Chapter Summaries

Lin Baici and Xia Hongyao investigated a monster that stole internal organs, but it escaped after attacking a girl who had lured Lin to the river. The next morning, Lin returned to university and began arranging a class dinner in the group chat.

• Lin Baici kept the anxious girl at the riverbank while messaging Xia Hongyao to come as backup.
• The girl collapsed, revealed that a monster had taken her liver, and began coughing up blood; Xia Hongyao found that her spleen was missing too.
• Lin Baici felt the monster's presence but it fled, so he and Xia Hongyao searched along the river before giving up and heading home.
• Lin Baici returned to the dorm the next morning, where Xu Daguan teased him and Qian Jiahui treated the roommates to breakfast.
• Lin Baici suggested a class dinner in the group chat, and Xu Daguan joked that the girls should eat for free.

Lin Baici investigated a possible monster sighting at Haijing Medical University and encountered a woman monster feeding on an orange tabby. He used Divine Grace’s Flash of Lightning to strike the cat’s corpse, but after his power ran out, he was left fighting the woman monster and her severed, animated arm.

• Lin Baici patrolled Haijing Medical University and heard rustling near a holly flower bed behind the Experimental Building.
• He found a disfigured woman monster eating an orange tabby’s organs and discovered that he felt no hunger around her.
• The woman monster threw the cat’s corpse at Lin Baici, and it suddenly sprang at his face.
• Lin Baici activated Divine Grace’s Flash of Lightning, dodged the cat, and struck its head with the Pine Torch, setting it ablaze.
• After Flash of Lightning ended, Lin Baici dodged the woman monster and slashed off one arm, but his sword wounds did not stop her.
• The severed arm grabbed Lin Baici’s ankle and yanked him down as the woman monster charged again.

Lin Baici defeated a monster that stole human organs and reported the incident to the Safety Bureau, but later evidence revealed that its master was still searching for a replacement. When organs and anatomical models began disappearing again, Lin Baici suspected the culprit was connected to Haijing Medical University or Haijing Normal University.

• Lin Baici chased the monster woman through Haijing Medical University and used Great Impression Hand to flatten her against the ground before calling Xia Hongyao.
• Lu Benyu and the Thirteenth Department arrived to investigate, while Xia Hongyao took Lin Baici back to headquarters to report what had happened.
• A man who collected female mannequins discovered his first mannequin wife was missing, traced her to the university, and vowed revenge before seeking another wife.
• After three days of classes and driving practice, Lin Baici learned that anatomical models and organs had gone missing from nearby institutions.
• Lin Baici advised Xia Hongyao to investigate rumors at Haijing Medical University and Haijing Normal University, then left class to pursue the lead.

After confronting Liu Yu over trying to expose his absences, Lin Baici visited Gu Qingxiang and learned someone had reported him for skipping class and staying out overnight. He then followed Xia Hongyao’s lead to Haijing Normal University, where he began investigating Li Mei, a student who had survived a reported suicide attempt.

• Lin Baici rebuked Liu Yu, obtained leave from the instructor, and left campus for Haijing Medical University.
• Pei Fei misunderstood Lin Baici’s offer of an expensive meal, then chose Disneyland tickets after learning the restaurant’s prices.
• Lin Baici ate dumplings with Gu Qingxiang, who told him someone had reported his absences and urged him to set a good example as class monitor.
• Lin Baici called Xia Hongyao and learned that Li Mei, who had recently broken up with her boyfriend and had an abortion, had jumped from a building but survived.
• Lin Baici met Xia Hongyao at Haijing Normal University to look for Li Mei, and someone called his name.

Lin Baici and Xia Hongyao investigated Li Mei at the university library, where Cai Wenqi joined them and the Internal Organ Thief appeared. Lin Baici chased the thief into Building B but became trapped in a Rule Pollution that demanded he learn surgical suturing, while blood began running over his body.

• Cai Wenqi met Lin Baici and Xia Hongyao at the library, warned them that she had heard rumors about Li Mei, and offered to help.
• Lin Baici sensed a God's Taboo Object nearby, and Cai Wenqi spotted a masked man in a black hoodie watching from a window.
• The man left the library, and Lin Baici pursued him while Xia Hongyao and Cai Wenqi stayed behind near Li Mei.
• The hoodie-wearing man broke into a classroom in Building B, and Lin Baici entered a neighboring room after him.
• Lin Baici realized the classroom was under Rule Pollution and read an assignment requiring students to suture their own bananas.
• Blood began running over Lin Baici's exposed skin as he examined the classroom's surgical tools and the partly erased blackboard.

Lin Baici survived the Internal Organ Thief’s Rule Pollution by stitching the banana marked with his name, then pursued the thief but only caught a mannequin double. He called Xia Hongyao to bring Li Mei, while the escaped thief resolved to punish the man who had hurt her.

• Lin Baici realized the bleeding was caused by Rule Pollution and found the banana bearing his name at the nineteenth desk.
• Lin Baici used No. 6 thread and the technique described in the desk graffiti to stitch the banana while enduring the pain and resisting the Internal Organ Thief’s offers.
• Lin Baici wrapped himself in Pharaoh’s Shroud, completed the stitches, and escaped the Rule Pollution into a laboratory.
• Lin Baici chased the Hoodie Guy and cut apart a mannequin double with a beating heart, while the real thief escaped and planned to dissect the man who had hurt Li Mei.
• Lin Baici called Xia Hongyao and asked her to bring Li Mei; Xia Hongyao saw his scabs and called headquarters for an ambulance, while Li Mei calmly asked who they were.

Lin Baici recruited Li Mei as bait to draw out the Internal Organ Thief, but the thief did not appear overnight. After learning Wang Hanxu’s class was visiting Senhai Park, Lin Baici went there with Xia Hongyao and Li Mei to watch for the thief, while Cai Wenqi secretly joined the field trip group.

• Lin Baici showed Li Mei his police ID, offered her a hundred thousand yuan to cooperate, and asked her to stay with him and Xia Hongyao as they tried to lure out the Internal Organ Thief.
• Lin Baici and Xia Hongyao escorted Li Mei around campus and spent the night with her at a nearby hotel, but the Internal Organ Thief did not appear.
• Lin Baici learned from Cai Wenqi that Wang Hanxu’s class would visit Senhai Park and decided the thief might target him because it had saved Li Mei.
• Lin Baici, Xia Hongyao, and Li Mei went to Senhai Park, where Cai Wenqi reported that she had blended into Wang Hanxu’s field trip group.
• Wang Hanxu prepared a barbecue outing to improve his reputation while an unidentified person in a hoodie and sunglasses watched the group through binoculars.

Hoodie Guy brought Rule Pollution upon Wang Hanxu’s autumn outing, trapping the group in a military tent where they had to stitch bananas to stop their bleeding. Lin Baici and Xia Hongyao entered and guided the students through the challenge, leaving them in pain as they began sewing their assigned bananas.

• Hoodie Guy approached Wang Hanxu’s remote campsite after spotting thirty-three people there.
• Cai Wenqi followed Lin Baici’s advice and stayed near Wang Hanxu to spy on him.
• Rule Pollution transformed the campsite into a sealed military tent, where the students began bleeding and found instructions to stitch bananas.
• Lin Baici and Xia Hongyao cut their way into the tent, and Lin Baici told the students to find bananas bearing their names and use even-numbered sutures other than number two.
• Lin Baici explained how to stitch without leaving scars, and the students began sewing their bananas despite the intense pain.

Lin Baici guided the college students through the Internal Organ Thief’s deadly challenges and used his Soul Sketch Divine Grace to help everyone pass an anatomical drawing test. After naming him the best artist, the voice offered him a choice of five people to leave with, and the crowd pleaded for him to take them.

• Lin Baici warned the students to stitch their own bananas, and those who failed to finish were punished with wounds matching the cuts, but survived.
• Lin Baici suspected Wang Hanxu was connected to the Rule Pollution, and the blackboard ordered everyone to draw an anatomical diagram within half an hour.
• Lin Baici used Soul Sketch to draw a perfect muscle diagram and skulls, helping the students pass the drawing challenge.
• The voice named Lin Baici’s diagram the best and offered him the chance to choose five people to leave with him.
• The students begged Lin Baici to choose them, while Wang Hanxu offered him money and a BMW.

Lin Baici urged the students to punish Wang Hanxu to stop the Rule Pollution, then left them to face the Internal Organ Thief’s organ-cleaning game while he tracked down the culprit. He found the Internal Organ Thief and challenged his justification for stealing organs, drawing his Bronze Sword when the thief refused to surrender.

• Wang Hanxu refused to accept responsibility for the Rule Pollution, and Cao Lei and other students attacked him until he struck Cao Lei with a stool.
• Lin Baici warned the students that they needed to punish Wang Hanxu, then left with Xia Hongyao, Cai Wenqi, Liu Qing, and two students selected by the God of Gluttony.
• The Internal Organ Thief began the organ-cleaning game, and the students fought Wang Hanxu before white mist knocked them unconscious.
• Wang Hanxu woke strapped to a hospital bed as a doctor removed his organs, while the other students endured live dissections.
• Lin Baici followed his hunger to the Internal Organ Thief and argued with him about stealing organs from corpses.
• Lin Baici drew the Bronze Sword and demanded that the Internal Organ Thief surrender.

Lin Baici defeated Yi Jisheng, a sentient anatomical model responsible for the Rule Pollution, and learned that it had no intention of harming people. As the Safety Bureau arrived, Yi Jisheng asked Lin Baici to look after its mannequin wife.

• Lin Baici fought Yi Jisheng and discovered its body was a living anatomical model that collected organs and mannequins.
• Lin Baici used his Divine Grace and allies to defeat Yi Jisheng, then ordered it to end the Rule Pollution.
• Yi Jisheng complied and swore it had never eaten a living person's organs, explaining that it only wanted to collect beautiful mannequins.
• Yi Jisheng told Lin Baici that a strange voice had spoken to it after it awoke in a garbage dump, often saying things about games.
• As the fog lifted, Yi Jisheng asked Lin Baici to care for its mannequin wife, and Xia Hongyao arrived with three Safety Bureau colleagues.

Lin Baici captured Yi Jisheng, a conscious God's Taboo Object, and agreed to protect its mannequin wives while promising it dolls after its release. At Safety Bureau headquarters, Xia Hongmian asked Lin Baici what reward he wanted for capturing it.

• Lin Baici and Xia Hongyao found Yi Jisheng after the Rule Pollution, and Lin Baici confirmed that Wang Hanxu had survived with damaged organs.
• Lin Baici escorted Yi Jisheng to the Safety Bureau, where Yi Jisheng asked him to protect its mannequin wives and wash them carefully.
• Lin Baici showed Yi Jisheng online listings for silicone dolls and promised to give it one hundred after it got out.
• God Hunters took Yi Jisheng into custody at headquarters, and Lin Baici learned that Xia Hongyao had made him head of Department Seventeen.
• Xia Hongmian summoned Lin Baici and asked what reward he wanted for capturing Yi Jisheng.

Lin Baici received permission from Xia Hongmian to choose a combat Divine Grace and entered the Safety Bureau’s underground vault, where he absorbed Death God's Grasp. As he left, the vault addressed someone as a god, and Xia Hongyao learned Lin Baici had visited the vault.

• Lin Baici chose a combat Divine Grace, and Xia Hongmian took him to the Safety Bureau’s underground vault.
• The vault’s stone guardian opened for Lin Baici, and he endured the oppressive atmosphere and the urge to eat everything inside.
• Lin Baici considered several Divine Graces and chose Death God's Grasp, then absorbed it.
• As Lin Baici and Xia Hongmian left, a voice from the vault respectfully called someone “Your Excellency the God.”
• Xia Hongmian told Lin Baici to enjoy college and said he would go to Korea for a Busan Trip during winter break.
• Lin Baici told Xia Hongyao that Xia Hongmian had given him a Divine Grace, and she realized he had entered the underground vault.

Lin Baici celebrated completing his first Safety Bureau mission by cooking dinner at Gu Qingxiang’s home, where the two shared a kiss. Meanwhile, Xia Hongyao planned a winter-break expedition to Busan God's Ruins with seven newcomers, and the chapter ended with Gu Qingxiang moved to tears by Lin Baici’s cooking.

• Xia Hongyao learned that Lin Baici had received Grip of Death and discussed their plan to explore Busan God's Ruins with him.
• Xia Hongyao told the Dragon Soul WeChat Group that seven newcomers could enter Busan God's Ruins, and the team leaders warned her that the expedition might be a trap.
• Lin Baici celebrated completing his first mission by buying groceries and cooking dinner at Gu Qingxiang's home.
• Lin Baici kissed Gu Qingxiang, and she allowed him to continue after briefly resisting.
• The gamer asked Gu Qingxiang to deal with a threat in Haijing, but she refused and returned to watch Lin Baici cook.
• Gu Qingxiang tasted Lin Baici's home-style dishes and began to cry, though she said she was fine.

Lin Baici studied Korean with Gu Qingxiang, who rejected his request to be her boyfriend but gave him affectionate rewards. Back on campus, he turned down Xu Daguan’s proposal to start a company, then joined his classmates for their planned outing to Red Island Hall, where Ji Xinyan greeted him as another male student watched with hostility.

• Gu Qingxiang tutored Lin Baici and kissed his cheek when he asked for a reward, but told him not to ask to be her boyfriend again.
• Lin Baici returned to his dorm, where Fang Mingyuan warned him about skipping class and Qian Jiahui asked about his recent activities.
• Xu Daguan tried to persuade Lin Baici and Qian Jiahui to invest in a company, but Lin Baici refused and Qian Jiahui withdrew his offer.
• Lin Baici studied Korean with Gu Qingxiang the next morning, then went to meet his classmates for their outing to Red Island Hall.
• Ji Xinyan noticed Lin Baici, called him over, and approached him while the male student beside her followed with a hostile look.

Lin Baici and Ji Xinyan flirted at the school gate, where Lin Baici drove off Tan Songlin by showing him his bank balance and Ji Xinyan kissed Lin Baici. The class gathered for a weekend outing, but Xu Daguan was late, so Qian Jiahui called him.

• Tan Songlin tried to invite Ji Xinyan to Fragrant Camphor Mountain and Nile Holiday, and Ji Xinyan introduced Lin Baici as her boyfriend.
• Lin Baici showed Tan Songlin a bank notification revealing a balance of over twenty million yuan, and Tan Songlin backed off.
• Ji Xinyan teased Lin Baici, kissed him, and sent him a red packet before they went to get milk tea.
• Fang Mingyuan and Hu Wenwu saw Lin Baici and Ji Xinyan together, while Fang Mingyuan joked that Lin Baici had wasted his chance.
• Qian Jiahui arrived in a borrowed Mercedes and offered to let everyone drink, and the group noticed Xu Daguan was missing.
• Qian Jiahui called Xu Daguan to ask why he had not arrived.

Class 01 gathered for an outing at Red Island Hall, where Xu Daguan showed off his new BMW and Lin Baici turned down a business partnership. Lin Baici then swiftly solved an escape-room puzzle, and Pei Fei noticed that beating the venue’s speed record would earn them a free game.

• Xu Daguan arrived late in his new BMW, bragged about its price, and tried to persuade Lin Baici and Qian Jiahui to start an entertainment company with him, but Lin Baici refused.
• Qian Jiahui and Xu Daguan took classmates in their cars while Lin Baici, Ji Xinyan, Pei Fei, and Hu Wenwu shared a crowded taxi to Red Island Hall.
• The thirty-two classmates split into escape-room groups, and Lin Baici joined Qian Jiahui’s group while Xu Daguan failed to get the girls he wanted.
• Lin Baici found a key hidden in a bookshelf, opened a safe, used its recorder’s numbers to unlock the room, and explained his reasoning to the group.
• Bai Jiao criticized Lin Baici for making the puzzle too easy, and Pei Fei spotted a sign offering free play to anyone who broke the fastest-clear record.

Lin Baici led his friends through an escape-room challenge, solving its puzzle almost immediately and then clearing the remaining rooms fast enough to break the venue’s record. The group waited at the front desk for the owner to confirm their prize and refund.

• Lin Baici entered the next escape room with his friends, and the lights went out as Ji Xinyan clung to him.
• Lin Baici found a hollow floor tile by the north wall and opened the box beneath it to reveal a key.
• Lin Baici explained that missing letters in the wall’s English words pointed to the north floor and tile coordinates, while the reversed clue and 666 gave the box’s 999 combination.
• Lin Baici cleared the next four rooms in twenty-five minutes, breaking the escape-room record.
• Pei Fei and Ji Xinyan asked the receptionist to confirm the record, and the receptionist called the owner about their prize and refund.

Lin Baici’s group cleared all nine escape rooms, and the owner paid them fifty thousand yuan to keep the solutions secret. Lin Baici and Qian Jiahui refused the money and the oath, while Zhang Zhixu’s group finally emerged and mistook Lin Baici’s success for failure.

• Lin Baici gave up the refund in exchange for popcorn and Coke while his group waited for the other players to finish.
• Liu Yu mocked Lin Baici’s group, but Qian Jiahui and the others revealed that they had cleared every room and broken the record.
• Lin Baici deduced that the advertised record was fake and warned the receptionist that posting the solutions could ruin the escape-room business.
• The owner arrived and negotiated a hush-money agreement, eventually offering fifty thousand yuan in exchange for a solemn oath not to reveal the secret room.
• Pei Fei and the others swore the oath, but Lin Baici and Qian Jiahui refused the money and declined to swear.
• Zhang Zhixu and his group came out and teased Lin Baici, unaware that he had cleared all nine rooms.

After Lin Baici broke the escape room record, the owner paid him fifty thousand yuan to keep quiet, and Lin Baici shared the money with his classmates. The group celebrated with an expensive dinner and then headed to a nightclub, while Ji Xinyan maneuvered to become Lin Baici’s official girlfriend.

• Zhang Zhixu learned that Lin Baici had broken the escape room record, and the owner offered Lin Baici fifty thousand yuan to keep the result secret.
• Lin Baici accepted the payment, shared it among his classmates, and used jokes to make them comfortable accepting their shares.
• The class went to a Japanese restaurant after Qian Jiahui offered to cover the cost, but Ji Xinyan secretly paid the bill first.
• When the group decided to go to a nightclub, Ji Xinyan claimed she was spending Lin Baici’s money and joked that she was borrowing his flowers to offer to the Buddha.
• Qian Jiahui led the classmates to the hottest nightclub in Haijing.