Recaps

Chen Han perfectly cleared Happy Family, earned rewards, and entered Happy Kids Swimming Pool. The pool’s blackouts and lethal races exposed the danger of its rules, and the stretch ended with the older woman’s death after Chen Han mistakenly signaled her to seek the lifeguard’s help.

• Chen Han survived Happy Family by feeding the cats, enduring Mom’s transformation into Dad, and reuniting the ghostly parents, then received a perfect-clear reward and returned to the horror stories.
• Chen Han joined four other players at Happy Kids Swimming Pool, where he avoided a child’s attack, protected Fang Lei, and left his ticket with the ticket seller.
• Chen Han and Fang Lei entered the pool, noticed contradictions in the rules, and watched a supernatural entity challenge Blondie to a race that ended with Blondie’s death.
• During the first blackout, Chen Han and the others reached a small circle of light as eerie children appeared and Blondie’s corpse vanished.
• Chen Han avoided a race by pretending to have an injured foot and asking the lifeguard for help, then he and Fang Lei navigated another blackout as the safe circle shrank.
• In the third blackout, the girl with the high ponytail reached the light while a child in a swim ring trapped the older woman in the darkness.
• Chen Han signaled for the older woman to seek the lifeguard’s help, and the lifeguard’s intervention lifted her into the air and made her head explode.
• Li Chen identified Rule 7’s warning not to trust the lifeguard during a blackout, while Chen Han mistakenly blamed himself for the older woman’s death.

Chen Han cleared Happy Kids Swimming Pool with Fang Lei and entered a new instance at Overseas Chinese Middle School, where players had to obey school rules and act out assigned student roles. He identified Wang Xihu as an anomaly while navigating the school’s dangers alongside Li Hebing.

• Chen Han and Fang Lei followed the revived child Xiaobai to the pool exit, where the ticket seller held their swimming stubs and Xiaobai trapped Kid Bro in a gourd.
• An animation revealed that the red-clad boy had used Kid Bro to lure the class monitor to the pool, where he captured and killed him, and Chen Han earned the hidden ending “Ingratitude.”
• Chen Han skipped his rest period and entered Overseas Chinese Middle School, where Teacher Li beat students and the rules required players to obey their roles and avoid revealing themselves.
• Chen Han ignored Wang Xihu’s attempts to speak with him, while Li Hebing recognized his composure and joined him after Chen Han warned him away from the wrong classroom.
• Chen Han avoided the cafeteria’s dangerous food by exposing vegetables hidden beneath his rice, and later learned that the academic affairs office key belonged to the homeroom teacher.
• Chen Han spotted a blue pen in Wang Xihu’s pencil case through a mirror shard and avoided speaking to him, while the school’s screen announced that players had to become good students.
• When Wang Xihu joined Li Zhan’s table, Chen Han stayed calm as Li Hebing waited out the ten-second seating rule, and Li Hebing concluded that Wang Xihu was an anomaly.
• The viewers and Li Chen realized that Wang Xihu was an anomaly because he spoke to players while the other students ignored him, though Li Chen could not work out how Chen Han had identified him.