Chapter Summaries

Lin Yu was shot dead by a junior who called herself his rabid fan, then woke in a dark void and was offered a chance at a new life through the Death game. He agreed to participate, gained the Unique Profession Fraudster, and was sent into a seven-player game called “Who is the Outsider?”

• Lin Yu rejected the junior’s apparent confession, but she revealed a Beretta M9 hidden in her bouquet and shot him in the heart.
• After dying, Lin Yu awoke in a pitch-black space and read an offer to regain life by participating in the Death game.
• Lin Yu accepted the offer and received the Unique Profession Fraudster, which could make a convincing fraud true to some extent.
• The game system announced that Lin Yu would enter “Who is the Outsider?” with six other players, where players had to eliminate the opposing faction or survive until the specified time.

Lin Yu and six strangers gathered in a ruined castle after their deaths, where they tried to understand the game they had entered. The castle’s blood-red message revealed that two outsiders were hidden among the seven and ordered them to find and expel them.

• Lin Yu surveyed the castle room and the six other players, noticing an envelope in front of each person.
• A bespectacled middle-aged woman asked about the strange game, and a Little fatty explained that they might have been chosen to play deadly games after dying.
• A scarred man angrily rejected the idea, while a shy young woman argued that playing might be better than being dead.
• Lin Yu assessed the players as a Square-faced man urged them to stop arguing and work together.
• Blood-red words appeared on the wall, announcing that two outsiders had infiltrated the group and ordering the seven to find and expel them.

Lin Yu and the six others read the castle’s rules and learned they had been divided into five humans and two werewolves in a deadly game. Lin Yu discovered his identity was Human, while the group began to piece together the opposing sides’ goals.

• Scarlet writing appeared on the walls, and the square-faced man calmed everyone and suggested it was a game prompt.
• Lin Yu proposed that they read the envelopes, and the group opened them.
• Lin Yu’s letter explained the castle’s boxes, daily schedule, meetings, werewolf weapons, and the rules for surviving seven days; his identity card revealed he was Human before both burned away.
• The spectacled Little fatty explained that five humans needed to complete tasks and identify two werewolves, while the werewolves needed weapons to kill the humans.
• The short youth joked that a god had abducted dead people to play the game, and Lin Yu grew suspicious of him.

Lin Yu steered the group toward discussing their occupations, hoping to learn their abilities before pretending to have a different one himself. As the introductions began, he suspected the game assigned occupations that matched the players’ real-life jobs.

• Lin Yu stopped the group’s tense argument about identifying werewolves and reminded them that the game could cost lives.
• Little fatty pointed out that everyone had also obtained an occupation that might help them survive the game.
• Yu Longguo introduced himself as a Soldier whose ability multiplied his physical attributes by five.
• Bao Liu introduced himself as a Hoodlum who could ignore the Rules once, and warned the others not to provoke him.
• Xu Xiumei introduced herself as a Teacher whose ability revealed information related to the current Game.
• Lin Yu noticed clues that Xu Xiumei had likely been a teacher in real life and inferred that occupations were connected to players’ former jobs.

As the players continued introducing themselves, Lin Yu realized his Fraudster profession could be used through acting rather than straightforward lies. He prepared to perform as he began explaining his theory about the connection between their professions and real-life identities.

• Bao Liu pressed Xu Xiumei to reveal what she had learned, but Yu Longguo warned that she did not have to share it, and Xia Yue accused Bao Liu of seeming suspicious.
• Chen Zhuo introduced himself as an otaku and kept his ability confidential, while Yao Zhengye identified himself as a thief and also withheld his ability.
• Xia Yue said she was a veterinarian whose ability was treating small animals, and Bao Liu mocked the usefulness of her skill.
• When it was Lin Yu's turn, he observed that the players' professions seemed connected to their real-life identities, and Xu Xiumei confirmed she was a middle school teacher.
• Lin Yu recalled his professor's lesson that acting was a form of deception and decided to use his acting ability to perform.

Lin Yu claimed to be a detective who could uncover secrets, persuading the other Players that his ability could help them identify the outsider. Their belief activated his Fraudster ability, giving him the power to investigate one person’s hidden secret.

• Bao Liu accused Lin Yu of implying that he and Yao Zhengye were criminals in real life, and the others grew wary of them.
• Lin Yu introduced himself as a detective and claimed he could inspect everyone’s identities, drawing disbelief from several Players.
• Lin Yu revised his claim, explaining that he could learn one hidden secret about someone and that this could reveal their identity in the Game.
• Chen Zhuo and the others accepted Lin Yu’s explanation, though most remained wary of him prying into their secrets.
• Lin Yu felt his Fraudster ability activate and gained the power to investigate a chosen person’s hidden secret.

After the castle’s schedule revealed numerous urgent tasks, Lin Yu argued against the players splitting up alone, but Yu Longguo insisted they pair off and volunteered to work alone. As the groups prepared to leave, Xia Yue asked Lin Yu to team up with her.

• An alarm sounded, and Yu Longguo explained that the players had to complete the castle’s scheduled tasks or face deadly mechanisms.
• Chen Zhuo found the schedule, which listed more than a dozen timed tasks across the castle.
• Lin Yu warned that the players should work in groups rather than go alone, and Yu Longguo proposed pairing off.
• Yu Longguo volunteered to be the Lone Wolf, and the others accepted his plan.
• Xia Yue asked Lin Yu to team up with her.

Lin Yu and Xia Yue paired up and found the engineering room, where they discovered the generator needed lubricating oil. Xia Yue went to fetch it, leaving Lin Yu alone to investigate the room and reflect on his limited abilities in the deadly game.

• Lin Yu and Xia Yue formed a group, and the four groups claimed their tasks before leaving the meeting room.
• Lin Yu and Xia Yue found the engineering room and identified a red generator indicator as the source of the alarm.
• Lin Yu found the generator manual, which said the machine needed lubricating oil from the first-floor storage room.
• Xia Yue went to retrieve the oil while Lin Yu stayed behind, warning her to return within five and a half minutes.
• After Xia Yue left, Lin Yu dropped his confident act, questioned his ability to survive the game, and began searching the room.

Lin Yu searched the second floor for supplies and found food in a human chest beside the filthy kitchen. Xia Yue returned late with lubricating oil, and Lin Yu finished the engine task while keeping his human identity secret from her.

• Lin Yu searched the engineering room but found no useful supplies and then entered the kitchen, where he discovered bloodstains, raw meat, and severed limbs.
• Lin Yu found a brown chest outside the kitchen, opened it, and ate the bread and drank the water inside.
• Lin Yu returned to the engineering room without telling Xia Yue that he had opened a human chest, and he worried when she failed to return on time.
• Xia Yue arrived carrying lubricating oil and explained that retrieving it had taken longer than expected.
• Lin Yu maintained his cold detective persona, took the oil, and completed the engine task.

Lin Yu and Xia Yue headed to the Prayer room while discussing his Detective ability and their suspicions about Bao Liu and Yao Zhengye. They found a carved human head among the room’s sacrifices, leaving them horrified.

• Lin Yu told Xia Yue he planned to save his first Detective investigation for the final meeting phase so he could identify the most suspicious player.
• Lin Yu pulled Xia Yue behind a staircase corner when Bao Liu and Yao Zhengye approached, then explained why their movements made them seem suspicious.
• Lin Yu and Xia Yue reached the Prayer room and found a headless statue above an altar covered in sacrifices.
• Xia Yue spotted a shriveled human head with its facial features carved away among the offerings, and both she and Lin Yu reacted with horror.

Lin Yu and Xia Yue completed their day’s tasks, including placing a shriveled human head at a shrine, while Lin Yu grew suspicious of the other pairs’ movements. At the evening meeting, the group debated the danger of the death game and turned their attention to Lin Yu’s detective ability.

• Lin Yu completed the shrine task by placing the human head before it and lighting the candles, then led a shaken Xia Yue away.
• Lin Yu and Xia Yue encountered Chen Zhuo and Xu Xiumei on the stairs, and Lin Yu suspected their plans to leave their assigned task areas were abnormal.
• Lin Yu and Xia Yue finished their remaining tasks and returned to the meeting room after nightfall.
• Yu Longguo warned that the game would require the humans to eliminate at least two werewolves, even if nobody died that day.
• Chen Zhuo argued that the humans had an advantage because Lin Yu could identify one person each day, and the group looked to Lin Yu.

Lin Yu used his Detective ability to learn that Bao Liu was a werewolf, but withheld the result from the group. He argued that revealing a human’s identity could help the werewolves find their teammates, then proposed that everyone skip nominations and wait for his next investigation.

• Lin Yu felt suspicious of everyone and used his Detective ability to investigate Bao Liu.
• Lin Yu learned from Bao Liu’s memory that Bao Liu was a werewolf.
• Lin Yu refused to reveal his result, prompting Chen Zhuo, Yu Longguo, and Bao Liu to question and criticize him.
• Xia Yue explained that the werewolves did not know one another’s identities, and Lin Yu argued that sharing a human result could help them find their teammates.
• Lin Yu proposed that the group nominate no one and wait for his next investigation, while Xu Xiumei warned that he was more likely to find a human.
• Lin Yu wondered whether finding Bao Liu had been luck, something he did not believe in.

Lin Yu’s midnight investigation confirmed that Yu Longguo was a werewolf, and he used his “crazy” conjecture to confront Xia Yue the next morning. Xia Yue revealed herself as another werewolf, bringing the total Lin Yu had identified to five.

• Lin Yu used his refreshed Detective ability to discover that Yu Longguo’s hidden identity was Werewolf.
• The next morning, Yu Longguo assigned everyone tasks in their previous groups, and Lin Yu and Xia Yue returned to the castle staircase.
• Lin Yu told Xia Yue that he had investigated her as a werewolf, and she admitted she had not yet been ready to kill anyone.
• Xia Yue drew a dagger and asked Lin Yu why he had suspected her.
• Lin Yu confirmed that Bao Liu, Yu Longguo, and Xia Yue were among five werewolves.

Lin Yu realized that the humans were the true outsiders and used Xia Yue’s uncertainty about her werewolf teammate to lure her into a trap. After Xia Yue fell down the stairs, her dagger struck her chest, and Lin Yu apologized as she died.

• Lin Yu reconsidered the castle’s clues and concluded that the humans were the outsiders, leaving five werewolves and two humans in the game.
• Lin Yu told Xia Yue he had identified her werewolf teammate and learned the truth, making her hesitate to attack him.
• Lin Yu pretended to reveal his discovery, then turned on the stairs and kicked Xia Yue down.
• Xia Yue fell and broke her right hand, causing her dagger to plunge into her chest.
• Lin Yu watched Xia Yue die and said this was the only way he could think of to win.

Lin Yu killed Xia Yue to conceal that the werewolf numbers did not match, then tried to frame Chen Zhuo after her body was found. Chen Zhuo challenged him to repeat his denial in front of a lie detector.

• Lin Yu killed Xia Yue and realized Yao Zhengye was likely a werewolf, leaving Chen Zhuo or Xu Xiumei as his other possible teammate.
• Lin Yu met Chen Zhuo and Xu Xiumei, then hurried to the meeting room as the emergency bell rang.
• Chen Zhuo and Xu Xiumei reported finding Xia Yue's body on the staircase, and Chen Zhuo accused Lin Yu of killing her.
• Lin Yu denied the murder, claimed Chen Zhuo was a werewolf, and urged the group to vote him out.
• Chen Zhuo revealed a lie detector that he and Xu Xiumei had found as one of the humans' key items.

Lin Yu used the lie detector and the vote to make himself appear to be a werewolf while avoiding banishment. On the second day, he chose to work alone, leaving the others to watch him closely.

• Lin Yu claimed Xia Yue's death had nothing to do with him, and the lie detector flashed red, prompting Chen Zhuo to demand a vote.
• Lin Yu and Chen Zhuo received one vote each, so nobody was banished.
• Lin Yu loudly berated the others for not voting against Chen Zhuo, confusing the group and reinforcing his suspicious act.
• After daylight broke, Yu Longguo asked how Lin Yu planned to act without his dead partner.
• Lin Yu rejected Chen Zhuo's suggestion to pair with Yu Longguo and chose to walk alone, and Yu Longguo agreed.

Lin Yu tricked Yao Zhengye into believing Bao Liu had used his ability to fake being a werewolf and planned to betray him. He urged Yao Zhengye to strike first, leaving them poised to kill Bao Liu.

• Lin Yu cleaned the kitchen stove and realized Yao Zhengye had come alone to test whether he was a werewolf.
• Yao Zhengye showed Lin Yu his wolf-headed axe and claimed to be a werewolf teammate, explaining that he had seen Lin Yu kill the veterinarian.
• Yao Zhengye recounted how he had used his Thief ability to steal a wolf-headed knife from Bao Liu and then confirmed Bao Liu's identity by opening a werewolf chest.
• Lin Yu persuaded Yao Zhengye that Bao Liu had used his ability to bypass the chest's rules and had learned Yao Zhengye's identity.
• Lin Yu claimed his Detective ability showed Bao Liu was human and urged Yao Zhengye to ambush and kill him first.

Lin Yu persuaded Yao Zhengye to attack Bao Liu, then tried to regain Chen Zhuo's trust by revealing that they were the only humans and that Xu Xiumei was a werewolf. He learned Xu Xiumei had the one-shot pistol before she entered with Yu Longguo, leaving Lin Yu and Chen Zhuo in immediate danger.

• Lin Yu urged Yao Zhengye to kill Bao Liu and planned to exploit the resulting deaths to help the werewolves win.
• Lin Yu found a human Supply Crate in the bedroom and confronted Chen Zhuo, claiming they were both human and that he had killed the werewolf Xia Yue in self-defense.
• Lin Yu told Chen Zhuo that the human faction consisted only of the two outsiders, while the soldier, thug, veterinarian, and teacher were werewolves.
• Chen Zhuo revealed that Xu Xiumei had received a Lie Detector and a one-shot pistol, and that she was carrying the pistol.
• Yu Longguo and Xu Xiumei entered the bedroom, leaving Lin Yu to face an even more dangerous situation.

Lin Yu tried to turn Yu Longguo, Xu Xiumei, and Yao Zhengye against Chen Zhuo, but Yu Longguo recognized Lin Yu as a human ally of Chen Zhuo. The chapter ended with Lin Yu exposed and surrounded by the werewolves.

• Lin Yu realized Yu Longguo and Xu Xiumei had allied, and he suspected they knew they were both werewolves.
• Xu Xiumei and Yu Longguo explained that humans were the outsiders, while Lin Yu claimed Chen Zhuo was the last human.
• Yao Zhengye entered the bedroom and admitted he had killed Bao Liu after mistaking the number of werewolves.
• Xu Xiumei aimed her revolver at Yao Zhengye, who claimed he was a werewolf and joined the group in targeting Chen Zhuo.
• Chen Zhuo refused to reveal that he was human and shouted that the werewolves had surrounded him.
• Yu Longguo declared that Lin Yu was Chen Zhuo's human teammate, leaving Lin Yu exposed as a target.

Lin Yu tried to convince Yu Longguo and the others that he was a werewolf, but Yu Longguo revealed evidence linking Lin Yu’s dagger to the Veterinarian and declared he would kill him. Facing death, Lin Yu recalled his Fraudster talent and decided to attempt a final performance that might deceive the world itself.

• Lin Yu defended his claim to be a werewolf, explaining that he had suspected the Hoodlum and Thief were misleading him and had wrongly concluded the Soldier was a werewolf.
• Yu Longguo revealed that he had seen the Veterinarian enter the storage room and later found an opened werewolf weapon chest, identifying Lin Yu’s dagger as hers.
• Yu Longguo said there were five werewolves and announced that he would kill Lin Yu regardless of whether Lin Yu was one of them.
• Lin Yu considered fighting or continuing to bluff, but recalled his Fraudster profession and the idea that performance could deceive the gods and the world.
• Lin Yu smiled at Yu Longguo, admitted that he had lost again, and began his final performance.