Recaps

Ling Yi withdrew from Magical Murder Mystery and hosted a farewell dinner with Bai Mengyan and his old friends. As the night ended in drunken singing, he learned about Ba Xin’s wedding troubles, Old Yao’s sick mother, and Su Jiong’s breakup.

• Ling Yi turned down Wu Tong’s request to join Magical Murder Mystery and told Bai Mengyan he planned to stop writing novels because he had made enough money.
• Old Yao called Ling Yi for directions after he, Ba Xin, and Su Jiong were mobbed by Ling Yi’s fans and callers.
• Bai Mengyan stayed for dinner, then greeted Old Yao, Ba Xin, and Su Jiong when they arrived at Ling Yi’s guesthouse.
• Ling Yi and his friends drank, traded embarrassing stories, and sang together after Old Yao remarked that they might not see one another again soon.
• Ling Yi learned that Ba Xin and Pan faced an excessive bride-price demand, Old Yao needed money because his mother was seriously ill, and Su Jiong had broken up with his girlfriend.

Ling Yi entered the revamped Myriad Worlds Game, chose Murder Mystery, and joined Lü Shouyi, Conan, and Huang Rong in the Jianghu Inn scenario. Their search for evidence began at the scene of innkeeper Meng Sanchun’s death, with Conan determined to solve the case before Ling Yi.

• Ling Yi inspected the new game plaza and Points Store, then used his closed beta free game to enter Murder Mystery and draw the Jianghu Inn scenario.
• Lü Shouyi told Ling Yi he had used NZT and an ancient medicine inheritance to develop an inexpensive leukemia treatment, though powerful interests had tried to stop it.
• Conan and Huang Rong joined Ling Yi and Lü Shouyi, and the game assigned Ling Yi the role of Hong Jiangshui, a waiter at the inn.
• The four players were transported to Jianghu Inn and given fifteen minutes to search for evidence, with each player allowed to bring back one scenario prop.
• Lü Shouyi found a paper figure representing the dead innkeeper, Meng Sanchun, and Conan began examining it while resolving to beat Ling Yi at solving the case.

The players searched for evidence in a murder mystery and uncovered the survivors’ connections to the Mang Mountain Stronghold and the Cai Family. Huang Rong’s character, Cai Siniang, admitted she had tried to kill Meng Sanchun because she believed Zhang Hongsheng was unhappy with him.

• The players searched separate rooms, then returned with a secret letter, a saber, Rose Fragrance, and a Mang Mountain token.
• Ling Yi, Conan, Lü Shouyi, and Huang Rong introduced their scripted identities, revealing that Lü Shouyi and Meng Sanchun had been Mang Mountain Stronghold bandits.
• Conan read a letter showing that Meng Sanchun had betrayed the Cai Family and planned to drug the stronghold with Muscle-Softening Powder before the battle.
• Ling Yi revealed he had been a low-ranking member of the stronghold and explained that Rose Fragrance was used to combat Mang Mountain’s miasma; Lü Shouyi had supplied it to Meng Sanchun.
• Huang Rong admitted Cai Siniang belonged to the Cai Family but had not known Meng Sanchun was responsible for its destruction, and said she had tried to kill him the previous night.
• Huang Rong explained that Cai Siniang suspected Zhang Hongsheng did not truly love Meng Sanchun after once seeing Zhang Hongsheng poised to kill him.

During the second evidence search, the players compared alibis and uncovered that Meng Sanchun had been killed with the Mother-and-Child Needle Technique before his body was moved. Conan accused Ling Yi of being his long-lost older brother and the murderer, while Ling Yi insisted Conan had invented the evidence and promised to find proof.

• Conan identified himself as Hong San, and Zhang Jinyin explained that Hong San had been Hong Ermei, who sought revenge for her father but had not killed Meng Sanchun.
• The players searched the Jianghu Inn, then returned to the living room and questioned one another about their movements between ten and ten forty-five.
• Zhang Jinyin disclosed that she had visited Cai Siniang and later found Meng Sanchun dead, while Lü Shouyi admitted he had gone to kill Meng Sanchun but retreated after hearing a sound in the woodshed.
• Huang Rong showed a memorial tablet she had found in Zhang Jinyin's room, and Lü Shouyi deduced that Meng Sanchun had likely been killed in the woodshed between ten thirty-two and ten thirty-five.
• Lü Shouyi described the body's unusual wounds and limited blood, and Ling Yi presented a bloodstained dagger and said Meng Sanchun had died from Hong Zhentian's Mother-and-Child Needles.
• Ling Yi revealed that his original name was Hong Dabao and that he was Conan's older brother; Conan accused him of being the murderer, but Ling Yi accused Conan of fabricating the technique and said he would find evidence.

Ling Yi won the first murder mystery game after hiding the evidence in a cesspit, then drew a new script and joined Conan, Huang Rong, Lü Shouyi, and Qin Feng in a horror mystery. The players arrived at writer Li Feng’s home as his fans and associates, where Qin Feng revealed that Li Feng had been found dead in the bathroom.

• Ling Yi’s group failed to recover the discarded evidence, voted, and awarded Ling Yi 100 points while the others received 10 each.
• The group ate a late-night feast, and Ling Yi drew the script Kill the Person in the Mirror (DM3).
• Qin Feng joined the group after explaining that an Intelligence Pill had cured his stutter and that he had earned enough points from Who Is the Undercover.
• The players entered a mirror-filled room and learned they were at writer Li Feng’s home as fans and associates gathered before his novel’s finale.
• Ling Yi found Lü Shouyi and Huang Rong in the living room, and Qin Feng and Conan emerged from the bathroom.
• Qin Feng announced that Li Feng had died in the bathroom.

Ling Yi and the others investigated Li Feng’s apparent heart attack and reviewed evidence that placed his final moments in the mirror room. As the first evidence search began, Lü Guang demanded that the outsiders be frisked before anyone searched the bedrooms.

• Qin Feng and Conan examined Li Feng’s body and found an unopened bottle of Heart Relief Pills and a bag marked R5.
• Lü Guang explained that R5 caused hallucinations and said Li Feng used it to find inspiration in the mirror room.
• Qin Feng presented surveillance images showing Li Feng entering the bathroom repeatedly, staring into the mirror before a blackout, and apparently dying between 9:45 and 10:20.
• Ling Yi presented Li Feng’s final manuscript and said he and Li Yunqi found the body after arriving around 10:20, while Qin Feng and Conan’s account placed them there at that time.
• When the evidence search began, Lü Guang stopped the players and insisted that Jiang Yunhai, Zheng Yang, and Li Yunqi be frisked before their rooms were searched.

Ling Yi and the others searched Lü Guang’s room, then pieced together the links between Li Feng, his murdered girlfriends, and the mysterious R5 drug. Ling Yi explained how he found Li Feng already dead and accidentally left him hanging on a coat rack, while the identity of the murderer remained unresolved.

• Huang Rong found fishing line in Ling Yi’s pocket, while Lü Shouyi found a takeout receipt on Qin Feng and detective commission letters on Conan.
• Ling Yi discovered Li Feng’s manuscript titled I Am the Person in the Mirror and took it along with the five published volumes before the search ended.
• Conan revealed that he was Yao Tuohai, a detective hired by Jiang Yunhai and Zheng Yang, and said Li Feng had secretly dated both Jiang Yunmei and Zheng Wen before their livestream murders.
• Conan suggested that R5 might explain how the Person in the Mirror appeared to kill the victims, and the group concluded that Lü Guang or Li Qiqi was likely the murderer.
• Ling Yi recounted that he came to Li Feng’s home to avenge Jiang Yunmei, found Li Feng already dead, and accidentally left the body hanging from a coat rack with his fishing line.
• Ling Yi said he hid in the bathroom, heard a startled cry and hurried footsteps, then returned to the mirror room without knowing what had happened.

Ling Yi used rapid-fire questions and Lü Shouyi’s reactions to locate the hidden evidence proving Lü Guang had murdered Li Feng with R5 powder, ending the game early. Afterward, Huang Rong revealed that she and Guo Jing had met Yang Tiexin and Mu Nianci before reaching Yan City, and that she had taken Hong Qigong’s Green Jade Staff.

• Ling Yi challenged Lü Shouyi to answer rapid-fire questions and inferred that the evidence was hidden behind the bookcase in Lü Guang’s room.
• Ling Yi found R5 powder and its instruction sheet in the hidden compartment, revealing how Lü Guang had killed Li Feng.
• Qin Feng requested an early vote, and Lü Guang was identified as the murderer; Ling Yi, Huang Rong, Conan, and Qin Feng each received a hundred points.
• Lü Shouyi and Qin Feng planned to earn more points, while Lü Shouyi mentioned buying something from the Points Store for his new-medicine venture.
• Huang Rong told Ling Yi that she and Guo Jing had met Yang Tiexin and Mu Nianci before reaching Yan City, and that she had taken Hong Qigong’s Green Jade Staff after he tried to take their roast rabbit.

Ling Yi and Huang Rong returned to the game plaza and joined a Werewolf match with familiar players and new faces Ma Bangde and Ko Chun. Ling Yi was assigned a werewolf role as the players began discussing, after Ma Bangde’s attempt to arrange a points-farming scheme triggered a warning from the game space.

• Ling Yi noticed players from the same worlds appearing in the plaza and wondered whether others from his own world had received invitations.
• Ling Yi and Huang Rong entered a Werewolf room with Duan Yu, Li Weijie, Ip Man, Li Heung-kam, Ma Bangde, and Ko Chun.
• The game space assigned Ling Yi the werewolf role and began a ten-minute free discussion.
• Ma Bangde proposed that the players reveal their roles and share points to end the game quickly, but the game space warned them against cheating.
• Ma Bangde backed down and claimed to be a good player with a special role, while Duan Yu claimed to be the seer and Ko Chun passed.
• Huang Rong threatened to take Duan Yu down if the werewolves killed her, while Ip Man and Li Weijie questioned Ko Chun and Ling Yi about their roles.

Ling Yi led the Werewolves to a first-round victory by identifying and killing the Hunter and Witch, then joined a new game as a Villager. He exposed Huang Rong as a wolf and warned the good team how to respond if the Hunter or Witch died, leaving the new game poised for a showdown.

• Ma Bangde accused Li Weijie of acting like a wolf, while Duan Yu announced he would check Number 4 as the Seer.
• Duan Yu checked Ling Yi and found he was a Werewolf; Ling Yi and Huang Rong then chose to kill Numbers 3 and 1, whom Ling Yi identified as the Witch and Hunter.
• Ko Chun used his poison on Ling Yi, and Ma Bangde, killed as the Hunter, shot Number 8; the Werewolves won after Numbers 1, 3, and 8 died.
• The players began another game, and Ling Yi was assigned the Villager role while Ma Bangde and Ko Chun both claimed to be the Seer.
• Ling Yi identified Huang Rong as a wolf and instructed the group to shoot Number 3 if the Hunter died, or for the Witch to save herself and poison Number 5 if she died.

Ling Yi dominated the Game Space leaderboards, then discovered that his world had only one player and was locked against outside players. Back in the real world, he found a flood of messages from Bai Mengyan about their encounter and his online backlash, and opened a website to investigate.

• Ling Yi won fifteen more Werewolf games without a loss, earning double points in fourteen, before the group logged off for the Game Space’s maintenance period.
• At the plaza, Ling Yi found himself first on the Werewolf and Murder Mystery leaderboards with 700 total points, while Ye Wenjie ranked third in Who Is the Undercover.
• Ling Yi searched the Points Store for transmigration and found no results, then asked the Game Space to display the number of players in each world.
• The Game Space updated Ling Yi’s status panel to show that he was the sole player in his locked world, and he returned home satisfied that other worlds could not interfere.
• Ling Yi read messages from Old Yao and Bai Mengyan, learned they concerned his cyberbullying and his encounter with Bai Mengyan, then opened a website on his phone.

Ling Yi used the Red Queen program and a quantum server to stop the online smear campaign against him and Bai Mengyan, then married Bai Mengyan. After spending the evening together, he entered the game plaza and met Huang Rong, who had been waiting to play a new game with him.

• Ling Yi bought a Red Queen program and a liquid quantum server, then ordered Xiaohong to remove hostile posts and expose those stirring up trouble.
• Bai Mengyan arrived with her manager Yun Jing and insisted that she and Ling Yi get married, and Ling Yi agreed.
• Ling Yi and Bai Mengyan obtained a marriage certificate and planned to announce their marriage on Weibo.
• Yun Jing learned that Xiaohong’s actions had helped lead to more than sixty thousand people being taken into police custody, including Zheng Haiyang.
• Ling Yi entered the game plaza around midnight, where Huang Rong greeted him and said she had been waiting to play the new game together.

Ling Yi collected leaderboard rewards and listened as Huang Rong explained how Guo Jing and the others had betrayed her after Yang Kang deceived them. They joined a murder mystery game, discovered the updated game space had grown more complex, and Ling Yi bought an Exclusive Room Token for their group.

• Ling Yi collected 1,500 points and a valuable blue crystal stone from the leaderboard treasure chests.
• Huang Rong told Ling Yi that Guo Jing had helped ambush her after Yang Kang betrayed the group, and she had survived their attack with her Master-level strength.
• Ling Yi and Huang Rong checked the expanded game servers and entered a murder mystery room, where their acquaintances described major changes to several games.
• Qin Feng proposed creating an exclusive room, and Ling Yi bought the 500-point Exclusive Room Token after the group agreed to share its cost.

Ling Yi searched for a way off Clone Island and followed a giant Mutant Titanoboa toward the southern dock, while other players faced monsters near the dormitory. The chapter left Huang Rong, Conan, Lü Shouyi, and Qin Feng entering a secret underground passage to escape the centipedes.

• Ling Yi found a creature-weakness diary, weapons, and gear in the laboratory and estate building, then fled on foot after spotting a massive white python.
• Ling Yi identified the creature as a Mutant Titanoboa and followed it toward the dock, hoping its presence would keep other monsters away.
• Li Heung-kam and Ma Bangde found off-road vehicles and drove north, away from Ling Yi and the dock.
• Huang Rong, Conan, Lü Shouyi, and Qin Feng hid in the dormitory as giant centipedes roamed below them.
• Qin Feng found a secret underground passage, and the four players entered it to escape the dormitory.

Qin Feng, Conan, Lü Shouyi, and Huang Rong entered an underground waterway as a possible escape from Clone Island, while Ling Yi discovered that the damaged ship and the skies offered no safe exit. Ling Yi tested the Game Space’s limits with redeemed items and pills, but the chapter left him unable to use his remaining Strength Pills.

• Huang Rong recalled that Ling Yi had sent her to check electrical circuits during a storm, and Qin Feng’s group searched the dormitories for equipment before preparing to descend.
• Qin Feng advised the group to redeem combat skills that stayed within the Game Space’s limits, and Huang Rong used the idea to improve her own fighting ability.
• Huang Rong led Qin Feng, Conan, and Lü Shouyi to an underground river, where an inflated rubber boat offered a possible route toward the southern dock.
• Ling Yi found that the harbor ship was wrecked and the sea and sky were dangerous, then noticed a network of waterways converging beneath the island’s center.
• Ling Yi’s redeemed Gatling gun vanished from the Game Space and appeared in his real-world home, while a Strength Pill increased his usable strength.
• After Ling Yi took his thirtieth Strength Pill, the twelve remaining pills in his hand vanished like the Gatling gun.

Ling Yi discovered that the Game Space had raised the Points Store’s prices tenfold after he complained about its rules, even as he took control of Clone Island’s prehistoric creatures with pills. He reunited with Qin Feng and the others, and they prepared to escape while worrying about the cost of supplies.

• Ling Yi found that Strength Pills and Agility Pills vanished once he exceeded their real-world attribute caps, then drew the prehistoric creatures to him by eating Constitution Pills and feeding one to a tyrannosaur.
• Qin Feng, Lü Shouyi, Conan, and Huang Rong found a submarine beneath the island and learned they needed an MM7 power battery from the laboratory or reactor to leave.
• The group split up to search for the battery, but returned to the dormitory after seeing a huge procession of prehistoric creatures approaching.
• Ling Yi arrived riding a tyrannosaur with Li Heung-kam and Ma Bangde, and Qin Feng and the others joined him on the creature.
• The group discovered that every Points Store item now cost ten times more; Ling Yi explained that the Game Space had acted on his earlier complaints, leaving him worried about recovering his points.

After escaping the Clone Island, Ling Yi created a private Werewolf room and gathered twelve players for a new game. The first round of statements began with players claiming roles and debating strategy, while Ling Yi’s Guard identity remained hidden.

• The players returned from the Clone Island game, compared their point rewards, and Ling Yi spent a private room token to create room 0001.
• Ling Yi selected the 12-player Werewolf game with a Guard and White Wolf King, then invited five more players to fill the room.
• The game began, and Ling Yi received the Guard identity card as Li Heung-kam took the first seat.
• Conan urged the players to conceal their roles and coordinate against Ling Yi, while Ma Bangde claimed to be the Witch and asked the Guard to protect him.
• Huang Rong suspected Conan, and Little Stutterer revealed that Big Shot Bi was dead and she now controlled Hung Hing.
• Ip Man claimed to be the Seer and planned to check Ling Yi, Li Weijie claimed the Guard and chose to protect Ma Bangde, and Ko Chun questioned whether the special-role rules favored the good faction.

Ling Yi played Werewolf, where Bai Xiaofei accidentally exposed himself and Conan as wolves, allowing the good team to win. After several more games, Ling Yi left the Game Space with 1,520 points and returned home to find Bai Mengyan pretending to fire a Gatling gun out the window.

• Ling Yi reasoned through the players’ claims and protected himself as the guard while the werewolves attacked two players and Ma Bangde used his antidote to save himself.
• Ip Man claimed to be the seer and accused Conan of being a wolf, while Conan’s response and Bai Xiaofei’s careless remarks exposed their team.
• Qin Feng revealed himself as the hunter, and the good team won after Ling Yi protected Ma Bangde, Ma Bangde poisoned Conan, and Qin Feng took Lü Shouyi down with him.
• Ling Yi and the others played more games, where Bai Xiaofei repeatedly sabotaged Conan whenever they were both wolves.
• Ling Yi checked his record, exited the Game Space before its daily maintenance, and found Bai Mengyan making Gatling-gun noises at the window.

Ling Yi tried to manage Bai Mengyan’s newly enhanced strength after she ate pills from the game, and agreed to join her on Keep Running. After spending several days together, he returned home and entered Game Space once she left for work.

• Ling Yi replaced Bai Mengyan’s real Gatling gun with a toy and realized the pills she had eaten had greatly increased her attributes.
• Bai Mengyan agreed to stay another day if Ling Yi joined her on Keep Running, and Ling Yi accepted.
• Ling Yi invented a story about them being reclusive masters to explain Bai Mengyan’s strength, then helped her practice controlling it.
• Yun Jing found the damaged home, and Bai Mengyan told her that Ling Yi would join her on Keep Running the next day.
• Ling Yi and Bai Mengyan spent several days together before Bai Mengyan left for work, and she apologized for drawing him into the public eye.
• Ling Yi ended his video call with Bai Mengyan, opened the player panel, and disappeared into Game Space.

After several days away, Ling Yi returned to a transformed Game Space and reunited with Huang Rong, Qin Feng, and their friends. He told them he had gotten married, then invited them to play a murder mystery game before trying the new competitive games.

• Ling Yi explored the expanded City of Myriad Worlds, accepted Huang Rong’s call, and learned that Qin Feng and the others were gathered nearby.
• Ling Yi met Bai Xiaofei working as a security guard; Huang Rong explained that his terrible losing streak had made other players avoid him.
• Huang Rong brought Ling Yi to her newly purchased apartment, where Qin Feng, Lü Shouyi, Conan, Ma Bangde, and Ko Chun welcomed him.
• Ling Yi said he had gotten married, prompting an awkward pause before the group congratulated him.
• The group discussed the Game Space’s new features and warned that the live-action games drained points; Ling Yi opened a private room and invited them to play a murder mystery game first.

After losing a zombie-themed murder mystery, Ling Yi and the others switched to Who Is the Undercover, where Ling Yi drew the blank card. The game continued after both teams identified and eliminated an undercover player, and the players began voting against Ling Yi.

• Ling Yi and the others left the zombie murder mystery after wasting points and being wiped out, then agreed to play Who Is the Undercover.
• The game began with Ling Yi holding a blank card, while Duan Yu gave a suspicious description and was identified as the blue team's undercover player.
• The blue team voted Duan Yu out, while Ling Yi's team realized there was a blank card but did not know who held it.
• The players joked about targeting Ling Yi, and Conan revealed himself as the red team's undercover player so the blank card would have to compete alone.
• The red team voted Conan out, and the game prompted everyone to vote for the blank card.

Ling Yi drew the blank card again and survived two rounds as the players tried to identify the undercover. After the red team wrongly eliminated Ma Bangde and Ma Jiaqi, both teams had to vote for the blank-card player.

• The second round began with Ling Yi holding the blank card, and the players described words related to writing tools.
• Ling Yi accused Bai Xiaofei of having a different word card, and the blue team voted him out as the undercover.
• The red team wrongly eliminated Ma Bangde, while Ling Yi chose not to join either team after surviving the round.
• Ko Chun voted for Ma Jiaqi, and the red team wrongly eliminated her as well.
• The game called for a vote on the blank-card player, and Ling Yi told Qin Feng and Conan he would follow their vote.

After Duan Yu was exposed as the undercover in Who Is the Undercover, the players’ votes and personal loyalties let the blank-card holder win. Ling Yi then asked Huang Rong why she had bought a house in the City of Myriad Worlds, and she explained how Guo Jing’s betrayal and Yang Kang’s crimes had driven her into a bloody confrontation with Jin soldiers.

• Conan and Qin Feng persuaded the players to vote for Duan Yu, who was revealed as the red team’s undercover while the game continued because the blank-card holder remained.
• During the fourth description round, Ip Man and Ko Chun suspected Ling Yi, but the players’ votes instead eliminated Lü Shouyi, and the blank-card holder won.
• Conan left the private room, and Ling Yi stayed behind with Huang Rong, asking why she had bought a house in the City of Myriad Worlds.
• Huang Rong explained that Yang Kang had secretly worked with Wanyan Honglie, killed the Seven Freaks of Jiangnan except Ke Zhen'e, and captured Guo Jing and Mu Nianci to obtain the Nine Yin Manual.
• After Huang Rong found Guo Jing embracing Mu Nianci, she abandoned him and fought Jin soldiers through the night and the following day before taking Guo Jing and Mu Nianci out of Yan City.
• Beggar Sect disciples recognized the Green Jade Staff in Huang Rong’s hand.

Huang Rong told Ling Yi how she had clashed with the Beggar Sect and erased Hong Qigong and Guo Jing’s memories of the Nine Yin Manual. After Ling Yi discovered that Ye Kai, an unambitious transmigrator, was behind the Game Space, he began another transmigration journey.

• Huang Rong recounted killing Yang Kang, defeating Ouyang Feng, Ouyang Ke, and Wanyan Honglie, and later crippling Hong Qigong, Guo Jing, and Mu Nianci before erasing their memories of the Nine Yin Manual.
• Huang Rong asked Ling Yi about his wife, then persuaded him to take her to play a murder mystery game after Game Space maintenance.
• Ling Yi’s true body revealed that he had unsealed himself because the plot had gone off course and his plot points had met the requirement.
• Ling Yi discovered that Ye Kai, a transmigrator inhabiting an elderly security guard, had bonded with the Game Space and built it by collecting power of origin.
• Ye Kai chatted with a beautiful woman who drove into the residential complex, while Ling Yi watched and decided not to meet the world’s protagonist.
• Ling Yi messaged Yin Wanqing, adjusted the parameters of his infinite passive transmigration aura, and began a new transmigration journey.

Ling Yi, a transmigrated man trapped as Yuexi’s summoned skeleton, fought a level 5 wild wolf and unexpectedly gained evolution points after defeating it. After Yuexi sold the dropped loot, Ling Yi saw an opportunity to evolve, but the chapter ended as he threw her behind him.

• Ling Yi assessed his weak stats and realized he had to protect Yuexi because her death might kill him too.
• Yuexi fled when Ling Yi charged the approaching wild wolf, but Ling Yi killed it and Yuexi gained enough experience to reach level 3.
• Yuexi collected the wolf’s drops and sold the equipment and potions for 3 silver coins and 50 copper coins.
• Ling Yi picked up a Wolf Fang Shortsword and a Round Wooden Shield, then noticed he had gained 5 evolution points.
• Yuexi hugged Ling Yi in excitement, and Ling Yi grabbed her by the collar and flung her behind him.