Chapter Summaries

Yang Yi discovered a dangerous structure on Player Island No. 04-Moon Island, then reached Area C's port and fell asleep in a nightmare. After waking and killing a parasitic House Mouse, he faced the awakened players' angry accusations.

• Yang Yi looked at the cracked moon, lost 30 Sanity, and forcibly carved his eyes and nose back into his face after they vanished.
• Yang Yi reached Area C's port, where he succumbed to unnatural drowsiness and dreamed that an octopus monster was impersonating Su Na.
• Yang Yi shot the monster and woke beneath the port's curtains among sleeping players.
• Yang Yi tore a House Mouse out of his arm and stomped it to death before it could burrow inside him.
• The awakened players condemned Yang Yi for killing the mouse and demanded that Captain Dijie pay with his life.

Yang Yi used the port’s defenses and the Blood Ratchet to slaughter the House Mouse-parasitized players, wielding a blood-red greatsword fueled by his own and his victims’ blood. Wei Qian watched the massacre and began to suspect that the figure calling himself Dijie was not the real Dijie.

• Yang Yi found that he was surrounded by hostile players and ordered the port’s beam guns to attack them.
• Yang Yi opened a wound with the Blood Ratchet, then transformed his blood into the Broken Iron Greatsword and fought off the players.
• A player’s EMP disabled the port’s defenses, but Yang Yi’s greatsword let him kill the attackers and drain their blood.
• Wei Qian woke in Laboratory 3, discovered a House Mouse parasitizing her ankle, and watched Yang Yi’s slaughter through the cameras.
• After his bloodlust faded, Yang Yi headed toward Area C, while Wei Qian questioned whether he was truly Dijie.

Yang Yi entered the shelter to reach the Biochemical Laboratory, where Wei Qian had summoned him. She trapped him in an ultraviolet isolation chamber and revealed that she knew he was not Dijie, leaving him with sixty seconds to explain himself before the light killed him.

• Yang Yi passed through the shelter corridors, killing House Mice and finding signs of recent fighting.
• Robot No. 8 stopped attacking survivors when it recognized Yang Yi as Captain Dijie and guided him toward the laboratory.
• Robot No. 8 reported that players in Area C's laboratory section had fallen asleep, allowing House Mice to spread, and that Dr. Wei had activated robots to search for survivors.
• Yang Yi entered the isolation chamber, but the door shut and intense ultraviolet light began burning him.
• Wei Qian spoke through Robot No. 8, claimed S-level authority over Area C, and accused Yang Yi of replacing Dijie.
• Wei Qian demanded that Yang Yi explain who he was and where the real Dijie had gone, giving him sixty seconds before the ultraviolet light killed him.

Yang Yi told Wei Qian that she and the other players were dead and living in his dream, then helped her produce Rat Killer to fight the rat infestation. He left with twenty bottles, while Wei Qian ordered the rest spread through the ship’s ventilation system.

• Yang Yi endured Wei Qian’s ultraviolet-light test and told her that the players were dead, that he had come from the future, and that he had entered the dream as Dijie.
• Wei Qian let Yang Yi into the Laboratory and said she would make Rat Killer despite not believing he was dead.
• Wei Qian prepared to sacrifice captured players to mass-produce Rat Killer, while Yang Yi stayed with her.
• Yang Yi killed Half Rat Slaves who infiltrated the Laboratory to sabotage the research, and Wei Qian had later captives beaten before admitting them.
• Wei Qian gave Yang Yi twenty bottles of Rat Killer and its formula, while she sent the remaining bottles to be dispersed through the ventilation ducts.

Yang Yi told Su Na about his dangerous lucid dream and examined the Dream Crystal he had gained from it. Su Na took the crystal for her own plan, while Yang Yi recovered aboard the ship and later caught and roasted a Ratfish.

• Yang Yi described his dream to Su Na, who warned that his Dreamwalker path could cause dream injuries and Sanity loss to carry over into reality.
• Yang Yi examined the Dream Crystal and planned to use it on his Flintlock, but Su Na took it without explaining her intentions.
• Yang Yi ate leftover roast chicken, checked the damaged Shelter, and spent several hours fishing while he recovered.
• Yang Yi caught a Ratfish, knocked it unconscious, identified it, and roasted it on deck.
• Yang Yi brought the roast Ratfish to Su Na in the Witch Laboratory, where she tried it and took the rest from him.

Yang Yi and Su Na discovered that the mature Vitality Sardine Tree could escape, scream, and produce legs that boosted stamina but were addictive. Two days later, Yang Yi visited the Witch Laboratory expecting Su Na to have finished making rat poison, while the muzzled tree remained tied up by the entrance.

• Xiaoji Robot warned Yang Yi that the Vitality Sardine Tree had tried to escape, and Yang Yi trapped it beneath a glass cover.
• Yang Yi broke off the tree’s legs and learned that eating them increased stamina and its recovery rate, though the tree’s scream shattered the cover.
• Yang Yi warned Su Na that the legs were addictive, gave her two legs and his Delicious Fertilizer, and kept one for later.
• Yang Yi completed his remaining cape orders, received 30 bottles of Holy Water, and stored them for future use.
• Two days later, Yang Yi went to the Witch Laboratory to collect the rat poison Su Na had been making and found the tree tied up and muzzled by the entrance.

Yang Yi received Su Na’s rat pheromone potion and discussed how she might break through the mortal limit. After learning she suspected he had the Stone of Truth, he kept it hidden and postponed testing it while preparing to deal with the rats.

• Su Na gave Yang Yi ten bottles of rat pheromone potion and warned him to avoid breathing it in; he shared Holy Water with her and told her to rest.
• Su Na showed Yang Yi that her Perception had reached ten and explained that humans needed extraordinary methods to raise their stats further.
• Yang Yi rejected Su Na’s suggestion of transforming into another species and promised to find a safer way for her to become extraordinary.
• Su Na asked Yang Yi about the Stone of Truth, and he denied knowing it despite suspecting she had seen him with the red gem.
• Yang Yi secretly examined the Stone of Truth on the Lookout Tower, considered consuming it himself, then put it away and focused on dealing with the rats.

Yang Yi returned to the Shelter to clear out the Rat Nest and take control, disguising himself as a Rat Slave after his bat transformation proved conspicuous. He encountered two Rat Slaves near a working elevator and convinced them he had come to investigate a human intruder.

• Yang Yi waited for Su Na to wake, left her in charge of the Nightmare Star, and reassured her that he believed she could advance to the Extraordinary through her own research.
• Yang Yi sailed to a breach in the Shelter, gave Su Na the Eye of Greed, restored his stamina, and flew inside as a huge, noisy bat.
• Yang Yi found no Rat Slaves nearby, canceled his transformation, and used the Ratman Hero Cape to disguise himself as a Rat Slave.
• Yang Yi heard an elevator arrive and prepared an old beam rifle as two Rat Slaves emerged, carrying a beam rifle and a Beam Pistol.
• Yang Yi told the Rat Slaves that he had spotted a human preparing a sneak attack, and the pair accepted his explanation.

Yang Yi killed the Rat Slaves and House Mice who could expose him, then used the Drowned Dead's Hatred to draw an enormous undead horde to the Shelter. As Rat Slaves fought the Drowned Dead, Yang Yi joined their ranks with a Beam Rifle and blended into the battle.

• Yang Yi killed two Rat Slaves and burned nearby House Mice, then fired the Roaring Flintlock to draw attention and poured the Drowned Dead's Hatred into the sea.
• A House Mouse tactical squad arrived and extinguished the fire, but a Drowned Dead dragged its sniper through the breach.
• The Drowned Dead swarmed the Shelter while the Rat Slaves fought back and called for reinforcements.
• More Rat Slaves and Conjoined Rat Nests arrived, assembled Rotary Beam Cannons, and drove the Drowned Dead away from the breach.
• Yang Yi left the damaged stairwell carrying a Beam Rifle and joined the Rat Slaves fighting the Drowned Dead.

Yang Yi infiltrated the rats’ General Warehouse disguised as a Rat Slave and discovered a vast colony of dormant rats and a colossal Rat Nest. After blending in and evading suspicion, he prepared to approach the rat king and plant poison.

• The Rat Slaves defeated the Drowned Dead, and Captain Liu Dong ordered squads to search other areas while he led the others back to the General Warehouse.
• Yang Yi followed the Rat Slaves into the General Warehouse and found a rubbish-covered plaza and an armory full of weapons, ammunition, and Magic Stones.
• Yang Yi used Three Eyes to see through the Black Fog and spotted tens of thousands of dormant Rat Slaves and an enormous Rat Nest at the plaza’s center.
• A Rat Slave told Yang Yi to eat, so he pretended to take food from a Food Printer and hid it in his Charred Black Worm Ring.
• The Rat Slaves went dormant after eating, leaving Yang Yi alone as he prepared to approach the rat king and plant the poison.

Yang Yi poisoned the House Mice in the General Warehouse with Su Na’s potion, triggering a violent frenzy that escalated into a battle. He escaped into an abandoned workshop, where he confirmed the potion’s effects and found robot parts, then messaged Su Na that the plan was working.

• Yang Yi stopped before the Rat King's Nest and poured out seven bottles of Su Na’s potion, waking the rats and infecting them with pheromones.
• The poisoned rats began attacking one another, while a swarm tore apart Yang Yi’s rat costume and forced him to put away his Ratman Hero Cape.
• Yang Yi escaped the warehouse and hid in an abandoned production workshop as the Rat Slave tactical squad hurried toward the fighting.
• Yang Yi checked the activity log and learned that Rats’ Doomsday made rats intensely hostile toward one another.
• Gunfire and energy weapons erupted in the warehouse, and Yang Yi messaged Su Na that he had successfully administered the poison and found robot parts for her to inspect.

Yang Yi waited out the rat battle in the production workshop, but explosions ruptured the Shelter’s bottom hold and seawater began flooding in. He called Su Na to bring repairable robots, then transformed and charged into the General Warehouse to kill the rats and confront the breaches.

• Yang Yi inspected the robot production line and suspected the timing of the rat infestation might not have been a coincidence.
• While gunfire and explosions raged in the General Warehouse, Yang Yi cooked cheese potatoes and waited for the fighting to subside.
• After an explosion, Yang Yi heard water and found filthy seawater leaking from the General Warehouse into the corridor.
• Yang Yi asked Su Na to bring the Nightmare Star and repairable robots so they could seal the breaches in the bottom hold.
• Yang Yi transformed into a Werewolf and entered the General Warehouse, where he found piles of rat corpses and three shell-blasted breaches spraying seawater.

Yang Yi helped defeat the rat king after its electromagnetic railgun threatened the lower hold, but the generator powering it went out of control. He realized the rat king’s nest might still contain the power supply unit and considered what to do before the generator exploded.

• The House Mice, Rat Slaves, and Conjoined Rat Nests concentrated their attacks on the rat king, while Yang Yi identified it as the cause of the damage to the lower hold.
• Yang Yi struck the rat king’s electromagnetic railgun with Oathbreaker Slash, deforming its rails and triggering an explosion that incapacitated the rat king.
• The surviving rats attacked the immobilized rat king, exposing a generator hidden inside its nest.
• The generator discharged electricity through the wet garbage, shocking nearby rats as Yang Yi escaped the blast and returned to the battlefield.
• Yang Yi sent Su Na a photo of the out-of-control generator, learned it could explode at any moment, and heard its warning that it had a 300-second countdown.
• Yang Yi suspected the power supply unit was still inside the rat king’s nest and began considering a bold plan.

Yang Yi used the Limb Restoration Spell to merge with the Rat Nest and carried the out-of-control Generator upward through the Shelter. He broke through the roof, while Su Na saw the enormous creature emerge and still did not know what had happened to him.

• Yang Yi cut the Rat King's head free, then used the Limb Restoration Spell to connect his body and the Maw of Gluttony to the Rat Nest.
• Fragments of the Rat Nest's memories drove Yang Yi's Sanity down to 1, but Su Na's private message helped him remember his identity.
• Yang Yi fired Roaring Mode through the Shelter's ceilings and told Su Na to stay away while he tried to move the Generator out.
• Su Na heard explosions, checked Yang Yi's status, and steered the Nightmare Star toward the Area C dock as she worried about his Sanity.
• Yang Yi used the Rat Nest's many limbs and firearms to break through the Shelter's roof, and Su Na saw a thick, elongated monster emerge.

Yang Yi escaped the Rat Nest by severing his connection to it and luring its generator into the sea, where it exploded. Su Na rescued him, confiscated his armor over its effects on his Pollution, and the two prepared to return to the Shelter for emergency repairs.

• Su Na used the Eye of Greed Telescope to identify Yang Yi inside the Rat Nest as he crawled out of the Shelter and headed for the sea.
• Yang Yi swam away from the Shelter, severed his connection to the Rat Nest, and let its generator sink into the water and explode.
• The blast caught Yang Yi in its shock wave, but he survived, and Su Na hauled him aboard the Nightmare Star with a Grappling Hook.
• Su Na questioned Yang Yi about his increased Pollution, confiscated his helmet and Penitent Armor, and had him stitch shut the mouth on his belly.
• Yang Yi and Su Na gathered supplies, including all 1,320 units of steel, and prepared to enter the Shelter for emergency repairs.

Yang Yi and Su Na recovered robots from Shelter’s hospital before hurrying to Underwater Level 8 to address the General Warehouse leaks. Su Na entered the workshop to repair the remaining robots, while Yang Yi and Xiaoji Robot and Xiao Er Robot went on toward the flooding warehouse.

• Yang Yi and Su Na killed a Drowned Dead on the pier and headed to the Laboratory with Xiaoji Robot and Xiao Er Robot.
• Su Na and Yang Yi entered the Medicine Room and used an access card to shut down a malfunctioning robot, then recovered it and found an expired Super Adrenaline syringe.
• Xiao Er Robot joined them with three damaged robots, and the group packed them into the Shoulder Bag before heading for Underwater Level 8.
• Yang Yi found the corridor nearly a meter underwater and told Su Na to enter the watertight workshop while he and the two robots went to repair the General Warehouse leaks.
• Su Na entered the workshop to work on the robots, while Yang Yi hurried toward the General Warehouse with Xiaoji Robot and Xiao Er Robot.

Yang Yi inspected the flooded General Warehouse and learned that three shell holes were letting water into the Shelter. He ordered Xiaoji to make emergency repairs and discovered the robot could requisition supplies directly, then prepared to join it underwater using the operational Area C elevator and diving suits.

• Yang Yi found the General Warehouse flooded with sewage, garbage, and corpses, and asked Xiaoji to inspect the damage.
• Xiaoji used ultrasound to locate three hull leaks and detected Drowned Dead gathering beneath the ship near the earlier explosion.
• Yang Yi ordered emergency repairs after Xiaoji estimated they would require about 400 units of steel instead of scarce sea silver.
• Xiaoji revealed it could requisition supplies from the Shelter's storage space, which held vast quantities of basic materials.
• Yang Yi returned to the robot production workshop and told Su Na about the repairs and the Shelter's supplies.
• Yang Yi and Su Na learned they could reach the underwater work site through the operational Area C elevator and use diving suits.

Yang Yi and Su Na organized repairs to the ship’s three hull breaches, and Yang Yi prepared to protect the underwater repair crew from the Drowned Dead. He and two robots entered the waterlock and headed for the damaged hull.

• Su Na said she could repair four robots, and Yang Yi assigned the robots to assist with emergency repairs inside and outside the ship.
• Yang Yi and the robots used Xiaoji’s maintenance clearance to reach the hidden Diving Workroom, where he cleared nearby Drowned Dead with an electrical discharge.
• Yang Yi estimated that about three hundred Drowned Dead remained and chose a functional diving suit from the changing room.
• Yang Yi equipped the Underwater Harpoon Gun and its ammunition, then entered the waterlock with Xiaoji and another robot.
• After the waterlock filled, Yang Yi and the robots used their thrusters to head toward the bottom of the ship and repair the outer hull.

Yang Yi fought off the Drowned Dead while his robots repaired three breaches in the ship. The first two breaches were sealed, and the repair team began work on the third as a large mass of Drowned Dead approached.

• Yang Yi used his electric harpoon and torpedoes to clear the Drowned Dead around the first breach while Xiaoji and the robots repaired it.
• Yang Yi collected some Drowned Dead remains and used torpedoes to destroy more of the creatures approaching from the other breaches, though two torpedoes failed to explode.
• Yang Yi and the robots completed repairs on the first breach in forty minutes, then moved on to the second.
• The robots sealed the second breach in under thirty minutes as more Drowned Dead drifted toward the ship.
• Yang Yi sent the robots to the third breach and fired three torpedoes into a dense cluster of approaching Drowned Dead.

Yang Yi and the robot squad repaired the Shelter’s leaks and fought their way back through the Drowned Dead, but a colossal Abyss Scavenger Slime attacked them as they returned. After escaping its tentacles, Yang Yi discovered that the creature was connected to Player Island No. 09-Garbage Island.

• Yang Yi held off the Drowned Dead until Xiaoji finished repairing all three leaks, then headed back with the robot squad as Su Na prepared to join him.
• Transparent tentacles emerged from below, dragging away corpses, Drowned Dead, Yang Yi’s rifle, and Robot No. 7 while the robots’ Beam Cannons failed to stop them.
• Yang Yi used supplies from the Stomach Pouch to block the tentacles’ attacks, and he and two robots reached the waterlock safely.
• Su Na pulled a tentacle from Yang Yi with Curling Touch, and Yang Yi identified it as Abyss Scavenger Slime attracted to corpses and garbage.
• Yang Yi saw that the Abyss Scavenger had cleared the surrounding water and spotted its enormous body sinking in the distance.
• Yang Yi discovered information linking the creature to Player Island No. 09-Garbage Island, and Su Na used the Eye of Greed Telescope to look at it.