Chapter Summaries

Ji Yan used the Playful Mask to disguise himself as Liu Cuihua, a female Life Attendant, and entered the trial at Room 102. He joined six other players, including the hostile Gao Xiong, while the blond player began plotting to prey on him.

• Ji Yan put on the human-face mask and endured it painfully transforming his appearance and gender.
• Ji Yan entered the Courtyard House at Room 102, where six players were already gathered for the C-tier trial.
• Ji Yan introduced himself as Liu Cuihua, an Eerie Disciple of the Life Attendant Sequence, and claimed he had survived in the Dungeon for only two days.
• Gao Xiong scolded Ji Yan for revealing his Sequence, then warned him to stay away during the trial.
• The blond player eyed Ji Yan and considered eating him once the trial began.

Kong Yi learned that Q had entered the Nightmare Fall Eerie Town Dungeon, while Xu Xin abandoned her task and followed Ji Yan there. In the Dungeon, Ji Yan and the other players accepted a trial to catch a thief before nightfall, and two teammates offered to protect him in exchange for healing.

• Xu Xin returned to Kong Yi, learned that Q had gone to the Nightmare Fall Eerie Town Dungeon, and accepted a side quest there to find Ji Yan.
• Kong Yi warned Xu Xin that Q might be targeting her, then stayed behind as Order teleported Xu Xin away.
• Ji Yan assessed the six players gathered outside the hunchbacked eerie's house and identified the blond player's likely sequence.
• The hunchbacked eerie announced that the players had to catch a thief who stole his belongings and three old remains before nightfall, or one player would have to stay in his house overnight.
• Gao Xiong told Ji Yan not to follow him, while a paired male and female player invited Ji Yan along and offered protection in exchange for healing.

Ji Yan and the other players entered the filthy pavilion to search for a thief, but the thief’s unseen attack left them bleeding heavily. As the others turned on Ji Yan for his healing properties, he backed into a corner with a piece of Thunderstruck Wood hidden behind him.

• The players entered the pavilion and found it filthy, while Ji Yan recalled that Sequence Main Quest 29 concerned a Spirit Caller's minion.
• Gao Xiong insisted that the Time-Traces Thief's minion use her privilege to find the thief, then intimidated her and the others into following his arrangements.
• Ji Yan sensed something in the clutter, but his growling stomach distracted him as a shadow moved across the ceiling.
• The thief appeared among the players, vanished, and slashed open everyone's chests without visibly attacking before taunting them from the third-floor roof.
• Gao Xiong healed himself with a severed palm and ran for the stairs, leaving the wounded players to surround Ji Yan and threaten to use his blood and meat to recover.
• Ji Yan backed into a corner and secretly gripped a charred piece of Thunderstruck Wood.

Ji Yan, Leng Ling, and Hong Shuang were separated from the other players and discovered that a hidden Eerie was manipulating the trial. They faced an Invisible Eerie at the door, while Ji Yan realized the trial’s thief was not the only threat.

• The building shifted, transporting Ji Yan, Leng Ling, and Hong Shuang into a damp room, where Ji Yan inferred that the thief’s wounds carried a hidden effect.
• Ji Yan used a filthy rag to heal the bleeding players, and Leng Ling’s forced germophobia made her recoil from it while she and Hong Shuang exchanged hostile remarks.
• Leng Ling tried to leave, but Ji Yan sensed an Eerie approaching and explained that the house might contain more than one thief.
• An Eerie knocked at the door, blamed the women for its ruined state, and threatened to kill every woman in town as black sludge seeped into the room.
• Ji Yan recognized the creature as an Invisible Eerie, then heard a scream from behind him.

Ji Yan used Leng Ling’s blood-cleansing privilege and a centipede to force the Invisible Eerie to reveal itself, then brought out the blood-clad Eerie shadow to kill it. Afterward, Leng Ling confronted him for deliberately making her use up much of her old remnant’s privilege, while the blood-clad Eerie shadow declared that Ji Yan was under her protection.

• Ji Yan saw Leng Ling and Hong Shuang covered in eerie pustules, and Leng Ling cut her palm to dispel the marks with her crystalline blood.
• The Invisible Eerie twisted Ji Yan, Leng Ling, and Hong Shuang’s heads and remained hidden as its ability continued to worsen.
• Ji Yan put a centipede in Leng Ling’s collar, making her scream and forcing the Invisible Eerie to reassemble; Hong Shuang used her old remnant to track its location.
• Ji Yan threw a cracked oil-paper umbrella toward the Invisible Eerie, and the blood-clad Eerie shadow appeared and twisted off its head, freeing Ji Yan’s neck.
• Leng Ling accused Ji Yan of deliberately making her expend her old remnant’s privilege, and the blood-clad Eerie shadow told her that Ji Yan was under her protection.

Ji Yan and the others discovered that the C-rank trial was a trap, with Liu Zheng hunting the players while they still had no idea how to complete the mission. As night approached, Liu Zheng appeared but collapsed dead before he could reach them.

• Ji Yan searched the Head-Twisting Eerie's corpse and realized it had been brought into the trial from outside.
• The group found a drained corpse and identified its killer as blondie, an Eerie follower of the Eerie King of Gluttony who could use Blood Lock to survive fatal damage.
• Hong Shuang's baby-faced teammate arrived injured and said Liu Zheng had attacked their group, draining one player and forcing him to flee.
• Ji Yan and the others realized they had all entered through the Eerie Old Woman's private trial, which had been falsely labeled C-rank and was likely a trap.
• With night approaching and Order still silent, Liu Zheng approached the group but fell dead with his spine missing.

Ji Yan uncovered that an eighth player had been posing as the Thief Eerie and using copied Sequence privileges to kill players through trickery. He deduced the thief had infiltrated their group as a victim, and the supposed younger brother attacked Hong Shuang as the chapter ended.

• Liu Zheng died after Gao Xiong used the Life Attendant's Old Remains privilege to heal him with too many Eerie Infants.
• The group found Gao Xiong's body and could not explain who had killed him, while Hong Shuang and Leng Ling gave up on the trial.
• Ji Yan concluded that an eighth player had secretly joined the trial, copied Sequence privileges, and killed players to advance the Foolish Play Eerie Servant mission.
• Ji Yan reasoned that the trial had two opposing camps and that the thief would have to kill the thief-catchers before nightfall.
• Ji Yan suggested the thief had entered their group disguised as a victim, prompting Leng Ling and Hong Shuang to suspect Hong Shuang's supposed younger brother.
• Hong Shuang's supposed younger brother stabbed her and revealed that he had skinned her real brother alive.

Ji Yan defeated the acne-faced player and discovered that the C-rank trial was actually an A+ Rank trial with the hunchback eerie helping his opponent. After the six o’clock chime, the player summoned a powerful white-clothed Grudge Eerie, but she returned to her hairpin after declaring that no such person was found.

• The acne-faced player revealed his disguise and used a bladeless hilt to wound Leng Ling, but Ji Yan escaped inside the blood-clothed eerie’s umbrella.
• Ji Yan cut off the acne-faced player’s arm and head with his eerie blade, then learned that the man had three minutes remaining on his Blood Lock privilege.
• Ji Yan used Omniscient Understanding to uncover that the trial was actually A+ Rank and that the hunchback eerie had helped the acne-faced player by letting him enter early, concealing his identity, and changing Ji Yan’s objective.
• After the six o’clock chime, the acne-faced player revealed that he had glimpsed Ji Yan’s profile page and summoned a white-clothed Grudge Eerie from a hairpin.
• The acne-faced player ordered the eerie to kill Liu Cuihua, but she found no such person and returned to the hairpin.

Ji Yan killed the thief despite the trial’s demand to capture him alive, then confronted the hunchback eerie and received one piece of old remains as his reward. After Leng Ling and Ji Yan were expelled from the pavilion, a towering eerie in mourning clothes appeared behind him and asked whether he followed the Life Attendant.

• Ji Yan revealed his killing intent after the thief realized Ji Yan was a follower of the Eerie Game Master, then smashed the thief’s head with an eerie knife.
• Ji Yan received basic rewards for eliminating a follower of Sequence 27, but the hairpin vanished because it did not belong to the thief.
• Ji Yan carried the corpse to the hunchback eerie, who canceled the reward because the thief had not been captured alive.
• The hunchback eerie gave Ji Yan one of the three pieces of old remains after Ji Yan questioned him about the Eerie Dao, while Leng Ling received nothing.
• As Ji Yan and Leng Ling left the pavilion, a towering eerie in mourning clothes asked Ji Yan whether he followed the Life Attendant.

Ji Yan received his West Town residence key and encountered Jian, a pink-haired player on the single-digit sequence 6 Main Quest. After Jian offered Leng Ling a cooperative trial and gave Ji Yan a gift, she asked how he had killed her younger brother.

• The Management Eerie gave Ji Yan the key to his fixed residence at Rose Street No. 44 and warned him about the dangers after dark.
• Ji Yan met Jian and a blind-looking male player on the road, and Leng Ling recognized the number 6 pattern on Jian as a sign of an odd-numbered sequence Main Quest.
• Leng Ling introduced herself as a follower of sequence 29, and Jian offered her a trial with additional rewards for cooperating.
• Jian pinched Ji Yan's cheek, gave him the resentment hairpin that had disappeared from his hand, and asked how he had killed her younger brother.

Jian confronted Ji Yan over her younger brother’s death, survived his attack, and pursued him while the Management Eerie accepted her payment and withdrew. Ji Yan tried to stall for five minutes, but Jian turned his own White Clad Eerie Shadow against him, leaving him facing death as his oil-paper umbrella emerged on its own.

• Jian questioned Ji Yan about killing her younger brother, and Ji Yan blasted her with the Burning Death Eerie’s electric power.
• Jian emerged unharmed from her charred body, and the Management Eerie left after she offered it a finger and invoked the Thousand Eerie Priest.
• Ji Yan ordered the Burning Death Eerie to stall Jian for five minutes and ran, while Jian restrained the eerie.
• Jian made Ji Yan’s bad-luck hair clip fall off, releasing the White Clad Eerie Shadow, which caught up and reached for his forehead.
• As the Burning Death Eerie struggled against Jian, Ji Yan prepared to draw his knives, but his oil-paper umbrella emerged on its own.

Ji Yan escaped the collapsing Abandoned Dungeon, but his old remains mask began to break as pursuers discovered he was an out-of-print Eerie Game Master sequence disciple. Blind Man caught up to him and revealed his Seventh Sequence identity.

• Blood Sis emerged and wounded White Clad Eerie Shadow with Ji Yan’s Absolute Strike, then said that eating the eerie could let her transform.
• Jian repeatedly revived after Burning Death Eerie electrocuted her, while Blind Man identified Ji Yan’s eerie blade as an exceptional weapon and sensed its bloodline of advancement.
• Blind Man recognized Ji Yan as an Eerie Game Master sequence disciple and pursued him, with Jian following despite objecting to his interference.
• Ji Yan fled without receiving the expected treasure chest, then earned hidden-trial progress as his Eerie Fate Master mask began to crack and lift.
• Blind Man caught up to Ji Yan, called him an out-of-print golden fish, and Ji Yan noticed the number seven on Blind Man’s hand, identifying him as a Seventh Sequence eerie disciple.

Ji Yan fought the Blind Man and Jian while the Blood-clad Eerie Shadow was badly wounded, and the Burning Death Eerie refused to help. After escaping with the Blood-clad Eerie Shadow, Ji Yan reached Rose Street, Number 44, but the Blind Man and Jian caught up with him.

• The Blind Man copied Ji Yan's eerie knife, while Jian and the White Clad Eerie Shadow attacked the Blood-clad Eerie Shadow and tore off her shoulder.
• The Burning Death Eerie ended its forced service and retreated into the Thunderstruck Wood, leaving Ji Yan to face the attackers without its help.
• Ji Yan checked his Game Panel as his body began transforming, then used a Coffin Nail to make Jian's body explode.
• The Blood-clad Eerie Shadow burst free of the White Clad Eerie Shadow's black hair in a cloud of blood mist and carried Ji Yan away.
• Ji Yan sent the severely injured Blood-clad Eerie Shadow back into her umbrella and stopped outside Rose Street, Number 44, where the Blind Man and Jian caught up.

Ji Yan escaped Jian and the Blind Man by reaching his residence and using its protective order, then ate and examined the badly damaged oil-paper umbrella. He learned that saving Blood Sis required a rare Eerie or specific materials, and a warning about the mysterious “It” left him facing danger inside his home.

• Ji Yan reached his residence just ahead of Jian and the Blind Man, requested dinner, and triggered its protective order.
• Jian and the Blind Man tried to enter after disguising themselves as players, but the residence's order blasted them away; they planned to return after midnight.
• An eerie mist changed Ji Yan's apartment number from 44 to 444 after the pursuers left.
• Ji Yan found Blood Sis severely injured inside the cracked oil-paper umbrella, then ate dinner and recovered his condition to 40%.
• Ji Yan used Omniscient Understanding and learned the umbrella could be repaired by consuming a matching Grudge Eerie or temporarily using Blood Priest materials.
• A notification warned Ji Yan to finish his leftovers or the “It” that prepared his dinner would get angry.

Ji Yan discovered that his safe house on No. 444 Rose Street was occupied by a family of Invisible Eeries and chose to sleep beside the granddaughter. As he fell into a nightmare, the Blind Man and Jian broke into his residence and found the bed and dolls behaving horrifically around him.

• Ji Yan noticed the Invisible Eeries in his house and followed the Game Panel's prompts to wash up and go to bed.
• Ji Yan chose the second-floor bed beside the Eerie granddaughter, and the panel said she and her dolls were happy he had joined them.
• At midnight, Ji Yan dreamed of floating above a sea before sea urchins stabbed him and turned the dream into a nightmare.
• The Blind Man and Jian exploited a loophole to enter No. 444 Rose Street and sensed that Ji Yan's residence was unusually full of Eerie scents.
• The Blind Man and Jian found Ji Yan asleep on the second floor, with the bed melting into brownish-yellow liquid and the dolls crawling over him.

Jian and Blind Man discovered that Safe House No. 44 held eeries with powerful Sequence privileges, and their attempt to escape ended with Blind Man dead. The mysterious house’s tiny, hunched resident disposed of the creature born from him and prepared it as food for her grandson.

• Jian and Blind Man saw that an eerie was consuming Ji Yan, then heard narration announcing that the eerie was pleased to welcome its guests.
• Jian summoned White Clad Eerie Shadow, but a Nightmare Tourist ability put it to sleep and forced Jian and Blind Man to flee downstairs.
• The pair found the stairway blocked the sleep-inducing power, but another eerie’s Fallen Matriarch ability implanted pregnancy seeds in their stomachs.
• Blind Man tried to cut open his abdomen, but his seed had matured and killed him, while Jian escaped using a life-saving eerie item.
• A tiny, hunched eerie restrained Blind Man’s newborn seed, tossed it into a boiling pot, and prepared a tonic meal for her grandson.

Jian discovered that Building No. 44 was actually the hidden Number 444 Easter egg and fled after surviving its brood seed. In Number 444, Ji Yan woke from a lethal dream, but his angry little-sister eerie began darkening and tried to force him back to sleep.

• Jian escaped the safe house, retrieved her four old remains, and crushed the brood seed that emerged from her abdomen.
• Jian realized Sister Rose’s No. 44 had become Number 444, a hidden Easter egg rather than a safe house, and left in the rain.
• A map-wide notice announced that a Seventh Sequence Eerie Disciple player had been eliminated and that a replacement would be matched at 6:00 a.m.
• Ji Yan woke in Number 444 after Burning Death Eerie electrocuted him out of a deadly dream.
• Ji Yan’s little-sister eerie became angry, summoned a shadow that spread toward his feet, and tried to force him back to sleep.

Ji Yan escaped Burning Death Eerie by going downstairs, where Eerie Grandmother fed him and told him the intruders had been killed. After surviving the night, he received a new trial mission and was automatically assigned a Playful Mask.

• Ji Yan escaped Eerie Sister's shadow by asking Eerie Grandmother for food, then ran downstairs as the sister's narration accused him of abandoning her.
• Eerie Grandmother gave Ji Yan black porridge made with a dead intruder, and he ate it before resting in her room.
• Ji Yan learned from Burning Death Eerie that the intruders had been killed and recognized one corpse as the Blind Man.
• Ji Yan stayed awake through the night, hearing strange noises and a woman's cries, until the town's bell marked the change from night to day.
• The Game Panel assigned Ji Yan a difficulty-B trial at Gardenia Street, coordinates Number 201, and the Sequence Panel automatically loaded a new Playful Mask.
• Ji Yan saw the black cup in his Tool Bar transform into a piece of human facial skin.

Ji Yan entered the Siren Seductress Sequence and arrived at an abandoned school for a team-based trial. He learned that his team had to race another group to assemble a puzzle, while warning his teammates that his bad luck might ruin their promising lineup.

• Ji Yan transformed into Shi Yu, discovered the Siren Seductress privilege and its unusually soothing voice, then set out for the trial at Number 201.
• Kong Yi reviewed how Q's hidden Easter egg had helped Ji Yan and noted that X had likely finished loading an NPC role before leaving the Tier 6 dungeon to report back.
• Ji Yan reached the abandoned school and met three players, who identified him as a Siren Seductress Eerie Disciple and told him to touch the stone statue's eye.
• Ji Yan learned that the eight players were split into two teams racing to assemble a puzzle, with three pieces of Old Remains as the reward.
• The bespectacled man described their team's lineup as nearly unbeatable, but Ji Yan warned that his bad luck could turn their promising odds against them.

Chi Changsheng divided the four players into two teams to search the trial grounds for puzzle pieces, and Ying and Ji Yan entered the middle route together. An unseen group found all four opposing players and began an operation to hunt them down.

• Chi Changsheng, Ying, Ling Lu, and Ji Yan introduced themselves and compared their Main Quest paths and progress.
• Chi Changsheng assigned Ling Lu to his team and paired Ying with Ji Yan, directing them to search the middle and left routes.
• Ying explained the Dull Prophet sequence's advantages to Ji Yan as they traveled through a corridor, but Ji Yan said he already knew the sequence information.
• Ying and Ji Yan detected a puzzle piece in a room ahead, while an eyeball secretly watched them from the corridor wall.
• A blond man learned that all four opposing players had been found and ordered his group to prioritize hunting them over completing the puzzle.