Chapter Summaries

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.