Recaps

Zuo Cheng'an completed his tasks and took the tomato sauce recipe from Red-Eyes, which threatened him with future hostility. As the farm changed into Uncle Muchou's Farm and Mo Dou set out to oppose Red-Eyes, Youyou faced Red-Eyes without the game's protection after failing her task.

• The tomato sauce tin turned into light and entered Zuo Cheng'an's mind, revealing the recipe used Fragrant Tomatoes, and Red-Eyes realized its secret had been exposed.
• Red-Eyes threatened Zuo Cheng'an and left to target players who had not finished their tasks, while he dismissed the threat and considered how the changed sheep count might affect his task.
• Mo Dou ran toward the sheep pen after sensing something, and the surviving players discovered that the instance had changed its name to Uncle Muchou's Farm.
• Mo Dou recalled his life as a sheep and resolved to kill Red-Eyes, knowing he would need players' help.
• The twin sisters stayed at their task locations while waiting for Red-Eyes to check their completed tasks.
• Youyou trembled before Red-Eyes at the warehouse, seeing its terrifying true form after her failed task left her without the game's protection.

Red-Eyes brutalized Youyou after she failed its tomato task, then looked forward to Purge Day as an opportunity for revenge. At the farm, Mo Dou returned to the Sheep Pen as the missing Black Sheep, while Zuo Cheng'an’s glance toward a bloody puddle made Wang Guangfei fear the truth about Youyou.

• Red-Eyes crushed Youyou’s knees and thighs for bringing damaged tomatoes and calling them “tomaytoes,” then left her bleeding as Steel-Toothed Rats gathered around her.
• Red-Eyes remembered that Purge Day was approaching and eagerly anticipated being assigned as a Cleaner.
• Wang Guangfei waited by the Sheep Pen, despairing over the missing Black Sheep and assuming Youyou had already escaped the instance.
• Mo Dou raced back to the farm, transformed from a black dog into the Black Sheep, and rejoined the other twenty sheep.
• Zuo Cheng'an arrived from the warehouse, and Wang Guangfei asked whether Youyou was still angry with him.
• Zuo Cheng'an looked toward a bloody puddle outside the warehouse, and Wang Guangfei turned deathly pale.

Red-Eyes discovered that Wang Guangfei had completed the sheep task and begrudgingly declared the instance cleared. Enraged by his girlfriend’s death, Wang Guangfei attacked Red-Eyes, triggering a boss battle as a protective barrier or rule shattered.

• Red-Eyes found the sheepskin rug and realized Wang Guangfei had completed the task while protected by the game.
• Zuo Cheng'an read comments about the Great Purge and considered how players built attributes and chose instances.
• Red-Eyes congratulated Wang Guangfei on clearing the instance, and Zuo Cheng'an prepared to leave.
• Wang Guangfei charged Red-Eyes with a scissors-shaped item, and a warning asked whether to initiate a boss battle.
• Red-Eyes's chilling aura overwhelmed Wang Guangfei as a crack sounded, as though a protective barrier had shattered or a rule had been broken.

Wang Guangfei canceled his boss fight against Red-Eyes after seeing its terrifying true form, and Zuo Cheng'an helped the surviving players clear Uncle Muzhou's Farm. After everyone else left, Zuo Cheng'an discovered that his actions had altered the instance, prompting the game to temporarily remove it from the Instance Hall for adjustments.

• Wang Guangfei saw Red-Eyes' frightening true form and canceled the boss fight before attacking, while Zuo Cheng'an noticed that Red-Eyes' health had regenerated.
• The viewers discussed how players remained attached to people they had broken up with, and Zuo Cheng'an vowed to make the viewers experience the instances themselves.
• Red-Eyes glared at Zuo Cheng'an, vanished, and the game announced that Uncle Muzhou's Farm would close in one hour.
• Wang Guangfei thanked Zuo Cheng'an, offered him points, and left the instance after adding him as a friend.
• Zuo Cheng'an walked around the farm and realized the animals and tasks had changed since the instance's name changed.
• The game detected changes to Uncle Muzhou's Farm and temporarily revoked its eligibility to enter the Instance Hall for rectification.

Zuo Cheng'an cleared Uncle Muchou's Farm, earned rewards, and acquired Mo Dou as a follower. After returning to the Ladder Tower, he allocated his attribute points and became the target of eager guild recruiters.

• Zuo Cheng'an discovered that the farm instance had changed into a ten-day survival challenge, then escaped as Wailing Tomatoes gathered outside.
• Mo Dou followed Zuo Cheng'an out of the instance and became his follower.
• Zuo Cheng'an returned to the Ladder Tower, received an S+ rating and the Pioneer Achievement, and gained 21 Free Attribute Points.
• Zuo Cheng'an put 10 points into Strength, 8 into Constitution, and 3 into Speed, raising his Sanity concerns and reviewing his new items.
• The Instance Hall announced the clear, prompting guild intelligence collectors to seek guides from the players who had cleared the instance.
• Zuo Cheng'an became visible outside the Ladder Tower and was swarmed by players and guild recruiters, leaving him wishing he had invested more in Speed.

Zuo Cheng'an and Mo Dou went shopping for supplies, and Zuo Cheng'an learned that the Great Purge was a mass instance used to reduce overcrowding in safe zones. He realized that Safe Zone 7's unusual player-level distribution reflected the risk that its residents could be swept into a purge alongside older zones.

• Mo Dou charged through recruiters as a black sheep, helping Zuo Cheng'an escape the crowd without triggering a game warning.
• Zuo Cheng'an bought supplies at the department store and replaced Mo Dou's dog food with pasture grass, bok choy, and radishes.
• Zuo Cheng'an asked shoppers about the Great Purge, but they reacted with fear and refused to explain it.
• Wang Guangfei told Zuo Cheng'an that the Great Purge was a mass instance in which the game killed players to reduce overcrowding in older safe zones, potentially dragging newer zones into it too.
• Zuo Cheng'an connected the purge threat to Safe Zone 7's unusually high number of First Heavenly Tier players compared with Not Yet on the Ladder players.

After accepting Zheng Ren and Li Yueqiu’s friend requests, Zuo Cheng'an agreed to bring Li Yueqiu into a dungeon, secretly planning to take her into a dangerous level 2 one. Back at his room, he crafted Muchou Brand Tomato Sauce and discovered that a small amount could rapidly heal serious wounds.

• Zuo Cheng'an accepted Zheng Ren and Li Yueqiu’s friend requests, then agreed to take Li Yueqiu along on his next dungeon run.
• Zuo Cheng'an returned to his room, where Mo Dou ate the fodder and vegetables he had bought.
• Zuo Cheng'an used his ingredients to craft Muchou Brand Tomato Sauce, which restored injuries when eaten.
• Zuo Cheng'an cut his arm with the Swift Rat Dagger and confirmed that a spoonful of tomato sauce quickly healed the wound.
• Zuo Cheng'an considered making tomato beef brisket with his remaining Fragrant Tomatoes and meat.

Zuo Cheng'an planned to sell some of his healing Ketchup and prepare for a level 2 instance by buying an offensive item and possibly a skill. At the Instance Hall, he learned that a large group had returned from the level 3 instance "Nowhere to Escape" with fewer than twenty survivors after encountering the boss Red-Eyes.

• Zuo Cheng'an counted his remaining 340 points and planned to visit the trading market for equipment before entering a level 2 instance.
• Zuo Cheng'an left Mo Dou behind and headed toward the market, but stopped when he heard that players had returned from "Nowhere to Escape."
• Zuo Cheng'an joined the crowd around the bloody survivors and listened as players discussed the failed attempt to clear the instance.
• A Dawn Moon Guild member began explaining how the players had survived their encounter with Red-Eyes.

Zuo Cheng'an learned how Red-Eyes had raised the difficulty of the “Nowhere to Escape” instance and how Gan Ran led the surviving players through an escape-pod side route. He then went to the market and spotted Yu Le among a group of children.

• A Dawn Moon Guild player recounted how Red-Eyes strengthened the zombies and pushed the instance’s difficulty far beyond its original level.
• Gan Ran abandoned the full-clear plan and led the team toward the escape pods, where Red-Eyes blocked the route and forced the players into a boss battle.
• The players drove Red-Eyes into retreat but suffered heavy losses, with only a little over twenty of the hundred-person team surviving.
• Zuo Cheng'an left the crowd and headed to the market after learning nothing new.
• Zuo Cheng'an spotted Yu Le among a group of children, and Yu Le waved to him.

Zuo Cheng'an learned about the lives and risks faced by children who grew up in the game's Orphanage as Tian Wenliang guided him through the marketplace. Tian Wenliang explained the marketplace's pricing conventions while eyeing the goods.

• Zuo Cheng'an considered how orphaned children were cared for by the game and how they had to support themselves after leaving the Orphanage at ten.
• Yu Le introduced Tian Wenliang, a thirteen-year-old orphan who had completed four dungeon runs, to guide Zuo Cheng'an through the marketplace.
• Tian Wenliang explained that few players teamed up with children, so he planned to reach the Ladder Tower with his own team after they raised their attributes.
• Tian Wenliang told Zuo Cheng'an that Orphanage students learned basic combat and were advised to wait for their bodies to grow before entering dungeons.
• Tian Wenliang explained that better goods were found deeper in the marketplace and that white items under 200 and green items under 500 were reasonably priced.

Zuo Cheng'an and Tian Wenliang browsed a player market, where Zuo Cheng'an learned about closed instances and considered buying a rare thermos. He left without purchasing it and continued searching for a better container for Ketchup.

• Zuo Cheng'an examined a green-quality cleaver while another player haggled with its stallholder and bought it for 380 points.
• Zuo Cheng'an asked about Your Grandpa's Thermos, and Tian Wenliang explained that its source instance had closed and the item was out of circulation.
• Tian Wenliang told Zuo Cheng'an that all level-one instances numbered below one thousand and level-two instances below four hundred had closed, along with ten level-three instances.
• Zuo Cheng'an offered 80 points for the thermos, then walked away when its stallholder refused to lower the 179-point price.
• The stallholder lowered the price as Zuo Cheng'an left, but Zuo Cheng'an continued browsing for a dispenser-like container that could squeeze out Ketchup.

Zuo Cheng'an searched the market for useful supplies and weapons, then found a damaged weapon from a level-seven instance whose garbled name matched symbols from messages he had seen before. He offered the stallholder his Swift Rat Dagger and 100 points for it and the Little Flying Stone, but the chapter ended before the stallholder answered.

• Zuo Cheng'an bought an insulated cup for 120 points after bargaining with the stallholder.
• Zuo Cheng'an spotted a rusty, bandage-wrapped weapon listed as white quality, but the Eye of Truth revealed that it came from the level-seven instance "7-015 God-Making" and had a garbled name.
• Zuo Cheng'an feigned interest in other items while asking the Waves Chasing Guild stallholder about the unusual weapon, which was priced at 120 points.
• Zuo Cheng'an offered his Swift Rat Dagger and 100 points for the garbled-name weapon and the Little Flying Stone.
• The stallholder calculated whether to accept Zuo Cheng'an's offer, but had not yet replied.

Zuo Cheng'an traded for a strange iron weapon, named it Little Seven, and recovered enough spirit to prepare for another instance with Li Yueqiu and Zheng Ren. The three headed to the Instance Hall, while Zheng Ren kept quiet about why his treatment had cost so many points.

• Zuo Cheng'an traded the Swift Rat Dagger and 100 points for the Little Flying Stone and a garbled item, then named the heavy iron weapon Little Seven.
• Zuo Cheng'an spent several days resting, recovering spirit points, and hearing from Yu Le that the Dawn Moon Guild and Wavebreaker Guild had scheduled an Arena match after their falling-out.
• Li Yueqiu invited Zuo Cheng'an to run an instance, and he agreed to bring Zheng Ren along.
• Li Yueqiu and Zheng Ren prepared their few belongings and set out for the Instance Hall.
• On the way, Li Yueqiu asked Zheng Ren why his treatment had cost over forty points, but he avoided explaining.

Zuo Cheng'an met Li Yueqiu and Zheng Ren at the Instance Hall, where they compared their abilities before choosing a level-two instance. As the group browsed the available instances, Li Yueqiu and Zheng Ren noticed that Zuo Cheng'an kept stopping in front of level-two options.

• Zheng Ren told Li Yueqiu about surviving a hostile solo instance and losing his savings to repair his body.
• Zuo Cheng'an introduced Mo Dou, whose stats and crowd-control skill made him a powerful addition to their team.
• Li Yueqiu and Zheng Ren shared details about their skills, items, and attributes with Zuo Cheng'an.
• The three players and Mo Dou entered the Instance Hall and browsed its instance listings.
• Zuo Cheng'an refused a Dawn Moon Guild member's request to buy a guide for Uncle Muchou's Farm because the instance had changed drastically.
• Li Yueqiu and Zheng Ren noticed that Zuo Cheng'an repeatedly stopped to look at level-two instances.

Zuo Cheng'an chose the uncleared level-two Sunny Resort instance, and he, Li Yueqiu, Zheng Ren, and their dog entered despite a Wavebreaker Guild player claiming the matchmaking circle. Two Wavebreaker members joined them, and the group was transported to Sunny Village as tourist activity testers.

• Zuo Cheng'an selected Sunny Resort because it was a new instance with first-clear rewards and only seven player slots.
• Li Yueqiu agreed to enter after seeing the resort's jungle and cultural attractions, and Zheng Ren followed.
• A mustached Wavebreaker Guild player demanded that Zuo Cheng'an's group leave the claimed matchmaking circle, but they stayed.
• Five more Wavebreaker players arrived, and after arguing, a tall man and a short woman entered the two remaining slots.
• The seven players and Zuo Cheng'an's dog entered Sunny Resort, where they were tasked with surviving ten days and nine nights and completing at least three tourist activities.

Zuo Cheng'an and the other players rode a speeding sightseeing cart along a narrow cliff road toward Sunny Village. As the cart continued safely despite its reckless driver, the players heard an advertisement for the village, while Zuo Cheng'an considered how to hide the swarming viewer eyeballs.

• Zuo Cheng'an found himself in an open-sided sightseeing cart beside a cliff, with Mo Dou and Li Yueqiu near him and Zheng Ren shifting toward the safer side.
• The driver sped around the dangerous mountain road, while the Wavebreaker Guild members tied themselves to the cart with ropes and one nearly fell over the side.
• Zuo Cheng'an told Zheng Ren the cart would not fall because it moved on its own, and Zheng Ren relaxed enough to admire the scenery.
• The villager took both hands off the steering wheel to retrieve a loudspeaker and played a garbled advertisement for Sunny Village's activities and ten-day, nine-night stay.
• Zuo Cheng'an focused on the crowded viewer comments and wondered whether he could hide the eyeballs blocking his view.

Zuo Cheng'an used the comments and his Eye of Truth to learn that monsters would attack the sightseeing vehicle, so he and the others tied themselves to it for safety. The chapter ended with Zhang Zhuang dismissing their precautions as the work of poorly equipped cannon fodder.

• Zuo Cheng'an read the comments and learned that mountain monkeys would attack the sightseeing vehicle and that previous groups had suffered deadly losses.
• Zuo Cheng'an spotted moving monster health bars on the cliff and told Li Yueqiu and Zheng Ren to make safety ropes from their clothes.
• Zuo Cheng'an tied himself and Mo Dou to the vehicle, adjusting Mo Dou's tether into a chest harness so it would not strangle him.
• Zheng Ren and Li Yueqiu followed Zuo Cheng'an's example and secured themselves to the vehicle.
• Tan Huihui mocked the group for copying their precautions, while Zhang Zhuang dismissed them as cannon fodder.

Zheng Ren briefly fought Yang Ye aboard the sightseeing cart, but the two stopped when the cart jolted and the fight proved pointless. As monster health bars drew closer, Zuo Cheng'an prepared Little Seven and lent Li Yueqiu Little Flying Stone, then focused on the crowded bullet comments.

• Zheng Ren attacked Tan Huihui with his spatula, and Yang Ye stood up to defend her with his oversized syringe.
• Zheng Ren's spatula summoned flies that swarmed Yang Ye, but both men stopped fighting when the sightseeing cart took a sharp turn.
• Tan Huihui privately judged Yang Ye's limited potential and thought about the coming monster attack.
• Zuo Cheng'an noticed the monster health bars approaching, prepared Little Seven, and lent Li Yueqiu Little Flying Stone.
• Li Yueqiu examined the stone while Zuo Cheng'an concentrated on reading the densely packed bullet comments.

Zuo Cheng'an and the others prepared for the Mountain Monkeys' attack as their sightseeing vehicle rounded a cliffside bend. When the monsters arrived, Zuo Cheng'an and Zhang Zhuang competed for the first kill, and Zuo Cheng'an struck down a paralyzed Mountain Monkey.

• Zuo Cheng'an warned Zheng Ren and Li Yueqiu to prepare for an attack expected at the fourth major bend.
• Zuo Cheng'an and Zhang Zhuang climbed onto the vehicle's roof to meet the monsters, while Tan Huihui, Yang Ye, and Qian Xiang made room to fight below.
• Tan Huihui confronted Yang Ye after he repeatedly brushed against her, and Yang Ye apologized.
• Seven or eight Mountain Monkeys dropped onto the vehicle and climbed down its frame, revealing bright red air sacs on their throats.
• Zhang Zhuang caught a Mountain Monkey with his electrified power strip, but Zuo Cheng'an smashed its neck with Little Seven before Zhang could finish it.

Li Yueqiu used Little Flying Stone to kill a Mountain Monkey and claim its dropped Willow Branch, while Zuo Cheng'an helped the group survive the first wave and treated Li Yueqiu's injury. After learning more Mountain Monkey attacks were expected, Zuo Cheng'an watched the cliffs for signs of danger, leading Zhang Zhuang to suspect they belonged to the Dawn Moon Guild.

• The Mountain Monkey attacked Zuo Cheng'an, but Li Yueqiu sent Little Flying Stone to pierce its throat air sac and secure its Willow Branch drop before Zhang Zhuang could claim it.
• Mo Dou rammed another Mountain Monkey over the cliff, and Li Yueqiu grabbed him before he fell after it.
• Zhang Zhuang and his teammates cleared the remaining Mountain Monkeys from the vehicle, while Zheng Ren gave Li Yueqiu strips of clothing for her injured leg.
• Zuo Cheng'an gave Li Yueqiu tomato juice that healed her wound, then shared some with Mo Dou for his nearly healed scrape.
• Zuo Cheng'an warned Li Yueqiu and Zheng Ren about more attacks and watched the cliffs for approaching Mountain Monkeys.
• Zhang Zhuang saw Zuo Cheng'an's vigilance and privately decided that Zuo Cheng'an and his companions were members of the Dawn Moon Guild.

As the Wavebreaker and Dawn Moon guilds resumed fighting, Li Yueqiu and the others prepared for another Mountain Monkey attack on their sightseeing vehicle. Zuo Cheng'an climbed onto the roof, killed a Mountain Monkey, and pretended to inhale its fragrance to learn from the audience comments what it could do.

• Zhang Zhuang suspected that Li Yueqiu and Zheng Ren had unusual qualities that explained their recruitment by Dawn Moon.
• The Wavebreaker and Dawn Moon guilds blamed each other for their losses in Nowhere to Escape and returned to hostility, while the reclusive Thousand Hunt Guild stayed out of their conflict.
• Zuo Cheng'an spotted Mountain Monkeys gathering above the vehicle, and Li Yueqiu prepared to defend herself with her Willow Branch and Little Flying Stone.
• Mountain Monkeys swarmed the vehicle, and Yang Ye killed the first one by puncturing the air sac in its throat.
• Zuo Cheng'an dragged a Mountain Monkey off the vehicle and climbed onto the roof, where Little Seven killed one.
• After smelling the Mountain Monkey's fragrance, Zuo Cheng'an pretended to take deep breaths, and audience comments revealed that repeated exposure could bring him close to being seeded.

Zuo Cheng'an and the others survived a fierce Mountain Monkey attack, then discovered living, rootlike vines releasing the same suspicious fragrance inside a cave. Their sightseeing vehicle reached Sunny Village, where the villagers welcomed them with a torchlit Smoking Ceremony and Li Yueqiu was moved to see fellow humans.

• Zuo Cheng'an fought while avoiding the fragrance from the Mountain Monkeys' air sacs, and Mo Dou, Li Yueqiu, and Zheng Ren defended the vehicle until the monkeys retreated.
• Zhang Zhuang's team hauled up their dangling teammates and cleared the corpses, while Zuo Cheng'an's group tended to minor wounds.
• Zuo Cheng'an detected the Mountain Monkeys' fragrance in a cave and warned Li Yueqiu and Zheng Ren, who held their breath as he spotted breathing, rootlike vines covering the walls.
• The sightseeing vehicle reached Sunny Village, where the village chief and more than two hundred torch-bearing villagers welcomed the tourists and announced a Smoking Ceremony.
• Li Yueqiu was overcome with emotion at seeing familiar people and accepted the ceremony, while Zheng Ren remembered how dangerous fellow humans could be in dungeons.

Zuo Cheng'an and the other players entered Sunny Village, where they discovered that its smiling villagers were dead players turned into NPCs. As the chief led them through the village and described its attractions, the players focused on studying the surroundings.

• Zheng Ren warned Li Yueqiu that the villagers' identical smiles and expressions were unnatural.
• Yang Ye recognized the NPC Wang Cheng as a former friend, but Wang Cheng denied knowing him, and Yang Ye backed away after remembering that dead players became NPCs.
• The village chief welcomed the players as Sunny Village's first tourists and led them along a path between the staring villagers.
• Zheng Ren saw a child remove an eyeball, moisten it in his mouth, and put it back into its socket.
• The chief described the village's attractions while the players studied the layout of the surrounding buildings.

Zuo Cheng'an learned that the villagers’ red spots and air sacs were part of a growth cycle viewers called the sowing, latent, germination, and budding periods, while Yang Ye mistakenly believed he had uncovered the instance’s hidden quest. The village chief led the players to a raised wooden house, where his next words left them uneasy.

• Yang Ye noticed a red air sac on Wang Cheng and privately decided it was a clue to a hidden quest.
• Zuo Cheng'an knew that villagers all had red spots or air sacs, with some already showing fleshy sprouts, and that no player had survived to see the flowers bloom.
• Viewers discussed the villagers’ abnormalities and the village’s mysteries while Zuo Cheng'an followed their comments.
• The village chief led the players through Sunny Village and stopped at a raised wooden house like the others.
• The village chief spoke, and his words set the players on edge.

The village chief announced a mandatory welcome feast and warned the trial visitors not to leave Sunny Village, while Zuo Cheng'an considered how to uncover the instance's hidden quest and earn an S rating. With the Great Purge only eleven days away, he hoped to maximize his attribute gains before returning to face it.

• The village chief invited the players to a welcome feast and sternly warned them not to leave Sunny Village.
• Viewers debated the instance's hidden quest, and Zuo Cheng'an reasoned that he needed to discover the cause of the red spots and blood-colored air sacs.
• Zuo Cheng'an ruled out sneaking out to the cave for now and decided to follow the instance's sequence and wait for the feast.
• Zuo Cheng'an considered his need to earn an S rating and extra attribute points before the approaching Great Purge.
• Zuo Cheng'an reviewed achievements and noted that instance-exclusive achievement rewards had mostly dwindled to collectibles.