Chapter Summaries

Shen Hao gained Fear Points as the puppets killed Zhao Yuqing, Cheng Xu, Jiang Yue, and Zhang Zhiqiang, reaching level 8 after Zhang Zhiqiang awoke and died. With the mission complete and the instance set to close in five minutes, Shen Hao prepared to leave and awaited his rewards.

• After Zhao Yuqing's death, Cheng Xu charged a puppet with the Demon Blade, but it cut off his arm and then killed him, earning Shen Hao 500 Fear Points.
• Jiang Yue despaired after witnessing her companions' deaths and stabbed herself with the Demon Blade, earning Shen Hao 600 Fear Points.
• Shen Hao found Zhang Zhiqiang in the room, where he had just awakened, and realized his death could provide enough Fear Points to level up.
• Zhang Zhiqiang saw the dead companions and surrounding puppets, charged at them, and was cut in two by a chainsaw puppet; Shen Hao gained 500 Fear Points and reached level 8.
• The system announced that the mission was complete and the instance would close in five minutes, so Shen Hao prepared to leave.

After clearing an instance, Shen Hao gained Possession, a Demon Blade, and a doll he named Xiaobai, then joined the Player Alliance Guild. He chose a records job in Internal Affairs over Xia Bing’s Field Operations team and asked her to explain who he had killed on the bus.

• Shen Hao checked his rewards, gained Possession, and inspected the Demon Blade and Avenger’s Doll from his inventory.
• Shen Hao named the doll Xiaobai, stored her away, and began matching for another instance.
• Xia Bing called Shen Hao to report to the Alliance Guild, where he filled out his membership form.
• Xia Bing offered Shen Hao a place in Field Operations Team Three, but Shen Hao chose Internal Affairs instead.
• The Internal Affairs Department assigned Shen Hao to manage archives, and he asked Xia Bing who the person he had killed on the bus had been.

Xia Bing told Shen Hao that the Blood Banquet planned to sacrifice him and recruited him as bait while the Alliance Guild prepared to strike. As Shen Hao got ready for his third instance, the A-rank Water-Sky Amusement Park, Xia Bing secured him a Substitute Doll to give him an extra life.

• Xia Bing explained that Hong Tao belonged to the Blood Banquet and that the guild would target Shen Hao because he had killed him.
• Xia Bing said the Blood Banquet planned to sacrifice Shen Hao, and she would withdraw his guards so the enemy would be more likely to attack.
• Shen Hao agreed to act as bait, while Xia Bing told him to report anything unusual and temporarily stay away from work.
• Three days later, Shen Hao received the A-rank Water-Sky Amusement Park instance, whose rules and guides had changed and left players without a reliable guide.
• Xia Bing arranged a valuable Substitute Doll for Shen Hao and asked him to come collect it before entering the instance.

Shen Hao received the Substitute Doll from Xia Bing and learned how it could revive him, then heard her explain the seven Ability User systems before entering the Water-Sky Amusement Park dungeon that night. Xia Bing arranged for two people to watch over Shen Hao at home in case he returned severely injured.

• Shen Hao received the Substitute Doll from Xia Bing and stored it in his inventory.
• Xia Bing warned Shen Hao that Water-Sky Amusement Park was an A-rank dungeon with no available guide, though another player had cleared it.
• Xia Bing explained the abilities of the seven systems and demonstrated her Defense Type powers by lifting Shen Hao into the air.
• Shen Hao told Xia Bing he expected to face Blood Banquet members eventually, and she promised her people would remain nearby to help him.
• Xia Bing arranged for two people to go to Shen Hao's home that evening in case he returned from the dungeon injured.
• Shen Hao returned home and entered the game dungeon at ten that night.

Shen Hao became the weak director of Water Sky Paradise and learned that another entity was taking over half the amusement park, so he had to hunt visitors before it grew stronger. Six players entered the park, where a confident bald man offered to guide them through the instance in exchange for help completing a hidden mission.

• Shen Hao inherited the director’s role and added a rule forbidding visitors from damaging his personal property.
• Shen Hao discovered that a shadowed area of the park resisted his control and learned that the other entity could take power from him by killing visitors.
• Six players entered the park and read the many rules posted at the entrance.
• A bald man promised to guide the group through the A-rank instance in thirty minutes, and they followed him toward the roller coaster.
• The players read the roller coaster rules, and the bald man revealed that he wanted their help completing a hidden mission.

A group of visitors rode the roller coaster through the amusement park’s first stage, where the bald man was crushed by a rule after striking a chainsaw-wielding doll. Shen Hao gained Fear Points from the deaths and the survivors’ fright, while the group got off without a guide and prepared to rely on themselves.

• The bald man led the visitors onto the roller coaster, and they forced smiles while watching gruesome scenes of people dying.
• A chainsaw-wielding girl appeared on the track, and the bald man used his demon ability to knock her away, only to discover she was a doll.
• The park announced that a visitor had broken a rule, and the bald man was crushed to pieces despite trying to resist.
• The survivors realized the bald man had likely violated a rule by damaging the doll, while Shen Hao gained 850 Fear Points from their fear.
• After leaving the ride, the visitors discussed the dead man’s connection to the Blood Moon Guild and agreed they would have to clear the next stages without a guide.

The five travelers chose the middle road and reached an artificial lake, where they rowed across while water ghosts dragged their boats. Sun Jingyu and Zhao Guodong drove the ghosts away, but a mass of unmanned boats drifted toward them, threatening the no-collision rule.

• At a crossroads, Sun Jingyu reasoned that two opposing forces had posted truthful but incomplete warnings, and the group took the middle road.
• The five reached an artificial lake and split among three boats, following the visitor notice that required two people per boat and a fifteen-minute ride.
• Water ghosts gathered beneath the boats and dragged them backward as the group tried to row to shore.
• Sun Jingyu and Zhao Guodong used their Defense Type abilities to scatter the water ghosts, allowing the group to row onward.
• A group of unmanned boats drifted toward them, making it difficult to obey the rule against colliding with other boats.

During the rowing stage, Chen Yan fell into the lake after her boat broke apart and was killed by the amusement park’s rules. The four survivors reached the final stretch, but Water Ghosts began rowing abandoned boats after them, and Wang Ruoxi announced she had an idea.

• Sun Jingyu told everyone to switch boats to avoid collisions, but Chen Yan’s new boat broke apart and she fell into the water.
• Wang Ruoxi refused to pull Chen Yan from the lake after the rules declared her violations, and Chen Yan was crushed into blood by the park’s power.
• The Water Ghosts swarmed the boats, and Sun Jingyu and Zhao Guodong drove them away while the survivors rowed toward the finish.
• The Water Ghosts climbed into the abandoned boats and rowed after the group, closing in as the survivors neared the finish line.
• Wang Ruoxi announced that she had an idea.

Wang Ruoxi used a one-use black flag to save her group from the pursuing boats, and Shen Hao gained more Fear Points by killing players. The group entered a maze where the paths seemed to shift, and they ended up face-to-face with a smiling little girl.

• Wang Ruoxi destroyed the pursuing boats with a black flag that shielded her group from the amusement park's rules.
• Shen Hao watched the survivors leave and concluded that killing players increased his power and could complete the hidden mission.
• Liu Shuai, Sun Jingyu, Zhao Guodong, and Wang Ruoxi chose the middle path after debating which route to take.
• The group repeatedly followed forks and retraced their steps, but the changing maze prevented them from finding the way out.
• The trapped group encountered a smiling girl who appeared to be seven or eight years old.

A doll girl led Liu Shuai, Wang Ruoxi, Sun Jingyu, and Zhao Guodong out of the maze and to the amusement park’s haunted house. They entered the attraction and read its rules, with Sun Jingyu warning them to obey them no matter what happened.

• The group followed the doll girl through the maze, hoping she would lead them somewhere useful.
• After more than ten minutes, the doll girl disappeared and the group emerged from the maze.
• The group followed the only path to a haunted house and realized the doll girl had led them to another dangerous attraction.
• They read the haunted house’s visitor rules, which required them to scream, keep their eyes open, and finish the tour through the back door.
• Liu Shuai opened the door and the group entered, then Sun Jingyu warned them not to break any rules, even if they believed they were about to die.

Sun Jingyu, Wang Ruoxi, Zhao Guodong, and Liu Shuai navigated a haunted house where wax figures moved whenever no one watched them. After escaping into a red-lit room filled with mist, they found the floor moving beneath them and were forced along with it.

• Wang Ruoxi sensed danger from the wax figures, and Zhao Guodong noticed one had shifted position.
• The group tested the figures and discovered they moved whenever they were out of sight.
• Sun Jingyu organized the group to watch the figures while backing toward the door, allowing them to reach the next room safely.
• The four entered a room filled with red light and thickening mist, then heard the wax figures pounding on the door behind them.
• As the group moved through the mist, the floor suddenly shifted in different directions and carried them along.

After the group was separated in a maze, Wang Ruoxi encountered the doll girl and tried to escape when it attacked her. She accidentally kicked the doll apart, violated the amusement park’s rules, and was erased as a strange power entered her body.

• The shifting ground separated Wang Ruoxi from her companions, leaving her alone in a blood-red mist and maze.
• Wang Ruoxi met the doll girl, who pursued her with a spiked club and then a chainsaw.
• Cornered in a dead end, Wang Ruoxi kicked the chainsaw aside and sent the doll girl stumbling into the wall, where it shattered.
• Wang Ruoxi realized she had violated the amusement park’s taboo, and a voice announced that erasure was imminent.
• Wang Ruoxi screamed in terror as a power entered her body and her will collapsed.

Liu Shuai planned to sacrifice his companions to advance the Blood Moon Guild’s hidden quest, but he discovered they were controlled impostors and fled after they stabbed him. He accidentally broke the Puppet Girl while escaping, leaving him terrified of the amusement park’s punishment.

• Liu Shuai decided to hunt down Wang Ruoxi, Zhao Guodong, and Sun Jingyu as sacrifices for the Blood Moon Goddess’s descent.
• Liu Shuai found Wang Ruoxi and stabbed her from behind, but Zhao Guodong and Sun Jingyu stabbed him in turn.
• Liu Shuai realized the three companions were fakes controlled by something, drank a healing potion, and fled while bleeding.
• The Puppet Girl blocked Liu Shuai’s path and swung her hammer at him.
• Liu Shuai grabbed the hammer and pulled the Puppet Girl down, shattering her body into pieces.
• Liu Shuai feared the amusement park would punish him for damaging its property and protested that the Puppet Girl had framed him.

Shen Hao killed the last player, Liu Shuai, and chose to pursue the hidden mission to eliminate the invader and take full control of the amusement park. Sun Jingyu resurrected with the Soul-Returning Incense and continued his mission to keep a dangerous object from evil organizations.

• Liu Shuai shouted in defiance, broke the no-loud-noises rule, and was crushed to death, giving Shen Hao 600 Fear Points.
• Shen Hao praised Xiaobai for helping kill five players, checked his level and attributes, and chose to continue the hidden mission.
• The system updated Shen Hao’s objective to kill the invader and reclaim full control of the amusement park.
• Shen Hao received notice that a player had resurrected and went to pursue the hidden mission.
• Sun Jingyu used the Soul-Returning Incense to resurrect at a chosen point in the instance, intending to secure the dangerous object for the Player Alliance Guild.

Sun Jingyu entered the amusement park restaurant to find its hidden boss and faced a choice between drinking a bowl of supposed rabbit blood or defying the chef. After he spilled the blood, the restaurant’s diners and staff appeared, revealing that the diners were monsters eating their own kind, and Sun Jingyu spotted the chef.

• Sun Jingyu entered the restaurant, read its rules, and realized he had to eat a dish before he could meet the chef.
• Sun Jingyu ordered frozen rabbit blood, then found warnings carved into the table that the restaurant did not sell rabbit blood and questioned whether eating human food would make him no longer human.
• When a bowl of scarlet liquid arrived, Sun Jingyu refused to drink it and flung it onto the floor.
• The restaurant grew cold as blurry figures appeared and became diners and staff, revealing customers who ravenously ate food made from their own kind.
• Sun Jingyu saw the restaurant’s chef, the hidden boss.

Sun Jingyu fought and killed the One-Eyed Chef to complete a hidden quest and obtained the Demon Eye. As he prepared to leave the dungeon, he discovered the terrifying doll girl watching him.

• The One-Eyed Chef attacked Sun Jingyu after he refused the chef’s food, while Sun Jingyu used mental energy and flying swords to hold off the chef and the restaurant’s furious staff and diners.
• Sun Jingyu pierced the One-Eyed Chef’s chest, but the chef transformed his arms into tentacles and bound him.
• Sun Jingyu made a flying sword explode, freeing himself and cutting off the chef’s tentacles, then killed the One-Eyed Chef with another explosive sword strike.
• Sun Jingyu gouged out the Demon Eye and received a system notification telling him to leave the dungeon.
• Sun Jingyu noticed the doll girl watching him and realized he might not be able to escape her.

Sun Jingyu reached the amusement park exit but found its locked gates blocked his escape. He tricked the doll girl into trading the Demon Eye for the key, then used his ability to seize both items and rushed to unlock the gates.

• Sun Jingyu reached the amusement park gates and realized he needed a key to escape.
• The doll girl approached with the key and demanded the Demon Eye in exchange.
• Sun Jingyu agreed to trade the Demon Eye for the key and arranged for them to place their items on the ground.
• Sun Jingyu used his control ability to pull both the Demon Eye and the key into his hands.
• Sun Jingyu rushed toward the gates with the key to unlock them.

Shen Hao killed Sun Jingyu after the broken key left him trapped in the amusement park, then returned from the instance with the Demon Eye and a chance to earn money by writing a guide. Despite Xia Bing’s warning about Blood Banquet, Shen Hao immediately queued for another instance and stayed up to write the guide.

• Sun Jingyu’s key snapped in the gate, and the amusement park system erased him as the doll girl approached.
• Shen Hao revealed himself after Sun Jingyu died, gained 600 Fear Points, and collected the Demon Eye.
• Shen Hao returned home and found Xia Bing waiting; she let him keep the Substitute Doll and offered him up to 5 million yuan for a successful instance guide.
• Xia Bing warned Shen Hao to avoid more instances because Blood Banquet might target him, but he immediately queued for another one.
• Shen Hao checked his character panel, saw that he was 300 experience points short of level 10, and began writing the guide late into the night.

After the Alliance Guild approved Shen Hao’s Water Sky Paradise guide, Xia Bing warned him that Blood Banquet had lured away the Guild’s main forces and was coming for him. Shen Hao discovered that he and several students were trapped in a strange version of the school, unable to leave through the gates.

• Shen Hao learned that his guide had received the Alliance Guild’s highest rating and would be prioritized for recommendations.
• Xia Bing warned Shen Hao that Blood Banquet had deceived the Guild’s informant and that Jiang Zhennan was coming for him while the main forces were away.
• Shen Hao learned that Xia Bing and the others would need two hours to return, so he decided to leave school and evade Blood Banquet on his own.
• Shen Hao noticed that the school grounds were strangely empty and that the starry sky had disappeared, realizing he had already been targeted.
• A male student and a female student found that they could not leave through the school gate, and the trapped students panicked as Shen Hao realized Blood Banquet had involved them too.

Shen Hao deliberately frightened a group of students trapped with him, farming Fear Points while pretending they faced a cruel organization of Ability Users. After one student rallied the others to resist, a chainsaw-wielding little girl appeared and sent everyone fleeing.

• A boy with glasses guessed they had entered a beginner Thriller Paradise instance, but Shen Hao convinced the students that an evil organization had trapped them instead.
• Shen Hao described the organization’s cruelty and used the students’ fear to gain Fear Points from the game system.
• A girl tried to escape through the school gates but was teleported back, and Shen Hao frightened her further for more Fear Points.
• Shen Hao deepened the group’s despair until a boy declared that he would not accept his fate and briefly inspired the others.
• A little girl in a white dress appeared holding a buzzing chainsaw, and the students screamed and scattered.