Chapter Summaries

Xu Xi tried to use the landlady’s spare keys to escape the building, but none opened the iron gate, and she caught him breaking the rules. After repeating his routine against the tenants of 501 and 502, he considered forcing the landlady to recruit new tenants so he could discover how people entered the building and find another way out.

• Xu Xi let the landlady take the Burly Man’s body as payment for disturbing the neighbors, then restrained and beheaded her to steal her keys.
• Xu Xi tried every key on the ring at the iron gate, but none opened it, and the landlady confronted him as a rule-breaking tenant.
• Xu Xi used Rollback and repeated his routine at 502, killing the White-Dressed Woman and collecting her money.
• Xu Xi searched the White-Dressed Woman’s apartment and noticed that the dolls’ skins improved closer to the door, suggesting she cared more about skinning than stitching.
• Xu Xi returned to 401 and reasoned that killing tenants might force the landlady to bring in replacements, giving him a chance to learn how people entered the building.

Xu Xi became trapped in a distorted version of his building, where a pursuing mountain of flesh forced him to search rooms for clues. The chapter ended as he reached a hallway lined with stretched human skins and faced a silent door.

• Xu Xi woke from a feverish doctor’s visit outside apartment 202 and realized the scene matched the diary’s original owner’s experience.
• The hallway transformed into a dark, endless passage, and an enormous mountain of flesh chased Xu Xi.
• Xu Xi escaped into room 301, where humanoid fleshy growths covered the ceiling, then fled when tentacles descended toward him.
• Xu Xi explored rooms along the passage and deduced that their conditions might correspond to the occupancy and history of rooms in his building.
• Xu Xi turned toward the sixth floor and stopped before human skins stretched along both sides of the hallway and a silent door.

Xu Xi discovered that the landlord’s predecessors had become landlords by wearing earlier landlords’ skins, then escaped the building with a key from a red box. He drove away, but the chapter left unclear whether he had cleared the place, as a tall figure watched him go.

• Xu Xi read the jars’ inscriptions and learned that wearing a predecessor’s skin could make someone the landlord, and that the diary’s original owner had become the current landlord.
• Meat Mountain chased Xu Xi into the room, where a shriveled human skin attacked him; Meat Mountain reclaimed the skin, letting Xu Xi escape.
• Xu Xi found a key in a red box and ran through the building as Meat Mountain pursued him, discovering that most rooms would not open.
• Xu Xi unlocked the iron exit gate and escaped, then drove away in the rain while an unknown figure watched from beneath a streetlight.

Xu Xi discovered that an eyeball beneath the chair in Room 401 had drawn him into a dream connected to the diary’s original owner. After the eyeball from Room 202 attached itself to his axe, he reconsidered what it meant to leave the building and planned to borrow the landlord’s skin so he could reach the sixth floor.

• Xu Xi woke in Room 401, killed his knocking neighbor, and reasoned that his previous experience had been a dream triggered by something in the room.
• Xu Xi found a tiny eyeball embedded beneath his desk chair and suspected it had caused the dream.
• Xu Xi broke into Room 202, where countless eyeballs watched him, but they gathered into one large eye that attached itself to his axe.
• Xu Xi concluded that the old landlady had been the diary’s original owner and reconsidered whether the main door’s key was really on the sixth floor.
• Xu Xi decided to borrow a skin from the landlord so he could reach the sixth floor.

Xu Xi cleared the Taotie's Nest Dungeon by exploiting the building’s rules and binding the Landlord’s karma to Butcher, then entered and effortlessly cleared the Seeking Immortality Dungeon. His record rose to ten cleared Dungeons and a floor count of 999+, making him first in the global rankings.

• Xu Xi killed the eerie being outside Room 502, found an eyeball beneath a chair, and went upstairs to collect three Items from an apartment full of eyeballs.
• Xu Xi lured the Landlord out, sent it into Room 101, and made a deal with Butcher, obtaining human skin and using it to tie the Landlord’s karma to him.
• Butcher signed a property-and-debt transfer contract, triggering the Dungeon-clear signal and freeing Xu Xi from the building’s rules.
• Xu Xi rose to first place in the Huaguo and global rankings with nine Dungeons cleared and 866 floors, drawing worldwide attention.
• Huaguo announced a special holiday and arranged a nationwide broadcast as Xu Xi entered the Seeking Immortality Dungeon.
• Xu Xi cleared Seeking Immortality, bringing his record to ten Dungeons and 999+ floors as the world celebrated his achievement.

After clearing the God Hunt Game, Xu Xi wished for it to end and awoke in his original world, which had been transformed by a Weird Invasion. While the world celebrated his victory and memorialized him as its savior, Ji Yang wondered whether he would ever return.

• Xu Xi reached the final floor, wished for the God Hunt Game to end, and awoke in his former office with his Items still intact.
• Xu Xi found the office dark and heard footsteps, then armed himself with an axe when a pen fell nearby.
• Zhou Ling’s forces detected Xu Xi inside the restricted zone and ordered their troops to prepare for an unknown threat.
• Xu Xi emerged from the office building and faced searchlights and armed personnel, realizing he had returned to his original world after the invasion.
• In J Province, people honored Xu Xi at a statue and memorial after the God Hunt Game vanished and the world regained peace.
• Ji Yang left the memorial wondering if Xu Xi would return and thinking, “248, you have to make it through alive this time too.”