Recaps

Su Chen navigated the Zoo’s traps by testing its contradictory rules, resisting its cognitive pollution, and using clues from the staff and security guard. After several Chosen Ones died and Yamashita Kenichiro was killed, Su Chen reached the Aquarium and began investigating a suspicious rescue notice.

• Su Chen entered the Zoo, ignored the blue rules, and watched Kim Xiba’s confidence in them lead to rabbit-related distortions among the other Chosen Ones.
• Su Chen followed a separate route to a security office, where a guard’s note helped him deduce that the blue rules were traps and that visitors had to preserve their sense of self.
• Su Chen bargained with a black-uniformed shop employee to read the Employee Handbook, then discovered that the supposed Rabbit Blood was mineral water and that the shop distorted perception.
• Su Chen confronted the cognitively corrupted Kim Xiba, who later entered the Rabbit Zone and died, while Yamashita Kenichiro confessed his past betrayal and joined Su Chen.
• Su Chen entered the Elephant Enclosure with Yamashita Kenichiro, resisted its attempts to make him believe he was an elephant, and escaped when a scarred guard transformed and restored the visitors’ senses.
• At the White Lions, Su Chen survived an attack and reached the Aquarium, while Sang Luoyi and Lamb were killed and Yamashita Kenichiro later died after entering the enclosure.
• Su Chen found the Aquarium at the Zoo’s exit, read a notice claiming to be from an undercover rescue organization, and suspected its instructions would send people wearing black uniforms to their deaths.

Su Chen escaped the Zoo, learned how its staff had tried to resist the entity, and chose to take the director’s badge and change the Zoo rather than abandon its people. After the world reset the scenario, he returned with his memories and quickly claimed the director’s role again, ordering the dangerous Elephant Enclosure sealed.

• Su Chen survived the Aquarium by realizing the White Lion’s bite had made other contestants vulnerable, then escaped and discovered the Aquarium connected the Zoo to an Otherworld beneath it.
• Su Chen entered the Aquarium after midnight, stole the Employee Handbook, and read the Zoo Director’s Rules and Old Zhou’s account of the Zoo’s collapse.
• Su Chen decided to seek the director’s badge despite the danger, entered the office, and faced the shadow while four white lions urged him to claim it.
• Su Chen pinned on the badge, negotiated a truce with the shadow, and followed it out of the Zoo, earning an S rating and rewards for Dragon Country.
• Su Chen chose to remain in the Horror Story World, prepared for another Zoo run, and returned with his memories when the Supreme Rule reset the scenario.
• Su Chen rejected Kim Xiba’s offer, gathered contestants from friendly countries, and delayed their entry while other nations rallied behind Dragon Country.
• Su Chen entered the Zoo, avoided the plush toys’ cognitive pollution, took the badge, and won the four white lions’ trust by declaring himself director.
• Su Chen ordered a staff member to gather the employees and instructed workers to seal off the Elephant Enclosure.