Chapter Summaries

Si Yehan brutally killed Ning Qian and staged her corpse to provoke Xia Yuanhou. He returned to the dormitory in good spirits, where he heard Xia Yuanhou’s voice on the fourth floor.

• Si Yehan went to room 302 and tricked Ning Qian into opening the door.
• Si Yehan attacked Ning Qian, tortured her, and killed her before hanging her body in a conspicuous place.
• Si Yehan left, ate in the cafeteria, and returned to the dormitory building.
• On the fourth floor, Si Yehan heard Xia Yuanhou’s deep voice.

Si Yehan and the others planned to question Ning Qian about Renshou Funeral Home, but Xia Yuanhou found her brutally murdered when he went to fetch her. Xia Yuanhou swore to avenge her as footsteps approached in the hallway.

• Ge Congze gathered the group to discuss the candle, the ghosts, and how to learn more from the locals.
• Si Yehan suggested that Xia Yuanhou fetch Ning Qian before they all went to eat.
• Xia Yuanhou found Ning Qian's mutilated, decaying corpse in room 302 and cried out in anguish.
• Xia Yuanhou grieved beside Ning Qian's body, wondered who had killed her, and vowed to avenge her.
• Two sets of footsteps approached as the group stood by Ning Qian's corpse.

The group agreed to let the funeral home staff dispose of Ning Qian’s body while Xia Yuanhou vowed to avenge her. They questioned the fat worker about the four bodies in the auditorium and learned that the deaths and a memorial service were tied to Wang Xu, leaving them asking who he was.

• Ge Congze stopped Xia Yuanhou from handling Ning Qian’s body and warned him against becoming emotionally attached to natives in a dungeon.
• Xia Yuanhou agreed to focus on clearing the dungeon and avenging Ning Qian, while Ge Congze and Su Wei offered to help.
• Qianjing Youhui suggested questioning staff about the four bodies before visiting the director, and Su Qing reminded the group to return to the fat and thin workers.
• The fat worker told the group that Wang Xu had brought in four bodies from related families, all of whom had hanged themselves and bore blood-colored marks.
• The fat worker said staff had gone missing at night since the bodies arrived, and that a joint memorial service would take place in six days before the funeral home was renovated.
• The group asked the fat worker who Wang Xu was.

Ge Congze and the others questioned Luo Tian, then met the director of Renshou Funeral Home, who explained the worlds they had entered and offered them a deal. The director’s host died, and Si Yehan rejected the deal in his thoughts as the group absorbed the new information.

• Luo Tian told Ge Congze and Xia Yuanhou that he was Luo Hai’s older brother and swore his account was true.
• Ge Congze led the group of seven to the director’s office, where they saw photographs commemorating the dead.
• The director revealed that he was a Ghost Tamer and explained the differences between Linked Planes, Underworlds, and Half-Underworlds.
• The director offered to reveal the killing rules of the four corpses in exchange for the group moving Vengeful Ghosts elsewhere if they survived.
• The director’s host regained control, declared it an honor to die for a Ghost Tamer, and was reduced to a pile of flesh.
• Si Yehan decided he would not honor the director’s deal.

After meeting the director, the group prepared for their second night at Renshou Funeral Home, focused on surviving the instance and learning its killing rules. Si Yehan entered the hall intending to test those rules by killing Su Wei.

• Ge Congze urged the group to focus on surviving the instance, while Qianjing Youhui worried that Vengeful Ghosts would eventually revive in their world.
• Song Xia told the seven that Luo Tian and Luo Hai would attend them during the night watch, then left Renshou Funeral Home.
• Si Yehan noted that Song Xia could travel outside the funeral home and considered following her to kill her family if participants could leave too.
• Xia Yuanhou went to the hall to wait, while the others ate or wandered before joining the night watch.
• Si Yehan entered the hall, considered how to test the killing rules, and decided to make Su Wei his target.

Si Yehan waited for the three corpses to transform while planning to test their killing rules using the sleeping participants. When he decided Su Qing was too dangerous to leave alive, he attacked her in the darkness.

• Si Yehan observed the three corpses and suspected their killing rules involved the old man's gaze, the old woman's features, and the young man's blood.
• He planned to bring Luo Tian and Luo Hai into the hall the next night to test whether natives could speed up a ghost's transformation.
• As the others fell asleep, Si Yehan judged them careless and considered using Su Wei and the others to test the ghosts' rules.
• Si Yehan approached Su Qing and discovered that she was only sleeping lightly.
• Si Yehan lifted Su Qing, clamped an arm around her neck, and silenced her as she struggled in the darkness.

Si Yehan tortured Su Qing and used her to test the Blood Ghost’s killing rule, which led to the ghost transforming and returning to its ice coffin. Afterward, Si Yehan planned to use Su Wei to test another rule while the others tried to explain Su Qing’s disappearance.

• Si Yehan tore out Su Qing’s tongue, beat her, and left her beside the young man’s ice coffin.
• The young man transformed into a Blood Ghost and tore Su Qing apart, then absorbed the blood and returned to the coffin.
• Si Yehan deduced that touching the Blood Ghost’s blood on the ground triggered its killing rule.
• Si Yehan decided to use Su Wei to test another rule.
• Su Wei asked how Su Qing had ended up away from her, and Xia Yuanhou guessed that Su Qing had moved herself to test something.
• Ge Congze noted that the killing scene had been erased, leaving nothing to analyze.

After two deaths, the survivors discussed testing the remaining ghosts’ killing rules, and Su Wei volunteered to test whether the old man in black killed through eye contact. Si Yehan accompanied her while secretly weighing whether to kill her, and Su Wei began staring into the ghost’s eyes.

• Qianjing Youhui urged the group to take the initiative and keep several people awake during tests, while Xia Yuanhou proposed taking shifts.
• Su Wei offered to test whether the old man in black’s eyes were connected to his killing rule, and Ge Congze warned her about the danger.
• Si Yehan volunteered to accompany Su Wei, privately planning to exploit the test as a chance to kill her if needed.
• Si Yehan led Su Wei to a spot in the moonlight while the others watched from a distance.
• Su Wei stared into the old man in black’s pitch-black eyes, and her thoughts slowly ceased to surface as Si Yehan watched her.

Si Yehan watched Su Wei die after she broke eye contact with the black-clad old ghost, then shared a theory about its killing rule with the others. As the group debated the dangers of future ghosts, Si Yehan focused on surviving and considered stealing a god’s authority.

• Si Yehan tested whether Su Wei could hear him, then slapped her until her head turned and broke her gaze from the black-clad old man.
• The black-clad old ghost emerged from Su Wei’s shadow, bit off her head, tore apart her body, and returned to its coffin.
• Si Yehan told Qianjing Youhui and the others that breaking eye contact might trigger the ghost’s killing rule, while suggesting an additional condition involving its attention or the time spent looking at it.
• Ge Congze, Xie Fei, Qianjing Youhui, and Xia Yuanhou discussed how dangerous intelligent ghosts could be in later instances.
• Si Yehan decided to look for a sharp blade after daylight and wondered whether stealing a god’s authority could let him destroy ghosts.

Qianjing Youhui, Xia Yuanhou, Xie Fei, and Ge Congze shared stories about their lives and motives during a late-night conversation. Si Yehan listened in silence, finding nothing in their stories he could use against them.

• Qianjing Youhui proposed that they take turns sharing stories while they waited for sleep.
• Qianjing Youhui described her lonely school years, her desire to transcend class, and her plans to help humanity through Myriad Gods Township.
• Xia Yuanhou recounted his resentment toward his mother, his life as a fitness trainer, and his decision not to join an organization after entering the Weird Game.
• Xie Fei briefly spoke of regretting not pursuing art and recited lines from “The Road Not Taken.”
• Ge Congze described his strict martial-arts upbringing and said the Weird Game let him express himself by dressing and speaking as a woman.
• Si Yehan listened to their accounts and judged them dull because they revealed no people or objects he could use to crush their hopes.

Si Yehan set out to hunt Xia Yuanhou after deciding to kill him, and lured him into Ning Qian’s room. The chapter ended with Si Yehan confessing that he had tortured Ning Qian to death, leaving Xia Yuanhou furious and disbelieving.

• Si Yehan planned to knock out Luo Tian and Luo Hai later and kill Xia Yuanhou that day.
• Xia Yuanhou said he would investigate Ning Qian’s death after eating and regaining his strength.
• Qianjing Youhui suspected Si Yehan, Ge Congze, or Xie Fei might have been responsible for Su Qing’s disappearance.
• Si Yehan followed Xia Yuanhou to Ning Qian’s room after telling him he had clues to share.
• Si Yehan confessed that he had tortured Ning Qian to death and told Xia Yuanhou that they would both die miserably.

Si Yehan killed Xia Yuanhou and a newly assigned security guard at Renshou Funeral Home. With the funeral home largely unrestrained and his preparations complete, he waited for nightfall to test the old woman’s killing rules with Qianjing Youhui.

• Xia Yuanhou launched a desperate attack on Si Yehan, who beat him down and killed him with his telescopic baton.
• Si Yehan crushed Xia Yuanhou’s face and wondered whether dead participants might return as ghosts seeking revenge.
• Si Yehan left the dormitory building and walked around Renshou Funeral Home, where Luo Tian and Luo Hai greeted him.
• Si Yehan found a new guard playing with a dagger in the gatehouse and killed him instantly by snapping his neck.
• Si Yehan finished his preparations and waited for nightfall to test the old woman’s killing rules with Qianjing Youhui.

Si Yehan joined the others to investigate Xia Yuanhou’s death, which Ge Congze and Xie Fei believed was connected to Ning Qian’s murder. The Luo brothers arrived during the discussion, and Luo Tian said Ning Qian had been kind and had no enemies at the funeral home.

• Si Yehan woke, met Ge Congze, and went with him to the third floor.
• Qianjing Youhui told them Xia Yuanhou was dead, and Ge Congze found his badly mutilated body in Ning Qian’s room.
• Ge Congze and Xie Fei concluded that the same killer had murdered Ning Qian and Xia Yuanhou, while Qianjing Youhui questioned whether the deaths could have different perpetrators.
• Luo Tian and Luo Hai arrived and were surprised to find another corpse in the room.
• Qianjing Youhui asked whether Ning Qian had enemies at the funeral home, and Luo Tian said she had been kind and had no enemies there.

After the group left room 302, Si Yehan considered how to deal with the two brothers and the other participants while the others debated who killed Ning Qian and Xia Yuanhou. They agreed to gather clues and prioritize surviving the instance if they found nothing before dark.

• Qianjing Youhui told Luo Tian and Luo Hai to dispose of the corpse, and the four participants left room 302.
• Si Yehan planned to deal with Luo Tian and Luo Hai later and considered tracking down the middle-aged woman and choosing a participant to kill.
• On the way to the dining hall, Ge Congze, Xie Fei, and Qianjing Youhui discussed whether the killer was a native or one of the four participants.
• Si Yehan challenged Qianjing Youhui's claim that her and Xie Fei's builds ruled them out as suspects.
• Over dinner, Qianjing Youhui urged the group to focus on the natives, and Ge Congze proposed gathering clues before deciding whether to focus on clearing the instance.

Si Yehan investigated the hall and funeral home, discovering that a ghost could influence people through its photograph. He knocked out Luo Tian and Luo Hai and left them behind the ice coffins as night approached.

• After the others went to investigate the third floor, Si Yehan headed to the hall and considered whether the instance contained a sixth ghost.
• In the hall, Si Yehan met the old ghost’s gaze in a photograph and felt an urge to smash the coffins, then realized the ghost was influencing him and looked away.
• At the dormitory, Si Yehan joined Luo Tian and Luo Hai as they carried Xia Yuanhou’s body to Cremation Area One.
• After Luo Tian and Luo Hai placed Xia Yuanhou in the furnace, Si Yehan told them there was no need to collect the ashes and knocked them unconscious.
• Si Yehan carried Luo Tian and Luo Hai to the hall, left them behind the ice coffins, and emerged as night approached.

Ge Congze told Si Yehan, Xie Fei, and Qianjing Youhui that killing fellow participants could increase the supernatural power gained from clearing an instance, and reasoned that the killer was not among them. The group headed to the auditorium for the night watch as Si Yehan anticipated the four ghosts awakening.

• Si Yehan returned to the dormitory, where Ge Congze, Xie Fei, and Qianjing Youhui had gathered after searching without finding a lead on Xia Yuanhou.
• Ge Congze explained that fewer survivors meant stronger rewards, and that clearing an instance alone could grant someone the abilities of every ghost in it.
• Qianjing Youhui suspected Ge Congze of killing Xia Yuanhou, but Ge Congze intimidated her with his confidence in a fight before accepting her apology.
• Ge Congze concluded that the killer was not among them, and Si Yehan urged everyone to prepare for the night watch at the auditorium.
• The group met Song Xia in the corridor, asked her to bring snacks and water, and set out as Si Yehan sensed that the four ghosts might awaken that night.

Si Yehan waited in the funeral home hall to see how the ghosts behaved after completing their transformations. When Luo Tian and Luo Hai woke and triggered the old woman's killing rule, she killed them, and all four ghosts finished transforming.

• Song Xia admitted she feared the funeral home's deaths because she was raising her daughter, and Qianjing Youhui sent her to buy food and water.
• Qianjing Youhui, Ge Congze, and Xie Fei discussed the employees' memories and warned each other to avoid the photograph and survive the dungeon carefully.
• As night fell, the old woman rose from her ice coffin while the other three ghosts remained inside.
• Luo Hai cried out after triggering the red-clothed female ghost's killing rule, but she stayed inside her coffin.
• Luo Tian and Luo Hai stumbled into the old woman; she tore Luo Tian apart and pierced Luo Hai's head, completing her transformation as the fourth ghost.

Si Yehan identified the woman ghost’s killing rule and watched all four ghosts awaken, while the participants struggled to avoid their dangers. As the night continued, he planned to use Qianjing Youhui to test whether he could leave Renshou Funeral Home the next day.

• Si Yehan concluded that touching any part of the woman ghost’s body triggered her killing rule and considered whether the fifth and sixth ghosts might be the same entity.
• Ge Congze, Qianjing Youhui, and Xie Fei reacted to the deaths of Luo Tian and Luo Hai as the other three ghosts rose from their ice coffins.
• The black-clad old ghost locked eyes with Xie Fei, and Qianjing Youhui broke the gaze by slapping her face aside.
• With all four ghosts awake, Si Yehan considered investigating the deceased and leaving the funeral home, then chose Qianjing Youhui to test the way out.

Si Yehan and the others faced a terrifying illusion after the four ghosts awakened, then escaped it without losing anyone. The red-robed female ghost approached Xie Fei after she remained trapped too long, but just as it was about to bite her, a sudden change occurred.

• Si Yehan stayed calm as the auditorium vanished into darkness and a pale face emerged to frighten him.
• The pale face lunged at Si Yehan, but its attacks dissolved against him, and the auditorium reappeared.
• Ge Congze and Qianjing Youhui broke free of the illusion while Xie Fei remained bewildered.
• Qianjing Youhui recognized that Xie Fei had triggered the red-robed female ghost’s second killing rule by staying in the illusion too long.
• The red-robed female ghost reached Xie Fei and opened its mouth to bite her, but a sudden change interrupted it.

Xie Fei and the others survived the third Night Watch and agreed to help Ge Congze avenge Xia Yuanhou. After dawn, Si Yehan hurried away, and Qianjing Youhui was knocked unconscious as she entered her room.

• Xie Fei faced the female ghost in red without triggering its killing rule, and the ghosts returned to the ice coffin at dawn.
• Ge Congze asked Xie Fei, Qianjing Youhui, and Si Yehan to help him find and kill Xia Yuanhou's murderer, and they agreed.
• Song Xia congratulated the four participants for surviving the night and said she planned to rest before going home.
• Si Yehan left ahead of the others, while Xie Fei and Qianjing Youhui returned to the dormitory building.
• Qianjing Youhui was struck by a sudden wave of dizziness as she entered her room, then collapsed after an unseen attacker knocked her unconscious.