Recaps

Ye Lin sent Huang Liang to rescue Wang Yuanyang, intending to use the rescue as a test of whether spacesuits let them kill the Species and earn points. As Huang Liang’s survival remained uncertain, Ye Lin entered an airtight chamber, privately wondering whether his suspicions about who was still human were correct.

• Huang Liang ignored Ye Lin’s taunt and ran off with spacesuits to rescue Wang Yuanyang, while Zhang Tie stayed behind and He Zheng showed little concern.
• An Ke questioned Ye Lin’s motives, and he said he wanted to test whether the Species feared spacesuits and proposed luring them in to kill them for points.
• An Ke realized Ye Lin had provoked Huang Liang so his rescue attempt would test whether they could safely fight the Species.
• He Zheng worried Huang Liang and Wang Yuanyang might die, but Ye Lin said letting Huang Liang go was necessary and predicted he would return with Wang Yuanyang.
• Ye Lin entered the first airtight chamber and privately questioned whether he had correctly guessed that some of them were no longer human.

Wang Yuanyang was cornered by Species until Huang Liang rescued him, and the two escaped after putting on spacesuits. Meanwhile, Ye Lin’s group began earning points by killing Species, but Hu Jia realized Ye Lin’s plan to destroy the airlock could crush the base and kill them all.

• Wang Yuanyang ran out of ammunition while surrounded by Species and called for Huang Liang to save him.
• Huang Liang reached Wang Yuanyang, shielded him from the Species, and helped him put on a spacesuit; the suited men drove the creatures back and fled as God watched them.
• Ye Lin’s group opened the door and found the Species retreating, allowing He Zheng and Zhang Tie to kill some and earn points.
• Ye Lin said destroying the airlock would earn at least a hundred points, so He Zheng encouraged Hu Jia to kill Species for points.
• Hu Jia warned Ye Lin that destroying the airlock would expose the base to Venus’s extreme pressure and crush it, killing everyone inside.

Ye Lin led the group into a hidden spaceship as the Species and Gods attacked, then activated its engines to blast through the Airlock and escape. The ship broke free of the base, but the final monitor footage left the group facing another unknown development.

• Ye Lin ordered everyone to kill the Species when Huang Liang arrived with the injured Wang Yuanyang and warned that a God carrying a monstrous baby was following them.
• The baby’s scream drove the Species into a frenzy, and the group retreated into the Maintenance Room as a God broke through its door.
• Ye Lin opened the Airlock to reveal a transport ship, and the group rushed aboard while Huang Liang used a grenade and drug vials to delay their pursuers.
• An Ke questioned how Ye Lin had known the ship was there, but the group was soon surrounded by Species and Gods attacking the hull.
• Ye Lin started the ship, and its engines burned the attackers before propelling it through the final Airlock door and into Venus’s atmosphere.

Ye Lin realized that a god had manipulated the group’s encounters to make them board the ship and identified Wang Yuanyang as its hidden monster. The creature revealed itself and attacked, leaving Ye Lin and the others fighting for survival aboard the collapsing ship.

• He Zheng celebrated the group’s apparent survival, while Ye Lin questioned why their encounters with monsters had seemed carefully limited and unusually convenient.
• Ye Lin connected the group’s forced route through the base to the Angel of Death painting and concluded that an intelligent monster had been steering them toward the ship.
• Ye Lin aimed his gun at Huang Liang, Wang Yuanyang, and Zhao Cheng, then threatened to destroy the control console unless the hidden monster revealed itself.
• Wang Yuanyang transformed into a Species, which killed Zhao Cheng and charged at Ye Lin.
• Ye Lin ordered everyone to open fire and charged beneath the attacking Species.

Ye Lin killed the special Species Alesi with a grenade hidden in his hand, but the fight left He Zheng and Huang Liang gravely injured. An Ke realized they were still alive and urged the group to return with them; after the candidates vanished, the ruined base’s remains stirred as its navigation system headed toward Earth.

• Ye Lin ordered Huang Liang to hold Alesi back while he secured himself near the hatch, and He Zheng’s gunfire failed to harm the monster.
• Huang Liang and Zhang Tie each risked their lives to restrain Alesi, while Hu Jia broke down in fear.
• Alesi pinned Ye Lin and bit off his arm, but Ye Lin revealed the grenade pin in his hand and detonated a grenade inside the monster, killing it.
• The system awarded Ye Lin points for killing Alesi and completing part of a hidden exam question, then announced that the exam had ended with six survivors.
• An Ke realized Huang Liang and He Zheng were still alive and told Ye Lin to bring them back; all six candidates returned to the Death Exam Space.
• After the candidates vanished, scraps of flesh writhed in the ruined base as its navigation system pointed toward Earth, while a gaze watched from Venus.

After the exam, Ye Lin confronted An Ke over her hidden experience and forced her to reveal what she knew, while the survivors recovered and checked their rewards. An Ke warned Ye Lin not to convert his Grade B rating into points and said she knew how to use it.

• The system repaired the injured examinees, and An Ke exposed herself by warning Ye Lin that Perfect Repair could leave them in debt and get them erased.
• Ye Lin deduced that An Ke had survived six exams and had obtained something important, then shot her leg and threatened to cripple her until she agreed to explain.
• Ye Lin healed An Ke and checked his rewards as He Zheng woke; Hu Jia told He Zheng that Ye Lin had killed the Species after the exam ended.
• He Zheng and Hu Jia discovered they had received hidden rewards, while Ye Lin said he had earned 302.1 points, exceeded the single-round cap, and received a Grade B rating.
• An Ke told Ye Lin that converting the Grade B rating into points would waste it and said she knew how to use it.

After returning to the Death Exam Space, Ye Lin learned about exam types, point exchanges, and the customizable rooms where survivors could create private worlds. He chose a bare room that reminded him of the organization that raised him, then opened the system’s redemption list, hoping to find something connected to the tomb.

• He Zheng explained Substitute Death Puppets and warned Ye Lin that their next exam could involve paranormal events, memes, or special events.
• He Zheng showed Ye Lin, Hu Jia, and Zhang Tie the rooms, which could be customized into spaces up to ten kilometers wide and stocked with created people.
• He Zheng introduced Yang Qiao, the person he had created as his girlfriend, and urged the others to choose someone who could give them a reason to keep living.
• Hu Jia chose Room 14, Zhang Tie chose Room 11, and Ye Lin chose Room 7, which he made into a dark, cramped isolation cell.
• Ye Lin recalled how the organization had raised him as a tool and sent him to enter the tomb, then summoned the system’s redemption list.

Ye Lin explored the exchange shop, learning how bloodline grades, ratings, and points governed access and power. He discovered that the system could also answer questions for points and asked who was buried at a specific location in the real world.

• Ye Lin examined Grade D bloodlines and learned that his rating granted access to options up to Grade B, while higher-grade bloodlines required far more points.
• Ye Lin inspected Grade B bloodlines, including the Cultivator path, and concluded that its long foundation-establishment period made it dangerous to choose without a suitable exam scenario.
• Ye Lin compared bloodlines with basic enhancements and realized that He Zheng had likely spent his points to improve his strength as much as possible.
• Ye Lin closed the exchange shop, then saw the system activate a search function and discovered it could answer information queries for points.
• Ye Lin asked the system who was buried at 31°2 north latitude, 104° east longitude.

Ye Lin's attempt to learn who lay in the Tomb failed because the answer required Grade A access, so he decided to pursue a higher rating. When An Ke revealed that her letter belonged to the only examinee who had ever escaped, Ye Lin paused to hear more.

• Ye Lin spent five points to query the Tomb's occupant, but the system blocked the Grade A information and refunded his points.
• Ye Lin asked An Ke how to obtain a Grade A rating, and she explained that ratings above Grade C required a special-type exam.
• An Ke proposed working with Ye Lin in exchange for sharing her secret, but Ye Lin demanded to hear it before deciding whether to cooperate.
• An Ke said her letter contained the truth about the death exam, but Ye Lin dismissed it and said he only cared about surviving and escaping.
• As Ye Lin prepared to send An Ke away, she revealed that the letter's owner was the only examinee who had ever escaped.

An Ke told Ye Lin that the sole person to escape the Death Exam had left multiple letters and items, including something that helped her survive. Ye Lin dismissed the clues as a likely trap, but An Ke suggested the escapee may have killed himself after learning the truth, which made Ye Lin reconsider.

• An Ke explained that the system had announced someone’s escape and said she survived by using something the escapee left behind.
• Ye Lin inferred that the escapee had left multiple letters and items that could reveal the Death Exam’s truth and help someone follow his path.
• An Ke admitted there were more letters and items, offering them to Ye Lin in exchange for protection and help surviving future exams.
• Ye Lin said he was uninterested, called the story clichéd, and suspected the clues were a trap.
• An Ke asked whether the escapee might have killed himself after learning the truth, and Ye Lin said that made things interesting.

Ye Lin and An Ke agreed to retrieve the dead examinee’s remaining letter and belongings, while An Ke explained the use of Ye Lin’s Grade B rating. She revealed that she knew of two unusually powerful Grade C bloodlines with severe individual side effects that could be fused and might suit him.

• Ye Lin connected the dead examinee’s suicide to the unanswered truth of the system, and An Ke said she wanted to find the answer so they would not repeat his mistake.
• An Ke showed Ye Lin a key that could force them into an extra exam to find the third letter and the examinee’s belongings, and they agreed to take a regular exam first.
• An Ke explained that a Grade B rating could fuse two bloodlines, and that Ye Lin could currently afford two Grade C bloodlines instead of one Grade B bloodline.
• An Ke said she knew of two Grade C bloodlines that could rival Grade B, had high potential, and carried severe side effects when used alone, making them seem suited to Ye Lin.

Ye Lin considered An Ke’s recommendation to combine the Tyrant Gene with the Observer bloodline, which could balance overwhelming strength with protection from losing control and paranormal threats. An Ke recounted how the Mirror Ghost killed her and her companions, revealing that she saw her own headless body reflected in another person’s eyes.

• An Ke explained that the Tyrant Gene offered exceptional physical power but could make its user berserk, while the Observer bloodline could help control it and improve perception.
• Ye Lin questioned why he should choose the Grade C combination instead of the complete Tyrant, and An Ke explained the system’s grade restrictions and bonus-point advantages.
• An Ke warned that paranormal exams could break people with terror and said that countermeasures only delayed ghosts; she also admitted her group had been wiped out in the seventh exam.
• Ye Lin asked how An Ke had died, and she recalled that the Mirror Ghost killed six members of her group before she and one companion hid in a wardrobe and found a letter.
• An Ke remembered that she saw her own headless body when she met her companion’s eyes, because their eyes were mirrors.

Ye Lin gave the wounded An Ke 0.1 points for treatment, then joined He Zheng and the others for a meal in his recreated home. As the group discussed future enhancements, Huang Liang asked to speak with Ye Lin about a decision that could affect everyone.

• An Ke revealed that she had left the bullet in her leg because she lacked points for treatment, and Ye Lin transferred her 0.1 points.
• He Zheng saw An Ke struggling and jokingly assumed she and Ye Lin had hooked up, prompting her to yell at him.
• He Zheng hosted Ye Lin, An Ke, Huang Liang, Hu Jia, and Zhang Tie for a meal with Yang Qiao in his recreated apartment.
• Hu Jia thanked the group for helping him survive, and Huang Liang promised to protect everyone, including Ye Lin.
• He Zheng suggested that the team choose enhancements according to their roles, and Huang Liang asked to discuss an urgent matter with Ye Lin after dinner.

Huang Liang begged Ye Lin to spend points on a Communication Device so he could tell the outside world that people were alive in the Death Exam, but Ye Lin refused. As their three-day break ended, the group gathered to learn the second exam’s type, which the system began announcing.

• Huang Liang showed Ye Lin a Communication Device that cost 120 points and asked him to lend points so they could contact the outside world.
• Ye Lin refused, arguing that spending their points could endanger their survival and that the call offered him no benefit.
• Huang Liang described the mass disappearances, the collapse of society, and the deaths of people sent into the schools to investigate, pleading with Ye Lin to help.
• Ye Lin left, saying he understood Huang Liang’s pain but asking what it had to do with him; Huang Liang shouted after him, and Ye Lin walked away without changing his mind.
• On the final day of the break, Ye Lin and the others gathered as the vortex accelerated, and the system began announcing the type of the second exam.

The group planned for their next exam, a modern-era zombie outbreak, and An Ke urged them to prioritize survival tools over firearms. They settled on roles and enhancements, and He Zheng redeemed the C-rank Odin Warrior bloodline before Ye Lin approached the vortex for his own enhancement.

• He Zheng celebrated the zombie survival exam and proposed spending their points on heavy weapons, but An Ke warned that technology could become useless in later exams.
• An Ke recommended flight packs and Antidotes, asked Ye Lin to lend her ten points, and volunteered to handle logistics; Ye Lin agreed and also assigned Hu Jia to logistics.
• The group divided their roles, with He Zheng and Zhang Tie focused on melee combat, Huang Liang on ranged support, and Hu Jia on logistics.
• He Zheng redeemed the C-rank Odin Warrior bloodline, gaining greater strength, endurance, and two axes, then thanked Ye Lin and pledged to follow his lead.
• Ye Lin asked He Zheng to help test his enhancement and walked toward the vortex.

Ye Lin fused the Tyrant and Observer bloodlines, gaining immense power but nearly attacking his teammates before suppressing his killing instinct. The group finished preparing their gear as the system announced that the second exam would begin in 22 hours and 49 minutes.

• Ye Lin exchanged for the Grade C Tyrant and Observer bloodlines, endured a painful fusion, and collapsed when the enhancement ended.
• Ye Lin awoke in a killing frenzy and nearly struck He Zheng, but used the Observer skill to suppress his bloodlust and assured the others he was fine.
• Ye Lin assessed his enhanced perception and combat strength, then exchanged for the Ancient Blade while the others bought equipment and supplies.
• Zhang Tie revealed his silver bear transformation, and An Ke gave Ye Lin and He Zheng translator earpieces while explaining useful skills available through the system.
• The system announced that the second exam would begin in 22 hours and 49 minutes, leaving all six examinees facing the vortex.

As the exam approached, An Ke showed Ye Lin the supplies she had bought and received a self-replenishing handgun from him. Just before the group was teleported, Hu Jia’s suspicious preparations unsettled Zhang Tie, but all six examinees entered the exam together.

• An Ke showed the group her gemstones and practical supplies, explaining she had saved some of her points for the exam.
• Ye Lin gave An Ke a handgun that generated ammunition, and she accepted it while remaining wary of him.
• As the countdown neared its end, He Zheng noticed Hu Jia was missing and sent Zhang Tie to fetch him.
• Zhang Tie found Hu Jia in his room with suspicious items, and Hu Jia begged him not to reveal what he had seen.
• Zhang Tie brought Hu Jia back, and the system teleported all six examinees when the countdown reached zero.

Ye Lin and five veterans arrived in a crowded city for a Death Exam, where their only newcomer died after fleeing the barrier. As the exam began, Ye Lin proposed killing everyone nearby to prevent zombies from forming, and the exam question appeared to be cut off.

• Ye Lin and the others appeared on a busy street, where He Zheng began explaining the Death Exam to their sole newcomer.
• The newcomer panicked, ran beyond the system's barrier, and exploded; Ye Lin questioned whether the boy's unusually new shoes meant something.
• He Zheng proposed taking weapons by force, while Huang Liang argued for cooperating with local authorities, and Hu Jia asked whether they could escape by plane.
• An Ke explained that fleeing the exam would result in death, and the group continued arguing over their plan as the exam's start approached.
• Ye Lin proposed killing everyone nearby if the virus had not spread, and the system announced that the exam had begun before its question appeared.

Ye Lin’s team escaped the police and suspected the rival team had military backing, then chose to find scientist Carlton while searching for clues about the coming outbreak. Ye Lin left the team at a Manor, where he forced a businessman to mobilize his connections, and wondered how the zombies would appear.

• Ye Lin led the team away from the police after the other team rejected their call, and he warned that the rivals might be using the military against them.
• Ye Lin reasoned that the rival team had probably chosen the military-backed option and might have selected a trap, while An Ke explained that the teams’ answers could depend on their strengths.
• After He Zheng fought the Manor’s guards, Ye Lin chose option two and learned their target was scientist Carlton, an anthropologist who might know how to stop the outbreak.
• Ye Lin threatened a wealthy businessman into using his connections to locate Carlton and investigate unusual military activity, while Huang Liang left the hall in disapproval.
• Ye Lin told An Ke that the rival team mattered less than the scenario and wondered where the zombies would appear when the outbreak began.

Ye Lin’s team tracked Professor Carlton while discovering that the rival team controlled the military and planned to attack them. Ye Lin suspected the system’s apparent advantage was a trap, and the chapter ended with An Ke wondering whether the Death Exam’s horrors would follow them into the real world.

• Frank killed an officer for failing to find Ye Lin’s team and rejected Roger’s call to cooperate.
• Roger agreed to help Frank prepare for a conference, while Frank insisted that killing the opposing team would increase their rewards.
• He Zheng found Carlton’s location, but Ye Lin refused to fly there because the other team controlled the military.
• Ye Lin argued that the army’s advantage could be a trap and that the exam’s real danger might emerge if the teams failed to cooperate.
• Ye Lin ordered He Zheng to drug and imprison the businessman who had found Carlton, then the group set off for the professor.
• An Ke wondered whether surviving the Death Exam would leave them human and whether the real world might become another hell.

Ye Lin and his team sought Professor Carlton before the zombie outbreak, hoping to learn how to stop the virus. Carlton knew nothing about zombies, but his assistant revealed that Carlton’s suppressed discovery concerned humanity’s ancestors eating every last human.

• Roger refused his teammates’ suggestion to cooperate with the opposing team and prepared to answer other countries’ questions about zombies.
• Ye Lin’s team reached the university with four hours left before the outbreak and discussed whether killing zombies might make the remaining ones evolve.
• Ye Lin and his teammates found Professor Carlton in a dilapidated faculty apartment, where Carlton said he had never heard of zombies.
• Carlton explained that his research concerned prions and mad cow disease, then his assistant claimed Carlton was ostracized after discovering that humanity’s ancestors had eaten every last human.

Ye Lin and his group uncovered the professor’s cannibalistic evolution theory, then fought a rapidly spreading zombie meme outbreak. Ye Lin realized the other team might trigger a worldwide outbreak by warning people about zombies and rushed to stop them.

• An Ke explained that prion antibodies suggested humans had consumed human flesh throughout history, and the professor and his assistant revealed their theory that cannibalism drove human evolution.
• The assistant revealed that he and the professor had found evidence of ancient evolution in a pharaoh’s tomb, while Zhang Tie discovered a cooked human head in the kitchen.
• The professor lunged at He Zheng, who kicked him through a window, and a system alert announced that the Virus meme had activated ahead of schedule.
• The professor and infected students spread the meme by sight, and Ye Lin, He Zheng, Huang Liang, and the others killed the infected before they reached the teaching building.
• An Ke explained that knowing what a zombie was could trigger the meme, and Ye Lin suspected everyone in that world already carried it and that the other team planned to warn the entire population.
• Ye Lin gave An Ke the Communicator and rushed off to stop the other team from spreading the warning.

Roger and Frank tried to prepare the world for the zombie outbreak, but a third party activated the Ancient Stone Slab and triggered it early. Ye Lin’s team was trapped in a city overrun by infected as a giant Mutant charged them, and Ye Lin led the fight to escape.

• Roger learned that Ye Lin’s team was approaching, and Frank ordered troops to intercept them, believing they were making a desperate mistake.
• The Ancient Stone Slab activated and advanced the outbreak countdown, so Roger and his team rushed to broadcast information about the zombies.
• A woman warned Roger that the virus was a meme and did not spread through the means they feared, but the call ended before she could explain.
• As the outbreak began, crimson tears appeared at the conference venue, and the staff who uploaded videos stared at images of roaring Mutants.
• Ye Lin realized the other team had already broadcast the information and suspected a third party had activated the slab; the outbreak then froze people across the city before turning them into zombies.
• A giant Mutant attacked He Zheng’s truck, and Ye Lin told He Zheng and Huang Liang to cover him as he charged into battle.

Ye Lin killed a powerful mutant and led the group through a zombie horde to escape by flight packs. At a highway gas station, He Zheng saw the exam’s A rating and the instruction to “fight to the death,” leaving the group facing their next move.

• Ye Lin dodged the mutant’s punch, severed its arm, and pierced its brain with his sword.
• An Ke warned that the mutant was still alive, and Ye Lin used Flame flash and Backstab to destroy its second head.
• Ye Lin urged the stunned group to move, and He Zheng, Huang Liang, and Zhang Tie helped fight through the zombies.
• After ten minutes of fighting, the six survivors reached a commercial building, used grenades to hold back the horde, and escaped with flight packs.
• At a highway gas station, He Zheng saw the A rating and the system’s “fight to the death” instruction.

Ye Lin concluded that the group needed to find the ancient stone tablet and suspected another team had triggered the zombie outbreak to keep it. As they prepared to leave, he acted unusually intimate toward An Ke, and someone then shouted that a ghost was on their car.

• Ye Lin reasoned that the ancient stone tablet was the objective and that the system had mentioned it because someone triggered the outbreak early.
• Huang Liang proposed that the team who took the tablet had split up, and Ye Lin agreed there was no third team and the tablet's holder would likely contact them.
• Ye Lin planned to evade the pursuing monsters, wait for the tablet holder to reach out, and investigate who had suppressed the professor's research.
• Ye Lin asked An Ke to keep his belongings, tightened her ponytail, and said he would get her a new hair tie, leaving her unsettled by his behavior.
• Someone shouted that they had seen a ghost on the car.