Chapter Summaries

A blood-robed ghostly figure killed the Bandage Eerie to claim Ji Yan, who ate its cooked flesh to recover and learned how the Eerie Bus operated. After the bus stopped and Liu Congming was freed from his seatmate, he told Ji Yan how he had boarded while fleeing an Eerie Rider and hinted that he had met a girl surnamed Luo.

• The blood-robed ghostly figure ripped out the Bandage Eerie’s tongue, killed it, paid its coins into the fare box, and declared Ji Yan her personal possession.
• Ji Yan used the Gluttony Cutlery to eat the Bandage Eerie’s cooked flesh, restoring his condition while the blood-robed ghostly figure joined him.
• Ji Yan triggered Omniscient Understanding and learned that the Eerie Bus sought coins, and that he needed to help it earn 1,000 Eerie Coins to get off.
• At the third stop, the female eerie passenger left the bus, freeing Liu Congming to speak with Ji Yan.
• Liu Congming explained that an Eerie Rider had chased him onto the bus and revealed that he had run into an old acquaintance, a girl surnamed Luo.

Ji Yan and Liu Congming rode an endless Eerie Bus, where Ji Yan killed boarding Eerie Passengers and fed their coins into the fare box. After the bus turned dark and its phantom passengers targeted Ji Yan, Liu Congming’s phone rang again, signaling that the Eerie Rider was still pursuing him.

• Liu Congming told Ji Yan that Luo Xixi and other players had encountered the Eerie Rider before he escaped onto the bus, and Ji Yan proposed robbing Eerie Passengers to pay the fare.
• Unlucky Eerie shifted danger onto Ji Yan, and Ji Yan killed two drowned Eerie Passengers with his eerie blade, looted them, and paid twenty Eerie Coins.
• Ji Yan repeatedly killed Eerie Passengers at later stops and realized that the bus had no terminal after the Dungeon collapsed.
• An Eerie Passenger appeared to alert the bus to something tempting about Ji Yan, causing the bus to speed into thick fog and its phantom passengers to attack him.
• Ji Yan suspected the Libra Totem had drawn the bus’s hostility, while Liu Congming’s old-fashioned phone rang and he complained that the Eerie Rider would not leave him alone.

Ji Yan tried to escape the Eerie Bus while the three Eerie Passengers attacked, but the Blood-Clothed Eerie Shadow bought him five minutes to make a plan. He used Liu Congming’s cursed phone to summon Eerie Rider, leaving Liu doomed and the confrontation yet to come.

• Liu Congming explained that the Eerie Cellphone always brought Eerie Rider after him, while Ji Yan refused to give the Eerie Passengers the Libra Totem.
• The three Eerie Passengers attacked again, and Ji Yan summoned the Blood-Clothed Eerie Shadow, who agreed to hold them off for five minutes.
• Ji Yan examined the phone and learned that its Grudge Eerie would track down anyone who answered, ignored, or abandoned it.
• Ji Yan told Liu Congming to answer Eerie Rider’s call and provoke it so it would come to the Eerie Bus.
• Liu Congming insulted Eerie Rider over the phone, and Ji Yan told him that answering had made his death certain.

Ji Yan and Liu Congming faced the Eerie Passengers aboard the Eerie Bus as Eerie Umbrella Blood Robe withdrew after defeating two of them. The Eerie Rider boarded the bus and targeted Liu Congming after the phone in his pocket rang.

• Eerie Umbrella Blood Robe killed two Eerie Passengers, then returned to her umbrella, leaving Ji Yan to face the rest.
• The Eerie Passengers demanded Ji Yan hand over the totem, but he refused and stalled for time.
• The Eerie Rider arrived, and the Eerie Bus allowed it to board instead of fighting it.
• The Eerie Passengers claimed Ji Yan while the Eerie Rider identified Liu Congming as the person it had come to collect.
• Liu Congming tried to deny being customer number 3697, but the phone in his pocket rang.

Ji Yan used the Libra Totem’s Absolute Balance privilege to turn the Eerie Rider’s suspicion toward the Eerie Passengers. After the Eerie Rider killed another passenger, the bus’s occupants rose against him, leaving the conflict on the verge of erupting.

• The Eerie Rider mistook an Eerie Passenger for Liu Congming, killed it, and searched the bus for customer 3697.
• Liu Congming revealed that he had blended in among the Eerie Passengers, while the Eerie Rider prepared to leave and hunt for him.
• The Eerie Passengers cornered Ji Yan and dismissed his attempts to use the Libra Totem against them.
• Ji Yan activated the Libra Totem’s Absolute Balance privilege, making the Eerie Rider perceive hostility from the Eerie Passengers.
• The Eerie Rider accused an Eerie Passenger of coveting his order and killed it, prompting the other passengers to stand against him.

Ji Yan fought the Eerie Passengers aboard the blood-soaked Eerie Bus while Liu Congming escaped with the oil-paper umbrella Ji Yan entrusted to him. Outside, Liu Congming opened the umbrella and was confronted by the blood-robed eerie, who took it from him.

• The Eerie Rider mistook the Eerie Passengers’ hostility for an attack and fought them, while the leading Eerie Passenger turned on Ji Yan.
• Ji Yan gave Liu Congming his Epic Quality oil-paper umbrella and urged him to escape, then survived a chest wound with his Legendary Quality Death Substitution vest.
• The Eerie Bus flooded with blood and trapped Ji Yan beneath grasping hands as the leading Eerie Passenger tried to take the Eerie Eyeball from his hand.
• Liu Congming slipped out of the bus and opened the oil-paper umbrella, summoning the blood-robed eerie.
• The blood-robed eerie called Liu Congming an idiot and took the umbrella from him.

Ji Yan escaped the Eerie Bus with Liu Congming’s help, but the battered Eerie Rider survived and confronted them. Before they could fight, a suited group dragged the Rider into a Black Box, and Ji Yan and Liu Congming recognized Luo Xixi among them.

• Ji Yan teleported to the oil-paper umbrella after the blood-clad eerie shadow threw it to him, and he explained the umbrella’s ability to Liu Congming.
• Liu Congming and Ji Yan inspected the Eerie Rider’s abandoned electric scooter as the Eerie Bus exploded and drove away into the mist.
• The battered Eerie Rider emerged from the mist, ignored Ji Yan and Liu Congming, and tried to locate customer 3697 to eliminate a bad review.
• The Eerie Rider recognized Liu Congming after his disguise wore off, but a pitch-black projectile struck it and a chain dragged it into a Black Box.
• Seven figures in suits emerged from the gray mist, and Ji Yan and Liu Congming spotted Luo Xixi among them.

Ji Yan and Liu Congming encountered Xu Qiu’s team, who had captured the Eerie Rider and sought players to help them escape the Abandoned Dungeon. Ji Yan joined the Dawn Society after learning they could offer information about the dungeon, while Luo Xixi’s lookalike, Lü Xiu, remained a mystery.

• Xu Qiu’s team welcomed Ji Yan and Liu Congming to the Abandoned Dungeon after capturing the Eerie Rider, and explained that they were hunting it for a larger plan.
• Liu Congming mistook Lü Xiu for Luo Xixi, but she did not recognize him and said she had been eliminated from a Tier 5 dungeon.
• Ji Yan guessed that returning to the Order dungeon involved the twelve Constellation Totems, and Xu Qiu confirmed the team was pursuing them.
• Xu Qiu offered Ji Yan information about the Abandoned Dungeon and three Constellation Totems in exchange for joining his team.
• Ji Yan joined the Dawn Society and said Liu Congming would come along as its mascot, then learned Lü Xiu’s name.

Xu Qiu explained Dawn Society’s plan to hunt the injured Magician Eerie and obtain the Aries Totem, which could help reveal a way out of the Dungeon. Ji Yan joined the group to gain information, and as night fell, he asked Xu Qiu to explain their plan for entering the Grievance Death Building.

• Xu Qiu revealed that the Magician Eerie held the Aries Totem and that Dawn Society planned to use the Eerie Rider to learn its abilities and restrain it.
• Lü Xiu explained that Dawn Society sought two Constellation Totems because their collision could reveal a clue to escaping the Dungeon.
• Xu Qiu invited Ji Yan and Liu Congming to join the group, and Lü Xiu and Ji Yan teased Liu Congming by calling him their mascot.
• Ji Yan told Liu Congming that he wanted Dawn Society’s information, though he did not trust the group or know what they were after.
• At the group’s night camp, Ji Yan stopped Liu Congming from mentioning the Gluttony Cutlery and asked Xu Qiu to explain the next day’s hunt plan.

Xu Qiu tested Ji Yan’s story about escaping the Eerie Food Tower, then used his memory-stealing ability to expose Lü Xiu as Luo Xixi and uncover her history with Ji Yan. He discovered Ji Yan’s Omniscient Understanding and demanded that Ji hand over the Libra Totem.

• Xu Qiu questioned how Ji Yan escaped the Eerie Food Tower, and Ji claimed he had been thrown out in a daze.
• Xu Qiu confronted Lü Xiu about her connection to Ji Yan and pulled a strip of memory film from her head, revealing her real name was Luo Xixi.
• Xu Qiu punished Luo Xixi for hiding her identity and read the film to uncover her partnership with Ji Yan and his Omniscient Understanding.
• Xu Qiu burned the memory film and demanded to know when Ji Yan would hand over the Libra Totem.

Xu Qiu accused Ji Yan of hiding the Libra Totem and revealed his plan to control the team and steal Ji Yan’s memories. As Xu Qiu moved to seize him, Ji Yan hinted that he had a new weapon and asked the others to find his missing oiled-paper umbrella.

• Xu Qiu claimed Ji Yan had the Libra Totem and urged him to join the team’s plan to hunt the Magician Eerie, while Dawn Society players accused Ji Yan of withholding his trump cards.
• Ji Yan identified traps in Xu Qiu’s words and suspected his Term Talent could force a player to reveal information; Xu Qiu accused Ji Yan of having an SSS-rank Term Talent and coveted his abilities as well as the totem.
• Xu Qiu’s heart-linked punishment caused severe pain to Ji Yan, Liu Congming, Luo Xixi, and the other players, and Xu Qiu said Liu Congming would be used to probe the Magician Eerie in the Grievance Death Building.
• Xu Qiu announced he would extract Ji Yan’s memory film and tame him, citing Ji Yan’s known abilities and equipment.
• Ji Yan calmly said Xu Qiu’s information was outdated and asked the others to look for his missing oiled-paper umbrella.

Ji Yan and Xu Qiu’s confrontation paused when an Eerie infiltrated the room undetected, appearing as an unidentifiable tenth person among the group. Luo Xixi revealed a Death Foresight showing Xu Qiu killed by an Eerie ten minutes later.

• The blood-clad eerie shadow tried to crush Xu Qiu’s throat, but Xu Qiu shared his pain with Ji Yan and forced her to stop.
• Xu Qiu approached Ji Yan to take his memory film, but the Eerie-detecting Torch flickered and alerted the group to a nearby Eerie.
• Ji Yan warned Xu Qiu that something abnormal was in the room, and Xu Qiu discovered there were ten people despite only nine being present.
• Xu Qiu had the group state their names and line up, but no one could identify the extra person, and even the blood-clad eerie shadow could not detect it.
• Ji Yan noticed Luo Xixi’s reaction, and she revealed a Death Foresight; Xu Qiu extracted her memory film and saw himself being killed by an Eerie ten minutes later.

The Magician Eerie appeared before Xu Qiu's group, completely undetected by their torch and other senses, and began a deadly magic performance. Its trick killed everyone in the room as Luo Xixi had foreseen, leaving the group facing the same impending death scene.

• Xu Qiu watched Luo Xixi's Death Foresight memory and saw that everyone's heads would fall off in seven minutes, then realized the invisible tenth presence was responsible.
• The Magician Eerie revealed itself in the room, mocked the group, and explained that its ability blocked all perception, including the Eerie-detecting Torch.
• A Buzz Cut Player tried to reach the suitcase containing the Rider Eerie, but his head fell off before he could get there.
• The Ponytail Player shot the Magician Eerie, but it healed instantly and made her neck explode, returning the bullet as a grisly trick.
• The Magician Eerie performed Shared Boat, Shared Crossing, and the heads of the guests fell from their necks just as Luo Xixi had foreseen.

The Magician Eerie’s tricks made the players’ heads fall off and drove some toward Eerie Transformation, but Xu Qiu realized the performance itself could not kill them. The Magician Eerie then invited a Root Eerie inside, leaving Ji Yan and the others facing a real threat.

• The headless players panicked as their health drained, and several began transforming into Puppet Eeries.
• Xu Qiu told the others to resist their fear, recognizing that the Magician Eerie’s magic could not truly kill them.
• Liu Congming asked Ji Yan what to do, and Ji Yan learned that Liu’s Death Substitution skill had not triggered.
• The Magician Eerie rejected Xu Qiu’s claim that he had exposed its tricks and announced the second stage of its show.
• The Magician Eerie opened the window and invited a lurking monster inside, causing the Eerie-detecting Torch to burn out.
• The Root Eerie entered and transformed the Buzz Cut Player and another Dawn Society member into parts of itself, prompting Ji Yan to realize they had to escape the magic’s restrictions.

Ji Yan confronted the Magician Eerie and claimed to expose how it had made the guests think their heads had fallen off. After the guests reunited with their bodies, the Magician Eerie suspected Ji Yan carried a card that could see through its secrets, while Ji Yan privately knew his explanation was entirely fabricated.

• The blood-clad eerie shadow attacked the Magician Eerie, but it escaped and used the Eerie Taming Handbag to swallow the oil-paper umbrella.
• The Magician Eerie began its third mini-act by releasing mutated white doves, and Ji Yan told it the show was over.
• Ji Yan claimed that mirrors distorted the guests’ vision and drugs paralyzed their bodies, making them believe their heads had fallen off.
• Ji Yan and the other guests sensed their bodies, watched them rise, and put their heads back onto their necks.
• The Magician Eerie suspected Ji Yan had a card that could see through its heart, while Ji Yan privately admitted that he had invented his explanation.

Ji Yan exposed the basis of Magician Eerie’s power and worked with Liu Congming to confront it, while Xu Qiu released Rider Eerie to attack it. Magician Eerie revealed that Xu Qiu had misunderstood the past encounter and prepared an Aries Totem as it left them to face Rider Eerie.

• Ji Yan realized Magician Eerie’s power depended on the Audience believing in its magic, then explained the weakness and asked Liu Congming to use Death Substitution against it.
• Magician Eerie tried to leave Grievance Death Building with the black suitcases as its malformed doves filled the room and disrupted everyone’s sight.
• Ji Yan and Xu Qiu grabbed suitcases, but Magician Eerie switched them: Ji Yan released Rider Eerie’s electric scooter, while Xu Qiu released Rider Eerie.
• Magician Eerie told Xu Qiu that Rider Eerie had not been its nemesis and that a larger, unseen Eerie had caused its injuries at Mist Eerie Ruin.
• Magician Eerie left Xu Qiu and the others to deal with Rider Eerie and revealed an Aries Totem playing card.

Ji Yan used the Libra Totem’s Balance Privilege to wound Magician Eerie and help the blood-clad eerie shadow confront Rider Eerie, then deduced that Magician Eerie was a Human Player wielding the Aries Totem. The room’s struggle continued as Magician Eerie returned and decapitated Xu Qiu for threatening Luo Xixi.

• Liu Congming used Death Substitution to approach Magician Eerie and tried to steal its card, but Magician Eerie saw through him and struck him.
• Ji Yan stabbed Magician Eerie with the Libra Totem’s Embroidery Needle, recovered the suitcase, and released the oil-paper umbrella.
• Ji Yan concluded that Magician Eerie was a Human Player because Liu Congming’s Death Substitution failed and its blood was bright red.
• Ji Yan used Absolute Balance to send the blood-clad eerie shadow to fight Rider Eerie, while Magician Eerie vanished from the room.
• Xu Qiu grabbed Luo Xixi and planned to use the Glass Heart Bottle to control Magician Eerie, but Magician Eerie reappeared and pulled off his head.

Ji Yan and his companions agreed to follow the Magician Eerie to the Grievance Death Building as the Mist Eerie Creature approached. With the Rider Eerie's hatred returning, Ji Yan devised a plan to use the magician player's Collector's Edition Magic Hat to send Liu Congming's Eerie Cellphone into the gray mist.

• The Magician Eerie revealed she was a female player, explained that she had imprisoned Xu Qiu to stop his Glass Heart Bottle from affecting them, and offered to cooperate with Ji Yan for a Totem-related clue.
• The female player explained that she and other original players became eliminated players after their Dungeon collapsed, then warned that a Disaster-class Mist Eerie Creature was tracking their Constellation Totems.
• Ji Yan agreed to accompany the female player to the Grievance Death Building, where its inhabitants could keep the approaching creature at bay.
• The Mist Eerie Creature arrived, the Absolute Balance privilege ended, and the Rider Eerie's obsession with Liu Congming returned.
• Ji Yan took Liu Congming's Eerie Cellphone and asked the magician player to use her Magic Hat to send it into the gray mist, hoping to use what was inside against the Rider Eerie.

Ji Yan, Luo Xixi, and Liu Congming were swallowed by the female player's Magic Hat as the Graveyard Eerie began purging the ruined city. Ji Yan emerged in another building and discovered that he had become an Eerie.

• Ji Yan identified the female player's equipment as Lucifer's Magic Costume Set, and she used its Magic Hat to swallow him, Luo Xixi, and Liu Congming.
• The Graveyard Eerie arrived with chains of Black Coffins and imprisoned the Rider Eerie after destroying the Eerie Cellphone.
• The Graveyard Eerie sensed the female player, who escaped by wrapping herself in her cloak, though the gray mist stained it.
• The Graveyard Eerie continued its purge and noted that Libra and Aries had fallen into human thieves' hands.
• Ji Yan, Luo Xixi, and Liu Congming emerged in a living room, where an Eerie Old Woman warned that they carried the scent of other eerie ruins.
• Ji Yan looked in a mirror and saw that his face had become the face of an Eerie.

Ji Yan and his companions escaped the gray fog and found temporary refuge in Grievance Death Building, where they met Xue and learned that Luo Xixi had also arrived. After resting and eating, Ji Yan and Luo Xixi discussed their past survival game and the deal he still owed her, leaving their next cooperation unresolved.

• Xue brought Ji Yan, Liu Congming, and Luo Xixi into Grievance Death Building, where the Eerie Old Woman allowed them to stay for one night.
• Xue explained that the Graveyard Eerie had erased Liu Congming's Eerie Cellphone and dealt with the Rider Eerie, then introduced herself as Xue and invited Ji Yan to her room after an hour.
• Luo Xixi guessed that Xue's room could shield the Constellation Totems and explained that their cooperation concerned a Dungeon Key Fragment clue triggered between the two totems.
• Ji Yan and Liu Congming ate food in the room, and Ji Yan used the Gluttony Cutlery to turn part of a dried eerie corpse into beef, giving Luo Xixi the larger share.
• Luo Xixi said she had believed sacrificing herself would help Ji Yan clear their previous Dungeon, and Ji Yan told her not to blame herself for the Eerie Game's rules.
• Luo Xixi reminded Ji Yan that he had promised to take her through Eerie School of the End, and Ji Yan warned her that he was a cunning liar she could not trust.