Chapter Summaries

Wang Xia chose the Capsized Boat House’s highest difficulty, where Flip expanded the guests’ statements into humiliating revelations. The game left Wang Xia’s relationships in turmoil as Flip began exposing his womanizing and hinted at a secret involving a handsome young man.

• Wen Xishu explained that Flip would turn each guest’s sentence into a narration that could expose secrets, after Wang Xia chose the raging-storm difficulty.
• Flip revealed that Nissen privately compared his size with Wen Xishu, earning laughter from the group.
• Yue Yun asked whether Wang Xia planned to marry Huo’erjina, and Flip exposed Yue Yun’s vow to avoid dating until he passed the Slaughter Tower’s thirtieth floor.
• Flip twisted Zhang Tingyao’s warning into a revelation that Wang Xia and Zhang Tingyao had shared girlfriends and had a foursome with Huo’erjina and Bai Xiaoyu, alarming Jiang Xue.
• Wang Xia denied the accusation and boasted that he was a womanizer, prompting Flip to begin revealing a secret about a handsome young man at the Tower of Desire Academy.

Wen Xishu used the Capsized Boat House’s game to help Jiang Xue protect herself and learned that its secrets could be adjusted to attract repeat visitors. After leaving, he told Liu Jinsen he wanted to explore the Strange Tower again, and Liu agreed under the condition that Wen Xishu submit a detailed report after each ascent.

• Wen Xishu signaled Jiang Xue to hold back her anger, and she persuaded the group to keep Wang Xia’s secrets in exchange for friendship and rewards.
• Wang Xia tried to promise generous rewards, but Flip exposed more of his secrets before Huo'erjina took her turn.
• Wen Xishu, Yue Yun, and Nissen left the Capsized Boat House, and Yue Yun and Nissen pledged to compete with him and surpass Miyamoto Yoshiki.
• Wen Xishu visited the Principal's Office and called Liu Jinsen to request permission to explore the Strange Tower ahead of schedule.
• Liu Jinsen warned Wen Xishu that his previous team’s deaths had caused trouble and required him to write a detailed report after every tower ascent.

Wen Xishu received Wen Renjing’s dangerous necklace and chose new Madman’s Dice effects before entering a seventh-floor Strange Tower mission called “Reverse Seven.” He arrived in the Rest Area among an excited group who worshipped him as Saint Wen, just as a man offered to have members of the Xishu Divine Church accompany him.

• Wen Xishu agreed to cooperate with Liu Jinsen, who explained the Bunker’s rules for installing facilities and urged him to stay cautious in the Strange Tower.
• Jabbar gave Wen Xishu Wen Renjing’s item, Gradient Indifference, which raised nearby Desire Tower beings’ favorability and willingness to tell the truth but caused their hatred to grow after its effect ended.
• Wen Xishu accepted advancement to a maximum accessible floor of ten, rolled the Madman’s Dice, and selected Twofold Chain and Quality Upgrade.
• Wen Xishu entered a mission set seven days before seven deaths at Miracle Apartments, where he had to survive as an investigator and find the demon hidden among the residents.
• Wen Xishu appeared at the Tian Yuan position in the Rest Area and met a bearded man who offered to send members of the Xishu Divine Church with him.

Wen Xishu joined a group of believers from the Xishu Divine Church and entered the Strange Tower’s Reverse Seven mission with them. They arrived at the luxurious Miracle Apartments in Qi City, where Wen Xishu noticed a new action-point system and began investigating the building’s clues.

• Wen Xishu met Wen Xiange, Xiao Wu, A Miao, and Banana, then agreed to enter the mission with them while denying any devotion to himself.
• Wen Xishu and the others entered the seventh floor of the Strange Tower and arrived outside the Miracle Apartments in Qi City.
• Wen Xishu noticed that the mission introduced action points and memorized the seven themed rows of sofas in the lobby.
• Wen Xishu warned the group that they had to save seven households despite having only five players, and that action points might be needed to investigate their neighbors.
• The staff member assigned the five players separate rooms on different floors, and Wen Xishu settled into room 14-2 beside one of the mission households.
• Wen Xishu considered the apartments’ unusually low rent and the mission’s clues, then recalled a potentially important hint.

On the first day at Miracle Apartments, Wen Xishu persuaded the group to share information and concluded that the seven doomed households might have been selected for a sacrifice. He went to meet his neighbor Yin Junchi, learned that he was a horror writer who could not sleep, and was invited into his apartment.

• Wen Xishu joined a meeting started by Wen Xiange and proposed that everyone first question their neighbors, then share what they learned.
• Wen Xishu compared the group’s mission descriptions and reasoned that wealthy people had selected the seven households for a possible sacrifice tied to the coming apocalypse.
• Wen Xiange, Xiaowu, Amiao, and Wu Xiangjiao agreed to investigate their neighbors for shared strange experiences.
• Wen Xishu chose to interact with neighbors and found that the Strange Tower could make residents’ bodies move on their own.
• Wen Xishu introduced himself to Yin Junchi, claimed to know feng shui, and learned that Yin Junchi was a horror writer who had been unable to sleep since moving in.

Wen Xishu investigated writer Yin Junchi’s disturbing hallucinations while the other residents visited their neighbors and encountered unsettling personalities. The chapter ended with Wen Xishu asking whether Yin Junchi had hallucinated before developing his horror story.

• Wen Xishu visited Yin Junchi, learned the writer had moved in at the Three Ball Group’s invitation, and heard about a recurring vision of 630 people staring and howling at him.
• Wen Xiange brought food to his neighbor in 7-5, who refused it because he was trying to lose weight; Wen Xiange then discovered he could not act without action points.
• Wu Xiangjiao entered university student 21-9’s home, but the student rebuked him for bringing up women and sent him away.
• A Miao visited the comedian in 35-13, who cheered her up with his optimistic outlook before she was forced to leave.
• Xiao Wu met lawyer Jiang Yingce in 28-11, who claimed his room was still dirty, though Xiao Wu saw that it was spotless.
• Wen Xishu used his annotations to inspect Yin Junchi’s belongings and asked whether the writer had experienced hallucinations before creating his horror plot.

Wen Xishu connected the neighbors’ strange behavior to fear and investigated Miracle Tower as the second day began. He reached the Forty-Ninth Floor by surviving a strange elevator encounter, then discovered a mother’s excessive indulgence of her son.

• Wen Xishu listened as Xiao Wu, Wen Xiange, Wu Xiangjiao, and A Miao described their neighbors, and he realized fear had triggered abnormal changes in some of them.
• Wen Xishu searched his room, researched Yin Junchi and An Zhenqi, and overheard Yin Junchi writing excitedly late at night.
• Wen Xishu deduced that the remaining households were on floors 42 and 49, then used 50 action points to explore Miracle Tower and went to the Forty-Ninth Floor.
• Wen Xishu encountered a motionless staff member in the elevator and watched the figure while using a Mirror until he safely reached the Forty-Ninth Floor.
• Wen Xishu overheard a boy making noise in the corridor while his mother encouraged him, and he concluded that the residents’ psychological traits were being amplified to excess.

Wen Xishu realized that the building amplified and reversed traits connected to the seven deadly sins, and he identified several residents’ conditions. He told the others his conclusion at the meeting, but the chapter ended before he explained how to break the effect.

• Wen Xishu recognized that his own unnatural energy and resistance to sleep came from an escalating supernatural influence, and he realized Yin Junchi was working himself toward sudden death.
• Wen Xishu inferred that Xiao Wu’s urge to bathe reflected inferiority rather than germaphobia, then concluded that the building’s seven corresponded to the seven deadly sins.
• The next morning, Wen Xishu saw that A Miao, Xiao Wu, and Venerable Wen were already affected, while Wu Xiangjiao seemed mostly unaffected.
• Wen Xishu told the group that the building’s sacrifice involved the seven deadly sins and explained that Yin Junchi’s sloth had been reversed into compulsive work.
• Wen Xishu explained that the mother on the forty-ninth floor had lost envy and become indulgent, and that Xiao Wu and his lawyer neighbor had lost pride and become insecure.

Wen Xishu explained that the building’s supernatural influence was reversing the seven deadly sins in the residents and urged his teammates to persuade their neighbors to leave. He then used a story connecting Yin Junchi to Miracle Tower and its seven symbolic sofas to unsettle the sleep-deprived novelist, leaving him wondering whether the story’s doomed writer was himself.

• Wen Xishu identified the teammates’ worsening conditions as reversed forms of the seven deadly sins and told them to approach their neighbors and convince them to leave.
• Wen Xiange rallied the group, and Xiao Wu, A Miao, and Wu Xiangjiao agreed to try to persuade their neighbors while remaining wary of the building’s influence.
• Wen Xishu warned the group that they could not leave without enough action points, but said they could pursue the side mission of keeping seven households from breaking apart.
• Wen Xishu visited Yin Junchi, found him irritable and unable to sleep, and offered to give him inspiration for his writing.
• Wen Xishu told Yin Junchi a story linking Three Ball Group, An Zhenqi, Miracle Tower, and seven sofas representing the deadly sins.
• Wen Xishu revealed that seven people would die in the story and asked Yin Junchi whether the novelist would survive.

Wen Xishu revealed to Yin Junchi that the Seven Taboos Building was draining the seven deadly sins from seven residents, and helped him choose to leave before the Seventh Suppression Mechanism activated. As Wen Xishu waited for an Invitation Letter, Wu Xiangjiao tried to persuade Che Renxiao to leave, but Che Renxiao’s disgust toward lust had warped into a dangerous plan for purification.

• Wen Xishu told Yin Junchi about the seven residents whose sins were being drained and the 630 other people in the building, convincing him that he needed to escape and investigate from outside.
• Yin Junchi confirmed that Jiang Yingce had moved into the building, agreed to leave voluntarily, and promised to contact Wen Xishu while sharing the riddle about Miracle Apartments.
• A notification told Wen Xishu that Yin Junchi’s fate had been rewritten, the Seventh Suppression Mechanism would not activate, and Wen Xishu would receive an Invitation Letter in 24 hours.
• Wen Xishu returned to his apartment with no action points left and considered how to save the remaining residents and recruit characters with the Slaughter prefix.
• Wu Xiangjiao visited Che Renxiao and found him watching a childbirth video; Che Renxiao declared that human bodies and reproduction were disgusting and announced that they should complete a purification.

Wu Xiangjiao, Xiao Wu, and Wen Xiange failed to persuade their neighbors to leave, while A Miao helped He Taiping decide to leave his apartment. A Miao received notice that He Taiping’s fate had been rewritten and that an Invitation Letter would arrive in 24 hours.

• Wu Xiangjiao failed to convince Che Renxiao to leave, then returned to his apartment and worried that the supernatural influence might affect him too.
• Xiao Wu visited Lawyer Jiang Yingce, but Jiang’s fear of being dirty drove Xiao Wu to return home and scald himself while trying to wash clean.
• Wen Xiange visited Bai Dongsheng and witnessed his extreme cycle of hunger, eating, and vomiting before the supernatural force returned him to his apartment.
• A Miao confronted He Taiping when he asked her to cut a permanent smile into his face, and she slashed her own face instead to show him she could face pain.
• A Miao persuaded He Taiping to leave the apartment, then received a notification that his fate had been rewritten and an Invitation Letter would arrive in 24 hours.

Wen Xishu learned that A Miao had earned an Invitation Letter and brought her with him to the Desire Tower's Rest Area. After A Miao checked his ID, she realized that Wen Xishu was the Bunker's Owner, and he asked her to keep it secret.

• A Miao told the Xishu Divine Church that she had persuaded her neighbor to leave and asked about Invitation Letters, while Wen Xishu recognized that she had earned one.
• Wen Xishu ordered Xiao Wu to stop other activities and use his action points to start meetings, then advised Wen Xiange and Wu Xiangjiao to switch neighbors.
• Wen Xishu received an Invitation Letter for a quest involving the Conglomerate Family's Youngest Son, Scorpio, and clues to level seven completion.
• A Miao received an Invitation Letter too and agreed to meet Wen Xishu in the next area, while he told the others to conserve their action points.
• Wen Xishu and A Miao used their Invitation Letters to enter the Desire Tower's Rest Area together.
• A Miao checked Wen Xishu's ID, recognized his name as the Bunker's Owner, and heard him ask her to keep his identity secret.

Wen Xishu and A Miao prepared to enter the Desire Tower, where their shared hidden mission concerned a plutocrat’s youngest son and the seventh person connected to the Miracle Tower sacrifices. After pooling their Luck Value, Wen Xishu chose an entry option, and the two vanished into the game.

• Wen Xishu revealed his identity to A Miao and asked her to keep it secret; she told him her initial Luck Value was nine and confirmed their Invitation Letter tasks matched.
• Wen Xishu and A Miao met Ji Boda and Liu Ruyan, who shared details about a different seventh-level Qi City mission and reacted with surprise to Wen Xishu’s Strange Tower device.
• Ji Boda and Liu Ruyan confirmed that Wen Xishu’s unusual background was known to the Old Principal, and they wished him well as he prepared to enter the Desire Tower.
• Wen Xishu and A Miao agreed to pool their Luck Value, giving them twenty points, and Wen Xishu selected one of the available entry options.
• Wen Xishu and A Miao vanished, while Ji Boda and Liu Ruyan hoped they would both return safely.

Wen Xishu entered the Desire Tower in Scorpio Mode as a homeless man and used its choice-and-dice system, violence, and Mental Barrage to learn that Miracle Tower was in South River District. Meanwhile, A Miao woke up as a race car driver and turned her Ferrari toward Miracle Tower, leaving their reunion uncertain.

• Wen Xishu learned from a radio report that Miracle Tower was already attracting rumors, then discovered that Scorpio Mode presented action options resolved by dice rolls.
• Wen Xishu left the homeless man and beat up a cyclist, using Mental Barrage to make him think about An Jincheng and Miracle Tower.
• Wen Xishu sensed A Hui's memory of Miracle Tower in South River District, took his phone, money, and bike, and rode toward the tower.
• A Miao woke up as a race car driver in Bell City District and chose to drive toward Miracle Tower.
• A Miao's Ferrari reversed away from the race and sped toward Miracle Tower while Wen Xishu wondered how she could reach him.

Wen Xishu stole a taxi to reach Miracle Tower, where he reunited with A Miao and used Wen Renjing’s necklace to pass through the building unnoticed. He reached the guarded door of apartment 42-7, where he hoped to find An Jincheng, and considered how long the tower’s influence might have transformed him.

• Wen Xishu carjacked a taxi after its driver refused to take him to Miracle Tower, earning a one-star wanted level as police pursued him.
• Wen Xishu evaded the police and met A Miao outside Miracle Tower; he asked her to wait nearby and help him escape when he called.
• Wen Xishu entered Miracle Tower by choosing to blend in, and Wen Renjing’s necklace made its residents and guards treat him as one of their own.
• Wen Xishu rode to the forty-first floor, passed guards on the stairs, and reached the entrance to apartment 42-7.
• Wen Xishu reflected that An Jincheng, later known as An Zhenqi, had been affected by Reverse Seven longer than the other residents.

Wen Xishu confronted An Jincheng in the Miracle Tower and pieced together the truth behind the Reverse Seven Project and its Formation Eye. After reading An Jincheng’s memories, he realized that his assumptions were wrong and that An Jincheng was not the An Zhenqi at the center of the story.

• Wen Xishu met An Jincheng, who believed the Miracle Tower was helping people and refused to leave, while Wen Xishu noticed that his generosity seemed less distorted than the other residents’ reversed traits.
• Wen Xishu questioned An Jincheng’s claim that his grandfather had sent him, then told him about Ahn Young-jae’s deal with Scorpio and the plan to obtain miraculous power through the Reverse Seven Project.
• Wen Xishu touched An Jincheng’s Mental Barrage and saw his memory of Scorpio offering Ahn Young-jae a game in exchange for the chance to gain tremendous power before the apocalypse.
• Wen Xishu explained that the project required seven people representing reversed sins, with Greed as the Formation Eye, and said the core had to be Ahn Young-jae’s most beloved blood relative.
• Wen Xishu recalled the clue about An Jincheng’s carefully maintained good-for-nothing persona and concluded that his interpretation was wrong: An Jincheng was not the An Zhenqi in the story.

Wen Xishu uncovered that An Jincheng had planned to sacrifice himself for An Youxuan, then experienced memories revealing the brothers’ deep affection and the hidden memories of his own brother. He persuaded An Jincheng to oppose Ahn Young-jae and proposed finding the supernatural source inside Miracle Tower so the brothers could escape before the ritual’s second stage.

• Wen Xishu deduced that An Jincheng had concealed his generosity and intended to die in An Youxuan’s place, while An Youxuan was destined to become An Zhenqi.
• Wen Xishu touched An Jincheng’s Mental Barrage and experienced memories of the brothers protecting and supporting each other despite their apparent estrangement.
• The memories stirred Wen Xishu’s own buried memories of Wen Chaohua caring for him, and Wen Xishu realized that recalling his brother might awaken more of them.
• Wen Xishu warned An Jincheng that Ahn Young-jae’s ritual would endanger both brothers, and An Jincheng agreed to cooperate to save An Youxuan.
• Wen Xishu explained that Miracle Tower was acting as a ritual array and proposed finding and destroying the supernatural source controlling its occupants.
• Wen Xishu asked An Jincheng to recall any unusual features in Miracle Tower’s design that could help locate the source.

Wen Xishu found Scorpio’s Game Knife hidden in An Jincheng’s apartment, triggering the green-clad believers to riot and attack him. He and An Jincheng fought their way toward an escape as a hidden quest appeared to lead the An Family Brothers out of Qi City.

• An Jincheng recalled that Ahn Young-jae had sealed Miracle Tower after construction and waited for a suitable day before opening it.
• Wen Xishu deduced that the apartment’s seven-apartment pattern and hidden zodiac clues pointed to an object inside An Jincheng’s apartment.
• Wen Xishu found and took the scorpion-engraved Spanish Ham Knife, which was identified as Scorpio’s Game Knife and unlocked an additional hidden task.
• The Necklace’s effects ended, and the believers began rioting and rushing toward Wen Xishu after he took their protected token.
• Wen Xishu killed the green-clad guards blocking his way while An Jincheng escaped down another staircase toward a waiting Ferrari.
• Wen Xishu fought his way to the first floor, where the hidden quest to lead the An Family Brothers out of Qi City appeared.

Wen Xishu and An Jincheng fled Qi City for Incheon Port, while An Youxuan defied Ahn Young-jae and set out to join them. Their choices overturned the mission’s original fate, and the Strange Tower began a simulation to rewrite everyone’s memories.

• Wen Xishu escaped Miracle Tower with A Miao and An Jincheng, then urged An Jincheng to contact An Youxuan and flee with them to Incheon Port.
• An Jincheng failed to persuade An Youxuan to leave at first, but An Youxuan reconsidered after Secretary Bai Mu'en recalled refusing her brother’s childhood plea for protection.
• An Youxuan ordered Wu Feichi to drive him to Incheon Port and defied Ahn Young-jae’s command to return; Ahn Young-jae told Kim Jaemin to pursue the brothers without catching them.
• A Miao drove the Ferrari past the police as the group neared Incheon Port, where a white light stopped time and the Strange Tower announced that the mission’s fate had changed.
• The Strange Tower revealed the original ending in which Ahn Young-jae killed An Jincheng and turned An Youxuan into the perfect sacrifice, then began a simulation to modify players’ memories.

Wen Xishu and A Miao completed the prerequisite mission by helping An Jincheng and An Youxuan survive, unlocking a level-seven mission and changing the Miracle Project’s future. Back on the Strange Tower’s seventh floor, Wen Xishu explored the reset building and set out to learn who now lived on the Forty-Second Floor.

• A Miao and Wen Xishu learned that both An Family brothers had survived, the Miracle Project had changed, and the mission had unlocked the Demon King of Qi City storyline.
• Wen Xishu explained that the brothers’ loyalty to each other had completed their mission, and he asked A Miao to keep the Invitation Letter secret.
• A Miao and Wen Xishu returned to the Strange Tower, where A Miao’s face had healed and their teammates reviewed the current mission situation.
• Wen Xishu ended the meeting, spent fifty action points, and explored the building by reaching the Forty-Second Floor from above.
• Wen Xishu found that the guards and tower layout remained much as before, then wondered who lived on the Forty-Second Floor now that An Jincheng and An Youxuan were gone.