Chapter Summaries

Ji Yan woke in the Real world believing his experiences in the Eerie Game had been a dream, but a bloodied crow attacked his family and pecked out his right eye. As his family tried to pull him away, the crow revealed its unnatural strength by tearing open Father's skull.

• Ji Yan reunited with his sister and parents, who dismissed his claim that he had been pulled into the Eerie Game as a dream.
• A crow repeatedly slammed into the bathroom window until it shattered, then attacked Ji Yan and pecked out his right eye.
• Father struck the crow with a baseball bat while Mother and his sister tried to move Ji Yan away from it.
• Ji Yan saw the crow remain unharmed and leap onto Father's head, piercing his skull and tearing off the top of it.

Ji Yan killed his parents and sister after blood triggered memories that convinced him his family and surroundings were part of a fabricated world. He enlisted the crow to make his death impossible to disguise, and the rescuers finally declared him beyond saving.

• Ji Yan killed his father and mother, then struck his sister with a baseball bat while trying to protect her from the crow.
• Ji Yan remembered that he was an orphan, questioned his dying sister’s identity, and saw a medical report diagnosing him with hereditary schizophrenia.
• Armed Police arrived and arrested Ji Yan, but he insisted that the events around him were being staged and called on the crow to help him.
• The crow slit Ji Yan’s throat and tore open his skull as medical staff rushed in to save him.
• The medical staff saw that the crow had eaten away Ji Yan’s brain and concluded that the patient was beyond saving.

Ji Yan learned that the white-eyed player had trapped him in a world created by Imaginary Order, where his deepest desires shaped reality. After Ji Yan resisted and escaped the illusion, the player revealed that the Order behind Ji Yan’s Term Talent surpassed the level of their Dungeon.

• Ji Yan awoke in a blank space and realized the white-eyed player was Sequence 0.
• The player created Ji Yan’s sister and then erased her, proving that Imaginary Order could create and destroy real human beings.
• The player explained that he had emptied Ji Yan’s memories and built a world to keep him happy, but Ji Yan had resisted waking up.
• The player said Ji Yan’s subconscious had created a warm family, while a Bug in Omniscient Understanding had become the uncontrollable crow that disrupted the world.
• Ji Yan learned that the crow had killed and eaten his brain in the created world, but Imaginary Order had repaired him.
• The player concluded that the Order behind Ji Yan’s Term Talent surpassed the level of their current Dungeon.

Ji Yan learned that the Sequence 0 gatekeeper was trapped by the duty of maintaining Nightmare Fall Eerie Town, then chose to clear the dungeon rather than replace him. The gatekeeper gave Ji Yan the remaining Old Remains and sent him to the mass grave to revive the Eerie Game Master, while leaving the NPC’s motive for drawing him into the Door of Fantasy unexplained.

• The white-eyed player explained that Sequence 0 players could replace him as gatekeeper or proceed to a higher-level dungeon, and that players who failed to wake from the World of Fantasy remained trapped in it.
• The white-eyed player described the gatekeeper’s burdens, including maintaining Order, reviewing the dungeon, and preventing it from becoming a Discarded Dungeon.
• Ji Yan chose to clear the dungeon and continue to higher-level dungeons rather than become the gatekeeper.
• The white-eyed player used Fantasy to create the remaining Old Remains for the Eerie Game Master and told Ji Yan to revive him at the mass grave.
• The white-eyed player revealed that the Eerie Game Master's Main Quest was not a dead end, but said he could not explain why the NPC had tricked Ji Yan into entering the Door of Fantasy.
• The white-eyed player transported Ji Yan to a misty forest and a grave marked by a stone monument.

The White-Eyed Player placed Nangong Tong, de-aged into an infant, into a world of his own making, while Ji Yan revived the Eerie Lord of Deception at the Mass Burial Mound. After a card-guessing game revealed the lord was Square Eerie Teacher, Kong Yi, Kong Yi gave Ji Yan his promised gift by ripping out his heart.

• The White-Eyed Player recognized the infant delivered by a dying eerie entity as Nangong Tong and used his power to create the world Nangong Tong had imagined.
• Ji Yan buried the Eerie Lord of Deception’s [Old Remains] at the [Mass Burial Mound], reviving the lord in a complete body.
• The Eerie Lord of Deception admitted that it had deceived Ji Yan to take the fastest route to revival and offered him a special gift.
• Ji Yan identified the trick on the playing card as its hidden letter and recognized the K-marked card from [Eerie School of the End].
• Ji Yan correctly guessed that the Eerie Lord of Deception was Square Eerie Teacher, Kong Yi, who then pierced his chest and pulled out his beating heart.

Ji Yan died after Kong Yi tore out his heart, but a conflict between Dungeon orders brought him to Kong Yi’s Tier 8 Dungeon instead of [Discarded Dungeon]. Xu Xin welcomed him to [Roaming God Forbidden Ruin], where he would enter the war between [Black Chess] and [White Chess].

• Ji Yan realized Kong Yi had been impersonating the Eerie Lord of Deception, then died as the Dungeon’s systems issued conflicting transfer orders.
• The white-eyed player erased the Eerie Lord of Deception, but Ji Yan’s death and transfer notifications collided and were replaced by an announcement from a higher-tier Dungeon.
• Ji Yan awoke among staged Eeries and recognized Kong Yi, who explained that Ji Yan’s curiosity and emotions had made him overlook [Omniscient Understanding].
• Ji Yan deduced that Kong Yi had killed him to move him onto the real chessboard and that Xu Xin’s promised gift had brought him directly to a Tier 8 Dungeon.
• Xu Xin appeared and welcomed Ji Yan to [Roaming God Forbidden Ruin], revealing a ruined cyber-steel city beneath a scarlet full moon.

Ji Yan entered the Tier 8 Roaming God Forbidden Ruin with Xu Xin and Kong Yi, learning that Kong Yi had used a privilege to promote him into the dungeon. The group set out to meet the dungeon’s Player and found a barely living eerie entity above Tier 10 behind a pair of iron doors.

• Ji Yan questioned Xu Xin and Kong Yi about the dungeon, and Xu Xin explained that Kong Yi had lost all his Chess Pieces and was relying on Ji Yan to survive.
• Xu Xin and Kong Yi explained that Chess Players could use Black Gloves to promote a quenched Chess Piece into a high-tier dungeon by ripping out its heart, while White Pieces required their brains to be removed.
• Xu Xin pointed out that Ji Yan would receive no completion reward because he had been eliminated, and Kong Yi warned that most of Ji Yan’s equipment and eerie entities were weak for this dungeon.
• Xu Xin and Kong Yi led Ji Yan through the desolate cyberpunk wasteland to meet the dungeon’s Boss, the Player.
• Ji Yan used Omniscient Understanding on the iron doors and saw that an unknown eerie entity above Tier 10 waited beyond them, barely alive.
• Xu Xin and Kong Yi opened the doors, revealing a massive eerie shadow seated in the darkness.

Ji Yan met the Black Chess Boss, Night Burial Maitreya, and learned that the Roaming God Forbidden Ruin was a chess room for a struggle spanning dungeons below Tier 8. After receiving the God of Wandering Privilege, he could enter dungeons of different tiers and role-play as an NPC.

• Ji Yan approached Night Burial Maitreya, who explained that [X] had wagered on him and would be annihilated if he were captured.
• Night Burial Maitreya revealed that Kong Yi had once earned the [Relying Chess to Live] privilege and that Black Chess was outnumbered by White Chess.
• Ji Yan learned that players on opposing sides placed pieces across dungeons below Tier 8, creating formations to capture one another.
• Night Burial Maitreya granted Ji Yan breath, unlocking the God of Wandering Privilege and eligibility to enter dungeons below Tier 8 with a basic NPC Role-Playing Card.

Ji Yan learned that the chess game between [Black Chess] and [White Chess] sustained the dungeon and that becoming a [Chess Player] required taking a letter codename from an opponent. After receiving his [Black Chess Garb], he learned the board was in dire straits and that his upcoming Main Quest would pit him against Order in another dungeon.

• [Night Burial Maitreya] told Ji Yan that the game had lasted countless days and months, and that he could learn its history after becoming a [Chess Player].
• Ji Yan realized he could become a [Chess Player] by killing the [White Chess] player and taking his letter codename.
• Kong Yi and Xu Xin met Ji Yan outside the darkness, and Xu Xin led him to Granny Sang Gui to receive his custom [Black Chess Garb].
• Xu Xin told Ji Yan that only twenty-two [Black Chess] pieces remained: eleven had gone silent, four were being surrounded, and seven were likely fishing in troubled waters.
• Xu Xin explained that [Black Chess] aimed to collapse Order dungeons, while [White Chess] aimed to perfect them.

Ji Yan learned how Chess Players and chess pieces entered lower-tier Dungeons and how Order ranked their NPCs. At the entrance, he met White Chess Players including Su He, and a huge shape began to emerge from the mist.

• Xu Xin explained that Chess Players had to excavate chess pieces and provide stakes, while Black Chess pieces received prompts to destroy Dungeons.
• The group left the steel city as its moon changed, and Granny Sang Gui warned Ji Yan that his outfit represented his identity.
• Xu Xin and Kong Yi explained the NPC rank system and warned that Ji Yan’s Lv. 1 role was cannon fodder, though chess pieces had special privileges.
• Three White Chess Players arrived, including Su He, who recognized Ji Yan as the Black Chess piece connected to the Eerie Game Master’s disciple.
• Kong Yi and the blond White Chess Player traded barbs while Ji Yan realized the White camp would target him; then a huge figure began emerging from the mist.

Ji Yan faced the Dungeon Door and browsed the available dungeons while Xu Xin explained the rewards and dangers of black chess missions. He chose a Tier 5 dungeon highlighted by [Omniscient Understanding] and prepared to enter alone as Xu Xin and Kong Yi headed to reinforce another dungeon.

• The Dungeon Door opened, and Ji Yan saw nine dungeons available to him while Xu Xin had twenty-two choices.
• Xu Xin explained that corrupting dungeons earned black chess qi and that defeating white chess could yield Diamond or Obsidian treasure chests; she also warned Ji Yan that chess pieces could erase one another.
• Xu Xin and Kong Yi set out to reinforce a Tier 6 dungeon where white chess had trapped three black chess pieces and two Black Chess Players, while Su He and Y said they would meet them there.
• Xu Xin gave Ji Yan a red escape button and advised him to choose a dungeon below Tier 3 for practice.
• After [Omniscient Understanding] marked two dungeons in red, Ji Yan selected one of them, a Tier 5 dungeon, and Xu Xin accepted his choice while reminding him to escape if he could not win.

Ji Yan entered the Tier 5 [444 Asylum] as a Corpse Death Eerie NPC and learned that his Black Chess privileges let him use Tool Bar items and level up by hunting players. As seven players entered his zone on a mission to find Subject No. 5’s heart, Ji Yan prepared to face them while a White Chess player hunted him somewhere in the Dungeon.

• Two White Chess players followed Ji Yan through the Dungeon Door, splitting up to search for him across Dungeons.
• Ji Yan arrived at the [444 Asylum] as a Lv.1 Corpse Death Eerie assigned to Laboratory 101, with orders to survive players and collapse the Dungeon.
• Ji Yan learned that he could use Tool Bar items and gain experience by surviving and hunting players, but his actions were watched by a superior NPC.
• After seven players entered the Infection Zone, Ji Yan awoke in hostile mode and found that only his [Coffin Nail] was usable, while [Omniscient Understanding] revealed seven Hidden Information Panels.
• The seven players split into teams to search for Subject No. 5’s heart, while Tang Lu used [Traces] to track a Consumption Ghost that might know where the subject was.

Ji Yan led Tang Lu and the other players toward the scent of Subject 5, despite warnings that he was breaking NPC rules. As a coughing presence appeared near the stainless steel door, Tang Lu realized it was not the Consumption Ghost they expected.

• Ji Yan chose Passage 1 and found Tang Lu’s group after they had slaughtered the first wave of Eeries.
• Tang Lu recognized that Ji Yan carried Subject 5’s scent and ordered him to lead the group to its source.
• Ji Yan guided the players to a stainless steel door, ignoring the game’s warning about his rule-breaking behavior.
• Tang Lu confirmed Subject 5’s scent came from behind the door, while the Succubus Player grabbed Ji Yan and tried to examine him.
• A mysterious cough interrupted them, and Tang Lu realized the presence was not the original Tier 4 Consumption Ghost.
• The bald player began coughing, and Tang Lu shouted at him to stop, but it was already too late.

Tang Lu and the other players killed a Tier 6 Consumption Ghost, then opened the laboratory door. As Tang Lu turned around, a Tier 7 Consumption Ghost attacked the Ponytail Player.

• A Consumption Ghost crawled out of the bald player's throat, and the Ponytail Player's Legendary dagger failed to kill the Tier 6 Eerie.
• Tang Lu used an Epic handgun to kill the Consumption Ghost as it began forming inside the Succubus Player's throat, while her Succubus Tattoo absorbed the damage.
• Tang Lu shot the stainless-steel door's lock and warned the players that Subject 5 might have traps.
• The Ponytail Player's throat was torn out by an invisible force as Tang Lu turned around, and Traces revealed a Tier 7 Consumption Ghost.

Tang Lu realized that multiple Subject 5s might exist as a trap, while the Succubus Player fled with Ji Yan into an Isolation Room. There, Ji Yan revealed his control over terrifying eerie creatures and turned the tables on her.

• A Tier 7 Consumption Ghost killed the Ponytail Player, and Tang Lu fled while the itch in his throat continued.
• Tang Lu encountered the other team, who had dug Subject 5's heart from a corpse, and suspected the door he had found concealed a false Subject 5.
• After coughing, Tang Lu sensed the Consumption Ghost behind him as the other players recoiled in terror.
• The Succubus Player took Ji Yan and a Starving Ghost into the Isolation Room, where the itch in her throat subsided.
• The Succubus Player tried to eat Ji Yan, but the Starving Ghost was destroyed and two powerful eerie creatures appeared in the room.
• Ji Yan addressed the Succubus Player in human language and declared that he was the big bad wolf and she was the little white rabbit.

Ji Yan returned to the Laboratory after discovering that the Succubus Tattoo was a Collector's Edition Eerie Item and learning that the Eerie World left him exposed to powerful predators. He uncovered a hidden Easter egg in the false Subject 5 laboratory, where a corpse's freshly written message warned of the Consumption Ghost's death and revival.

• Ji Yan secretly spoke with the Succubus Player in the Isolation Room, then made the Starving Ghost and the Succubus Player disappear without leaving traces.
• The Blood Shadow Wedding Dress tore off the Succubus Tattoo, and Ji Yan identified it as an Eerie Item called Tattoo of Desire before storing it away.
• The Blood Shadow Wedding Dress warned Ji Yan that several ferocious presences lurked nearby, and he realized he would need to seek protection from powerful Eeries.
• Ji Yan returned to the Laboratory and used the Ponytail Player's corpse to uncover information about a hidden Easter egg and an object that could free a destroyed being.
• Ji Yan entered the abandoned laboratory and found a mummified researcher beside a message about Laboratory 109, the Consumption Ghost, its death, and its revival; he wondered who had written it.

Ji Yan took the Collector's Grade [Spirit of the Pen's Brush], a powerful Eerie Item that could alter reality by writing, and used it to erase the Consumption Ghost threatening him. The pen then warned that its cursed grudge was taking effect and ordered Ji Yan to find Subject Number 3's name so he could erase it.

• Ji Yan realized the pen had created and advanced Consumption Ghosts through its writing, then took it after [Omniscient Understanding] assured him it could remove the curse.
• Ji Yan triggered [Black Chess Privilege] and obtained the damaged Collector's Grade Grudge Eerie Item [Spirit of the Pen's Brush] as the dried corpse crumbled to ashes.
• The Consumption Ghost confronted Ji Yan with the mangled heads of the players it had killed, including Tang Lu, and demanded to know why he had taken the pen.
• Ji Yan tricked the Consumption Ghost into letting him write, then slashed through its name on the manuscript and erased it.
• [Spirit of the Pen's Brush] wrote on Ji Yan's hand that its cursed grudge was taking effect and told him to find Subject Number 3's name so it could erase the subject.

Ji Yan triggered an Easter Egg Quest to find Subject Number 3 and received a red thread resembling Luo Xixi’s Yin Yuan Red Thread. After advancing to Lv.2, he reached Ward 44, where an orderly inspected the residents and announced that the ward had no task that night.

• Brush Immortal's Brush made Ji Yan trigger a quest to find Subject Number 3, with a reward tied to Subject 5.
• Ji Yan analyzed the clue and received a red thread that looked like Luo Xixi’s Yin Yuan Red Thread, though he dismissed the resemblance as coincidence.
• The Game Panel credited Ji Yan with indirectly hunting seven players and advanced him to Lv.2, changing his body and assigning him a new designated spot.
• Ji Yan followed the map to Ward 44 and copied his eerie roommates by crouching on his bed before night fell.
• The Orderly Eerie inspected the ward, and an announcement declared that Ward 44 had no task that night and forbade leaving.

Ji Yan discovered that players had invaded the floor to seize Subject 5, the Brush Immortal's Brush, and was targeted by both Eeries and a powerful player. After the player shot the Clown Eerie, the Eerie regenerated by bursting out of the player's body.

• Ji Yan found that an unknown player had killed his three Infected Eerie roommates and learned that seventeen players had invaded the floor to capture Subject 5.
• The notices lifted Ward 44's restrictions and ordered Ji Yan to join the Nighttime Trial, while revealing that all Eeries could track Subject 5.
• A Clown Eerie named Ji Yan its doll and promised to protect him because the Brush Immortal's Brush had chosen him.
• A well-equipped God-Tier Player confronted Ji Yan and shot the Clown Eerie, but the Eerie remained standing and regenerated through the player's exploding body.

Ji Yan followed the Clown Eerie into its hidden Private Paradise and discovered that the supposedly Tier 4 eerie had deadly delusions powered by consuming brains. As the Clown Eerie prepared to dine, Ji Yan grew convinced it was a White Piece player who had arranged for him to enter the ward.

• The Clown Eerie survived an Epic-quality weapon, killed the God-Tier Player, and used its delusions to perform bizarre tricks on Ji Yan.
• Ji Yan followed the Clown Eerie while it killed players who tried to stop them, though he secretly investigated the eerie's hidden power.
• The Clown Eerie brought Ji Yan to its Three No Care Zone on the 3rd Floor and revealed its prison-like Private Paradise, filled with captive players, eeries, and Upper Echelon members.
• The Clown Eerie explained that eating the imaginative thoughts in brains expanded its delusions, which Ji Yan suspected had reached Tier 8 or 9 despite its Tier 4 status.
• Ji Yan concluded that the Clown Eerie was likely a White Piece player who had unlocked Ward 44 and lured him there to kill him.