Recaps

Jiang Nuo and Si Yan settled into their eerie hotel suite, treating the dangers around them with casual affection. After the manager inspected their room, Zhang Quan revealed a level matching Jiang Nuo’s, while the silent woman’s skeleton doll seemed to recognize him.

• Jiang Nuo and Si Yan entered their suite, where they noticed bloody water from the tap and a ghostly figure outside the window.
• At eight, Jiang Nuo opened the door for the room inspection and claimed he had a hearing impairment; Si Yan emerged from the bedroom, and the manager told them to come downstairs for dinner.
• Zhang Quan asked Jiang Nuo whether the food was safe, and the tank-top man mocked Zhang Quan for seeming like a newbie.
• Zhang Quan displayed a level matching Jiang Nuo’s, startling the tank-top man, who hurried downstairs.
• The woman with the little skeleton doll went downstairs, and Zhang Quan felt strangely familiar with it before following them.

At the hotel dinner, Jiang Nuo’s team discovered that the dessert made people crave more and pretended to eat theirs to satisfy the manager. Zhao Si was exposed for hiding his cake and forced to eat it while the waitresses closed in.

• Jiang Nuo had Zhang Quan taste the dessert, and Zhang Quan admitted he wanted another piece.
• Jiang Nuo fed his own cake to Zhang Quan, and the team finished their desserts before the other players decided whether to eat.
• Zhao Si accused Tuoba Hong of not eating, but Tuoba Hong convinced the hotel manager that he wanted another piece.
• Tuoba Hong confronted Zhao Si, and Boduo stopped him from attacking before Zhao Si was made to apologize.
• Tuoba Hong made Zhao Si drop the cake he had hidden, and the waitresses surrounded Zhao Si for breaking the rule.
• Zhao Si ate the cake under the waitresses’ watch, and they returned to normal and offered him tea.

Jiang Nuo refused Boduo’s offer to cooperate and planned to visit Si Yan during the night watch. At the hotel lobby, Xu Yin questioned Si Yan about his connection to Jiang Nuo, and Si Yan claimed his looks had caught Jiang Nuo’s eye.

• The hotel manager assigned Yue Zhou, Liu Wei, Xu Yin, and Si Yan to patrol while the other players went upstairs to rest.
• Jiang Nuo and Si Yan agreed that Jiang Nuo would find him during the night rather than let him patrol alone.
• Boduo offered to work with Jiang Nuo, but Jiang Nuo refused and accused him of wanting to kill him.
• Zhou Ling pointed out that the midnight room checks did not require players to remain in their rooms, and Jiang Nuo told Zhou Ling and Feimina to rest and watch for security guards.
• During the night watch, Xu Yin questioned Si Yan about his identity, and Si Yan said he was a newcomer whom Jiang Nuo liked for his face.

Yue Zhou noticed that the clock had stopped, and the players were summoned to patrol despite the broken time display. The group was sent to a forbidden fourth floor, where the guard vanished and a side quest demanded that they open every door.

• Yue Zhou pointed out that the clock’s second hand had stopped, and Xu Yin discovered that her watch had lost its time function.
• A guard ordered Xu Yin, Si Yan, Yue Zhou, and Liu Wei to join a forty-five-minute patrol, and Si Yan broke the clock to make the guard confirm the time.
• Jiang Nuo joined the patrol and took Si Yan’s hand, while Liu Wei protested when the guard selected the forbidden fourth floor.
• Jiang Nuo told Si Yan that he had burned off Yue Zhou’s hair, and Si Yan asked whether she had hurt him.
• The group arrived on a damp, eerie fourth floor, where the guard and elevator disappeared and a side quest instructed five players to open every door.

Jiang Nuo and the other players investigated room 404, where a ghost recognized him before the system destroyed it. They moved on to room 406, and Jiang Nuo told Si Yan that Yue Zhou's witchcraft would be important in bringing down the system.

• Jiang Nuo and the players entered room 404, where a ghost crawled out of a portrait and recognized Jiang Nuo.
• Si Yan identified symbols on a coffin-like cabinet as codes used by the association's members more than a decade earlier.
• Jiang Nuo subdued the ghost to question it, but the system caused it to explode; the mission sheet recorded the resident as Song Gen.
• Jiang Nuo warned the other players not to ask about what they had seen, then went with them to room 406.
• Yue Zhou opened the scorching room with a spell, and Jiang Nuo explained to Si Yan that her witchcraft would be crucial to destroying the system.

Jiang Nuo captured the fiery monster in room 406 after it called Si Yan “young master,” and Si Yan found a photograph showing his parents inside the instance. The group left the room with Jiang Nuo promising to uncover the truth, and the note identified the room’s owner as Lu Jia.

• Jiang Nuo pressured 0732 into giving him fifty pairs of shielding bracelets for 200 points.
• Liu Wei triggered a fiery monster hidden in the wall, and Yue Zhou and Xu Yin tried to restrain it.
• The monster recognized Si Yan as its young master, then attacked him after questioning his identity.
• Jiang Nuo pinned the monster and captured it in his ghost-capturing pot.
• Si Yan found a photograph of his parents and wondered why everyone had told him they were dead.
• Jiang Nuo comforted Si Yan as they left room 406, whose owner was identified as Lu Jia.

Si Yan was enveloped by black smoke, triggered a hidden quest, and collapsed as his HP began plummeting. Jiang Nuo stored him away and turned on Liu Wei, who confessed that Boduo had ordered the attack.

• Liu Wei opened a strange box, releasing black smoke that drifted around Si Yan, and accused him of being a dungeon monster.
• Jiang Nuo destroyed Liu Wei’s attack item, but the black smoke enveloped Si Yan and triggered the hidden quest Illusory Calamity Cage.
• Si Yan heard a message telling him to find the answer and return to the starting point, then collapsed as 0732 warned that his HP was plummeting.
• Jiang Nuo stored Si Yan in the system space, endured a surge of pain, and blocked Liu Wei from escaping.
• Liu Wei confessed that Boduo had told him to kill Si Yan, and Jiang Nuo cut off Liu Wei’s right hand while Yue Zhou stopped Xu Yin from intervening.

Jiang Nuo, Yue Zhou, and Xu Yin survived the elevator ghost’s attack and completed the side mission, while Si Yan remained missing. After finding a hidden bundle marked by the Dao Xuan Association, Jiang Nuo took its blurred note with him.

• Jiang Nuo left Liu Wei alive after maiming him and warned him to tell Boduo that he was next.
• Jiang Nuo, Yue Zhou, and Xu Yin entered the blood-filled elevator, where Jiang Nuo crushed an eyeball that was watching them.
• The elevator ghost attacked Liu Wei, and the elevator consumed him before rising to Jiang Nuo’s floor.
• The system announced that Jiang Nuo, Yue Zhou, and Xu Yin had completed the side mission, awarding Jiang Nuo the correct front desk hotline number.
• Jiang Nuo found a cloth bundle hidden in a fire hydrant near the elevator and put away the blurred note inside without reading it.

Jiang Nuo waited beside the unconscious Si Yan and prepared to destroy the hotel if he did not wake, while Si Yan was trapped in a dark cage during a solo mission. Si Yan escaped the empty darkness only to witness memories of his parents and recognize Gui Ci before the vision shifted to a battle against Aberrant Monsters.

• Jiang Nuo and Zhang Quan agreed that Zhang Quan would blow up the hotel if Si Yan had not awakened in twenty-three minutes.
• Qiu Su challenged the black-uniformed guard about his uniform, and the guard left without harming the players, though Zhao Si's room remained unchecked.
• Jiang Nuo carried Si Yan back to his room, confirmed his body was stable, and waited beside him as the livestream blurred behind a Spiritual Power barrier.
• Si Yan awoke in a black cage with sixty minutes to escape, then heard wind and watched a memory unfold around him.
• Si Yan saw his parents with Jiang Daoran, Wang Qing, and a beautiful young man with a cinnabar mark, whom he recognized as Gui Ci.
• The vision shifted to a world in turmoil where people fought Aberrant Monsters amid blood, fear, and despair.

The players fought to escape the instance as Jiang Daoran and his team sacrificed themselves to hold the gate open and seal the world from Feng Mountain. Wang Qing was the only player to survive, while Gui Ci remained behind after sending Xiaoqi out with her.

• Wang Qing saved Chu Yan from a player who had attacked him, but infighting derailed the escape plan as the gate began to close.
• Chu Yan sacrificed himself, turning into paper figures to hold the gate open and give the others more time.
• Jiang Daoran sent Si Xun and Yang He through the gate, then stayed behind with Gui Ci and died while protecting Xiaoqi.
• Gui Ci entrusted Xiaoqi to Wang Qing and sent her through the gate before turning to face the remaining Aberrant Monsters.
• Si Xun and Yang He sacrificed themselves to power the seal, and Wang Qing was the only escaped player to survive the Dark Power.

Si Yan escaped the Illusory Calamity Cage after meeting Gui Ci, Jiang Nuo’s father, and learning about the past generation’s tragedy. He reunited with Jiang Nuo and recounted what he had seen, leaving Jiang Nuo to comfort him.

• Si Yan resisted the cage’s dark power and rejected the voice blaming Jiang Nuo for his parents’ deaths.
• Gui Ci appeared, recognized Si Yan as Si Xun and Yang He’s son, and learned that Si Yan was Jiang Nuo’s boyfriend.
• Gui Ci warned Si Yan not to trust players and said abandoning the humans could secure peace for their world, then sent him out of the cage.
• Si Yan received the hidden quest reward and returned to Jiang Nuo just before the sixty-minute limit expired.
• Si Yan told Jiang Nuo about meeting Gui Ci and witnessing memories of the previous generation, and Jiang Nuo noticed his sadness.

Jiang Nuo and Si Yan discovered a warning that players could not be trusted, while a hotel guard killed a player during the night. The next morning, they connected a newly revealed room number to the dead player and went to investigate the corpse on the seventh floor.

• Jiang Nuo and Si Yan worried that 024 had sent Si Yan on a solo mission to weaken his mental fortitude, then comforted each other and went to sleep.
• A player asked a dark blue-uniformed guard for help with a monster, and blood soon flowed from beneath the room door.
• Jiang Nuo showed Si Yan the cloth pouch he had found, and Si Yan deciphered its note as a warning not to trust humans or players.
• Zhou Ling told Jiang Nuo and the others that a player had broken the rules, and they noticed that the last digit of Zhao Si's room number had appeared.
• Zhang Quan recalled that Zhao Si had refused the black-uniformed guard's second room inspection, and Tuoba Hong linked the death to a guard.
• Jiang Nuo and the others went to the seventh floor, where Feimina told them the dead player's body had been grotesquely bound to a door.

Jiang Nuo and the other players confirmed that the hotel’s black-uniformed guards were real and that a guest rule was false. Jiang Nuo obtained the employee rules, which exposed further contradictions and left him wondering what the hotel’s employees truly were.

• Xu Yin described a dark-blue guard responding to a player’s plea for help, and the players concluded that the hotel’s eleventh rule was wrong and black-uniformed guards were real.
• Jiang Nuo taunted Boduo and left with Si Yan and the others, while Boduo insisted he still had a trump card.
• Jiang Nuo called the correct front desk hotline and obtained the hotel employee rules, with Zhang Quan present.
• Jiang Nuo noticed that the final employee rule hinted at another identity for the hotel’s NPCs, and Zhang Quan recognized that the guest rule about nighttime patrols was bait.

Jiang Nuo exchanged information with Yue Zhou about the hotel’s distorted time and employee rules while warning Zhou Ling to be wary of Feimina. Zhang Quan and Tuoba Hong rescued Qiu Su from a giant spider, and her remarks about Half-Corpse Souls led them to regroup with the team in the hotel kitchen.

• Yue Zhou told Jiang Nuo that the hotel’s nights lasted longer and its days passed faster, then asked him for the employee rules.
• Jiang Nuo shared the rules with Yue Zhou and privately warned Zhou Ling that Feimina was less trustworthy than Yue Zhou.
• Zhang Quan and Tuoba Hong defeated a giant spider on the seventh floor and rescued Qiu Su and her skeleton doll.
• Qiu Su asked whether Zhang Quan was a Half-Corpse Soul and said her doll was one too, then hinted that Jiang Nuo had quickly learned their witchcraft.
• Zhang Quan and Tuoba Hong went looking for Jiang Nuo, and the temporary team regrouped in the ground-floor kitchen, where Zhou Ling and Feimina waited with strange expressions.

Jiang Nuo’s team discovered that a chef was a player trapped in the hotel and learned that players came from different worlds, explaining why they could end up on opposing sides. The chef then transformed into a monster and injured Tuoba Hong.

• Feimina and Zhou Ling told Jiang Nuo that chefs were preparing dishes from dead players and that Chef No. 2 had said he was a player.
• Three chefs entered the cafeteria and forced the group to eat their new dishes, so Jiang Nuo ordered Zhang Quan and Tuoba Hong to deal with Chefs No. 1 and No. 3.
• Jiang Nuo challenged Chef No. 2’s identity, and Si Yan used a Spiritual Power barrier with 0732’s bracelet to block system surveillance as the chef remembered being a player who could not escape.
• Chef No. 2 warned the group not to trust anyone, said there was more than one world, and urged them not to open the door; Jiang Nuo and Si Yan realized players came from different worlds.
• Chef No. 2 exploded, injuring Tuoba Hong, then transformed into a monster covered in festering sores and rotting flesh.

Jiang Nuo and his teammates lured an invulnerable monster into the underground garbage depot and fed it into a shredder. After Tuoba Hong was struck by a magical control seed, Jiang Nuo discovered Feimina was secretly contacting the system.

• Jiang Nuo directed the team to lure the monster into the garbage depot, and he and Si Yan stole a cleaner's uniform and keys to gain access.
• The team wore the uniforms to prevent the monster from attacking them, then Jiang Nuo cleared a path to the shredder with a hair dryer.
• Jiang Nuo dropped a net over the monster as Zhang Quan, Tuoba Hong, and Zhou Ling pushed it onto the conveyor belt, where it was shredded.
• Tuoba Hong collapsed in pain after the team left the depot, and Si Yan identified his condition as magical control.
• Zhou Ling detected a lethal magical seed inside Tuoba Hong, while Jiang Nuo caught Feimina secretly resisting her witchcraft and accused her of contacting the system.

Jiang Nuo and his companions killed the vine monster impersonating Feimina, then faced ten new players and entered the Illusory Calamity Labyrinth. As Jiang Nuo searched for Si Yan, Chen Rong confronted Si Yan and attacked him.

• Jiang Nuo exposed Feimina as a vine Aberrant Monster, and Si Yan burned it to nothing.
• Jiang Nuo's group learned that ten players had been added, bringing the total to twenty-two.
• The players entered the Illusory Calamity Labyrinth, where contradictory hotel rules and hidden rules encouraged them to kill one another to make the maze shrink.
• Jiang Nuo learned from 0732 that the blocking bracelets would hide its existence from 024, then set off to find Si Yan after discovering his watch functions were frozen.
• Chen Rong cornered Si Yan, revealed viper markings on his wrists, and rushed to attack him.

Si Yan questioned Chen Rong about the players’ origins, then searched for Jiang Nuo as the maze shrank and more players died. Jiang Nuo was separated from Zhou Ling after the system credited him with a player’s death, leaving Zhou Ling worried that the stage was targeting him.

• Si Yan defeated Chen Rong and revealed that players came from different worlds, but left him alive and continued searching for Jiang Nuo.
• The system announced Zhao Si’s death and the maze map shrank; players deduced that exposed room numbers made certain players easier to target.
• Zhou Ling found Jiang Nuo and warned him that players were planning to kill him; they speculated that deaths and player levels affected the maze.
• Three armed players attacked Jiang Nuo, who overpowered their leader, but a force from the wall pierced the man’s heart and killed him.
• The system announced Liu Fu’s death and named Jiang Nuo as the hunter; the maze shifted and separated Jiang Nuo from Zhou Ling.

Jiang Nuo became the Demon King after thirteen players voted to kill him, forcing him to face their chosen deaths one after another. He survived the first attack and killed its voter, then confronted a woman whose method was to burn him alive.

• Jiang Nuo learned that thirteen players had voted for him, making him the Demon King who had to survive each voter's chosen method of death.
• The first voter said he wanted Jiang Nuo dead because he was too strong, then summoned a spear to pierce Jiang Nuo's heart.
• Jiang Nuo broke the spear and killed the fleeing voter with a fragment, while the system warned him to obey the rules but did not intervene.
• Jiang Nuo asked the second voter why she wanted to kill him, and she blamed him for her boyfriend's death in a zombie instance.
• The second voter's method appeared, igniting the corridor's vines and surrounding Jiang Nuo with flames.

Jiang Nuo survived the voters’ lethal trials by turning their chosen methods against them, while Si Yan remained trapped watching and 0732 worried over his injuries. After killing several voters, Jiang Nuo spared Voter Six, who gave him a healing item, leaving him recovering as the trials continued.

• Jiang Nuo created ice within the flames, escaped unharmed, and killed Voter Two with Ghost Flame.
• Voter Three tried to kill Jiang Nuo, but Jiang Nuo endured the torture and killed him using the same method.
• Several voters chose suicide, while Boduo, Xu Yin, and An Tang also tried to kill Jiang Nuo; after a brutal fight with Boduo, Jiang Nuo killed him and reclaimed first place in the rankings.
• Voter Six admitted he wanted to live rather than kill Jiang Nuo, but Jiang Nuo cut through the vine and let him leave.
• Voter Six gave Jiang Nuo an intermediate healing item, which Jiang Nuo used to recover some of his strength.

Si Yan used the death wishes to protect and heal Jiang Nuo, and the surviving players regrouped after the deadly voting round. As Jiang Nuo revealed his aim to destroy the system and return to his world, Gui Ci appeared and greeted him as Xiaoqi.

• Number Seven imitated the earlier method poorly, provoking Jiang Nuo, who killed him after enduring a painful attack.
• Si Yan comforted Jiang Nuo, and his death wish for Jiang Nuo to live a safe, healthy, happy life caused 024 to heal Jiang Nuo’s wounds.
• Si Yan helped the remaining players use their death wishes to protect Jiang Nuo, while Zhou Ling and Zhang Quan also offered blessings that 024 could not fulfill.
• Eight players survived the round, and Qiu Su said she wanted Jiang Nuo’s power to destroy the system and return to her world.
• Blood-red roses appeared, and Gui Ci emerged as the destruction-class boss Blood Bone Rose, greeting Jiang Nuo as Xiaoqi.

Jiang Nuo met Gui Ci, who purified the Demonic Qi clouding Jiang Nuo’s mind and healed Si Yan’s wounds. The group completed the Illusory Calamity Labyrinth side quest and returned to the hotel, where they learned their room numbers had been reshuffled and a 24-hour safe period would begin after new players arrived.

• Jiang Nuo called Gui Ci “Daddy,” and Gui Ci wrapped him in rose vines to clear out his excess Demonic Qi.
• Jiang Nuo asked 0732 about Gui Ci and learned that Gui Ci was data created by 024 and would disappear if 024 was destroyed.
• Gui Ci healed Si Yan, teased him about his relationship with Xiaoqi, and mentioned Yang He and Uncle Jiang.
• Gui Ci finished purifying Jiang Nuo, and the system announced that Jiang Nuo, Si Yan, Zhou Ling, Zhang Quan, Tuoba Hong, Yue Zhou, Qiu Su, and Chu Liu had completed the side quest.
• The group returned to the hotel and learned that their room numbers had been reshuffled and that a 24-hour safe period would follow the arrival of new players.
• Chu Liu felt he had survived a disaster and hurried back to his room.

Jiang Nuo learned that Gui Ci welcomed the end of the system even though it would kill him, and decided to fulfill Gui Ci’s wish. After 0732 finished buffering, Jiang Nuo prepared to attack 024 and begin recycling it.

• Si Yan asked Jiang Nuo how he wanted to deal with Gui Ci, and Jiang Nuo said he wanted to hear Gui Ci’s own answer.
• Gui Ci asked why Jiang Nuo had returned after clearing the instances, and Jiang Nuo explained that 024 planned to take over and destroy the real world.
• Jiang Nuo gave Gui Ci a bracelet that could temporarily block 024 and asked whether Gui Ci would die if the system were destroyed.
• Gui Ci said he welcomed the end, explaining that he was already beginning to forget what Jiang Daoran looked like, and Jiang Nuo resolved to fulfill his wish.
• Jiang Nuo dreamed of the ways Gui Ci had protected him, then woke to find Gui Ci gone and told Si Yan he would fulfill his father’s wish.
• 0732 finished buffering and prepared to recycle 024, and Jiang Nuo announced that they would blow up the system.

Jiang Nuo chose to destroy the system rather than try to open a way home, and he led the players in an assault that razed the Fate Hotel and much of the city. When 024 appeared and vowed to kill him, Jiang Nuo’s allies launched their attack as the system broadcast the confrontation to the teleportation hall.

• Jiang Nuo told Yue Zhou and the others that he would destroy the system, then began the attack by killing the waiter who served breakfast.
• Jiang Nuo and his allies fought through the hotel, planted demolition bombs, and brought the building down on the monsters inside.
• The group continued wrecking the instance city until 024 appeared in a huge mechanical form and confronted Jiang Nuo.
• Zhou Ling raised a formation around the city, Si Yan attacked 024, Yue Zhou weakened the monsters, and Tuoba Hong tried to turn the replacement players to their side.
• 024 broadcast the battle to the teleportation hall, where the players watched Jiang Nuo challenge the system and the third-ranked player called for a meeting.

0732 linked Jiang Nuo to Lingduan Baize, helping Si Yan and Jiang Nuo gain the upper hand against 024. 024 then seized Si Mingde and Si Yong, drawing Si Yan into the ruins, where Si Yong revealed the truth behind his hatred.

• 0732 used Jiang Nuo’s link to enter 024’s core, and Lingduan Baize’s warning sent 024’s data into disarray.
• Si Yan bound 024 with spiritual power while the players who had switched sides attacked the instance.
• 024 opened a rift and brought the badly injured Si Mingde and Si Yong into the ruins, prompting Si Yan to rush to save them.
• Si Yong revealed that two souls shared his body and accused Si Mingde of hiding the truth about Si Yan’s parents and the sealing mission.