Chapter Summaries

The contactee read Site-07’s rules for indirectly contacting its unknown contained object and questioned an expert about its dangers and the contact procedure. Before beginning the Memory Corridor, the contactee deduced that the expert was an avatar of the Supreme Divinity of Heaven, and the expert warned them to control their murderous intent.

• The contactee reviewed the conditions and rules for passing through the Memory Corridor and making contact with the unknown.
• The contactee asked why the unknown was considered impossible to kill or defeat, and the expert explained that it had survived an attack by three Supreme Beings and many gods.
• The expert warned the contactee not to enter the innermost cage or mistake a containment breach for an encounter with another person.
• The contactee called the expert Mr. Jesus, reasoning that he was the Supreme Divinity of Heaven’s avatar guarding the unknown.
• The expert recognized the contactee as a descendant of the Chained King and urged them to restrain their deathly aura and murderous intent before contact.

While the facility prepared for the Sick One visitors, William Berens escaped from the Isolation Room and infiltrated the containment facility. He used Abyss Migration to enter Eden, where Jesus was preparing breakfast as if he had expected him.

• William Berens emerged from the Isolation Room after freeing Gryph and Mahath J. Nash, and Nash entered William's brain to assist him.
• A temporary devil guard laughed out a Lesser Godhead, which William crushed and swallowed.
• William evaded the facility's surveillance by turning his head into a Black Hole Structure and passed through the Memory Corridor.
• William entered a false elevator and used Abyss Migration to pass through the Faraday cages to the white spherical prison.
• William used Abyss Migration again to enter Eden and found Jesus preparing breakfast.

William met a senior who demanded that he prepare a banquet before signing his parchment. William served a mysterious beef stew over rice made with only two garden vegetables, and the senior found it delicious.

• William silently ate a lamb chop with impeccable etiquette, suppressing the Clown Virus within him.
• William asked the senior to sign his parchment, but the senior required him to prepare that evening’s banquet first.
• The senior explained that the garden’s plants were connected to living visitors who had refused to dine with him.
• William rested in the garden, then returned with only a tomato and a potato as his chosen ingredients.
• William served his special beef stew over rice, and the senior tasted it and exclaimed that it was delicious.

William impressed the house's owner, Hannibal Lecter, with Exploding Octopus Rice and secured his signature on the parchment. After learning that Hannibal had already met William’s friends and had wounded Yi Chen, William left the house shaken by the second-ranked Ten Calamity.

• William served Hannibal Lecter Exploding Octopus Rice, and Hannibal praised his cooking and asked about the Fear Circus.
• William invited Hannibal to visit the Fear Circus, but Hannibal declined because of his temporary agreement with the fellows on Mount Celestia.
• Hannibal revealed he had met William’s friends and learned they came from the fringe world called the Lesion, which made him consider emerging earlier than planned.
• Hannibal stopped William from interrupting, explained that Yi Chen had wounded him, and admitted he had slashed Yi Chen in return.
• William suppressed his anger, received Hannibal’s signature, and left before recognizing the danger posed by the second-ranked existence among the Ten Calamities.

Hannibal tried to prepare Yi Chen’s newly severed arm as a treasured ingredient, but it dissolved into black liquid, prompting him to move up his plans to leave. Meanwhile, Lainey entered the Isolation Room and used her strange power to create a replacement arm for Yi Chen, leaving Jesus stunned by the lesion’s transformation.

• Hannibal examined the newly collected arm in his secret Collection Room and tasted a fragment of its owner’s tragic history.
• When Hannibal tried to cut the arm, it melted into black liquid, so he discarded the shroud and moved his plans forward.
• After Yi Chen’s First-Level Contact left his arm severed and its concept occupied, Jesus explained that the arm could only be restored by reclaiming that concept.
• Regan and the Emperor arrived, and the Emperor asked Lainey to enter the Isolation Room and assess Yi Chen’s injury.
• The Emperor shielded Lainey with blood as she connected an umbilical cord to Yi Chen’s severed arm and gave birth to a replacement.
• Jesus recognized that Lainey’s creation of the arm revealed an astonishing change in the lesion.

After Lainey gave birth to Yi Chen’s restored arm, Yi Chen recovered and deduced that Jesus had made a deal with the unknown to keep it contained. Jesus admitted that selected visitors were offered as sacrifices to maintain that bargain, then promised to support Yi Chen and the Plague Focal World as another path to salvation.

• Lainey gave birth to Yi Chen’s arm, erased the malignancy from his wounds, and collapsed from exhaustion as he reached for her.
• Yi Chen recovered in the Meeting Room and concluded that Lainey’s creation had reborn the concept of his lost arm.
• Yi Chen refused to write down negative information, arguing that Jesus already knew the unknown and had made a deal with it to keep it contained.
• Jesus admitted that the containment facility could not imprison the unknown by force and that he had negotiated for it to remain in exchange for sacrifices.
• Jesus explained that he had used visitors with sufficient talent to maintain balance and asked Yi Chen to live until this approach failed, promising support for him and the Plague Focal World.

After the team returned from the Seven-Layered Heaven, Yi Chen recruited Lainey and learned that her reproduction had restored his right arm and eased the repulsion between them. He left the elevator with Lainey to talk in her room, while the Sick One’s connection to the Prime Material Plane was set to open within a week.

• Yi Chen retrieved Little Grape and the others, then discussed the Great Emperor’s plans to return to the United Plague Zone and pursue another qualification.
• Jesus’s avatar returned the group to the City of Husks, where Golden Lung Heavenly Venerable confirmed that the Sick One would gain one-way passage between the worlds once the World Gate opened.
• Lainey stayed behind and asked to join Yi Chen’s team, and Yi Chen accepted her to fill Jin’s vacancy and learn about her reproduction.
• Lainey revealed that giving birth to Yi Chen’s right arm had ended the repulsion between them, then told Golden Lung Heavenly Venerable how she had reclaimed it from the calamity.
• Yi Chen asked after Lorien, and Golden Lung Heavenly Venerable assured him that he was monitoring the situation.
• Yi Chen followed Lainey off the elevator and asked to speak with her in her room.

Yi Chen examined Lainey's reproductive ability and learned from William that her Birth Gate contained an unusually powerful Concept Field. William explained that Lainey and several others were exceptional humans transformed into Sick Ones, then warned Yi Chen that Lorien's unexplained dream world might make him especially dangerous.

• Yi Chen asked Lainey to explain how she had recreated his arm, and she showed him the Birth Gate in her abdomen.
• Yi Chen saw that Lainey's Birth Gate contained a Void Realm forest and a Concept Field that had embryonized and birthed his arm.
• William appeared on the television, reunited with Lainey, and asked her to keep his Video Tape state secret and help Yi Chen.
• William explained that Lainey's human origins had made her Birth Gate capable of reproducing any living organism, creating a uniquely complete Concept Field.
• William described how infection between worlds had produced exceptional transformed humans, including Yi Chen, and warned him that Lorien's dream world had no known equivalent.
• William urged Yi Chen to check on Lorien, who had gone alone to face an evil connected to nightmares; Yi Chen said he knew what he was doing.

Yi Chen suspected William had made a move while he was away, then learned that worlds near the Killing Nightmare were experiencing mass sleepwalking and Moon Worship. The Golden Lung Heavenly Venerable sent Yi Chen, Lainey, and Regan to investigate after delaying their deployment by a day.

• Yi Chen left William and Lainey alone, then returned as William ended their emotional conversation and Lainey fell asleep.
• The Golden Lung Heavenly Venerable learned that people across worlds near the Ring World had begun sleepwalking and worshipping the moon, and he delayed sending investigators until the next day.
• The Golden Lung Heavenly Venerable gathered Yi Chen, Lainey, and Regan over breakfast and told them to investigate the Moon Worship and erase the Killing Nightmare if it remained.
• Yi Chen remembered William's deduction and felt a bad premonition about the new phenomenon.

Yi Chen and his companions entered the world plagued by the Killing Nightmare, where the peaceful streets bore signs of lunar influence. William privately told Yi Chen he needed to visit the evil’s headquarters, then left with his Video Tape and Little Grape.

• Golden Lung Heavenly Venerable ordered Regan, Yi Chen, Lainey, and their companions to contain the Killing Nightmare and investigate Lorien if they found him.
• Regan gave Yi Chen and Lainey Dream Disruptors before the World Gate opened, but Yi Chen let Lainey take one and relied on his own defenses.
• Yi Chen, Regan, and Lainey arrived on Elm Street and found a calm neighborhood where residents wore lunar decorations despite the deadly nightmares.
• Yi Chen entered a restroom and met William, who said the evil’s invasion was accelerating and he needed to visit its headquarters.
• Yi Chen gave William his Video Tape, and Little Grape joined William before he disappeared.

Yi Chen and his companions investigated a town where residents worshiped the Moon Cult and learned that its followers entered a shared dream every night. When the Blood Moon exposed their presence as outsiders, the residents built a staircase of bodies reaching toward it.

• Yi Chen accepted William's departure and reaffirmed his goal of killing the Calamity imprisoned at the Lowest Level of the Seven-Layered Heaven.
• At a café, a server urged Yi Chen's group to carve Moon Cult symbols onto their bodies for protection from deadly nightmares, and Regan confirmed the server seemed normal.
• Yi Chen's group spent the day observing the town and decided to stay awake rather than enter the dreamscape.
• At 21:00, the town's residents fell asleep together, climbed to open places, and gathered beneath the Moon while chanting.
• The Moon shed its white exterior to reveal a crimson, flesh-covered face, and its light connected the residents to the dreamscape.
• The residents noticed Yi Chen's group could not connect to the dreamscape and piled themselves into a human staircase reaching toward the Blood Moon.

Yi Chen, Regan, and Lainey reached Lorien’s Blood Moon and discovered he was advancing toward becoming an Initial Moon God by sacrificing the moons of nearby worlds. After confirming his plans and learning he had contained the Killing Nightmare Phenomenon, they were interrupted by an emergency phone ringing from a city below.

• Yi Chen, Regan, and Lainey climbed the Moon-Ascending Staircase and entered the enormous fleshly Blood Moon palace.
• Lorien revealed that he had nearly completed sacrifices across multiple worlds and expected to reach the Initial Moon God Stage in two days.
• Lorien disclosed that the group was inside a dream, and Yi Chen used the Hanging King Mindset to expose Lorien’s grotesque Moon God form.
• Lorien said he had defeated but deliberately preserved the Killing Nightmare Phenomenon, showing them its Mechanical Claw and Nightmare on Elm Street disc.
• An emergency phone rang from a roadside booth below the moon, surprising the group because they had arrived less than a day earlier.

Golden Lung Heavenly Venerable learned that a Calamity was approaching Ring World-0179 and tried to warn the Sick Ones there, but the Emergency Passage was destroyed and the world went silent. Yi Chen and the others encountered the Calamity in the Inner Sanctum, and Lorien was wounded by its seemingly unavoidable attack.

• Hermes told Golden Lung Heavenly Venerable that an immortal Calamity with immense individual killing power was heading toward Ring World-0179, and the gods had abandoned the world.
• Golden Lung Heavenly Venerable signed a liability waiver and rushed to contact the Sick Ones, but Ring World-0179's Emergency Passage was destroyed and the world lost contact.
• Golden Lung Heavenly Venerable ordered staff to call five nearby worlds every other day, despite the regulations.
• When the phone rang in the Inner Sanctum, Yi Chen guessed that danger was approaching, and Lorien agreed to abandon the sacrifice if necessary.
• Yi Chen, Lorien, Regan, and Lainey found a Calamity destroying the phone booth; Lorien teleported them across the world, but his Moon God Embryo was already bleeding from an unhealable wound.

Lorien survived an otherwise impossible abdominal wound by using sorcery to graft a sacrificed nurse's flesh into it. The team realized a pure murderer had entered their killing field, but as they tried to flee, the masked disaster attacked Yi Chen.

• Lorien's wound resisted healing, so he asked Regan to take him to a nearby clinic and requested the clinic's atmosphere.
• Lorien summoned Blood Cross nurses, who sacrificed one of their own to fill his wound with chaotic flesh and stop the bleeding.
• Yi Chen explained that a murderer with countless victims could kill through a deadly field, and the team recognized that the disaster had already targeted them.
• Lorien planned to escape to an adjacent world, while Yi Chen insisted they wait for the old geezer to find them and open a transmission channel.
• As the team left the clinic, Yi Chen sensed an attack and used Nash and a special iron chain to block a silent slash, which hurled him through ten bungalows.
• The masked disaster appeared in the clinic doorway, puzzled that Yi Chen had survived its attack.

Yi Chen confronted the White Mask disaster, discovering that its killing power resembled his own and that he could survive its consciousness slash. As Lorien prepared an escape route and Regan and Lainey watched from a distance, the disaster withdrew its aura and began a new attack under an eerie, darkened sky.

• Yi Chen healed his arms, drew Nash’s Black Blade, and equipped the Hanging Rope of the Hanged King before facing the disaster again.
• Yi Chen told Lorien, Regan, and Lainey to withdraw or observe while Lorien went to create a passage between worlds.
• The White Mask disaster approached at an ordinary pace and split Yi Chen with an unavoidable consciousness slash, but Yi Chen survived and healed by emerging from a dead resident’s corpse.
• Yi Chen assessed the slash as a form of Consciousness Slash that his death could withstand, while recognizing that the disaster had only been testing him.
• The disaster withdrew its giant White Mask and killing domain, then the surrounding music devices played “Halloween Theme” as midday turned into a clouded night.

As the Disaster began his true attack, Yi Chen relied on his absolute focus to break the murderer's restraint, though he lost his left arm. He dragged the Disaster into the Dead Sea and appeared enthroned in his hall as the king of the Kingdom of the Dead.

• Regan sensed the Disaster compressing his malice into a single point and warned Yi Chen that he had become the slaughter target, but Yi Chen did not respond.
• Yi Chen recalled Director Cao's lesson that he must focus beyond his opponent and fight at the one point where he excelled.
• The Disaster's scripted knife strike restrained Yi Chen, but Yi Chen focused past the restriction and shifted aside, losing his left arm instead of being split in two.
• Yi Chen dropped his Black Blade, grabbed the Disaster, and dragged him into the Dead Sea, where the Disaster followed the mark to a grand hall.
• The Disaster found Yi Chen seated on the Gallows Platform, stronger despite his severed arm, as king of the Kingdom of the Dead.

The Tenth Calamity, Miles, pursued Yi Chen after severing the Ring World’s Emergency Passage, while the City of Husks’ Celestial Venerable prepared to rescue the Sick One squad. In the Deep Sea Death Hall, Yi Chen fought Miles’s script-imposed attacks with help from Yellow Skin and two women, ending with Miles’s body split in two.

• The World Observatory reported that Miles had severed the Ring World’s Emergency Passage and was hunting the Sick One squad, prompting the Celestial Venerable to promise a rescue if they escaped to a neighboring world.
• Yi Chen explained that Miles’s killing obsession imposed a binding script on his targets, and Yellow Skin offered to help him overcome it.
• Yi Chen donned Yellow Skin as an external skin and attacked Miles from the Gallows Platform, but his Black Blade could only mark Miles’s mask while cutting his flesh.
• Miles’s script immobilized Yi Chen and compelled him to open his mouth for a fatal blow, but two women covered his eyes and ears and suppressed the script.
• Yi Chen dodged Miles’s strike, used Flash to move away, and split Miles’s body in two.

Yi Chen realized that killing the masked killer had only paused the Film Crew’s influence, so he escaped with Lainey, Regan, and Lorien to the Moon Surface and waited for an Emergency Passage. In a Convenience Store, he discovered more signs of the Film Crew’s staged reality, and a voice announced the start of Act Two.

• Yi Chen concluded that the killer was only one part of the evil and that the Film Crew could replace him, then returned to reality with the filming temporarily paused.
• Lainey reattached Yi Chen’s left arm, and Lorien transported the group through a portal to the Moon Surface, where they waited by a public telephone.
• The group entered a Convenience Store after its clerk said the outside telephone was broken, and Yi Chen found and destroyed a White Skin Mask inside.
• Yi Chen noticed the clerk planned to retrieve more masks from the warehouse and found that the warehouse door and shelves were only painted backdrops.
• Yi Chen saw that the scenery outside was frozen and that his ear had grown back, then a voice struck him with a rolled newspaper and announced that Act Two had begun.

As Yi Chen remained trapped in Calamity’s constructed film set, he realized he could not defeat the killer by ordinary means and devised a plan to alter the movie’s script. Outside the Dead Sea, Lainey persuaded Lorien to help her bring Yi Chen back, while Yi Chen’s staged death left him transformed into a masked killer.

• Regan and Lorien concluded that Yi Chen was in grave danger in the Dead Sea, and Lorien prepared to leave for another world to find reinforcements.
• Lainey refused to abandon Yi Chen and told Lorien that she could bring him back if Lorien acted as her midwife, using mesenchymal stem cells she had collected from Yi Chen.
• Yi Chen realized that Calamity had kept him inside the Film Crew’s set and decided to change the script rather than search for a way to destroy the Film Crew or escape.
• Imitating William’s style, Yi Chen staged his suicide in the Convenience Store using tomato juice, the Black Blade, and a falling mask.
• After the lights went out, Yi Chen’s corpse disappeared, and he reappeared behind the clerk wearing the leather-face mask.

Yi Chen impressed the director by turning the convenience store scene into a confrontation with Myers, and was promoted from an extra to Male Second Lead. The director finalized Yi Chen’s character as Halloween’s Death God—Yi and planned a sequel in which the two would face off.

• Yi Chen beheaded the convenience store clerk and other customers before confronting Myers, whose body resisted his blade.
• Yi Chen exchanged blows with Myers, suffered a dislocated arm and fractured wrist, and escaped the set.
• The director praised Yi Chen’s performance, promoted him to Male Second Lead, and invited him to define his new character.
• Yi Chen and the director finalized the character as Halloween’s Death God—Yi and discussed the genuine Myers mask’s power to immerse its wearer.
• The director announced the sequel, Halloween Eve: Murderer VS Death God, and told Yi Chen he might survive if he outperformed the script.