Chapter Summaries

Huo Ziping fought through the Shell Manufacturing Factory to kill The Godmother, and Han Dong arrived to help him defeat her. With an exit passage open and The Godmother warning that her master would come, Han Dong sent Huo Ziping to bring their teammates while he stayed behind to pursue the hidden storyline.

• Huo Ziping triggered the Shell Manufacturing Factory side mission and fought through the scarecrow army toward The Godmother.
• The Godmother unleashed more scarecrows and Living Imperial Guards as Huo Ziping’s strength began to flag.
• Han Dong appeared and used Dark Magic and Death Crows to clear the way, then joined Huo Ziping in reaching The Godmother.
• Huo Ziping severed The Godmother’s lifeline while Han Dong’s crows distracted her, opening a secret passage outside the farm.
• The Godmother survived as a substitute doll and warned that her master would come, so Han Dong sent Huo Ziping to fetch their teammates while he stayed behind.

Han Dong exposed the Godmother Edithson’s crimes and completed the Black Heart Workshop hidden storyline with help from Sam the Scarecrow Kid. After the group escaped the farm, Diana revealed her intent to attack, and Han Dong and Huo Ziping intervened to stop the confrontation.

• Han Dong found evidence that Edithson had stolen superior straw and was secretly building a perfect body, while Sam the Scarecrow Kid silenced her and severed her soul.
• Han Dong exposed Edithson’s crimes to Sam, who killed her and rewarded Han Dong with a perfect straw shell and a Residents’ Committee Certification Medal.
• Han Dong stored the rewards and waited for his teammates, who arrived amid a dispute involving Diana and the Bone Demon’s Daughter.
• Huo Ziping led the group through the factory’s secret passage and out of the farm into a small forest.
• Diana revealed a spiral bone spike and attacked, so Han Dong restrained her with yellow-sand arms while Huo Ziping held his sword to Gongsun Hao’s neck.

After Diana nearly attacked the Dragon City team over their remarks about her father, Han Dong calmed her and the teams parted without sharing information. Huo Ziping’s team assessed Han Dong and his companions as potential rivals, while Han Dong revealed that he had made an agreement with the Hidden Residents and planned to return to the farm.

• Diana’s killing intent flared after Gongsun Hao identified her as Bone Demon's Daughter, and Han Dong stopped her from fighting the Dragon City team.
• Huo Ziping reprimanded Gongsun Hao and told his team to seek friendly relations with Han Dong’s team before competing for the final reward.
• Yu Wu and Ma Taotao warned Huo Ziping that Han Dong was difficult to detect and possessed a deathly aura that countered Ma Taotao’s abilities.
• Han Dong used the Lesser Demon Eye to calm Diana and told her something that persuaded her not to act impulsively again.
• Han Dong showed Cas a Main Story Trigger Item and said he had reached an agreement with the Hidden Residents, so the team would return to the farm and rest.

After defeating The Godmother, Han Dong’s group returned to the farmhouse and reviewed the newly obtained information about Sam, the Scarecrow Kid. The chapter revealed Sam’s soul-harvesting abilities and dangerous curse as Han Dong considered the threat posed by the town’s Hidden Residents.

• Han Dong’s group ate at the farm convenience store, which the strawman youth now ran with his father, then left with food for the drive.
• On the way back to the farmhouse, Han Dong and Cas spotted the Scarecrow Kid sitting on their shell.
• Han Dong checked the Resident Household Register and Residents’ Committee Certification Medal and read the compendium entry on Sam and their shell.
• The compendium explained Sam’s Scarecrow Disease, soul-extraction conditions, labels for strangers, equipment, and seventh-place resident ranking.
• Han Dong compared Sam’s threat to the singing woman from the surface chapter, and a resident mission activated.

Han Dong learned what materials Sam needed to make the ultimate shell and set off for Derry Town to find them, after restarting the straw factory. On the way, he realized Sam’s farm could serve as a Safe Zone and wondered whether the entire region they had explored was actually Inside Derry Town.

• Han Dong asked Sam where to find Source Core Ore and learned that the shell required straw, a permanent power source, and a Life Quality Brain from Derry Town Central Hospital.
• Han Dong put the old farmer in charge of restarting the factory and collecting Perfect Straw, then rested with Cas and Diana.
• Miles resumed his pursuit, but Sam blocked him within the farm’s boundaries, revealing that Han Dong could seek the neighborhood committee’s protection there.
• Han Dong, Cas, and Diana drove toward Derry Town with Miles following behind them.
• Han Dong proposed that the places they had visited might all be Inside Derry Town, with each resident’s area serving as their home and the mapped town acting as its central street.

The Dragon City Squad and Han Dong’s group both became trapped in a spatial loop near Derry Town, forcing them to enter the same spotless motel. Han Dong’s group reached the motel with Miles, who stopped outside as if afraid of someone within.

• Huo Ziping’s squad repeatedly drove back to the motel and, unable to sense the loop’s cause, entered it to search for an exit.
• Han Dong’s group encountered a corpse collector, and Miles executed him with his ultimate killing move.
• Over two days, Miles executed five more blockers as Han Dong’s group continued toward Derry Town.
• Han Dong’s group found itself caught in the same loop and entered the motel during the downpour.
• Han Dong noticed Miles had stopped outside the motel, apparently unwilling to approach whoever was inside.

Han Dong used demonic language and a drawing to learn that Miles was guarding the motel, then joined the Dragon City Squad there. He and Yu Wu opened a hidden basement door, revealing a spotless Underground Dissection Room with a female corpse on its operating table.

• Han Dong approached Miles alone, used demonic language to question him, and received a disturbing drawing and a whispered message before Miles vanished.
• Han Dong reunited with his team at the motel and learned that Huo Ziping and the Dragon City Squad had been unable to open a concealed basement door.
• Han Dong inspected the motel’s strange features and asked Yu Wu to help him synchronize the five witchcraft formations sealing the door.
• Han Dong broke all five formations, opening the basement door.
• Huo Ziping led both squads through a brightly lit corridor into an Underground Dissection Room, where they found a female corpse on an operating table.

Han Dong and Huo Ziping’s teams investigated a spotless motel and its strange underground Dissection Room, where Yu Wu’s hearing was damaged by the noise coming from a female corpse. As Han Dong, Diana, Huo Ziping, and Ma Taotao prepared to examine the corpse, a bell rang upstairs, but they found an empty room.

• Yu Wu’s ears bled when the Dissection Room door opened, and he warned that the female corpse produced immense, dangerous noise.
• Han Dong stopped Huo Ziping from approaching the corpse and suggested that the teams return upstairs to exchange information.
• Han Dong glimpsed the female corpse sitting upright and staring at him through the door’s glass, but kept the sighting to himself.
• Huo Ziping’s team explained that the motel had no documents or traces of previous guests, and Han Dong organized a four-person team to examine the corpse.
• A bell rang on the second floor, and Han Dong and Huo Ziping opened the room at the end of the hallway but found no one inside.

Han Dong investigated a guest room where operating its faucet controlled the rain, then took charge of the female corpse’s dissection to uncover clues. After his companions found signs of extreme hidden torment on the corpse, he sent them out and remained alone with it to examine its organs.

• Han Dong discovered that turning the guest room faucet on made torrential rain fall and turning it off stopped the rain and erased the puddles.
• Han Dong left the motel, spotted Cas waving from the hallway, and secretly hid a black silhouette in his shadow to watch outside.
• Han Dong joined Huo Ziping, Diana, and Ma Taotao in the Underground Dissection Room and insisted on performing the dissection himself.
• Ma Taotao and the others found the corpse’s tongue torn out, its bones and joints shattered, and other strange details including missing molars, threads, thorns, flies, and insect eggs.
• Han Dong sent his companions out after the external assessment and stayed alone with the female corpse to conduct the internal examination.

Han Dong used the Lesser Demon Eye to uncover the female corpse’s horrifying sacrificial markings and learned that Hidden Resident Jian Doyle was watching him. After a new Dissection Room appeared underground, Han Dong’s anger erupted, and he killed his teammates before finding his own body inside its corpse bag.

• Han Dong locked himself in the Dissection Room, transformed with the Earl’s help, and fully opened the Lesser Demon Eye to examine the female corpse.
• Han Dong discovered an ancient witchcraft circle beneath her skin, inscriptions carved into her ribs, and mutilated internal organs, then received a notification that Hidden Resident Jian Doyle was watching him.
• Han Dong’s teammates reported trouble upstairs and a newly appeared Dissection Room underground, where a corpse bag concealed the body on the table.
• Han Dong ignored Huo Ziping’s warning to go upstairs and, in a sudden rage, cut off Huo Ziping’s, Diana’s, and Ma Taotao’s heads.
• Han Dong opened the corpse bag in the new Dissection Room and found his own body inside.

Han Dong exposed the motel’s fake teammates and fought through a shifting nightmare while acting terrified to draw out its Hidden Resident. As a blade was about to dissect him, he dropped the act and addressed Miss Jian, revealing that he had been waiting for her to intervene.

• Han Dong recalled how Miles had warned him that everyone in the motel except him was inhuman, and he verified the warning by watching his teammates.
• Han Dong killed the three fake teammates in the Dissection Room, then fled from the female corpse and the corpse of himself, which transferred its injuries to him.
• Cas attacked Han Dong with a crushing embrace, but Han Dong severed his head; he then killed Yu Wu and Gongsun Hao, whose heads continued repeating concerned greetings.
• Han Dong found that the motel rooms had become identical Dissection Rooms and fell through an apparent escape route onto a dissection table, where the fake teammates prepared to cut him open.
• As the blade descended, Han Dong stopped pretending to be terrified, laughed until the room shook, and asked Miss Jian if she had waited until the moment of his death to act.

Han Dong deduced that Female Corpse Jane had trapped him in a sealed room through a layered illusion and realized her dissection would kill his real body. As Jane prepared to cut him open, Miles destroyed the billboard that served as the sealed room’s door, breaking the illusion and bringing moonlight to Han Dong.

• Han Dong explained how the billboard, road, motel, and Dissection Room formed nested layers of Female Corpse Jane’s illusion, with his real body trapped in a sealed room.
• Han Dong used the fabricated teammates, consistent surroundings, and rain controlled by a faucet to deduce that the room was a real Dissection Room where Jane’s dissection would affect his body.
• Female Corpse Jane confirmed that Han Dong could move in the real room but was bound to the dissection table in both reality and the illusion.
• Jane said the illusion’s time passed slowly and prepared to dissect Han Dong before morning.
• Miles appeared outside the motel and chopped down the billboard, dispersing the clouds and letting moonlight reach Han Dong.

Han Dong and his teammates escaped Jian Doyle’s illusion and discovered she had been preparing them as sacrifices with witchcraft. After the squads received Temporary Passes to enter Derry Town, Han Dong found a Rusted Copper Key from Jian Doyle among his rewards.

• Miles appeared in the sealed room, destroyed the Neural Traction Source, and freed Han Dong from the illusion before leaving to hunt Jian Doyle in Derry Town.
• Han Dong used Togu’s Hellfire to burn away the black hair and witchcraft incantations that had immobilized him.
• Huo Ziping’s Dragon Pattern Sword broke his Neural Traction Source and cleared the invading hair, and he helped Han Dong awaken the others.
• Ma Taotao removed the remaining witchcraft from the team members, and the squads found Temporary Passes waiting in their vehicles outside the old building.
• Han Dong sent Huo Ziping’s squad into Derry Town ahead of his own and discovered Jian Doyle’s gift, a Rusted Copper Key that might open a hidden door.

After surviving Jian Doe’s motel illusions, Han Dong learned that Derry Town Central Hospital was tied to one of the town’s Ten Demons and prepared to enter the town. The group reached a mist-shrouded version of Derry Town, where a prompt announced that their attributes would now appear as Character Cards.

• Diana described how the road and the Derry Town billboard weakened their defenses, and Han Dong offered to handle Jian Doe if she attacked again.
• Togu recalled that the hospital was managed by a Ten Demon, while Jian Doe had handled bodies in its morgue; Han Dong recognized the danger of the Main Plot and planned to use Miles.
• Miles watched over the sleeping group overnight because Jian Doe had interfered with his hunter-and-prey game.
• After resting, Han Dong, Cas, and Diana drove to Derry Town and found a peaceful, mist-covered town whose streets resembled the Outer Story.
• When the group entered Derry Town, a prompt informed them that the area’s influence would display their attributes as Character Cards.

Huo Ziping’s squad used Jian’s recommendation letter to enter Derry Town Hall and meet Secretary Verna Rivard, whose presence caused their life-critical values to plummet. The chapter leaves them inside the office facing the terrifying authority behind the Town Hall’s many arms.

• Huo Ziping’s squad received a recommendation letter for an assistant clerk position after he broke through Jian’s illusion alone, triggering a timed Main Storyline to report to Town Hall.
• The squad drove through fogbound, deserted streets toward Town Hall, and Huo Ziping reasoned that permanent residence permits would help them investigate Pennywise and seek the Final Secret Treasure.
• At the gate, Yu Wu heard terrifying sounds mixed with Secretary Verna’s singing, but Huo Ziping calmed him and led the squad inside.
• The guard announced that Prosecutor Jian’s recommended temporary assistants had arrived, and Verna invited them into Town Hall.
• The squad saw arms emerging from every window and entered Verna Rivard’s office, where their life-critical values rapidly fell.

Han Dong reviewed the group’s Character Cards and decided to split up, sending Cas and Diana to search for Source Core Ore while he went alone to Derry Town Central Hospital for the Perfect Life Quality Brain. On the way, he encountered a Cthulhu-like patient who could not affect him and continued toward the hospital with the rusty key the female corpse had given him.

• Han Dong, Cas, and Diana examined their Character Cards, which showed their Sanity, Willpower, Health, and Physique alongside their abilities.
• Han Dong assigned Cas and Diana to search Derry Town for thirty pieces of Source Core Ore and chose to handle the hospital alone because Diana was vulnerable to mental illusions.
• Diana apologized for her weakness against the unnamed female corpse, and Han Dong reassured her that she could help suppress Huo Ziping later.
• Han Dong left the others near Derry Town Central Hospital and walked into the mist to retrieve the Perfect Life Quality Brain.
• A patient with a bubble-covered face and tentacles in his eye sockets approached Han Dong, but Han Dong calmly gave him a mask and continued toward the hospital.

The chapter revealed how the female corpse obtained the slimy key engraved with -V.O.I.D. before returning to the present, where Han Dong entered Derry Town Central Hospital to pursue a different way of obtaining brain material. The hospital was guarded by a powerful entity, and Han Dong proceeded alone to test his plan.

• A one-armed morgue guard repeatedly died in nightmares caused by corpse carts, until a powerful entity took control of him and let Jian enter the morgue.
• The entity formed a living key to unlock the morgue, then left the guard, who collapsed; Jian carried a key module that later became the key she gave Han Dong.
• Han Dong arrived at Central Hospital, where Nicole sensed a strange servant whose strength she could not match.
• Togu recalled that Director Richard Powell worshipped another god and possessed immense divinity, making a direct assault on the hospital unlikely to succeed.
• Han Dong chose to enter the hospital alone and verify a plan to obtain the brain material without attacking head-on.

Han Dong entered Derry Town Central Hospital under the guise of collecting supplies for Sam while searching for a hidden door. After infecting a nurse with the G-Virus to distract the hospital’s surveillance and response team, he unlocked the door and found a cold, spotless corridor beyond it.

• Han Dong saw the hospital’s true flesh-covered form through his Magic Eye and introduced himself as Sam’s farm manager to gain access.
• A nurse verified that Sam had purchased injection equipment and led Han Dong to the rear warehouse to collect it.
• While following the nurse, Han Dong located a hidden door watched by three eyeball cameras and deliberately infected the nurse with a virus.
• The infected nurse erupted with proliferating tissue and attacked a patient, drawing the surveillance cameras and hospital response team.
• Han Dong used the distraction to reach the hidden door, unlocked it with a key, and revealed a cold, spotless corridor.

Han Dong used the universal key to enter the hospital mortuary, where he found Jian Doyle’s corpse in drawer 41. After touching her, he proposed a secret transaction that might offer another way to obtain the perfect brain.

• Han Dong used the key to unlock a hidden entrance into the hospital’s mortuary passageway.
• He passed the guard, who appeared trapped in Jian Doyle’s illusion, and prepared himself against mental interference before entering the morgue.
• Han Dong opened mortuary drawer 41 and found Jian Doyle’s corpse.
• After Han Dong touched Jian Doyle, she told him he was the only lifeform unaffected by her mental influence.
• Han Dong asked Jian Doyle whether the universal key belonged to her and proposed a secret transaction.

Han Dong negotiated a temporary partnership with the female corpse, agreeing to deliver a confidential document to Dean Richard Powell in exchange for a Perfect Life Quality Brain and important information. After retrieving the document and Richard’s personal file, Han Dong glimpsed something floating deep in the morgue, but the female corpse stopped him from investigating.

• The female corpse asked Han Dong to secretly place a confidential document from her body in Dean Richard Powell’s desk drawer.
• Han Dong demanded a Perfect Life Quality Brain and the personal files of Richard and Pennywise the Clown in return.
• The female corpse agreed to the brain and Richard’s file but refused to provide Pennywise’s file, explaining that information about the clown was sealed.
• Han Dong and the female corpse finalized their temporary cooperation, and he retrieved the sealed document and Richard’s personal file from her body.
• Han Dong activated a mission and a compendium entry, then spotted something floating deep in the morgue.
• The female corpse emerged from the morgue’s depths with a cart and stopped Han Dong from investigating further.