mystical Abilities, spells, or items inside the tomb, prompting Ren Ye to curse it.

Ren Ye entered Youjian Inn on Qingliang Mountain after learning that the mountain path was impassable and hearing a traveler describe a procession of headless people. Meanwhile, Yan Duoduo and Huang Wei invited Ren Daguo and Qingning to visit the Capital for safety, and the inn filled to its limit of eleven guests.

• Ren Ye reached Youjian Inn, accepted the old woman's warning, and joined six other guests in the hall.
• A scar-faced man returned from the mountain road and described seeing thousands of headless people carrying tools and baskets toward the tomb path.
• Ren Daguo told Yan Duoduo and Huang Wei that he had already planned to visit the Capital, then went to ask Qingning if she would come.
• Three more guests arrived at Youjian Inn, and the old woman announced that all eleven rooms were occupied.

At the inn before entering Eldest Princess Anping's Tomb, Xu Niang told the guests a story about the princess and set a silent voting challenge: each guest had to order a dish for the person they liked best. Ren Ye tried to signal his teammates as the guests exchanged clues, then made an unexpected move as the incense burned down.

• Ren Ye counted eleven guests at the inn and concluded that all the Qingliang Prefecture Star Gate players had arrived and had to stay together.
• Xu Niang told the guests how Princess Anping fell in love with the sword-bearing scholar Li Mu, then asked each guest to vote for the person they liked best.
• Xu Niang explained that the guest receiving the most votes would win a gift, while forbidding everyone from speaking or leaving their seats; a clever scholar established that guests could vote for themselves.
• The guests received numbered plaques and began using gestures and objects, including books and chopsticks, to send signals before the incense burned out.
• Ren Ye struggled to identify his teammates and attract their votes, then removed his boot and sock and reached toward the sole of his foot, drawing everyone's attention.

Ren Ye won the first vote by using a foot-massage signal to reach his allies, but the old woman immediately announced a second vote to punish the most disliked guest. As the players began voting, Ren Ye realized they were likely to target him and started planning another maneuver.

• Ren Ye used a foot massage and a remembered gesture to signal Li Yan, the Princess Consort, and Tang Feng to vote for him.
• The old woman declared Ren Ye the most popular guest and promised him a reward, then announced a second vote for the most disliked person.
• Ren Ye recognized Tang Feng by the Heavenly Yin Women's Sword Formation manual and learned that Tang Feng was seated at number eight.
• The old woman began the second vote, and Liu Ji Shan, Zhang Meixuan, the Coachman, and the scholar independently chose Ren Ye's number five.
• The Princess Consort, Martial Artist Xing Tao, Guo Caier, Tang Feng, and Li Yan hesitated or considered how to vote while Ren Ye feared being targeted.
• The scholar tapped his table to signal the number five, and the outlaw noticed; Ren Ye decided to risk another plan.

Ren Ye tried to divert votes by openly targeting Zhang Meixuan, but he survived the vote by one ballot and she was chosen as the most disliked player. Zhang Meixuan was killed as the dish’s main ingredient, and the Old Woman announced that the players had passed the first trial for entering the Tomb.

• Ren Ye openly pointed his vote at Zhang Meixuan to convince the other players that he had control of the vote.
• The Old Woman announced that Ren Ye was one vote short of being the most disliked player and that Zhang Meixuan had received the most votes.
• Zhang Meixuan protested the result, but Little Dwarf seized her and threw her into a wok of boiling oil.
• The Old Woman declared that the players had passed the first trial, while Guo Caier realized the information about Zhang Meixuan being Prince Huai's Hidden Pawn was false.
• Guo Caier heard that a Court Faction player had died, and Li Yan privately reflected on Zhang Meixuan's arrogance.

After the first challenge, Ren Ye received a blood-scented leather robe as his gift and tried to leave his room to meet Tang Feng. He discovered Little Dwarf and the little girl making clothing from human remains, and Little Dwarf hurled an axe at him.

• Tang Feng and Scholar overcame their revulsion and ate pieces of the braised rabbit head, while the other players refused.
• Old Woman told the players to retire to rooms matching their numbers before entering the tomb’s second level the next day.
• Ren Ye reflected on Zhang Meixuan’s death and Li Yan’s influence, while Guo Caier reconsidered the Court Faction’s losses and suspected Li Yan might be the traitor.
• Li Yan went to sleep immediately, while Guo Caier resolved to win over Fence-Sitter and prepare for the next challenge.
• Old Woman brought Ren Ye a blood-scented hide robe and remarked that he seemed fond of dressing as a woman.
• Ren Ye opened his door and saw Little Dwarf chopping leg bones as the little girl sewed bloody skin into boots; Little Dwarf noticed him and threw an axe at his face.

Ren Ye read Mr. He’s letter about Princess Anping’s tomb and its deadly trials, but decided not to trust it until he could verify the information. The group awoke in the wilderness after the Inn vanished, and their attempt to set out together ended with number eleven spitting in Ren Ye’s face.

• Ren Ye narrowly avoided an axe thrown at his door, then ate and drank while studying the leather robe he had taken as loot.
• Ren Ye read a letter describing Old Prince Huai’s search for Princess Anping’s tomb, the eleven explorers who entered it, and the deadly trial connected to Li Mu.
• Ren Ye tucked the letter away, deciding to verify it before acting on its clues, and noticed another axe lodged in room eleven’s door.
• The next morning, Ren Ye and the other players woke in a circle in the wilderness, where the Inn and its attendants had disappeared.
• Ren Ye suggested that the group travel together and use their table numbers, but number eleven spat phlegm onto his face, turning the group’s attention to their confrontation.