Recaps

Ye Jiang left the cloud chair and rode an elevator through the mall, where she encountered two strangers and a building-wide toy malfunction. The toys reacted intensely to her presence before she spotted Yu Hai, the Ability Control Bureau exploration squad captain.

• Ye Jiang entered an elevator on the hundredth floor and chose the first-floor button to search for the Ability Control Bureau team.
• Two unfamiliar men boarded on the twelfth floor and argued about whether the mall's dome had moved; Ye Jiang followed them when they left the elevator.
• A big-headed frog toy malfunctioned, and the two men ran as toys across the mall turned toward the elevator and began shaking.
• Ye Jiang calmly examined the mall while the gathered toys stared at her, then looked toward Yu Hai, whom she recognized.
• The toys shook more intensely when Ye Jiang looked at them, then quieted and dispersed after she turned her attention away.

Ye Jiang and Yu Hai discovered that the mall’s elevator separated newcomers by floor and that the supposed veteran guide, Wu Si, was luring them into a trap. After Ye Jiang subdued him, Wu Si revealed that he had entered the door only ten days earlier, leaving Yu Hai to question him further.

• Yu Hai told Ye Jiang about the active door, the mall’s energy, and its man-eating toys, while Wu Si warned them about the strange behavior in the building.
• Wu Si explained that only people who entered on upper floors could see the elevator buttons, then offered to lead Ye Jiang and Yu Hai upstairs.
• Wu Si led them to a shop with a counting goat toy and tried to lure them inside, but Yu Hai grew suspicious and attacked when the lights went out.
• Wu Si turned on Ye Jiang, but she caught his wrist and slammed him into the floor while Yu Hai chose to keep him alive for questioning.
• Wu Si admitted that his name was Wu Si, that he was from T City, and that he had entered the door ten days earlier rather than ten years earlier.

Wu Si revealed that the toy goat was counting down to a deadly game of hide-and-seek and explained how he had tried to make Yu Hai or Ye Jiang take his place. Ye Jiang suggested the toy might judge success differently than humans expected, giving Wu Si hope as the game began and the goat wandered aimlessly around the shop.

• Wu Si told Yu Hai that the toy goat was counting down to a hide-and-seek game in which Wu Si was the mouse, and that touching the goat would transfer the role to someone else.
• Wu Si admitted he had tricked newcomers in hopes of escaping the game and warned Yu Hai that the toys assigned tasks, punishing those they judged to have failed.
• Ye Jiang questioned whether being caught necessarily meant failing the goat's game, and Yu Hai agreed that it was possible the toy's standards differed from human expectations.
• Wu Si recalled a toy rabbit that had accepted a game despite losing, regained hope, and thanked Ye Jiang for her suggestion.
• When the goat finished counting, Wu Si invited it to find him and ran off, while Ye Jiang and Yu Hai watched the goat slowly circle inside the shop.

Ye Jiang and Yu Hai learned how the mall’s residents climbed toward the supposed exit on the ninety-ninth floor, while Ye Jiang revealed she had entered on the hundredth floor. As they prepared to reach the second floor, Wu Si warned them that terrifying contamination had made it inaccessible.

• Ye Jiang carried the goat toy out of its shop, and it quickly caught Wu Si after beginning its game.
• Wu Si explained that residents could only reach higher floors by completing toy tasks and said the mall’s exit was on the ninety-ninth floor.
• Wu Si described Chen Hong, an A-rank ability user who had reached the eighty-eighth floor, as the person most likely to escape.
• Ye Jiang told Yu Hai she had entered on the hundredth floor, but he assumed she was joking.
• Ye Jiang and Yu Hai decided she would go to the second floor while he stayed behind to complete a toy’s task.
• Ye Jiang dragged Wu Si toward the elevator, and he revealed that contamination on the second floor forced people back and had made the floor dangerous.

Ye Jiang went to the mall’s second floor despite Yu Hai’s concerns and encountered three monsters in their true forms. She asked two of them whether they knew how she could leave a human body permanently, but they did not understand her question.

• Wu Si warned Ye Jiang and Yu Hai that people could not reach the second floor because a barrier stopped them and agitated the toys.
• Ye Jiang entered the elevator alone and arrived on the second floor, where she met a long, smoke-like monster called “Noodle.”
• “Noodle” called for his big brother, and “Jellyfish” and “Hole Man” appeared and ordered Ye Jiang to leave.
• Ye Jiang ignored their intimidation and asked “Jellyfish” and “Hole Man” how to leave a human body permanently.
• “Noodle” asked his brothers what Ye Jiang had said, and “Jellyfish” turned to “Hole Man” with the same question.

Ye Jiang confronted three monster brothers on the skybridge, broke free of their attempts to stop her, and tested her strength by knocking them down with a hammer. The chapter then flashed back to 2166, when a high-level monster entered a child’s body and announced plans to destroy the world before a young man confronted him.

• Ye Jiang declared that she was a monster, but the brothers dismissed her and Noodle bound her in a cocoon.
• Ye Jiang’s displeasure caused Noodle to snap apart, and Hole Man accused her of attacking his brother.
• The brothers’ one-hour limit expired, revealing them as children, and Ye Jiang lost interest when they could not help her leave her body.
• Ye Jiang sped past the brothers, returned to strike each of them with a hammer, and left them trembling as they recalled a Slaughter God.
• In 2166, a high-level monster in an eight-year-old child’s body vowed to destroy the world, but a young man arrived and challenged him.

The Slaughter God brought three monsters to a pine-covered mountain, where they became gatekeeping boys and were later sent out to do something for him. At a mall, Ye Jiang completed a wind-up toy’s quest and learned that the three little monsters following her were Numbers 3, 5, and 7; they invited her to help destroy the world.

• A high-level monster recognized the young man as the Slaughter God and was taken to a mountain, where he became its gatekeeping boy.
• Two more monsters descended into human children, declared they would destroy the world, and eventually became gatekeeping boys too.
• The young man sent the three gatekeeping boys away to do something for him.
• Ye Jiang completed a Dalmatian toy’s quest by shaking its paw, and the mall’s other toys gathered around her with requests for attention.
• Ye Jiang confronted the three little monsters, who denied causing the toys’ strange behavior and revealed that they were Numbers 3, 5, and 7.
• The three monster brothers urged Ye Jiang to join them in destroying the world, describing their vision of a human world transformed into a monster nest.

Ye Jiang asked three monster brothers to help find the Ability Control Bureau exploration team, after learning they had once been forced by the Slaughter God to search for the vanished sky. As the brothers agreed to help despite her not being as strong as the Slaughter God, that infamous figure entered the mall through a black hole.

• Ye Jiang questioned the three monster brothers about the Slaughter God, learning he had ordered them to search for the vanished sky and had stopped them from destroying the world.
• Shi Li and Dong Zhen saw a young man with a devouring black hole enter the door and recognized him as the Slaughter God from three hundred years ago.
• The monster brothers described the vanished sky as a supreme existence, but Ye Jiang did not know what it was.
• Ye Jiang asked the monster brothers to help find the scattered members of the Ability Control Bureau exploration team.
• The second monster agreed to help even though Ye Jiang was not as strong as the Slaughter God.

Ye Jiang returned from the second floor after removing its corruption, and Wu Si confirmed the walkway was safe before announcing the news to the people trapped below. Yu Hai learned that the corruption had not come from a corrupted being and feared a monster might still threaten the mall.

• Ye Jiang persuaded three monster brothers to help find seven humans, and they went upstairs by completing a toy’s task.
• Ye Jiang left the second floor when Yu Hai did not arrive, then told the talkative Wu Si that its corruption was gone.
• Wu Si checked the second floor for himself, found it safe, and shouted the news to the people on the first floor.
• Ye Jiang found Yu Hai, who asked whether she had seen the corruption and whether it came from a corrupted being.
• Ye Jiang said it had not, and Yu Hai feared that a monster might have occupied the second floor.

Yu Hai told Ye Jiang about his harmless, unexpectedly humanlike toy task, then learned that the second-floor contamination had vanished and people were seeking tasks to continue home. Ye Jiang revealed that three monsters had caused the contamination and had helped her search for someone, leaving Yu Hai struggling to absorb what happened.

• Yu Hai recounted how a windup pigeon gave him a toy task in which he spent an ordinary day playing its father.
• Two young people told Yu Hai and Ye Jiang that the second-floor contamination was gone, and Ye Jiang fled when they recognized her from rumors.
• Ye Jiang watched stranded people eagerly approach the toys for tasks now that they had hope of going home.
• Yu Hai learned from Ye Jiang that a monster had caused the second-floor contamination.
• Ye Jiang told Yu Hai that three monsters had helped her find someone, then gave him an account of her experiences upstairs.

Ye Jiang accompanied Yu Hai through the mall while he investigated its floors and learned that the windup toys had become gentler. On the fifth floor, Chen Hong offered Ye Jiang a pink envelope, and a young man’s icy aura caused the toys throughout the building to demand that he be killed.

• Yu Hai guessed that the three children Ye Jiang had encountered were Monsters 3, 5, and 7, then learned she had sent them to find his exploration team.
• Ye Jiang followed Yu Hai to the fifth floor, where people discussed the windup toys’ changed behavior and Chen Hong’s rapid progress through the building.
• Yu Hai hurried off to complete tasks while Ye Jiang listened to gossip about Chen Hong, then grew bored and headed toward the elevator.
• Chen Hong appeared on the skybridge and offered Ye Jiang a pink envelope as a love letter.
• A young man arrived in the elevator, released an icy aura, and triggered blood-red kill tasks for the toys throughout the building.

Ye Jiang received a strange love letter from Chen Hong while the toys targeted Rong Yin with a chilling display. As Chen Hong explained the mall to Rong Yin, a scheming resident prepared to attack him, but a dinosaur toy suddenly knocked Chen Hong down and he began happily hugging it.

• The toys’ killing intent chilled the mall, and some residents considered killing Rong Yin to complete every toy mission and reach the ninety-ninth floor.
• Ye Jiang asked about Chen Hong’s pink envelope, and he explained that it was a love-letter mission; the letter burst into hearts that Ye Jiang swallowed with her black holes.
• Rong Yin joined Ye Jiang and Chen Hong, said he had entered the mall by accident, and listened as Chen Hong described the floors, missions, and dangers.
• A triangular-eyed man decided Rong Yin was an easy target and secretly moved into position to attack him.
• A green dinosaur toy charged into Chen Hong and sent him flying; Chen Hong responded by hugging and rubbing its head.

Ye Jiang captured Zhang Fan after he attacked the young man, but Zhang Fan used his ability to control a windup toy and attack her. After Ye Jiang smashed the toy, the toys’ mission boxes vanished and they began kicking Zhang Fan around the building.

• Zhang Fan fired a laser at the young man, but a black hole swallowed the beam, and Ye Jiang seized Zhang Fan.
• The windup toys turned their mission onto Zhang Fan, covering him with targeting dots and stopping his counterattack.
• Zhang Fan escaped Ye Jiang’s grip and controlled a windup toy to attack her, but Ye Jiang blocked it and smashed its arm apart.
• The toys’ keys spun rapidly, their mission boxes broke apart, and Zhang Fan’s targeting dots disappeared.
• A windup toy kicked Zhang Fan into another toy, which kicked him onward.

Ye Jiang discovered that the toys could act freely and showed affection, while the building’s residents panicked after Zhang Fan was eaten. The chapter ended with Chen Hong calmly treating a dinosaur toy like a child and helping it show Ye Jiang the fire patterns on its head.

• The toys kicked Zhang Fan around and then ate him, causing the fifth-floor residents to panic and flee.
• Ye Jiang repaired a damaged zombie toy, which patted her hand to reassure her.
• Chen Hong told the panicked residents that Zhang Fan had angered the toys by trying to control them and reassured them that the toys were naughty children.
• Ye Jiang asked Chen Hong what he thought the toys were, and he said they were a bunch of naughty children.
• A green dinosaur toy approached Chen Hong, who set it on fire before asking whether it had had enough.
• The dinosaur toy showed Ye Jiang the fire patterns on its head, and Chen Hong refreshed them with his flames.

Ye Jiang and Rong Yin entered a dark, mirrored version of the toy mall, where its colorless toys lay silent. Rong Yin explained that the toys were conscious creations whose awareness would fade unless their creator acknowledged them, and Ye Jiang asked how to find that creator.

• The dinosaur toy lost its color and pulled Ye Jiang and the others into a spatial vortex as Chen Hong watched.
• A woman emerged from a mirror in an empty shop, watched Chen Hong, then vanished.
• Ye Jiang awoke in a dark, still version of the toy mall beside Rong Yin, holding the lifeless dinosaur toy.
• Rong Yin explained that the toys were quasi-life and that their consciousness would dissipate without their creator's acknowledgment.
• Ye Jiang asked how they could find the toys' creator, and Rong Yin asked whether she wanted to help the toys become life.

Ye Jiang tried to help the conscious toys and asked Rong Yin how a monster could permanently leave its host, learning that he could use his true body through a rare innate ability. Their conversation was interrupted when Yu Hai fell into the dark mall and found himself facing Rong Yin.

• Ye Jiang decided to remember the toys and help them if she could, while Rong Yin said he did not know how to find their creator.
• Ye Jiang asked Rong Yin how a monster could permanently leave its host, and he explained that a rare innate ability let him use his true body in human form.
• Ye Jiang asked to touch Rong Yin's body so she could learn how to shape a true body, and she put her hand on his chest.
• Yu Hai fell outside a distant shop and saw Ye Jiang with Rong Yin, Monster No. 0.
• Yu Hai recalled the Ability Control Bureau's knowledge of Rong Yin and fought his instincts as Rong Yin watched him.

Yu Hai and Ye Jiang discovered that the skeleton in the shop belonged to Song Cen, a hero from three hundred years ago, and learned that the room was a graveyard for toys whose consciousness had faded. The chapter left Yu Hai stunned by how patiently Monster No. 0 answered Ye Jiang.

• Ye Jiang found an Ability Control Bureau work ID among the skeleton's bones, and Yu Hai identified its owner as Song Cen.
• Yu Hai searched the remains for a detection bead but found only a mirror shard, which he kept.
• Yu Hai explained that Song Cen was a celebrated hero from the Day of Disaster who had disappeared after saving a town's last survivor, who then became a pollutant.
• Yu Hai confirmed Song Cen's identity from his old work ID and resolved to return for his remains after completing his mission.
• Monster No. 0 explained that the room was a toy graveyard where toys went after their brief consciousness dissipated, leaving Yu Hai astonished at its willingness to answer Ye Jiang.

Ye Jiang and Rong Yin left the graveyard area to investigate the ninety-ninth floor while Yu Hai stayed behind to search for information and right fallen toys. In the elevator, Ye Jiang asked Rong Yin about the Slaughter God, and he learned that the three little monsters had spread rumors about him.

• Rong Yin confirmed that the mall’s toys had awakened consciousness, and Ye Jiang showed Yu Hai that the elevator could take them out of the graveyard.
• Yu Hai explained that a spatial spell in a toy had likely pulled him into the graveyard, while Ye Jiang said she had entered on the hundredth floor and planned to visit the ninety-ninth.
• Ye Jiang asked Rong Yin why he had glared at Yu Hai, and Rong Yin said Yu Hai had arrived at the wrong time before denying that he had glared.
• Ye Jiang asked Rong Yin about the Slaughter God and repeated the three little monsters’ claims that he was a murderous, sky-obsessed madman.
• Rong Yin rejected the claims as false rumors, insisting that the Slaughter God was not mad.

Ye Jiang searched the ordinary ninety-ninth floor for the mall’s exit and clues about the toys’ creator, but found nothing. After a woman fought off a crowd of toys, a yellow chick toy took one of her silver fragments and the toys engulfed Ye Jiang and Rong Yin, leaving them surrounded when Ye Jiang came to.

• Ye Jiang and Rong Yin reached the ninety-ninth floor, where she found no exit or clues despite searching the entire floor twice.
• Ye Jiang told Rong Yin she wanted to help the toys because the ones she had seen seemed cute, while he questioned why she would help beings others called evil.
• A woman fought a crowd of toys in the atrium, dodging their attacks until one toy grabbed her leg and she remade it from silver fragments.
• The toys fled, and a yellow chick toy appeared before Ye Jiang with a quest window as an energy locked onto her.
• Ye Jiang lost consciousness as the toys surrounded her and Rong Yin, then woke to find them encircled by the wind-up toys.

Ye Jiang and Rong Yin entered a toy mission space to find an energy-filled mirror fragment, and Ye Jiang recovered it from a running toy as memories surfaced. Back in the mall, she demanded to know how Rong Yin knew the clue; he blamed it on something he had heard from a monster who left the mall, but Ye Jiang suspected he was making an excuse.

• Ye Jiang and Rong Yin entered a replica of the mall, where a toy announced that a mirror fragment was hidden inside one of the toys.
• Rong Yin claimed that a toy carrying the fragment would run, while Ye Jiang doubted his explanation and searched on her own.
• Ye Jiang chased down a toy that suddenly ran, knocked it out, and found a silver mirror fragment inside its belly.
• As the mission space collapsed, fragments of a voice surfaced in Ye Jiang's memory, telling her to catch toys as training.
• Back in the mall, Ye Jiang confronted Rong Yin about how he knew the clue, and he said a monster who had left the mall had told him.
• Ye Jiang considered Rong Yin's answer plausible but suspected it was an offhand excuse.

Ye Jiang learned that the toys had invented the mall’s rules and tasks, then agreed to help the Mirror Woman take a Bureau hero’s skeleton home. The Mirror Woman immediately attacked her, and the mall’s toys charged toward the ninety-ninth floor.

• Rong Yin told Ye Jiang how a monster grew stronger by chasing special toys and retrieving what they hid inside themselves.
• The Mirror Woman revealed that the toys had created the mall’s rules and tasks to deceive humans, and that there was no exit on the ninety-ninth floor.
• The Mirror Woman asked Ye Jiang to find a way out and take the Ability Control Bureau hero’s skeleton home, offering her loyalty and fragments of her body in exchange.
• Ye Jiang agreed to the deal because she needed to find the exit anyway.
• The Mirror Woman sent silver fragments toward Ye Jiang as the toys broke their own rules and attacked the ninety-ninth floor.

Ye Jiang confronted Mirror Woman on the ninety-ninth floor while toys from across the mall surged toward them, and Mirror Woman explained the toys’ unusual goodwill toward Ye Jiang. The floor barriers had broken, leaving the mall’s survivors to question whether its rules and promised exit were real.

• Cheng Xin was captured by three monster brothers, who bound him with six unconscious Ability Control Bureau teammates and prepared to deliver all seven humans.
• Toys streamed through the mall’s broken floor barriers toward the ninety-ninth floor, alarming the people who had heard about the toy attack on the fifth floor.
• Mirror Woman’s killing intent faded after her mirror shards missed Ye Jiang, and she laughed as the toys crowded onto the ninety-ninth floor.
• Mirror Woman told Ye Jiang that she had been trapped in the mall for three hundred years and had searched for its exit by watching through mirrors.
• Mirror Woman explained that the toys had repeatedly shown special goodwill toward Ye Jiang, including changing tasks, sending her love letters, and attacking someone who threatened her.

Ye Jiang recovered a memory showing that she had created the mall’s wind-up toys and realized her ability was creation. Yu Hai returned from the toy graveyard to find the mall’s people gathered in despair on the first floor and the toys massed on the ninety-ninth, while someone calm approached him.

• Mirror Woman told Ye Jiang that the toys had broken rules to come to her and said she had waited for Ye Jiang to help find the mall’s exit.
• Ye Jiang remembered creating the wind-up toys and sending a weak monster into the mall with a booklet and a gift hidden inside the toys.
• Ye Jiang realized that she was the toys’ creator and asked Rong Yin whether he could contact the monster, but he could not reach him yet.
• Yu Hai left the toy graveyard empty-handed and found the sixth floor deserted, the toys gathered on the ninety-ninth, and a huge crowd on the first.
• Yu Hai learned that people believed the mission rules, floor barriers, and supposed exit were fake, and that they would never get home.
• As the crowd broke down in tears, a calm newcomer approached Yu Hai.

Yu Hai reassured the trapped civilians by promising the Ability Control Bureau would get them home, then encountered Monsters No. 3, 5, and 7 and recovered his unconscious teammates. On the 99th floor, Ye Jiang considered whether the toys could reveal the exit and wondered about her forgotten past in the mall.

• Chen Hong explained to Yu Hai that the mall's promised exit might not be on the 99th floor and that the toys had gathered there.
• Wu Si asked Yu Hai for help, and Yu Hai showed his Ability Control Bureau ID and promised the crowd he would find a way to bring them home.
• Yu Hai climbed toward the 99th floor, met Monsters No. 3, 5, and 7, and received his unconscious teammates from them.
• Ye Jiang asked Mirror Woman whether the toys knew the way out, and Mirror Woman said she hoped they could provide information about the mall.
• Ye Jiang recalled that she may have visited the mall before creating the toys, then stopped a pelican-shaped toy from biting her.

Ye Jiang and Rong Yin discovered that the mall’s exit symbol was hidden inside the toys’ bellies, and Ye Jiang told Mirror Woman she had found the door. The Ability Control Bureau began evacuating the mall’s ten thousand occupants through the toys, while frightened people struggled to board the passages leading to them.

• Ye Jiang struggled to communicate with the toys, while Mirror Woman explained that she had spent three hundred years fighting them without considering their intelligence.
• Rong Yin noticed a door symbol inside a toy’s belly and explained that the toys’ mouths connected to an enormous alternate space.
• Ye Jiang recognized the symbol as the mall’s exit and told Mirror Woman that their deal was complete.
• The exploration team captain overheard Ye Jiang’s announcement, slipped, and fell from the ninety-ninth floor to the ninety-eighth floor.
• The Ability Control Bureau organized the evacuation by sending people along vine passages to toys on other floors, where the toys swallowed them.
• A Logistics Team member gently helped a frightened elderly man away from the line as he hesitated to step onto a passage.