Arc 2Fog Town Investigation

Lin Ye survived a series of simulations and dangerous events, gaining new powers and equipment while helping other survivors. The story left him in Foggy Town, where he believed he had uncovered the cause of the town’s crisis.

  • Lin Ye defeated a Tier-1 Mutated Creature with Zhao Yong, Xu Min, and Li Ji, then returned to his shelter with their loot.
  • Lin Ye completed the Red Maze simulation, met Xiao Ye, and gained the Consciousness Awakening title and rune knowledge.
  • Lin Ye explored a maze during an event, killed a hooded creature, and recovered a blueprint and a Tier 1 Mutation Organ.
  • Lin Ye became the weak god of an abandoned church in a simulation, then won Red Coins in the Game Room and crafted Simple Protective Items.
  • Lin Ye survived the Feast of Revelry at the City Theater, where Xiao Ye killed the Banquet Guest and gave him a fragment of the Seed of the Mind.
  • Lin Ye completed the cruise-ship simulation by finding room 1904 and exchanging the briefcases, then shared survival advice and protective items with the group.
  • Lin Ye led Zhou Wen, Xu Changnian, and Hu Tingting into Foggy Town, where he found unusual mutation organs and investigated signs of human intervention and a mysterious illness.
  • Lin Ye reviewed hospital records and specimens with Zhou Wen, then announced that he had mostly figured out what was happening.
Chapters 26–50 Vol. 1 Read

Ch. 26Tier-1 Mutated Creature

Lin Ye used up his Psionic Energy to destroy the mutated creatures in the supermarket, then learned that a Tier-1 Mutated Creature was approaching. A black-haired, red-eyed girl attacked and gravely wounded Zhao Yong, but he transformed and grabbed her foot before she could kill Lin Ye.

  • Lin Ye unleashed a sweeping psionic blade that crushed the mutated creatures throughout the supermarket, then collapsed from exhaustion.
  • Li Ji cared for Lin Ye as he recovered, while Xu Min and Zhao Yong finished off the remaining creatures downstairs.
  • Li Ji sensed a terrifying presence, and Lin Ye warned that it was likely a Tier-1 Mutated Creature.
  • A black-haired girl appeared outside and suddenly broke into the supermarket, targeting Lin Ye.
  • Zhao Yong blocked the girl's attack and was disemboweled, but he swelled to several times his size and grabbed her right foot.

Ch. 27Death match in the supermarket

Lin Ye and his companions fought the girl in a deadly standoff until Lin Ye used the Life-Saving Injection to break through her psionic barrier and shoot her mutated vital point. After the others finished the fight, Lin Ye collected mutation organs, and the survivors regrouped as morning sunlight entered the supermarket.

  • Xu Min activated her innate ability after Zhao Yong failed to pull the girl free, and the girl sent Zhao Yong flying before turning toward Lin Ye.
  • Lin Ye and his companions surrounded the girl, but the standoff continued as the Cross Necklace's side effects worsened and Lin Ye struggled to stay conscious.
  • Lin Ye injected himself with the Life-Saving Injection, then ordered Zhao Yong and Xu Min to attack while he advanced on the girl with Red Blade.
  • Lin Ye shattered the girl's psionic barrier with his condensed perception and fired his mutated pistol at point-blank range, gravely wounding her.
  • Zhao Yong and Xu Min joined Lin Ye in the final fight and defeated the girl, while Li Ji and Lin Ye eventually recovered enough to get up.
  • Lin Ye collected the available mutation organs and packed them into woven sacks before the four regrouped on the second floor at dawn.

Ch. 28Sorting the loot

Lin Ye returned from the ruins with his teammates, then opened his mission reward chests and unlocked a personal evolution pathway. He planned to share a simplified version with the group as survivors discussed their mission spoils.

  • Lin Ye and Zhao Yong, Xu Min, and Li Ji left the ruins with their loot, exchanged friend requests, and reached the bus stop as a gigantic egg released Mutated Creatures behind them.
  • Lin Ye returned to his shelter with the cart and sacks, drew a blood-red duck card, and ate Duck Blood Vermicelli Soup that seemed to remove the Cross Necklace's side effects.
  • Lin Ye opened the mission chest and found nutrient solution, mental energy potions, an Integration potion, and a Basic Rune-Mutation card.
  • Lin Ye opened the bonus chest, used its No. 1 Mutation Card with his No. 0 card, and gained a complex evolution pathway that consumed his Psionic Energy.
  • Lin Ye drew a simplified version of his pathway and planned to post it in the group chat, where survivors were sharing thanks and boasting about supplies from the mission.

Ch. 29Red Maze

Lin Ye sold Mutation Organs, shared information about Mutation Cards and evolution pathways, and converted his earnings into system currency. He then began a simulation as Jason, finding himself trapped in an empty Red Maze and resolving to map his routes across his remaining simulations.

  • Lin Ye sorted his haul, posted food in the group chat, and explained how collecting Mutation Cards Nos. 1–10 revealed a survivor-specific evolution pathway.
  • Lin Ye listed 200 Mutation Organs for ten Red Coins each, sold them immediately, and converted the proceeds into system currency.
  • Lin Ye answered Zhang Liang’s questions about Mutation Organs and Mutation Cards, then began his daily simulation.
  • Lin Ye awoke as Jason in a dark red room and discovered a Red Maze with no monsters, supplies, or apparent exit.
  • Lin Ye panicked at the prospect of being trapped, then began tracking routes and conserving strength so he could escape within ten simulations.

Ch. 30Consciousness Entity

Lin Ye explored the Red Maze, then realized his supposed mission might be a consciousness experiment using Class D personnel as vessels. A girl created from his imagination and reality warned him that the organization was studying him and offered him a choice: wait quietly or fight back.

  • Lin Ye explored the Red Maze, strengthened Jason's body with psionic energy, and killed himself after failing to find a way out.
  • Lin Ye returned to the starting room and discovered a message on his thigh in his own handwriting: “Consciousness experiment, reality combined with consciousness.”
  • Lin Ye suspected the simulation notices might be fabricated by his consciousness, but failed to alter the Red Room by imagining it was his shelter.
  • A black-haired, red-eyed girl appeared and told Lin Ye that she was formed from his imagination mixed with reality.
  • The girl explained that the organization was studying Lin Ye's consciousness and might notice his differences from the Class D personnel he inhabited.
  • The girl advised Lin Ye to either do nothing until the experiment ended or raise hell to make the organization pay for targeting him.

Ch. 31Teacher Xiao Ye

Lin Ye met Xiao Ye in the Red Maze, where she taught him the Protection Rune before the maze collapsed. He awoke in a hospital, returned to his solitary cell, and received the simulation’s rewards, including Xiao Ye’s Gift Box.

  • Xiao Ye offered to help Lin Ye confront the organization, but he initially refused.
  • Xiao Ye taught Lin Ye about runes and passed the Protection Rune’s information into his mind through mental contact.
  • As the Red Maze began collapsing, Lin Ye proposed that they go out and teach the organization a lesson, but Xiao Ye chose to say goodbye instead.
  • Lin Ye woke in a hospital, was taken back to his solitary cell by guards, and lost consciousness.
  • Lin Ye’s simulation ended, and he obtained a Consciousness Upload Device, Xiao Ye’s Gift Box, and the title Consciousness Awakening.

Ch. 32The Fourth Night Exploration

Lin Ye exchanged the Consciousness Upload Device for a Boat Ticket, studied his runes, and entered the Maze Exploration event after the beginner period ended. He explored the Red Maze, fought mutated creatures, and found food in two locked rooms.

  • Lin Ye exchanged the Consciousness Upload Device for a Boat Ticket and saved Xiao Ye's Basic Rune-Collapse card for later.
  • Lin Ye reviewed his supplies and Protection Rune while preparing for the nighttime event, then discussed event risks and martial arts training with the group chat.
  • Lin Ye joined the Maze Exploration event and killed a Blood Corpse, taking its mutation organ.
  • Lin Ye absorbed psionic energy in the Red Maze and completed his first circulation along his evolution pathway.
  • Lin Ye jogged through the maze, fighting mutated creatures and opening locked rooms that held rice, then packaged meat and vegetables.

Ch. 33An arrogant Tier 1 creature

Lin Ye explored the maze, found supplies, and killed an arrogant Tier 1 creature guarding a hall. After turning in its mutation organ, he used a special metal key to open a room containing a crafting blueprint.

  • Lin Ye found a storeroom with nutrient solution, Mutation Cards, a metal key, and a dagger, then continued through the maze.
  • Lin Ye entered a hall and spoke with a hooded creature that claimed the system governed countless planes and races.
  • Lin Ye blocked the creature’s psionic bullets, wounded it with the Red Blade, and killed it by piercing its mutation organ.
  • Lin Ye recovered a damaged black robe, a pistol, and a Tier 1 Mutation Organ, advancing the Tier 1 Psionic Energy Crystal Fabricator quest to (2/10).
  • Lin Ye used the metal key to open the hall’s dark red metal door and found a crafting blueprint on a pedestal.

Ch. 34Game Room Invitation

After the maze event, Lin Ye sorted his loot, discovered a Game Room Invitation, and planned to use it after the next simulation. He discussed Shelter blueprints and special room keys in the group chat, then began trading for keys.

  • Lin Ye explored more rooms before the event ended and found a Garishly colored slip of paper, which turned out to be a Game Room Invitation.
  • Back at the Shelter, Lin Ye sorted his supplies and examined his loot, including a Sacrificial Dagger, damaged Ring Organization gear, and a Low-grade Concentrated Nutrient Solution Extractor Blueprint.
  • Lin Ye decided to save the Game Room Invitation until after the next simulation and cooked himself a lavish dinner.
  • In the group chat, Lin Ye advised survivors about finding Shelter tier-up blueprints, warned them against fighting Tier-1 Mutated Creatures without combat talent, and offered to trade supplies for special room keys.
  • After discussing how to preserve fresh food, Lin Ye left the group chat and began trading for special room keys.

Ch. 35Crimson Nun

Lin Ye traded with Zhang Liang for a basic speed rune card, then drew a silver-haired girl in a blood-red nun’s habit who triggered a religious anomalous simulation. As elderly D-class prisoner Isaac, Lin Ye entered a church where Gregory transformed into a cube, and a mysterious gentleman asked what he thought of the spectacle.

  • Lin Ye traded a psionic pistol and Psychic Ring to Zhang Liang for the Mutual Aid Association’s basic rune-speed card.
  • Lin Ye set the card aside, prepared food, and fell asleep while assimilating the Protection Rune.
  • Lin Ye drew a silver-haired girl in a blood-red nun’s habit, offered her breakfast, and began his daily simulation.
  • The simulation assigned Lin Ye the role of elderly D-class prisoner Isaac on a mission involving a religious anomaly.
  • Isaac and Gregory were taken to a church, where Gregory tore off his face and compressed into a cube.
  • A mysterious gentleman seated beside Lin Ye asked about Gregory’s transformation, and Lin Ye dismissed it as unimpressive.

Ch. 36The Path of Faith

Lin Ye took his companion’s box as a gift from the gray-robed figure, but discovered he could not leave the place without choosing a god to believe in. After rejecting several churches, he leapt upside down into the Abyss, which the nun said was the way out.

  • The gray-robed figure let Lin Ye leave its church with the box, and a notification told him to carry the gift back to the shelter to complete the simulation.
  • Lin Ye found himself on a road lined with churches and realized he had to choose a god before he could escape, though he feared the consequences of believing.
  • Lin Ye questioned a priest about the benefits of joining his church, then left when the priest could not answer his questions.
  • Lin Ye entered a black church connected to the Abyss, where a nun offered him a chance to believe in her Lord and said he could leave by jumping down.
  • After the nun restored the floor and doors, Lin Ye leapt backward into the Abyss upside down, and the nun said she hoped to meet him there again.

Ch. 37Inheriting the Divine Seat

Lin Ye entered an abandoned church and learned that the Saintess wanted him to inherit its divine seat. He accepted, became the church’s god, and returned from the simulation with the polluted divine seat, two gifts, and the title God.

  • Lin Ye entered an abandoned church and met a polite monster that called itself the Saintess.
  • The Saintess explained that the church needed a new god after its former god was devoured by the Abyss, and offered Lin Ye rune knowledge in exchange for inheriting the polluted divine seat.
  • Lin Ye agreed, and the Saintess placed a mote of light inside him, making him the god of the church despite his being too weak to connect fully to the divine seat.
  • The Saintess gave Lin Ye a card and warned him to leave before the connection was severed; he departed and returned to the prison wagon.
  • Lin Ye ended the simulation and retrieved the polluted divine seat, Mr. Gray’s gift, the Saintess’s gift, and the title God.

Ch. 38Feast of Revelry

After leaving the Game Room, Lin Ye returned to his shelter and practiced inscribing Protection Runes on a black robe, making more than a dozen one-use protective items. A new nighttime event, Feast of Revelry, then began, and Lin Ye checked the group chat for information.

  • Lin Ye examined his spoils, including Gregory's Life, the Saintess identity card, and a notification identifying him as a weak god.
  • Lin Ye used the Game Room invitation, played blackjack for one Red Coin, completed two rounds of Psionic Energy Circulation, and won 54 Red Coins.
  • A waiter offered Lin Ye a reusable Game Room Card, but Lin Ye left the Game Room and returned to his shelter.
  • Lin Ye studied Protection Runes and made more than a dozen Simple Protective Items from the black robe.
  • The Feast of Revelry event began, and Lin Ye opened the group chat as survivors asked for information.

Ch. 39A Feverish Date

Lin Ye joined the Feast of Revelry, killed a bird-headed creature, and learned he had to occupy a dangerous city location until dawn. Xiao Ye appeared to keep him company, advised him to claim the theater, and shared a Revelry Potion with him before promising their date would continue.

  • Lin Ye offered experimental Simple Protective Items to other participants and joined the Feast of Revelry.
  • Lin Ye woke in an amusement park, killed a bird-headed creature with Red Blade, and obtained a Revelry Potion.
  • Lin Ye rode the Ferris wheel, where Xiao Ye appeared and told him he had to occupy one of several dangerous locations until dawn.
  • Xiao Ye recommended the theater, drank a little of the potion, and fed the rest to Lin Ye, triggering an intense but clear-headed exhilaration.
  • Xiao Ye said it was not yet time for her entrance and promised she would not leave their date halfway through as Lin Ye exited the Ferris wheel alone.

Ch. 40The play begins

Lin Ye reached the City Theater, where the Revelry Potion helped him absorb rune knowledge and the creatures he killed strengthened his connection to the building. He inscribed runes throughout the theater, and when rational creatures later entered, they left without attacking him.

  • Lin Ye killed a black-robed greatsword wielder outside the City Theater and entered the building.
  • Lin Ye used a Basic Rune-Collapse card and studied the knowledge it gave him while killing creatures that broke into the theater.
  • Lin Ye’s kills formed and strengthened a connection between him and the theater, expanding his mental perception across the building.
  • As he felt his body nearing its limit, Lin Ye inscribed runes on the theater walls and used invisible psionic blades to kill intruders without intervening.
  • A fully armed humanoid creature entered the theater, apologized, and left, and other rational creatures also turned away without attacking Lin Ye.

Ch. 41Banquet Guest

Lin Ye defeated a giant insect and the mutated creatures that followed, only to learn that the Feast of Revelry had made him the Main Course for a Banquet Guest. Xiao Ye killed the Banquet Guest and used its Crystallization to strengthen the theater, then invited Lin Ye to dance as the banquet ended.

  • A giant insect entered the theater and threatened Lin Ye, but Lin Ye used the theater’s defenses, the Red Blade, and the CL0 Pistol to kill it.
  • Mutated creatures rushed into the theater, and Lin Ye’s cutting runes sliced them apart.
  • A formally dressed man appeared behind Lin Ye and revealed that he was a Banquet Guest who intended to eat Lin Ye, the Main Course.
  • Xiao Ye pierced the Banquet Guest’s chest, took its Crystallization, and made the man vanish.
  • Xiao Ye crushed the Crystallization, boosting Lin Ye’s mental strength and changing the theater, then asked Lin Ye to dance.

Ch. 42Seed of the Mind

After the Feast of Revelry, Lin Ye gained a fragment of the Seed of the Mind from Xiao Ye and returned to his Shelter. He sorted the loot with help from a blood-red owl, upgraded his crafting options, and prepared to hatch two eggs as survivors discussed the event in group chat.

  • As the mental world collapsed, Xiao Ye gave Lin Ye a fragment of the Seed of the Mind, which strengthened and refined Lin Ye’s mental abilities.
  • Lin Ye returned to the Shelter, where a blood-red owl helped him sort the loot and extract materials from the corpses.
  • Lin Ye completed the Tier 1 Psionic Energy Crystal Maker Blueprint quest, and the system installed a maker that produced two crystals each day.
  • Lin Ye listed chunks of the corpses for sale, stored his Carnival Day Invitation, and used creature flesh and hot water on the Abyssal Egg and Xenomorph Egg.
  • Lin Ye read group chat messages in which survivors discussed the deaths and the Revelry Potion.

Ch. 43Cruise Ship Journey

Lin Ye began a new simulation as Zed and was sent aboard a silent cruise ship to swap the briefcase in room 1904. The ship’s corridors shifted and its room numbers appeared in disarray, leaving Lin Ye to choose a door to investigate.

  • Lin Ye saw survivors discuss the psionic protection he had given away and the tier-one creature remains he had put up for sale.
  • Lin Ye began a simulation as Class D personnel Zed and was ordered by the Captain to retrieve a briefcase from room 1904 aboard a cruise ship and replace it with an identical one.
  • Lin Ye boarded the ship with a woman and a child, but they vanished after the group entered its dim corridors.
  • Lin Ye found that the room numbers were out of order and that the passage back to the entrance had disappeared.
  • Lin Ye considered waiting for the ship to leave port, then chose to try opening room 1346.

Ch. 44Gathering Information

Lin Ye explored the yacht’s shifting corridors, died to a creature in Room 966, and used another simulation to prepare for the dangers ahead. After waiting an hour inside Room 1346, he opened the door to find a smiling Attendant demanding his Boat Ticket.

  • Lin Ye discovered that closing Room 1346’s door led to a blood-red corridor, then opened Room 966 and was attacked by a red blur that tore off his right hand and shoulder and dragged him inside.
  • Lin Ye woke with nine simulations remaining and returned to the yacht with the child and the woman, holding the child’s hand as they boarded.
  • Lin Ye and his companions found six passages into the yacht, but when they entered the corridor, the companions vanished and Lin Ye found himself alone outside Room 407.
  • Lin Ye returned to Room 1346, confirmed that the red corridor and its room numbers were unchanged, and waited an hour while practicing Psionic Energy Circulation.
  • Lin Ye prepared a thin layer of Psionic Energy Protection and cautiously opened the door, where an Attendant asked him to show his Boat Ticket.

Ch. 45Pure Sea

Lin Ye was forced off the cruise ship into the Pure Sea, then woke in a new simulation with his memory of what happened afterward erased. He tried a different corridor and continued testing rooms, but found no clear pattern before the simulation ended with him facing another red corridor.

  • The attendant compelled Lin Ye to walk through the ship and jump into the Pure Sea, where he disappeared without making a ripple.
  • Lin Ye woke in bed with eight simulations remaining and realized he could not remember what happened after he reached the deck.
  • Lin Ye boarded the cruise ship again, chose a different entrance, and found that opening room 1603 led to a red corridor.
  • Lin Ye absorbed Psionic Energy, opened rooms at random, and found ordinary corridors with unfamiliar room numbers.
  • Lin Ye opened another room and found himself in a red corridor.

Ch. 46Black Corridor

Lin Ye entered the Black Corridor, escaped a room of red fuzz by navigating a lightless passage, and died after trying to collapse the sphere in Room 99. After resetting with seven simulations left, he realized that the people entering the corridors were variables that made the room arrangement impossible to predict.

  • Lin Ye entered a red-fuzz-covered room, but found the way back replaced by impenetrable darkness and the room behind him gone.
  • Lin Ye used a particle of light to reveal the black corridor and reached Room 99 before the darkness swallowed him.
  • Red fuzz burst from Lin Ye’s body and was absorbed by the rotating black sphere, leaving him drained and barely able to move.
  • Lin Ye crawled beneath the sphere and traced a Collapse Rune, but his body collapsed as he gained new knowledge.
  • Lin Ye reset with seven simulations remaining and planned to visit Corridor 3 before considering asking the organization for help.
  • Lin Ye realized that the people entering the corridors changed the room arrangement, so he told the woman and boy to wait outside while he went in alone.

Ch. 47Cheating is cheating, right?

Lin Ye used Gugu’s system notifications to navigate the cruise ship’s cabins, meet Wei Bai, and recover the organization’s briefcase before leaving with his companions. After the simulation ended, he examined his rewards and discovered a Pure Crystal and a Silkworm Parasite among them.

  • Lin Ye sent his companions away and entered Corridor 3 alone, then followed Gugu’s notifications to find safe rooms.
  • Lin Ye met Wei Bai in an aqua-blue corridor, drank her tea, and received one of her tentacles as a gift.
  • Lin Ye found room 1904, exchanged the briefcases, and discovered it was the exit from the cabins.
  • Lin Ye left the ship with his companions and handed the recovered briefcase to the captain, who thanked him for helping humanity.
  • Lin Ye ended the simulation and examined his rewards, including a Pure Crystal and a Silkworm Parasite.

Ch. 48Selling psionic items

Lin Ye processed his latest gains, trained in the Game Room, and crafted two new psionic items while warning survivors about the Silkworm Parasites. He offered the items for sale and urged survivors to complete their shelter missions and share Psionic Energy Circulation routes if a Site Mission began.

  • Lin Ye learned from Gugu how to process the Silkworm Parasites and used Weibai's gift to add Weibai as a contact, then discovered his purity had increased after entering the Pure Sea.
  • Lin Ye rejected the Game Room attendant's invitation to special games and completed two rounds of Psionic Energy Circulation while playing cards, earning 64 Red Coins.
  • Lin Ye studied runes and crafted new psionic items with Gugu's guidance, then shared a picture of the Silkworm Parasite with the group chat and warned survivors to upgrade their shelters.
  • Lin Ye asked survivors to share Psionic Energy Circulation routes if the event was a Site Mission and announced that he would sell ten Simple Protective Items and ten Simple Bone Blades for 10 Red Coins each.

Ch. 49Foggy Town

Lin Ye and three other passengers chose a site for their nighttime mission, settling on a fog-shrouded town after rejecting several dangerous or complicated alternatives. They entered Foggy Town together to investigate and survive until the train returned.

  • Lin Ye met Zhou Wen, Xu Changnian, and Hu Tingting aboard an old-fashioned train and was chosen as captain.
  • Lin Ye shared a simplified Psionic Energy Circulation pathway diagram and asked the others to distribute it in their regional groups.
  • The group rejected the Endless Wasteland and Deep-Sea Mine as too dangerous, then debated whether to investigate a mysterious relic in Mingting City.
  • Lin Ye proposed the foggy town because it lacked extreme hazards and he and Zhou Wen had enough mental power to avoid getting lost.
  • Lin Ye, Zhou Wen, Xu Changnian, and Hu Tingting passed through the station's gate of light and arrived at Foggy Town.

Ch. 50Strange Mutated Creatures

Lin Ye and his teammates explored separate sites in the fog-shrouded town, finding grotesque but weak Mutated Creatures and clues to a strange illness that preceded the fog. After regrouping and examining hospital records, Lin Ye said he had mostly worked out what was happening.

  • Lin Ye cleared a supermarket and found a mass of flesh packed into its restroom, which he cut open to remove its unusually active mutation organs.
  • Lin Ye searched the nearby police station for weapons and brought the equipment back to the supermarket, where Zhou Wen, Hu Tingting, and Xu Changnian had regrouped.
  • Lin Ye warned his teammates that the Mutated Creatures seemed to show signs of human intervention and suspected someone was behind events in the town.
  • Hu Tingting reported that students' notes described a severe, unexplained illness whose patients developed extreme fevers before the fog appeared.
  • Xu Changnian shared photographs of hospital records and specimens, and Lin Ye and Zhou Wen studied the information while the others talked.
  • Lin Ye announced that he had mostly figured out what was happening.
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