Chapter Summaries

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.

The evacuation continued smoothly while Ye Jiang struggled to find a way to help the toys become living beings. Mirror Woman went to the toy graveyard to see Song Cen, and the chapter ended with her remembering how he had once rescued her before she died and became a corrupted.

• Yu Hai arranged for Cheng Xin to replace the weakening vine passages and reflected that the Healer had helped the Bureau find the exit.
• Ye Jiang admitted to Rong Yin that she could not figure out how to acknowledge the toys, and he reassured her.
• Ye Jiang told Mirror Woman that the Bureau would soon collect Song Cen's remains, prompting Mirror Woman to leave for the graveyard.
• Ye Jiang recognized Mirror Woman as a corrupted who had become one after Song Cen rescued her three hundred years earlier.
• Mirror Woman sat beside Song Cen's skeleton and remembered his rescue, her final words, and the faith she had recovered before dying.

Mirror Woman mourned Song Cen in the cemetery before a Blood Moon ability user attacked her, revealed overwhelming power, and tried to seize her. Ye Jiang and another figure arrived as Mirror Woman was trapped and the ability user turned toward them.

• Mirror Woman recalled how Song Cen had saved her, how they had been separated in the mall, and how she had lost him before saying goodbye beside his body.
• A Blood Moon ability user appeared in the cemetery, called Mirror Woman excellent material, and attacked her with extraordinary speed.
• Mirror Woman unleashed her fragments against the ability user, but he dodged her attacks and regenerated after she grievously wounded him.
• The ability user immobilized Mirror Woman by controlling the air and reached toward her as she struggled to break free.
• Ye Jiang and another figure appeared in the ruined cemetery, interrupting the ability user's attempt to seize Mirror Woman.

Ye Jiang confronted the ability user over the scattered toys and chased him through the graveyard. After discovering she could create objects, she struck him with a steel pipe, leaving him furious and transformed.

• Mirror Woman accused the ability user of knocking over the toys, then urged Ye Jiang to flee when he threatened them.
• Ye Jiang appeared behind the ability user and asked whether he had scattered the toys.
• The ability user fled as Ye Jiang pursued him at matching speed, leaving Mirror Woman stunned by their power.
• Ye Jiang accelerated and created a steel pipe, then struck the ability user and sent him crashing through shops.
• The ability user rose in a towering form wreathed in black smoke as Ye Jiang approached without concern.

Ye Jiang survived the ability user's attack and forced him to retreat, while learning Mirror Woman had been called “material.” The disguised Cheng Xin then revealed himself as the ability user and launched a new attack on Ye Jiang in the mall lobby.

• The ability user engulfed Ye Jiang in black mud, but she emerged unharmed with a replica of Blood Knight's sword, and the ability user fled after meeting her blood-red gaze.
• Mirror Woman told Ye Jiang that the ability user had called her “material,” and Ye Jiang looked toward the evacuation upstairs.
• The ability user, disguised as Cheng Xin, returned to the lobby and learned the real Cheng Xin was an earth-type ability user.
• The impostor attacked an Ability Control Bureau member with earth spikes, then revealed himself and aimed a storm of earth arrows at Ye Jiang.
• The Bureau member managed to stop only a few arrows as the attack rushed toward Ye Jiang.

Ye Jiang and Yu Hai waited for the impostor "Cheng Xin" to emerge after he fell into the cat in the atrium, while learning more about his unusual abilities. When ten minutes passed without him returning, Ye Jiang decided to enter the cat, but a building resident blocked her.

• A black hole appeared and swallowed the earth arrows, causing "Cheng Xin" to flee before he fell into the cat's body.
• Yu Hai ordered the civilians to evacuate, and Ye Jiang warned him that the impostor was probably a monster.
• Ye Jiang refused to leave, and Rong Yin promised to protect her while Monster 357 watched from above.
• After waiting ten minutes without "Cheng Xin" emerging, Ye Jiang decided to investigate the cat herself.
• Yu Hai and a building resident tried to stop Ye Jiang, and the woman stepped in front of her.