Chapter Summaries

After learning about the secluded Caster family, Xie Qi waited in the kitchen for the wealthy businessman, intending to kill him himself. He found the businessman already dead and suspected a skilled rival had stolen his prey.

• Annie explained that the Caster family had secluded itself because of a hereditary disease, and Bailey and the others discussed the family's history.
• Sofina spoke up about Mrs. Caster's youthful appearance, prompting Phil to scold her and leave the gathering.
• The guests abandoned their discussion and returned to their rooms as darkness fell over the island.
• Xie Qi waited in the kitchen for the wealthy businessman but decided to head back to his room when the man did not appear.
• Xie Qi heard a noise outside the businessman's room, unlocked the door, and found him dead with his throat cut.
• Xie Qi examined the body and resolved to find the person who had stolen his prey.

Xie Qi disposed of the businessman’s body and left a taunting note in the bloodied room. The next morning, the guests discovered the scene, and their reactions suggested they shared a troubling history as they wondered why Sofina had not appeared.

• Xie Qi moved the businessman’s body in a body bag, cleaned the kitchen, and left a note reading, “It’s your turn ~ ❤”.
• Xie Qi decided to use the guests’ apparent prior acquaintance with one another to make the next day’s game more interesting.
• Bailey found blood in the businessman’s room and alerted the other guests.
• Officer Saul investigated the room and found the note, which Brussels, Phil, Annie, and Song Nan read in turn.
• Saul asked where Sofina was, and Brussels said he had let her sleep longer because she was tired.
• Phil mocked Brussels for thinking about Sofina at a time like this.

Saul questioned Xie Qi about Stock’s disappearance, but Xie denied seeing him and revealed that the villa’s servants had been standing nearby all along. He announced a role-playing game called Ten-Person Sea Survival Journey and promised the winner information about Stock.

• Saul questioned Xie Qi about Stock after Bailey found blood in Stock’s room.
• Xie Qi denied seeing Stock the previous night, despite Bailey accusing him of summoning Stock to the kitchen.
• Xie Qi revealed the servants behind the guests and said they had been there from the beginning.
• Brussels objected to playing a game while Stock was missing, and Xie Qi offered to tell the winner where Stock had gone.
• Xie Qi introduced the game as Ten-Person Sea Survival Journey.

Xie Qi made the survivors relive their shipwreck in a game where they had to survive at sea for fifteen days. After choosing supplies and hearing the rules, the guests began the game.

• Xie Qi introduced a shipwreck survival scenario and said he would play the missing guest, while his wife and daughter would also be characters.
• Song Nan and the other guests chose supplies, including survival kits, weapons, and Brussels's condom, which he said could hold water.
• Saul took the handgun after Phil agreed to switch to a dagger.
• Xie Qi explained that the guests would take one action per day and compete to have the most health after fifteen days.
• Xie Qi announced the start of the game, and the guests were plunged back into the hardships of surviving at sea.

After escaping the shipwreck, the survivors rationed supplies and struggled to find food while Xie Qi narrated their daily actions and losses. On the eighth day, he warned that their drinking water was nearly gone, and Brussels angrily tried to grab him.

• Xie Qi played a girl asking Stock for food, and Saul encouraged the survivors to eat and rest while they awaited rescue.
• Song Nan began studying the nautical chart to find their bearings, while Brussels, Saul, and Phil agreed to take turns fishing.
• Phil caught fish on the second day, but Brussels gave one to Stock for his wife and daughter, and Saul divided another among the women.
• Over the next five days, the group failed to catch more fish, and their HP fell as heat and stress debuffs worsened their condition.
• Xie Qi warned that their water would run out on the eighth day, and Brussels stood up and tried to grab him.

Xie Qi kept the villa’s role-playing game under control while the stranded group struggled to find water and food. On the twelfth day, as hunger drove them to eye Stock’s weakened wife and daughter, someone suggested there was another easy catch.

• Xie Qi threatened Brussels with a kitchen knife for breaking character, and the frightened players resumed the game.
• Viewers discussed Xie Qi’s apparent sleight of hand and flocked to play the Texas Hold’em game that had appeared in the forum.
• Brussels offered condoms as containers for a seawater distillation plan, while Annie and the others searched for their own ways to collect water.
• The group went days without catching fish, and Stock suffered a shark attack that left him ill and treating his wife and daughter cruelly.
• By the twelfth day, the starving players eyed Stock’s near-death wife and daughter, but a languid voice asked what else they could easily catch.

Phil disrupted the villa guests’ survival game by accusing them of considering cannibalism, but Xie Qi kept the game going. Brussels won, and Xie Qi promised to take someone to see Stock that night, insisting the guests go one at a time.

• Phil accused the others of hiding their plans to eat people and pointed out the girl as that day’s food.
• Saul pulled a pistol on Phil, but Xie Qi’s comment about mutton reminded everyone to keep playing their roles.
• Brussels challenged Xie Qi over his interest in mutton, then recoiled when Xie Qi eagerly accepted his offer.
• The guests continued the game without further trouble, and Brussels won after everyone survived to day fifteen.
• Xie Qi said he would take someone to see Stock that night and told the guests they would go one at a time.

The group debated Stock’s disappearance and agreed to follow the head chef when he came for Brussels, while remaining trapped inside the villa. During her turn on guard, Song Nan heard footsteps that should have been muffled by the corridor carpet, then noticed the uncovered floor outside her door and began knocking on everyone’s doors.

• Bailey urged the group to search the villa, but Song Nan argued they should first determine whether Stock was dead and why his body had been removed.
• Bailey and Saul confirmed that the villa’s front door was locked, and the group agreed to follow the head chef when he came for Brussels.
• The group set up hourly watches and told Brussels to call for help if the head chef threatened him.
• At ten o’clock, Song Nan heard steady footsteps pause outside her door, then heard a lock click as two people came out of Brussels’s room.
• Song Nan realized the carpet should have muffled the footsteps, inspected the uncovered floor outside her door, and began knocking on the others’ doors.

Bailey, Song Nan, and their companions searched the villa for the chef and Brussels, while Saul, Phil, and Annie entered the kitchen looking for food. Saul pulled a sheep’s intestine from the ceiling, and Annie identified it as the group began uncovering the kitchen’s disturbing contents.

• Song Nan told the others she had heard someone on the stairs, and they decided to search downstairs together.
• Bailey, Song Nan, and Sofina went to check behind the stairs while Phil, Annie, and Saul searched the kitchen.
• Saul heard no one inside the kitchen and pushed open the door, overlooking a sign made from bones beside his head.
• Saul, Phil, and Annie found no food among the clean kitchen counters and utensils.
• Saul felt something dangling from the ceiling, tugged it down, and Annie identified it as a sheep’s intestine.

Saul, Annie, and Phil found a sheep’s large intestine in the kitchen, while Bailey, Song Nan, and Sofina discovered a locked exterior door. The groups reunited with the maid Lina and then encountered Sai Basi, who warned them not to be disobedient guests.

• Saul, Phil, and Annie found a cleaned sheep’s large intestine hanging in the kitchen and searched the room for more clues.
• Bailey, Song Nan, and Sofina found a hidden door behind the storage room, but Bailey discovered it was locked from the outside.
• Lina caught Bailey, Song Nan, and Sofina near the door and offered to guide them to the bathroom.
• Annie told Lina about the intestine in the kitchen, and Lina trembled at the news.
• Sai Basi appeared, asked what the six guests were doing, and warned them that the master disliked disobedient guests.

Xie Qi led Brussels out of the villa at night, claiming he would take him to find the missing guest, Stock. He brought Brussels to the cold industrial building on the farm and welcomed him to the Caster family farm.

• Xie Qi listened at Song Nan’s door, unaware that she was also listening from inside.
• Xie Qi unlocked Brussels’s room and invited him to come find the disappeared Stock.
• Brussels followed Xie Qi through a back door and onto the path outside the villa.
• Xie Qi led Brussels to the industrial building and introduced it as the Caster family farm.

Xie Qi lured Brussels into a prison-like farm and revealed Stock’s severed head, then attacked him with a knife. Xie Qi threatened that Sofina would soon join Brussels.

• Xie Qi led Brussels into the farm, where strange noises came from the locked rooms.
• Xie Qi opened a room and showed Brussels Stock’s severed head.
• Brussels threw the kerosene lamp at Xie Qi as the chef attacked him with a long knife.
• Xie Qi taunted Brussels about caring for Sofina and said she would join him soon.

Xie Qi confronted Brussels about the guests eating sheep on the ship, and Brussels confessed while trying to bargain for his life. When Brussels attacked him, Xie Qi cut off his arm and told him to learn to be a polite guest.

• Brussels tried to escape Xie Qi, but found the farm's main hall door locked and pleaded to be spared.
• Xie Qi questioned Brussels about the sheep, and Brussels admitted the survivors had eaten a mother and daughter aboard the ship.
• Brussels blamed Sofina and the other survivors, then tried to persuade Xie Qi to let him join the farm.
• Brussels secretly attacked Xie Qi while pretending to pledge loyalty, but Xie Qi dodged and cut off his arm.
• Xie Qi told Brussels that he should first learn to be a polite guest.

Xie Qi disposed of the dying Brussels and assured Sai Basi that the ritual preparations would be completed on schedule. With five days left until the ritual and two guests already dead, the other prisoners remained unaware of the danger hidden in the villa.

• Brussels begged Xie Qi for help, but Xie Qi worried only about the blood staining his clothes.
• Xie Qi carried Brussels’s body to the villa’s back door, locked it, and encountered Sai Basi.
• Sai Basi warned Xie Qi not to let rats follow him and reminded him to prepare the materials for the master’s ritual in five days.
• Xie Qi recalled that two guests had died and that the instance’s difficulty had risen from F-rank to E-rank because of his Magic Mark.
• Xie Qi told Sai Basi that the master’s orders were his reason for living and promised the preparations would go smoothly.

Xie Qi prepared for another day at the villa and inspected a flawed combat skill card in the system shop. The next morning, the guests confronted him over Brussels's disappearance, and he suggested that one of them was lying.

• Xie Qi put the cleaned intestine in a cupboard and finished preparing ingredients for the next day.
• Xie Qi found the red E-rank skill card I'm Invincible When I'm Crazy in the shop, but dismissed it because it cost 2,500 points and had dangerous restrictions.
• Xie Qi went to bed early but woke to persistent knocking at his door.
• Saul and the other guests confronted Xie Qi after they could not find Brussels and accused him of knowing about the disappearances.
• Xie Qi denied their accusation and suggested that someone among the guests had not been telling the truth.

Xie Qi proposed a question-and-answer game with the villa guests, offering the keys on his belt as the reward if they won. After the game began, he confirmed that Stock and Brussels were no longer in this world.

• Xie Qi rejected the guests’ accusations and proposed a game in which they could ask him questions.
• Phil agreed to play and asked for all the keys on Xie Qi’s belt as the reward, which Xie Qi accepted.
• The six guests sat down to play, and Xie Qi said they would take turns asking questions without discussing them beforehand.
• Xie Qi asked the guests his name, and Annie correctly answered Kanibari.
• Sofina asked whether Stock and Brussels were still alive, and Xie Qi said they were no longer in this world.

Xie Qi continued the question game with the six guests, asking what he did at the villa and accepting Saul’s answer that he cooked. Bailey realized Xie Qi controlled whether his own questions were answered correctly, and after Bailey challenged the game as unfair, Xie Qi agreed to ask about the guests instead and began the next round.

• Saul and Bailey reacted to learning that Brussels was dead, while Phil and Sofina argued over Sofina’s past and Song Nan stopped them.
• Song Nan gave Xie Qi his turn to ask a question, and he asked what he did at the villa.
• Saul answered that Xie Qi cooked, and Xie Qi rang a bell to confirm the answer was correct.
• Bailey pointed out that Xie Qi could decide whether they answered his questions correctly, making the game unfair, and the other guests joined in criticizing him.
• Xie Qi accepted Bailey’s criticism and said he would ask about the guests instead before starting the next question.

Xie Qi admitted that he had killed Brussels and concealed Stock’s body, then questioned the guests about whether they had killed anyone with their own hands. Annie asked whether the kitchen’s hanging decoration was sheep intestines, and Xie Qi ended by asking when he had started lying.

• Xie Qi said someone else had killed Stock, whose body he had hidden, but admitted that he had killed Brussels.
• Xie Qi asked whether the guests had ever killed someone with their own hands; Sofina, Annie, and Bailey denied it, while Song Nan, Phil, and Saul admitted it.
• Annie asked Xie Qi whether the objects hanging in the kitchen were sheep intestines.
• Xie Qi claimed the objects were decorations that he had asked Nikalos to hang, without directly answering Annie’s question.
• Xie Qi asked the guests, “When did I start lying?”

The guests concluded that Xie Qi had never lied, then asked why he had killed the visitors. He explained that he had killed Brussels while defending himself after bringing him to see Stock’s head, but the guests remained wary as he posed another question.

• Bailey questioned whether Xie Qi had lied, and the guests debated whether his earlier statements about the deaths were true.
• Phil argued that Xie Qi either had lied from the beginning or had never lied at all, and Annie completed his reasoning.
• The guests decided Xie Qi had never lied, and he confirmed their answer while joking that his relationship with Phil had improved.
• Song Nan asked why Xie Qi had killed the guests and whether Mrs. Caster had ordered him to do it.
• Xie Qi said he had killed Brussels while defending himself after inviting him to see Stock’s head, leaving the guests suspicious of him.
• Xie Qi asked whether the guests had ever eaten mutton.

Xie Qi made the six guests admit that they had eaten mutton, then revealed that he had eaten it too despite having no sense of taste. He moved on to the final question and asked Song Nan whether she had murdered Stock.

• Phil and Song Nan warned the others that lying about eating mutton could cost them the key, so all six guests admitted they had eaten it.
• Bailey asked whether Xie Qi had eaten mutton, and Xie Qi said he had, though he could not taste it.
• Xie Qi assured the guests that he would honor the rules and give them the key if they won.
• Xie Qi chose Song Nan for his final question and asked whether she had killed Stock.