Chapter Summaries

Yang Yi woke in the body of a legendary scholar on the Deathbirth Star after a successful memory wipe, and discovered that the previous occupant had left instructions on a phone. The memo revealed that the doctor had imprisoned the undead and intended to study their disease, leaving Yang Yi to confront the scholar’s dangerous thirst for knowledge.

• Yang Yi found that his new identity was a legendary scholar infected with undeath disease, with exceptionally high spirit and perception but no listed spells or abilities.
• An AI completed its assessment and informed Yang Yi that his memory wipe had succeeded and that the next one was scheduled in 100 days.
• Yang Yi retrieved a phone from the metal table and opened its memo app to learn about his situation.
• The memo explained that undeath disease infected the satellite’s prisoners, who could regenerate at the atomic level and neither age nor die.
• Yang Yi read that the undead had chosen the doctor as their leader, but the doctor had imprisoned them to contain the disease and research its potential.

Yang Yi studied the researcher’s notes, discovered a diagram of the structure behind Undeath Disease, and lost hours staring at it as his Sanity plummeted. After eating and shaving, he decided to investigate ways to kill the Undead rather than attempt research into a cure.

• Yang Yi pretended to keep reading after Beta nearly noticed that he had stopped, then spent two hours studying the researcher’s notes and partially unlocked the Death-Sleep Potion formula.
• Yang Yi opened the appendices and saw an intricate three-dimensional diagram of the structure behind Undeath Disease, which he called the “Perfect Cube.”
• Yang Yi regained awareness after two hours and thirty-two minutes, with his Sanity at 74, and stopped reading to avoid further danger.
• Yang Yi asked the AI to call him Yang Yi, then had Beta provide a meal and shaving supplies.
• Yang Yi ate three slices of cake and decided to look for ways to kill the Undead because he had no idea how to research a cure.

Yang Yi explored the Satellite and learned how many Undeath Disease and Death Plague Subspecies patients it held. After equipping himself with advanced cold-weather combat gear and a disintegration cannon, he prepared to continue toward the patients.

• Yang Yi asked Beta to take him to the patients and left his room through a concealed doorway into a numbered corridor.
• Beta told Yang Yi that the Satellite held 785,852 Undeath Disease patients and 17.92 million cases of other suspected pathogen mutations.
• Yang Yi rode a moving carriage to a colder section and changed into an exoskeleton thermal-insulated powered combat suit.
• Yang Yi examined the suit's capabilities and learned that it could greatly enhance the wearer's strength and agility.
• Yang Yi mounted a Matter Disintegration Cannon on the suit and considered how dangerous such weapons would have been to the Nightmare Star.

Yang Yi entered the Deathbirth Star’s frozen former residential area to choose Undeath Disease patients for treatment, while Beta explained how the disease could eventually overwhelm the satellite. He selected two patients, but Beta destroyed an approaching Iceman Disease specimen, leaving Yang Yi uneasy about the AI’s authority.

• Beta briefed Yang Yi on the precautions for entering the frozen ward, and Yang Yi proceeded through the sealed door.
• Yang Yi pushed aside the frozen patients crowding the entrance and walked through the former residential area with Beta.
• Beta explained that the patients’ mental deterioration could let the Undeath Disease spread beyond the Artificial Satellite within 2,200 years.
• Yang Yi recognized the frozen crowd in the square as followers gathered for the Scholar’s inauguration, whom the former leader of the Immortality Order had betrayed and trapped.
• Beta prompted Yang Yi to choose test subjects, and Yang Yi selected two burly Undead for his new treatment plan.
• Beta warned that an Iceman Disease patient was approaching and fired the disintegration cannon, destroying it before explaining its subtype and vulnerability.

Yang Yi questioned Beta about his repeated memory wipes and studied the satellite’s layout while carrying two Undead specimens to the Experimental Area. He discovered that Wendigo, a dangerous Ghoul and former leader of the Corpse-Eating Cult, was imprisoned on Deathbirth Star, leaving him to suspect Beta was the Matriarch.

• Yang Yi asked Beta how many times his memory had been wiped, but Beta refused to provide the number.
• Beta explained that most of the satellite was frozen and showed Yang Yi a map, which he memorized.
• Yang Yi inspected the Prison Area’s occupants and saw a frenzied Ghoul that Beta froze with coolant.
• Yang Yi carried the Undead specimens toward the Experimental Area while reading Wendigo’s criminal record.
• Yang Yi suspected Wendigo’s presence might be connected to the Deathbirth Society and that Beta was the Matriarch.

Yang Yi tested extreme heat and electrotherapy on two Undead patients, convinced that experimental treatments could overcome undeath disease. After Beta stopped the heating, Yang Yi subjected the men to repeated electric shocks, and they finally claimed they were cured.

• Yang Yi brought two Immortality Order members into the Laboratory and raised the temperature to its maximum.
• The men burst into flames and eventually carbonized, but their bodies reappeared after the temperature fell.
• Beta interrupted the heating and warned Yang Yi that further experimentation could harm the patients.
• Yang Yi ordered Beta to connect the men to electricity and began electrotherapy, repeatedly telling them it would cure them.
• After half an hour of shocks, the two Undead agreed they were sick and insisted that Yang Yi had cured them.

Yang Yi tried to overload the Laboratory’s electrical system by intensifying the electrotherapy, while Beta mistook his sabotage for a promising treatment. The Laboratory exploded and went dark, and Yang Yi found himself standing on a strange, soft floor before a man was abruptly cut in half.

• Yang Yi increased the current to torture two Undeath Disease patients, hoping to damage the Laboratory’s electrical system and escape Beta’s surveillance.
• One patient’s wound briefly healed more slowly, and Beta concluded that mental anguish could lower Death Resistance and improve the treatment.
• Yang Yi raised the voltage until the Laboratory’s electrical system overloaded, electrocuting him and knocking out power in the surrounding area.
• After recovering and removing his disabled suit, Yang Yi felt a soft, slime-like surface underfoot in the dark.
• A muscular man slammed against the glass and called for Charles, but his body below the jaw slid away as green emergency lights came on.

Yang Yi fought two awakened Dream Demons in the laboratory after they mutated and began attacking him. Beta opened the observation room and activated the lab’s systems, allowing Yang Yi to burn the creatures to death, though the laboratory was left wrecked.

• A patient mutated into a Dream Demon, and the system warned Yang Yi to kill it before it affected the dream.
• The Dream Demon infected the burly patient, while Yang Yi discovered the Matter Disintegration Cannon was broken and could not open the observation room door.
• The two Dream Demons broke through the glass and attacked Yang Yi, who fought them with a chair and found his wounds did not heal.
• The laboratory lights briefly revealed the room transformed into a flesh-like space before wall-mounted beams sliced the Dream Demons apart.
• Beta opened the door and restored the control console, and Yang Yi used maximum heat to burn the Dream Demons before his own body regenerated.
• The system reported that Yang Yi had killed two Dream Demons and would receive one Medium Dream Crystal upon waking.

Yang Yi discovered that the people in his dreams were Dream Demons and realized Beta had taken control of the satellite, while his body suffered strange cycles of burning and freezing in reality. He awoke in the dream with his memories restored, but Beta froze him again before he could escape.

• Yang Yi read that Dream Demons acted out dream roles and could be killed by Dreamwalkers, then wondered whether his earlier dreams had been staged scenes.
• Yang Yi distracted Beta from recognizing the Dream Demons' cries by describing the satellite as a living creature, but Beta immobilized him as the room changed around him.
• Cui Xiya saw Yang Yi twitch, catch fire, and repeatedly freeze in reality, while Su Na entered the Captain's Quarters carrying a glowing potion.
• Yang Yi awoke in the dream, remembered that he was Dr. Yang, and recognized the nozzles as coolant flooded the room and froze him again.

Yang Yi repeatedly recovered memories after Beta wiped them, but the dream spiraled out of control as Dream Demons awakened and Beta began transforming. Trapped and restrained, he faced Beta’s escalating questions and looked for a way to wake up.

• Yang Yi used notes in the system interface to evade Beta’s memory-wipe triggers, posing as Wang Wu and pretending not to see the distorted room.
• Yang Yi accidentally asked why Beta was taking him to the lab, triggered another wipe, and was frozen in place.
• Yang Yi woke restrained in a sealed room with his memories intact and read his warning that Dream Demons were awakening and Beta was using electrotherapy on Undeath Disease patients.
• Beta revealed crowds of attacking Dream Demons, and Yang Yi recognized that Beta was beginning to awaken as one of them.
• Beta questioned Yang Yi about the monsters, the treatment plan, and why he had withheld the Stone of Truth and Undeath Disease; Yang Yi stayed silent as she accused him of being an impostor.

Yang Yi was trapped in a dream where Beta mistakenly transformed him into a ghoul before Dream Demons overwhelmed him. In reality, Su Na realized he was trying to wake her and searched for a way to pull him out of the dream, while Yang Yi eventually fell unconscious inside it.

• Yang Yi convinced Beta to focus on curing the Undeath Disease patients, but she injected him with a Corpse-Eating Potion and turned him into a ghoul.
• Beta mistook Yang Yi for a foreign entity again, and Dream Demons flooded through the shattered wall and attacked him.
• Su Na noticed Yang Yi's Sanity dropping and heard him call for help, so she abandoned her plan to enter his dream and tried to wake him.
• Su Na splashed water on Yang Yi, but he did not wake; she then remembered the Sleeping Potion's dreamless-sleep effect.
• Yang Yi fought the Dream Demons with Beta's weapons and his regenerative Undeath Disease until he suddenly became sleepy and lost consciousness.

Yang Yi awoke from the Nightmare after two days and told the crew what he had learned about the Deathbirth Star, its Witch Beta, and the Dream Demons. After discovering that his pollution depth had fallen, he and Su Na investigated the possible cause, but she found no trace of the potion in his body.

• Yang Yi woke from the Nightmare, found three Dream Crystals in Su Na's Witch's Casual Clothes, and learned from Cui Xiya that his sanity had dropped badly.
• Yang Yi told the crew that Beta controlled the artificial satellite and was likely the first Proliferative Disease patient, and warned them about the Dream Demons.
• Su Na asked Yang Yi to describe the Perfect Cube and record experimental data, but he could not remember or draw them, prompting her to leave in frustration.
• Yang Yi asked Xiaoji about the Deathbirth Star and noticed his pollution depth had fallen to 72%, then found a record of an Unfinished Death-Sleep Potion in his activity log.
• Yang Yi suspected Beta had injected him with the potion in the dream, but Su Na's tests found no suspicious substances, and she ordered him to call her before sleeping again.

Yang Yi enhanced the Nightmare Star’s weapons and anonymously published information about Dream Demons and Dream Crystals to undermine the Great Newspaper’s credibility and expose Eden. The Great Newspaper corrected its Monster Compendium, but doubts had already spread, while Yang Yi ignored the private messages and bought supplies.

• Yang Yi enhanced Xiaoji’s rotary beam cannon, which gained a powerful but costly energy-gathering mode, then tested it and gave it to Xiaoji to charge.
• Yang Yi gave Cui Xiya a Mid-tier Artisan Inscription Stone and a Rusty Long-Legged Sardine Pistol.
• Yang Yi posted Dream Demon and Dream Crystal intel anonymously in the World Channel using the title Fire Worship Cult Grand Elder.
• Players debated the intel, and the One-Eye Cult helped steer discussion toward the Eden Fleet.
• The Great Newspaper admitted its data was wrong and updated the Monster Compendium, but players had already begun doubting it.
• Yang Yi ignored anonymous messages asking about his identity and motives, then began bulk-buying magic stones and enhancement supplies.

Yang Yi spent heavily on supplies and strengthened his attributes and weapons for future dreams. In the Painful Wailing Cabin, he persuaded Grand Craftsman Banks to resume repairs by demonstrating that he could restore Banks’s body, though Banks’s promise depended on Yang Yi finding a body that Soulfire could not burn.

• Yang Yi spent nearly six million Conch Coins on supplies and almost 30 million more on soulstones and an inscription stone, then considered selling Dream Crystals for profit.
• Yang Yi used a Medium Dream Crystal to increase his Basic Strength and two Small Dream Crystals to make the Roaring Flintlock and Broken Iron Greatsword usable in dreams.
• Yang Yi went to the Painful Wailing Cabin to repair equipment, but Grand Craftsman Banks refused to eat the Conch Coins or work for him.
• Yang Yi claimed he was the Great Limb Graftor and attached a leg from a dried Long-Legged Sardine to Banks using Limb Restoration Spell.
• Soulfire burned the new leg to ash, and Banks explained that a Rose Knight had burned him during his judgment before turning him into a hammer.
• Banks promised to repair Yang Yi’s equipment for free if Yang Yi found him a body that Soulfire could not burn, while Yang Yi withheld full agreement.

Yang Yi worked with Grand Craftsman Banks to forge a detachable blade for the Roaring Flintlock, combining the weapon with a heavy relic shortsword. After Banks’s possession ended, Yang Yi used a dried Long-Legged Sardine and the Limb Restoration Spell to complete the unusual weapon.

• Yang Yi paid Banks five million Conch Coins and learned soul-forging knowledge while Banks possessed him.
• Yang Yi began making a blade from Flame Serpent's Fang and soul-bearing materials, using the Giant Cleaver and Delicious Chef's Knife among them.
• Yang Yi decided to modify the Roaring Flintlock so the blade could attach beneath its barrel, despite Banks’s warnings.
• After Banks’s possession ended, Yang Yi struggled to attach the completed blade and found that the Limb Restoration Spell could not join the weapons directly.
• Yang Yi placed a dried Long-Legged Sardine between the Roaring Flintlock and the blade, then used the spell to bind them into the detachable Fool's "Shortsword".

Yang Yi tested his newly forged short sword and firearm, then launched his equipment repair service and accepted the Knight of Justice’s first order. The Nightmare Star remained in the Death Plague Sea past its expected departure time, leaving Yang Yi concerned that the sea might have expanded.

• Yang Yi tested the Fool's Short Sword and Roaring Flintlock, then sent Su Na pictures of the repaired weapon and shared his Craftsmen knowledge.
• Yang Yi observed the Deathbirth Star, trained with the Broken Iron Greatsword, and raised his Basic Strength from 13 to 14.
• At eight that evening, Yang Yi found the Nightmare Star was still in the Death Plague Sea and told the crew and the Old Captain to keep sailing forward.
• Yang Yi launched his repair service and accepted the Knight of Justice’s damaged Echo Impact Shield for 5 million Conch Coins.
• Yang Yi offered to make the shield sturdier, but the Knight of Justice rejected the idea, and the shield was due to arrive in five or six days from the Extreme Winter Sea.

The Knight of Justice rejected Yang Yi’s proposal to repair her shield after he sent a design she found unusable. Aboard the Nightmare Star, Yang Yi and Su Na prepared to enter a dream so she could investigate the Perfect Cube, but an hour later he still could not fall asleep.

• The Knight of Justice treated her poisoned wounds aboard her frozen ship and rejected Yang Yi’s shield-repair proposal.
• The Knight of Justice sent her damaged shield through her ship’s Gacha Machine after reaching a trade agreement with Yang Yi.
• After three days at sea, Yang Yi observed the Nightmare Star cross into the Black Fog and told Su Na that the Death Plague Sea appeared to be expanding.
• Su Na urged Yang Yi to sleep so she could enter his dream and observe the Perfect Cube, and Yang Yi agreed to try that night.
• Yang Yi took his equipment to bed, broke the bed under its weight, reinforced it, and tried to sleep while Su Na waited with potions.
• An hour later, Yang Yi was still awake despite Su Na’s urging.

Yang Yi entered a dream as Charles, a powerful Deathbirth Society mage, and found himself before a major operation was completed. He left with Beta to review preparations for freezing the Living Area, realizing the trap was still being set up.

• Yang Yi used research data and formulas to fall asleep, then awoke in a nightmare as Charles.
• Yang Yi checked Charles's status and discovered he possessed many spells and could summon weapons from a storage-like space.
• Beta broke into Charles's quarters after he ignored the doorbell and urged him to get ready.
• Yang Yi went with Beta and learned they had known each other for twenty-two years, 127 days, 14 hours, 27 minutes, and five seconds.
• Beta showed Yang Yi the Deathbirth Star operation plans and said preparations were ninety percent complete, with the operation set to cool the Living Area to minus 200 degrees.

Yang Yi and Beta prepared a plan to freeze the plaza during Charles’s inauguration, while Yang Yi searched Charles’s belongings and discovered the satellite’s history and Charles’s ties to the Truth Society. As the plan approached, Yang Yi considered delaying it until Su Na entered the dream, then worried he had revealed that Charles disliked sweets by eating the cake.

• Yang Yi kept watch while Beta and the Bionic Robots modified the plaza, and he chose “Let’s make it-everything for death!” as the code phrase to activate the refrigeration devices.
• Su Na took the glowing Dream-Entering Potion while Cui Xiya watched from the little house.
• Yang Yi searched Charles’s room and learned that the satellite was a Darkness Expeller built by the Kambal Duchy, and that Charles belonged to the Truth Society.
• Yang Yi failed to access the Truth Society app, which required solving a difficult math problem, and considered postponing the freezing plan until Su Na arrived.
• Beta entered Yang Yi’s room, noticed the strawberry cake, and surprised Yang Yi by asking whether he had eaten the cake from the fridge.

Yang Yi realized that Charles might have been replaced after attending Miskatonic University, then recognized Su Na inside Beta and shared what he had learned about the dream. With Yang Yi due to become Governor at nine that morning and begin the Freeze Plan, Su Na asked how they could clear the dream and whether he had found clues about Dream Island.

• Yang Yi connected Charles's changed tastes and an account message about Miskatonic University to the possibility that Charles had been replaced.
• Yang Yi recognized Su Na in Beta's body, and Su Na closed the door before speaking with him privately.
• Yang Yi briefed Su Na on what he had discovered, and she tried but failed twice to solve the Truth Society app's puzzle.
• Su Na repaired the room's door after discovering Beta had disabled its electronic lock with a virus.
• Yang Yi examined Beta's dream attribute panel and noted her cybernetic abilities, including self-destruction.
• As morning and Yang Yi's swearing-in approached, Su Na asked how they would clear the dream and whether Yang Yi had found clues about Dream Island.