Chapter Summaries

An Ying learned that played cards could not be reused, won his second match through the suit-ranking rule, and began considering how card suits related to the Weirds' abilities. A sudden attack tore open the game venue, and Moonlit Night appeared with a gigantic rabbit.

• An Ying discovered that his queen of spades had already been used and warned the other players that cards could only be played once.
• An Ying played the jack of hearts against number eight's jack of clubs, and won because hearts outranked clubs.
• An Ying considered the ranking and abilities of the four suits' Weirds as he returned to his seat.
• A tremendous roar sliced away the stories above the venue, exposing the game to the sky.
• Moonlit Night appeared at the breach, greeted An Ying, and introduced a gigantic rabbit.

Bai Yang’s giant plush rabbit swallowed the blood moon, and Moonlit Night destroyed the rabbit and shattered the moon to retrieve a silver joker card. The game resumed, while An Ying suspected the moon had been the eerie behind the instance and noticed a rare ace of spades in a new match.

• Bai Yang controlled his giant plush rabbit as it moved away from the players and eeries, then opened its mouth and swallowed the blood moon.
• Moonlit Night explained that the rabbit could not digest the moon, then cut through the rabbit and shattered the moon into fragments.
• Moonlit Night picked up a silver joker card from the shattered moon while Bai Yang searched among the fur for his damaged rabbit.
• The host NPC resumed the game, and An Ying wondered whether the moon had been the eerie behind the instance and whether Moonlit Night had failed to kill it.
• An Ying saw Player No. 11 holding the ace of spades during a new match and was surprised by the rare card.

An Ying watched a deadly card game reveal that players could not hold more than four cards, then faced a woman claiming to have the ace of diamonds. Elsewhere, Sheng Qingqiao learned that Flower Language belonged to the same organization as Bai Yang and Moonlit Night, and she suggested he already knew humans and entities could coexist.

• Guest No. 16 lost to No. 11's ace of spades, and No. 11 was swallowed by the entity that emerged from the ten of hearts he had plundered.
• A player revealed that holding more than four cards triggered a death rule, and An Ying survived the third round as the field shrank to six.
• An Ying entered the fourth round with the king of diamonds, and his opponent immediately claimed to hold the ace of diamonds.
• Flower Language killed the host and other NPCs before the blackjack game could begin, leaving Sheng Qingqiao and the others unable to start or leave.
• Sheng Qingqiao asked Flower Language about Bai Yang, Moonlit Night, and her organization, and she said Bai Yang was weak, Moonlit Night was strong, and she was with them.
• Flower Language told Sheng Qingqiao that he already knew entities and humans could coexist, causing his smiling expression to turn cold.

Tao Yuan kept winning at Liar’s Tavern while stalling for time after Bai Yang left, and An Ying realized the High Card game’s rules made survival impossible. When he challenged the host, the players shifted to pretending they were merely criticizing the game, leaving the host confronted but not yet openly defied.

• Tao Yuan used a bluff to make Guest No. 15 believe her, then successfully doubted his card and handed him the gun after he lost.
• An Ying and a woman concluded that the High Card rules forced both the winner and loser to die in the fourth round.
• An Ying asked the host to pause the game and pointed out that its rules seemed flawed.
• The host’s appearance changed as the room turned ominous, and the woman covered their challenge by complaining that the game was dull and its deck seemed incomplete.

An Ying, Mei Long, and four other players challenged the host of the death-game instance to summon the boss, then joined forces to seek a perfect clearance. Mei Long shared her memories of a real casino’s brutal underground crimes, and Wang Xiaoxiao suspected the strange beings were its victims.

• An Ying and the others pressured the host to consult the boss, and he left while they regrouped.
• An Ying and Mei Long introduced themselves, and the other four players shared their names and backgrounds.
• Wang Xiaoxiao argued that they needed a perfect clearance to survive, and An Ying explained that they had to uncover and resolve the instance’s underlying story.
• Mei Long recounted how her friend was lured into a casino, murdered, and found with her organs removed, and described the casino’s underground exploitation and her own investigation.
• Wang Xiaoxiao suggested that the strange beings in the gambling house might be the victims of those crimes.

An Ying learned that the different Weirds had conflicting roles and might be turned against one another, while Moonlit Night arrived and gave him a risky plan to exploit the rules. The card game against the hidden Weird master began with An Ying preparing to carry out that plan.

• An Ying reasoned that the Weirds represented victims, accomplices, guests, and rule enforcers, and suggested searching the streets if the Weirds stopped hunting them.
• Mei Long reassured the group that his ace of diamonds was the highest card, and Moonlit Night arrived after swallowing the moon.
• Moonlit Night told An Ying he would help only him, then gave him a battered half-rabbit and explained that An Ying had to make the Weird master cheat before its restraints could be broken.
• Moonlit Night gave An Ying four new playing cards and warned him not to die; An Ying returned to the others and said he would succeed.
• The host brought the pale, featureless Weird to the stage, and it asked the group to choose a player for one decisive round.

An Ying used Fang Yi’s creepy item to swap a little joker into the anomaly’s hand and won the card match by exposing its rule-breaking. The enraged anomaly attacked the group directly, and Moonlit Night stood to fight back.

• An Ying faced the anomaly in a high-card match while his teammates watched and prepared to support his plan.
• An Ying used Brat's Photograph to swap a card into the anomaly’s hand, then revealed the three of spades he had received.
• The anomaly revealed the little joker An Ying had swapped into its hand, and An Ying accused it of cheating and declared his victory.
• The host stayed silent rather than rule on whether its master had cheated.
• The anomaly unleashed a direct attack, surrounding the group with dark energy and familiar anomalies as An Ying’s bamboo umbrella blocked the first strike.
• Moonlit Night stood and challenged the anomaly for breaking its word.

An Ying outwitted the eerie entity in a card game with a bomb, but it expelled him and the other survivors into the dungeon’s daytime street instead of letting them escape. The group gathered to identify the street’s rules, then a startled Wang Xiaoxiao stumbled into a middle-aged woman.

• An Ying challenged the eerie entity’s claim that it had not cheated, then agreed to restart the card game under its improvised rules.
• The eerie entity drew the little joker, but An Ying played four twos from the rabbit and argued that his bomb beat it.
• The eerie entity raised its blade, but An Ying and the other survivors were transported out of the game and onto the dungeon’s daytime street.
• An Ying, Wang Xiaoxiao, Mei Long, and Fang Yi exchanged what they knew about the street, including rules against nighttime visitors and littering.
• Wang Xiaoxiao noticed movement behind her, stumbled into An Ying, and startled a middle-aged woman who shouted at her.

An Ying and his companions learned the daytime rules of the street outside the underground casino and reunited with Bai Yang and Tao Yuan. Meanwhile, Lin Nieran discovered that the playing-card uncanny objects he had collected were worth less without the jokers.

• An Ying found the daytime street rules, which warned newcomers to fit in, avoid flames, and call security about moving weights or children.
• A stallholder told An Ying's group that the street surrounded Y City's underground casino and that escape was impossible once inside.
• Mei Long and Wang Xiaoxiao left to search for their teammates, while An Ying used a disk to locate Bai Yang nearby.
• Bai Yang returned his battered rabbit to An Ying, and Tao Yuan learned that Moonlit Night had left the instance using his ability to break boundaries.
• Tao Yuan invited Bai Yang to search for their teammates, and Bai Yang asked where he could find fabric and cotton to repair his rabbit.
• Lin Nieran learned that the 52 playing-card uncanny objects were worth 30,000 because the deck was missing its big and little jokers.

Lin Nieran sent Moonlit Night to the Lily Weird Zone to earn points while he watched the livestream, spent his remaining points on items for the puppeteer, and learned that his Fame had passed 100,000. In the instance, Bai Yang reunited with Tao Yuan and An Ying, then encountered Qin Rang at a clothing stall.

• Lin Nieran told Moonlit Night to hunt Weirds in Cloud City’s Lily Weird Zone rather than pursue the big joker, and Moonlit Night left.
• Lin Nieran discussed his past and his personalities with the masked young man, then asked 007 about dead hosts and checked his rising Fame balance.
• Lin Nieran used two ten-draws, received a snow weather card, and spent his remaining points on a Teddy Bear Doll and a Parasitic Spirit for the puppeteer.
• Bai Yang sensed Lin Nieran’s items arrive while he browsed fabric with An Ying, and Qin Rang bargained for custom clothing nearby.
• Bai Yang reunited with Tao Yuan and An Ying, and the group shared their experiences after Qin Rang joined them.

Bai Yang and the others questioned a stall owner about Heaven and learned that its patrons were desperate to return to the Gambling House. After discussing their Fama and the endless daytime caused by Bai Yang’s rabbit swallowing the moon, they headed toward a place where he could repair his doll.

• Bai Yang and An Ying questioned a stall owner about Heaven, and the man described the Gambling House as a place where people could win fortunes.
• Bai Yang challenged the stall owner’s claims and handed him Fama in exchange for answers about Heaven, its master, and the Security Guards.
• The stall owner said he sold goods to earn Fama so he could enter Heaven again, and Tao Yuan noticed his obsessive reaction to the coins.
• Qin Rang, Tao Yuan, An Ying, and Bai Yang compared how much Fama they had and realized Qin Rang had collected over a thousand.
• An Ying asked whether Bai Yang’s rabbit swallowing the moon had stopped nighttime, and Tao Yuan concluded the daytime had been extended indefinitely.
• Bai Yang set off to find materials to repair his doll, but Qin Rang stopped him and offered to take him to a place with cotton and tools.

Qin Rang accompanied Bai Yang to a tailor shop so Bai Yang could repair his doll, while An Ying and Tao Yuan explored the street and spotted a group of new players being led into a shop. The chapter left An Ying and Tao Yuan following them after Tao Yuan heard a child laughing, which reminded them of a dangerous rule.

• Qin Rang gave An Ying and Tao Yuan Fama and told them to stay alert and watch for Sheng Qingqiao, then took Bai Yang to the tailor shop.
• Bai Yang revealed that he was the organization’s Doll Master and began repairing his rabbit doll and modifying other dolls while waiting for the tailor to return.
• An Ying and Tao Yuan rested, then noticed four tense newcomers attracting the attention of the locals.
• A middle-aged woman accepted Fama from the newcomers and invited them to her son’s shop, and An Ying and Tao Yuan followed to investigate.
• Tao Yuan heard a child laughing nearby, and she and An Ying grew wary as the newcomers reached their destination.

Tao Yuan and An Ying watched four outsiders fall victim to the snack stall’s deadly food and learned that attractive, healthy-looking people were valued in the casino. The Security Guards arrived as Tao Yuan and An Ying continued gathering information about the street.

• The snack stall owner served the four outsiders food that looked like burnt flesh, and the captain ate some after using an eerie pill-shaped object.
• The captain burst into flames, and another outsider died when she fled the stall; the two remaining women found the snack stall rules and realized the black food was dangerous.
• One woman faked food poisoning and summoned the Security Guards, prompting nearby NPCs to blame Auntie Zhao and her husband’s stall for the deaths.
• Tao Yuan and An Ying joined the crowd, and Tao Yuan questioned a young woman about the street’s vendors and their luck.
• The young woman told Tao Yuan and An Ying that good-looking people with healthy figures could become regular employees of Heaven, and the Security Guards arrived.

Tao Yuan and An Ying survived the third death chase by carrying six eerie children, then entered Heaven Bookshop to investigate its contaminated rules. They tied the children by the exit, and Tao Yuan found an old newspaper while An Ying studied the bookstore.

• Tao Yuan inferred that the street's hatred of flames came from a devastating fire that had happened before the eerie beings arrived.
• When the third death chase began, Tao Yuan and An Ying grabbed the children to prevent their cries from triggering the rule about lost kids, and realized the charred figures did not chase people holding children.
• Tao Yuan decided to use their temporary protection to search nearby places for a way to handle Rule One, and she and An Ying entered Heaven Bookshop.
• Tao Yuan identified the bookstore's second and fourth rules as suspicious, and she and An Ying tied the six children together by the exit.
• Tao Yuan found an old newspaper near the checkout counter while An Ying examined the bookstore's layout.

An Ying and Tao Yuan explored a bookstore where anomalous books gossiped about Heaven and people becoming Card Boxes, then escaped after Tao Yuan outsmarted the anomaly collecting a reading fee. They reunited with the six anomaly children and spotted the Security Guard Room near Sheng Qingqiao’s last known location.

• An Ying heard the books gossip about a girl who died addicted to Heaven, a borrower who became a Card Box, and a previous group of newcomers, but stopped listening when their words began to distort his mind.
• An Ying and Tao Yuan headed for the exit, where a black anomaly demanded one hundred per person to read.
• Tao Yuan pretended she and An Ying were struggling parents, distracted the anomaly with a story about An Ying becoming a Card Box, and let the Fama roll onto the floor before they escaped with the six children.
• Tao Yuan explained that the bookstore had an owner and that she had exploited a loophole by not handing over the money directly.
• An Ying and Tao Yuan checked Sheng Qingqiao’s unmoving location marker and saw a sign for the Security Guard Room nearby.

An Ying and Tao Yuan investigated a vanished bookstore and concluded that the casino had destroyed it to suppress information that could break people’s gambling addictions. Meanwhile, Qin Rang and Bai Yang sheltered in a tailor shop during the hunt, where the burned shopkeeper said she was waiting for her lover, the absent owner.

• Tao Yuan told An Ying that the bookstore had contained anti-gambling newspapers and old reports about casinos being destroyed, but An Ying found the shop had vanished when he returned.
• An Ying and Tao Yuan suspected the casino had burned the bookstore and identified Ci Zhemao, Wang Zhishang, and Tong Kou as possible people behind it; they planned to find them and then head to the security room.
• Bai Yang and Qin Rang saw that the tailor shop’s owner had become a charred corpse after the hunt notification appeared, while Bai Yang repaired his rabbit doll and considered how to defeat the sun.
• Qin Rang questioned the shopkeeper about her boss, and she said she was waiting for her lover, the owner of the shop.

Qin Rang questioned the tailor shop’s proprietor while avoiding a dangerous question, then bargained with Bai Yang for a chance to ask him questions after they escaped. As Qin Rang examined a pattern book, its model and a nearby mannequin became hostile, leaving him on guard.

• Qin Rang learned that the proprietor’s missing husband was named Fang Jing, then avoided asking how he lost his hand because he suspected the question would break a Street Rule.
• Bai Yang finished repairing a stuffed rabbit with black gemstone eyes, and Qin Rang negotiated a future meeting with him in exchange for paying for the eyes.
• Bai Yang warned Qin Rang that his colleagues might kill him if he tried to cooperate with their organization and the local authorities.
• Qin Rang opened a pattern book, and its model smiled grotesquely before a nearby mannequin raised its hand as if to strike him.
• Qin Rang moved beside Bai Yang and continued studying the pattern book cautiously, suspecting it had caused the strange reactions.

Qin Rang and Bai Yang dealt with a mannequin that had trapped Qin Rang beside a fallen shawl, using Bai Yang’s teddy bear to smash it into the wall. The shopkeeper blamed them and attacked, but Qin Rang tried to shift responsibility onto the bear.

• Qin Rang spotted Mr. Tongkou’s name in the picture’s acknowledgments and found a paper slip as a mannequin appeared behind him beside a fallen shawl.
• Bai Yang noticed the mannequin and used his altered teddy bear to kick the shawl into it, smashing the mannequin against the wall.
• The shopkeeper accused Qin Rang and Bai Yang of destroying her mannequin and attacked them with black ash.
• Bai Yang acted frail while Qin Rang remained unharmed, then Qin Rang pointed at the teddy bear and claimed it might have caused the damage.

Bai Yang and Qin Rang uncovered why the Tailor Shop’s rules did not restrain its proprietress and realized its owner had died long ago. Meanwhile, Tao Yuan and An Ying met Flower Language, a sentient specter whose rose thorns filled the security room, and Sheng Qingqiao stopped them from triggering a rule.

• Bai Yang used Little Bear to smash the Female Specter into the floor, and Qin Rang inferred that the doll’s strength activated when its target became angry.
• Qin Rang read the shop owner’s farewell letter and concluded that the owner had died, leaving the shop’s rules unable to restrain the proprietress.
• Bai Yang continued making a black kitten doll while Qin Rang realized they had been misled by the shop’s rules.
• Tao Yuan, An Ying, and Sheng Qingqiao were confined in the security room with Flower Language, whom Sheng Qingqiao identified as being from the same place as Bai Yang.
• Flower Language revealed that she was a sentient specter, and her rose thorns spread through the room when Tao Yuan and An Ying showed hostility.
• Sheng Qingqiao blocked Tao Yuan’s chainsaw and warned them not to touch Flower Language’s thorns because they would trigger a rule.

Flower Language killed the children who broke her rules, then left Sheng Qingqiao, An Ying, and Tao Yuan to face the consequences. In the Residential Zone, Lin Nieran decided to travel to Moonlit Night after detecting strange energy from his card, and he set off in a Haunted Object Taxi.

• Flower Language's vines killed the children and spread through the room before she left, warning Sheng Qingqiao not to bother her.
• Sheng Qingqiao, An Ying, and Tao Yuan discussed Flower Language's hostility and worried about explaining the children's deaths to their parents.
• Lin Nieran packed supplies and decided to find Moonlit Night because his card showed abnormal energy fluctuations.
• The Masked Youth encouraged Lin Nieran to bring joss paper, while 007 Little Ball warned him that leaving the Residential Zone was dangerous.
• Lin Nieran hailed a Haunted Object Taxi, and its driver told him to read the rules and not die in her car.