Chapter Summaries

Xu Kai awakened in a game world as a material belonging to Weird Duke and was ordered to identify his unknown talent. After repeated deaths sent him back to the same moment, he realized he could lie to Weird Duke about his game data.

• Xu Kai awoke bound in an abandoned hospital room and encountered a weird entity.
• Weird Duke explained that the Game Lord resurrected dead humans as materials to serve weirds, but Xu Kai could not remember how he had died.
• Weird Duke prepared Xu Kai for a regular customer and authenticated him as an Evil with an unknown cause of death and talent.
• Xu Kai accepted a task to verify his cause of death and talent, with game erasure as the penalty for failure, and underwent deep authentication.
• Xu Kai repeatedly returned to the same moment after dying, leading him to believe that his talent was Death Rewind.
• On his twenty-third rewind, Xu Kai realized Weird Duke could not see his data and that he could lie about his talent.

Xu Kai tricked Weird Duke into recognizing his fake Passive Warning talent and earned enough Source Weird Qi to become a Weird, but Weird Duke sold him to Stone Statue Weird as dungeon material. After dying repeatedly, Xu Kai learned what Stone Statue Weird planned to use him for and resolved to grow stronger, though his prospects were poor.

• Xu Kai pretended his Passive Warning talent was a low-grade support ability, completing Weird Duke's task and becoming a Weird.
• Stone Statue Weird arrived seeking cheap untrained material, and Weird Duke sold Xu Kai to him for five City Coins.
• Weird Duke and Stone Statue Weird argued over the trade before Stone Statue Weird's dungeon affiliation was assigned to Xu Kai.
• Xu Kai protested that he had not agreed to the sale, so Weird Duke paid ten City Coins and crushed him underfoot.
• After returning to the trade's completion for the twenty-fifth time, Xu Kai learned he would enter Stone Statue Weird's dungeon as assigned material and complete the boss's tasks.

Xu Kai entered Stone Statue Weird’s instance as a funeral car driver, tasked with transporting the deceased and family members while finding a way to kill or cripple the players. At the pickup, he met player Wang Hua, who mistreated her supposed relatives, and learned from Wang Bangzheng that she seemed to be possessed and wanted to kill him.

• Stone Statue Weird assigned Xu Kai the funeral driver role, and the game warned that failure meant death.
• Xu Kai inspected the funeral car and followed the map to collect Wang Bangzheng, Wang Hua, and the body of Wang Hua’s father.
• Wang Hua dismissed the instance as a game, insulted the deceased, and used her Gaze Binding talent to immobilize Wang Bangzheng before threatening him.
• Xu Kai arrived at the pickup, introduced himself to Wang Bangzheng, and helped load the body into the refrigerated compartment.
• Wang Bangzheng secretly asked Xu Kai to call the police, claiming Wang Hua had been possessed and wanted to kill him.

On his twenty-sixth Save-Load, Xu Kai remembered the hearse crash and Stone Statue Weird killing him, then tried to survive the deadly bend by fighting the red Weird Energy’s control. He got past the first bend, but a second bend appeared immediately afterward, and the vehicle still plunged off the cliff.

• Xu Kai drove the hearse with Wang Bangzheng and Wang Hua aboard, but red Weird Energy covered the windshield and the vehicle sped off a cliff; Stone Statue Weird crushed it after the crash and killed Xu Kai.
• Xu Kai awoke at his twenty-sixth Save-Load and stopped the hearse near the deadly bend, trying to understand why the Weird Energy appeared there.
• Wang Bangzheng warned Xu Kai that many people had died at the spot, then scattered and burned paper offerings along the road.
• Xu Kai drove into the bend as the red Weird Energy covered the windshield, and he used his own Weird Energy to wrest control of the steering wheel.
• Xu Kai steered around the first bend, but when he saw another bend ahead, he braked too late and the hearse went over the cliff.

On his twenty-seventh rewind, Xu Kai learned that Wang Hua was a player whose talent could immobilize people, and he stopped to prepare before repeatedly practicing the dangerous road until he could drive through its lethal turns. After surviving the route, he arrived at the crematorium, still wary of Wang Hua and the Stone Statue Weird waiting there.

• After Wang Hua attacked Xu Kai following a cliff crash, the Stone Statue Weird flattened the car and killed everyone in the valley.
• Xu Kai returned to the road on his twenty-seventh rewind and realized Wang Hua was a player whose stare could immobilize him, while his Weird Energy could resist her control.
• Xu Kai drove toward the deadly bend and used memories from repeated deaths to navigate its sharp turns and escape the Stone Statue Weird.
• Xu Kai told Wang Bangzheng and Wang Hua that he had driven the road many times, then continued toward the crematorium while recalling how he had learned to counter Wang Hua's attacks.
• Xu Kai stopped the car at the crematorium, where the road left him facing the Stone Statue Weird's home ground.

Xu Kai completed the escort task but was killed after the Crematorium’s main entrance became a temporary Killing Zone, then rolled back and used the designated corpse passage. After sleeping in a guest room, he rolled back again and realized the notebook-carrying evil had murdered him.

• Xu Kai and the relatives brought the coffin through the Crematorium’s main entrance, triggering a temporary Killing Zone where the Stone Statue Weird killed Wang Hua, the relatives, and Xu Kai.
• Xu Kai returned to the moment the portrait was accepted, spotted the Corpse Transport Passage, and led Wang Hua and the group through it safely.
• At the body storage room, Xu Kai recognized the man with the notebook as an evil and noticed him nearly break character when speaking with Wang Hua.
• Xu Kai refused Wang Hua’s request to keep vigil and went to sleep in a first-floor guest room overlooking the Crematorium.
• Xu Kai rolled back after being stabbed in his sleep and remembered that the murderer was the notebook-carrying evil.

After being killed by a dark figure, Xu Kai used his fiftieth rollback to learn how to control Weird Energy and uncover the Stone Statue Weird’s plans. He killed himself to trigger another rollback, leaving the bound attacker stunned as he promised they would meet again soon.

• A dark figure broke into Xu Kai’s room and killed him with a Weird Energy-coated blade.
• On his fiftieth rollback, Xu Kai remembered the attack and ambushed the dark figure, forcing him to reveal that the Stone Statue Weird had assigned him a task.
• The dark figure explained that he was ordered to oversee a funeral ceremony and seriously injure a player, and that the Stone Statue Weird killed hearse drivers who accepted their task rewards.
• Xu Kai learned to force Weird Energy outside his body and shape it into weapons and restraints.
• Xu Kai let the dark figure go, then used Weird Energy to cut his own throat and promised they would meet again soon.

Xu Kai killed the master of ceremonies and discovered that his Weird Energy could be used without being depleted unless he took damage. After Wang Bangzheng died and Wang Hua tried to make Xu Kai carry a coffin into the cremation workshop, a new task appeared that threatened him with erasure.

• Xu Kai trapped and killed the master of ceremonies, who revealed that he feared Xu Kai would bring the coffin into a future instance.
• Xu Kai found that using Weird Energy caused him pain but did not consume his 110 points unless he took damage, then hid the master's remains in a sealed bag.
• At dawn, Xu Kai found Wang Bangzheng dead near the mourning hall with Weird Energy from the Stone Statue Weird clinging to him.
• Wang Hua used her talent to stop Xu Kai, then asked him to carry her father's coffin into the cremation workshop.
• A game task ordered Xu Kai to enter the cremation workshop with Wang Hua and close its door within one day, with erasure as the penalty for failure.

Xu Kai manipulated Wang Hua into opening the coffin, allowing the Stone Statue Weird to kill her. He then bluffed that he had gathered enough Source Weird Qi to ascend, but the Stone Statue Weird saw through the lie and crushed him.

• Xu Kai pretended to fear Wang Hua's powers and persuaded her to open the coffin while he fled the Funeral Hall.
• Wang Hua's hand turned black after she touched the coffin, and a force dragged Xu Kai back inside.
• The Stone Statue Weird arrived and killed Wang Hua, then questioned Xu Kai about why he had hidden.
• Xu Kai claimed he had gathered three portions of Source Weird Qi and was about to ascend into a Weird.
• The Stone Statue Weird realized Xu Kai was bluffing and crushed him.

On his fifty-second Save-Load, Xu Kai realized the coffin was meant to be pushed into the Cremation Workshop without being opened. He tried to use Wang Hua’s entry and shut the door to escape his task, but Stone Statue Weird kept it ajar, and Xu Kai died with the task failed.

• Xu Kai recalled how Wang Hua died after lifting the coffin lid and concluded that Stone Statue Weird was killing both players and the task-bound Evil to protect his instance.
• Xu Kai found blocks beneath the coffin and realized it could be wheeled into the Cremation Workshop intact.
• Xu Kai secretly fitted wheels to the coffin, and Wang Hua pushed it toward the workshop while he followed her.
• Xu Kai entered the workshop behind Wang Hua, slipped back outside, and tried to shut the door.
• Stone Statue Weird’s Killing Zone killed Wang Hua, but Weird Energy held the door ajar, causing Xu Kai’s task to fail and killing him as Stone Statue Weird mocked him.

Xu Kai completed the cremation workshop mission by tricking Wang Hua into closing the door while he stayed outside, then survived the instance and refused Stone Statue Weird’s offer to return to the City. Stone Statue Weird and Weird Duke decided to target Xu Kai in a future instance, with Weird Duke lending three “Evils” to help kill him.

• Xu Kai persuaded Wang Hua to use her talent to weaken the force holding the crematorium door open, then shut it and received his mission rewards.
• Xu Kai tricked Wang Hua into entering the workshop alone, where Stone Statue Weird killed her after she exhausted her talent and could not escape.
• The game evaluated Xu Kai as having completed his missions and offered him the choice to return to the City, but he chose to remain in the instance.
• Stone Statue Weird invited Xu Kai to the City and threatened him after Xu Kai refused, but he left without attacking because he could not leave the Killing Zone.
• In the City, Stone Statue Weird showed Weird Duke a projection of Xu Kai’s actions, and Weird Duke lent him three “Evils” to help kill Xu Kai in a future instance.

After the crematorium instance ended, Xu Kai prepared to explore Maple Town and learn the terrain before the Stone Statue Weird’s next attack. A local angler told him about Zhang Dekai and the Wang family, and Xu Kai decided to investigate Zhang while observing how the game had reset the world.

• Xu Kai found the crematorium restored to its usual state, though the human remains in his dormitory had not been reset.
• Xu Kai took money and a map, then set out for Maple Town to scout for possible danger zones.
• Xu Kai encountered an angler whose van blocked the road and helped him move it.
• The angler told Xu Kai that loan shark Zhang Dekai had seized the Wang family’s home and shop after Wang Bangfang’s death.
• Xu Kai noticed that the High-Altitude Ghost Fragment and Flame Ghost Fragment reacted to the story and decided to investigate Zhang Dekai in Building Three.

Xu Kai confronted Zhang Dekai, learned how Zhang had left Wang Bangfang alive to be cremated, and tortured him to death while absorbing the High-Altitude and Flame Ghostly Aura Fragments. After exploring Maple Town, Xu Kai was summoned to a new instance at the crematorium, where he was assigned to drive a funeral vehicle and seek chances to harm players.

• Xu Kai tricked his way into Zhang Dekai's apartment and quickly knocked down the three armed men inside.
• Zhang Dekai revealed that the Game Lord had promised to turn him into Evil, and Xu Kai persuaded him to recount their deal.
• Xu Kai accepted the fragments' memories and discovered that Zhang Dekai had drugged Wang Bangfang and sent him to the crematorium while he was still alive.
• Xu Kai exposed the Game Lord as a fake and tortured Zhang Dekai to death, fulfilling the fragments' integration conditions.
• The High-Altitude and Flame Ghostly Aura Fragments fused, granting Xu Kai new falling and fire abilities; he then dealt with the two remaining armed men.
• After touring Maple Town, Xu Kai received a new instance assignment to drive a funeral vehicle and look for opportunities to kill or injure players.

Xu Kai picked up three players at Building 27, where they found a body and coffin for their crematorium mission. After the players insisted on driving the hearse, JK took the wheel, while Xu Kai rode in back and the short-haired girl revealed that her talent had warned them not to let him drive.

• Xu Kai returned to the crematorium, reviewed his mission, and drove to Building 27 on Longleaf Street to collect three players.
• The yellow-haired boy, the short-haired girl, and JK arrived at Building 27, compared their missions, and put a body into a nearby coffin.
• Xu Kai arrived, confirmed the three players were his passengers, and helped them load the coffin into the hearse.
• The short-haired girl offered Xu Kai money so the players could drive, and he agreed to sit in the back.
• The short-haired girl used one of her talent's suggestions to tell JK to drive, then revealed that his talent was Gui Resistance.

Xu Kai and the other players survived a head-on collision only to be attacked by two Evils in the valley. As Xu Kai fought the burly Evil, the Stone Statue Weird ambushed him, and everyone from the car was killed.

• JK drove through the cliff bend despite the illusion, but a semi-truck driven by an Evil crashed into the hearse and sent it tumbling into the valley.
• Xu Kai, the short-haired woman, JK, and the blond man escaped the wreck, while JK died from his injuries and the game announced Xu Kai’s mission was complete.
• Two armed Evils emerged from the truck and opened fire, so the short-haired woman and the blond man took cover beneath the wreck.
• The blond man stole the Evils’ guns and a knife, but the burly Evil survived being shot and attacked the short-haired woman before Xu Kai intervened.
• Xu Kai fought the burly Evil while the skinny Evil killed the blond man, and the short-haired woman struggled against the skinny one.
• The Stone Statue Weird ambushed Xu Kai and pierced his heart; Xu Kai and the burly Evil crumbled to dust, and the Stone Statue Weird killed the short-haired woman and the remaining players.

On his fifty-fourth and fifty-fifth rollbacks, Xu Kai tested the limits of his hearse-driver role while trying to survive the statue Weird’s attacks on the players. After the hearse was wrecked at the bend, the players mistook Xu Kai for a victim and set off with him, leaving him without anyone he could contact in Maple Town.

• Xu Kai used a roadside paper-burning ritual to let the players continue toward the bend, but a role-playing task warned him that moving too far from the hearse and players meant erasure, and he died.
• On his next rollback, Xu Kai ran ahead of the hearse and climbed the mountainside as a semi-trailer truck crashed into the vehicle and went over the cliff.
• The short-haired woman suspected Xu Kai was a Weird, but he let himself fall from the mountain to appear human and injured.
• The short-haired woman bandaged Xu Kai and argued that the group needed him to arrange transportation for the coffin.
• Xu Kai pretended to remain unconscious while worrying that he had no contacts in Maple Town.

Xu Kai tried to hide what he knew from the Short-Haired Woman, but a convoy of hostile vehicles attacked the group on the mountain. After fighting off two armed Evil, Xu Kai watched them ignite the lead vehicle, triggering a chain explosion that engulfed the mountain.

• Xu Kai pretended to be unconscious until the Short-Haired Woman questioned him, then gave a rambling account and scratched his scalp as if possessed.
• The Short-Haired Woman searched Xu Kai, found Zhang Dekai's phone, and realized the strange calls signaled that the Evil were approaching.
• A pickup truck smashed into the Funeral Car, and the Short-Haired Woman led Yellow Hair and JK up the mountainside as two Evil climbed after them.
• A convoy crashed into the players, killing JK, while the two Evil shot the Short-Haired Woman and Yellow Hair and sent them falling from the mountain.
• Xu Kai used the Flame Skill and Falling Skill to knock the two Evil off the cliff, but they ignited the lead vehicle, setting off a massive explosion that killed him.

Xu Kai used his knowledge from earlier rollbacks to kill the two “evils” and stop their explosive attack, then traveled with the players toward the crematorium. The group reached Feng Town Crematorium as Xu Kai resolved to survive and become a Weird, no matter how many people he had to kill.

• Xu Kai let the short-haired woman use his phone, then hid away from the hearse when he sensed the two “evils” approaching in a pickup truck.
• Xu Kai knocked down the burly “evil,” shot him dead, and used a black stone and his skill to ignite the explosive-filled cars before they could reach the group.
• The explosion killed the skinny “evil” as well, while the short-haired woman realized Xu Kai had saved them and invited him to travel with the players.
• The players loaded the coffin onto the damaged pickup, and Xu Kai reflected on the many people he had killed and his determination to survive and become a Weird.
• After driving for an hour, the group arrived at Feng Town Crematorium.

On the fifty-seventh rollback, Xu Kai realized that escaping the Stone Statue Weird was impossible, so he used repeated attempts to discover how to stop the coffin’s square-headed evil from awakening. After pinning it down on the seventieth rollback and reaching the crematorium, he received another task from the Stone Statue Weird to join the vigil and prevent theft.

• The Stone Statue Weird trapped Xu Kai and the players at the crematorium, killing them all despite their attempts to dodge his attacks.
• On the fifty-seventh rollback, Xu Kai stopped the vehicle before the crematorium and tried to nail the coffin shut, but the square-headed evil emerged and the Stone Statue Weird killed everyone again.
• Across repeated rollbacks, Xu Kai tested different places to drive a nail into the coffin until he pinned the square-headed evil and disabled the coffin’s mechanisms on the seventieth attempt.
• Xu Kai and the players reached the crematorium, where the master of ceremonies explained the vigil and funeral arrangements.
• The Stone Statue Weird assigned Xu Kai a new task to join the vigil and prevent outsiders from stealing crematorium property, warning him not to run.

Xu Kai survived the Stone Statue Weird’s attack by preventing the players from eating the drugged tofu rice, then relied on JK’s talent to protect the vigil candle. The Stone Statue Weird remained nearby as the long night continued.

• After Xu Kai was crushed to death, he rolled back and realized the Stone Statue Weird had waited for JK to fall asleep because JK’s talent resisted its illusions.
• Xu Kai spilled the tofu rice before anyone could eat it, and Yellow Hair’s unnatural hunger soon disappeared.
• When the Stone Statue Weird covered everyone’s eyes and sent a fierce wind into the mourning hall, JK shielded the vigil candle and kept it burning.
• The abnormal presence vanished after the wind passed, but Xu Kai sensed the Stone Statue Weird was still watching them at eleven o’clock.