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Regardless of whether you’re properly followingZenless Zone Zero’sstory or skipping every dialogue, you still have to go through the TV gameplay in the main missions and solve all the puzzles in it. Usually, the game throws quite easy puzzles in the main story so that your progression doesn’t get stuck.
However, A Perilous Duty mission is an exception as this one will have you solve a series of puzzles, which might end up being difficult to solve especially if you’re skipping everything. Here’s everything you’ll need to do to get past this mission.

How To Help Zhu Yuan And Qingyi
As soon as you enter A Perilous Duty mission, you’ll quickly witnessZhu Yuan and Qingyi getting stuckdue to the pistons facing the wrong way. The main character willspawn at the top with three different switches in a row, and you essentially have to use these switches in the following way to help the two get past:
Once you’ve made a path for the officers, you’re going to entertwo fighting scenarios where you get to use Zhu Yuan for free. As you go back to the TV gameplay after this, you’ll have to find a bunch of clues.
How To Find All Five Clues
Next, you’ll enter a scene where you have to move to the left to reveal new TVs until you reach the one that reveals the entire area. In this area,you’ll see a total of five clues scattered around. You have to get all these clues by following these steps so that you’re able to answer some questions after:
Once you’ve claimed all the clues, use the button on the left to enter the mindscapewhere you’ll have to answer three questions. The answers to these questions from left to right are: Driving, On foot, and The culprits'. The final question will be revealed after that where you can choose the “Just not far from here!” option to continue to the next part.
How To Locate The Culprits
In the final section of this mission, you have to watch replays of everything done by the culpritsso that you can follow their path and catch them. In the first three replays, you simply have to interact with specific TVs in the second and the third one to get some clues, whichreveals the code for the lock to be 54321.
In the next part, you have to use the portals in a specific manner, but the path will automatically berevealed by Fairy after you watch the replay at the bottom. You’ll also get the second Observation Data here. In the last area, once again, you have to watch a replay in the bottom-middle section, which makes three walls breakable.
ensure you break the bottom and the left wall first toget some Dennies and Observation Databefore breaking the middle one.
You’ll thenenter the final fightwith the culprits and finish the mission.