Chapter Summaries

Lin Baici killed Sutaijia and Knocking Ghost with his Divine Grace, then searched the floor and found a Meteorite Stone and badges that allowed Hunters to go downstairs. He gave badges to several companions, and Apa and Pogba offered to work for him in exchange for one.

• Lin Baici’s Divine Grace killed Sutaijia and Knocking Ghost instantly, and he collected a key from their remains.
• Lin Baici searched a room and found a Meteorite Stone hidden inside a teddy bear, while Apa regretted missing it.
• Lin Baici found a box of nine badges that allowed Hunters to go downstairs and gave badges to Li Yintong, Dorrisan, and the Black Brothers.
• Apa offered to serve as Lin Baici’s muscle in exchange for a badge, and Pogba made the same offer.

Lin Baici reunited with Jin Yingzhen on the tenth floor and protected her after Ben White tried to force his way into her room. He killed Ben White, then went inside with Jin Yingzhen while the others waited or rested.

• Lin Baici gave Pogba and Apa floor badges, then followed the God of Gluttony's warning upstairs to the tenth floor.
• The group found Ben White harassing a woman in a room while Golden Xiang tried to protect her; Lin Baici recognized Jin Yingzhen inside.
• Pogba stabbed Ben White and attacked him, while Li Yintong wounded him with her Butterfly Knife.
• Jin Yingzhen opened the door and greeted Lin Baici, and Lin Baici killed Ben White with a snap of his fingers.
• Lin Baici led Jin Yingzhen into her room and asked the others to explore without him; Pogba chose to rest nearby.
• Jin Yingzhen told Lin Baici she had hidden from Ben White and kissed him, asking him to take her first time.

After spending the night with Jin Yingzhen, Lin Baici consumed a Meteorite Stone and grew stronger as Rule Pollution caused the floor to heat dangerously. He led the God Hunters in searching for the source, but they found nothing and turned to him for a way to lure out the Knocking Ghost and obtain its master key.

• Jin Yingzhen told Lin Baici she wanted him even without a promise of love, and the two spent the night together.
• A bandage-wrapped monster appeared outside Lin Baici's window, then fled before he could attack it.
• Jin Yingzhen discovered the bathroom water had become scalding, and Li Yintong and Golden Xiang warned Lin Baici that Rule Pollution had erupted.
• Lin Baici ate a Meteorite Stone, strengthening his body and making the rising heat more bearable.
• The God Hunters searched the accessible rooms on the floor but found no God's Taboo Object, and they realized it might be behind a locked door.
• Pogba suggested luring out the Knocking Ghost to get the master key, and everyone looked to Lin Baici for a plan.

As the tenth floor grew hotter, Lin Baici lured the Knocking Ghost into the hallway and led the God Hunters in an attack. The monster possessed Ashley Young and stripped his skin, but Lin Baici pinned its sheet to the floor with Great Impression Hand while the others attacked its still-moving legs.

• Lin Baici imitated the Knocking Ghost’s knocking to lure it out, then positioned the God Hunters to trap it in the hallway.
• Dorrisan and Giroud attacked the Knocking Ghost with Divine Graces, but it dodged their strikes and rushed toward Dorrisan.
• Ashley Young grabbed the monster’s sheet and was possessed; when Ashley Gan tried to pull it off him, the sheet peeled away Ashley Young’s skin and then clung to Ashley Gan.
• Lin Baici cut off Ashley Gan’s left hand and used Great Impression Hand to press the sheet into the tiled floor.
• Lin Baici ordered the others to stop the monster’s two exposed legs, and Apa attacked them with his knife while Lin Baici searched the pinned sheet for the universal key.

Lin Baici led the group through a scorching floor of the God Ruins, where they found a concert-themed Rule Pollution that forced everyone to dance. The music intensified after Ashley Gan unplugged the television, leaving the group in greater danger as Lin Baici focused on the drum beside it.

• Lin Baici had Apa and the others restrain the monster’s legs, then sent Li Yintong to wash the universal key while Ashley Gan tended to Ashley Young.
• Lin Baici searched room after room as the floor grew hotter, and he realized that taking off clothes made the heat worse but kept the warning to himself.
• Lin Baici opened a room containing a blaring concert and a large drum; the sound hurt anyone who remained in the doorway, and the television crowd turned to stare at the group.
• The concert’s music made everyone dance and act recklessly, and Pogba guessed that the Rule Pollution would drive them to exhaustion.
• Ashley Gan unplugged the television, but the concert continued and the lead singer ordered the volume turned up; Golden Xiang questioned the purpose of the drum.

Ashley Young and Couple Woman tried to beat the taiko drum to advance characters on the TV toward a concert stage, but both failed and died when the challenge escalated. The group remained trapped with the drumming challenge unresolved, and Lin Baici turned his attention to Giroud.

• Ashley Young played the notes sung by the drum’s face, advancing a Black man through the concert crowd on the TV, but he fell behind when the notes sped up and exploded after the face declared that he had failed.
• The lead singer’s music began affecting the group again, and Couple Woman took over the drum, hoping her piano training would let her clear the challenge.
• Couple Woman followed the rapidly increasing notes and brought her TV character close to the stage, but more than a hundred fans suddenly sang notes at once.
• Lin Baici called out the notes to help, but Couple Woman could not play them all before time ran out and exploded.
• Lin Baici looked toward Giroud as the group faced the unresolved challenge.

Lin Baici took over the drum challenge and used his reflexes and special abilities to defeat the Death Music Festival’s pollution. The TV went dark and everyone regained their sanity, but they remained trapped in the next bout of Rule Pollution, with the floor beginning to burn them.

• Lin Baici recognized Giroud’s musical ability and urged him to try the drum challenge, but stepped in himself before Giroud could begin.
• As the band’s song drove the group toward madness, Lin Baici played the taiko while Golden Xiang restrained Jin Yingzhen from harming herself.
• Lin Baici accelerated his reactions with Flash of Lightning and struck all 192 notes needed to get the character onto the stage.
• When the lead singer attacked with another sequence of notes, God of Gluttony told Lin Baici to play them backward, and he hit all 56 notes correctly.
• The character killed the lead singer and smashed his guitar, ending the music and restoring everyone’s sanity.
• Dorrisan screamed after sitting on the burning floor, and Golden Xiang promised Lin Baici all the spoils from the round.

After the scorching Rule Pollution continued, Lin Baici found a Plumber's Pipe Wrench God's Taboo Object that boosted his charm and combat power indoors. He entered a room with a blazing oven, and the group gathered around it while trying to figure out how to purify the pollution.

• After the first outbreak was purified, Lin Baici claimed the Music Festival TV but left it behind until he could retrieve it later.
• Lin Baici encountered Kim Jin-soo in the overheated corridor and continued searching rooms with the group.
• Lin Baici found the Plumber's Pipe Wrench beneath a sink and learned that it increased his combat power indoors and even more in bathrooms.
• When Lin Baici opened another room, a blast of heat poured out, revealing melted furnishings and several roasted corpses hanging from the ceiling.
• Lin Baici entered the room, and Jin Yingzhen, Li Yintong, Kim Jin-soo, and others followed; those who stayed outside were badly burned by the heat.
• The group identified a glowing oven as the likely source of the pollution, and Pogba urged Couple Man to unplug it.

Lin Baici and the survivors searched for a way to withstand the oven’s escalating heat, finding ice cubes and insulated gloves before Rule Pollution drove Gan to hang himself like meat on a hook. With the oven’s countdown still running, Lin Baici found Wildman Honey that protected against burns and began coating Jin Yingzhen with it.

• Couple Man was electrocuted trying to unplug the oven, but Lin Baici found a refrigerator whose ice cubes cooled the survivors and limited everyone to one cube each.
• Golden Xiang used pink insulated gloves to unplug the oven, but it soon turned back on with even greater heat, so the survivors made more ice and searched the rooms for clues.
• Gan became contaminated by grilling seasonings, climbed onto the oven hooks, and hung himself upside down while Lin Baici warned everyone about seasonings that could trigger the same madness.
• Pogba noticed a twenty-one-minute countdown on the oven, and several survivors chose to endure the heat in an ice bath while Lin Baici, Jin Yingzhen, and Li Yintong continued searching.
• Lin Baici found Wildman Honey that protected against burns, tested it on Jin Yingzhen, and told her to take off her clothes so he could cover her body with it.

Lin Baici and the others coated themselves in Savage Honey to withstand the rising heat, while Golden Xiang’s group endured the oven room by taking turns in ice water. The oven timer rang, and Golden Xiang’s group believed they had survived, while Lin Baici’s group remained elsewhere.

• Lin Baici told Jin Yingzhen, Li Yintong, and Kim Jin-soo to coat themselves with honey, then helped Jin Yingzhen and had Li Yintong help cover his back.
• The honey protected the four from the heat, and their underwear caught fire as the room continued to grow hotter.
• In the oven room, Golden Xiang and the others fought over the bathtub and ice while Pogba used Divine Grace to control Couple Man and make him produce more ice.
• Golden Xiang and the others wondered whether Lin Baici had found another way to avoid Rule Pollution, while Apa said it would be better if Lin Baici did not return.
• Couple Man died from the heat, and the group heard the oven timer ring; Golden Xiang concluded that they had survived.

Lin Baici survived the oven’s rule pollution, found and absorbed a Meteorite Stone, and led the injured survivors to the first-floor lobby. There, he reunited with Hua Yueyu and Yi Jisheng as the group faced a debate over whether to open the exit and risk letting in a monster.

• After the pollution ended, Lin Baici returned to the ninth floor, where the injured survivors agreed that the oven and fridge belonged to him, then followed him through the rooms.
• Lin Baici found a reef-shaped Meteorite Stone in an ornamental fish tank, swallowed it in a restroom, and felt his strength increase.
• Lin Baici and the others heard a monster demanding drinks and food on the fifth floor, saw the walls covered in flesh, and continued downstairs.
• In the lobby, Lin Baici reunited with Hua Yueyu, who thanked Yi Jisheng for protecting her, while Yi Jisheng introduced his silicone doll as his girlfriend.
• Hua Yueyu explained that the lobby’s occupants were arguing over whether to open the exit because a Korean man feared a monster outside would enter.

Lin Baici searched the apartment lobby for clues and intervened when Gao Heng attacked Dorrisan, defeating him with a single blow. As Jesus confronted Lin Baici over their earlier feud, the sound of approaching high heels announced a powerful Rule Pollution event, and Lin Baici was overcome by hunger.

• Lin Baici searched the caretaker's room and found old phones, keys, and other belongings while Li Yintong openly tried to get close to him.
• Lin Baici urged everyone to search the apartment before going outside, but Gao Heng struck Dorrisan with his Divine Grace when she spoke up for him.
• Lin Baici rushed Gao Heng and knocked him into the iron gate, then warned the group not to touch his people.
• Jesus arrived with two companions and confronted Lin Baici about their feud, while the God of Gluttony judged the newcomers and warned that Jesus was formidable.
• The sound of high heels came from the stairwell as Jesus sensed an intense Rule Pollution event, and Lin Baici's stomach began to growl with hunger.

Lin Baici used the God of Gluttony's review to infer how to survive the Head-Wrapped Female Office Worker's rules after she killed Wade for failing to give her a suitable gift. When she turned toward Lin Baici, she instead approached Golden Xiang, who offered her Li Yintong's gold bangle.

• The Head-Wrapped Woman descended into the lobby with a man crawling on a leash, and the God of Gluttony's review revealed her preferences and the danger of her high heels.
• Lin Baici secretly diverted the Head-Wrapped Woman from himself, but she demanded a gift from Wade and brutally killed him when he offered a kiss and then his wallet.
• The Head-Wrapped Woman used her handbag to change her stockings and retrieve coffee, revealing that it could hold many items.
• The Head-Wrapped Woman approached Lin Baici, then turned toward Golden Xiang, who asked Lin Baici for advice.
• Lin Baici told Golden Xiang to offer her something valuable, so Golden Xiang accepted Li Yintong's gold bangle and presented it to the Head-Wrapped Woman.

The Head-Wrapped Woman demanded gifts from the people in the apartment lobby, accepting Lin Baici’s promise to prepare one within five days after the pipe wrench’s charm influenced her. She killed Giroud and the Seven-Part Hairstyle Man, took the Sword-Eyebrow Man as her new dog, and left Lin Baici’s group facing a looming confrontation with Jesus’s team.

• The Head-Wrapped Woman accepted Golden Xiang’s gold bracelet, gave him her Agent Kim business card, and then accepted Lin Baici’s promise to prepare her a gift within five days.
• The Head-Wrapped Woman kissed Lin Baici on the cheek, leaving a lipstick mark, before demanding gifts from other men in the lobby.
• The Head-Wrapped Woman beheaded Giroud with a thrown bank card after he failed to offer an acceptable gift.
• The Head-Wrapped Woman pursued and killed the Seven-Part Hairstyle Man after he teleported away, then killed his dog and put its leash on the Sword-Eyebrow Man.
• The Head-Wrapped Woman went upstairs, and Lin Baici’s group began discussing their next move while his allies confronted Jesus and his team.

Lin Baici and the others debated whether to fight Jesus and whether to leave the apartment building, then set out for a night run through nearby woods. After more than twenty minutes, a scream suddenly broke the quiet.

• Jesus backed down from confronting Lin Baici and went to search the management office, while the group learned that monsters and dangerous God's Taboo Objects threatened both inside and outside the building.
• Gao Heng raised the iron gate, broke the glass door's U-lock, and led several people outside despite Che Zhengshuo's warning that the key to purifying the Rule Pollution might be inside.
• Lin Baici followed the God of Gluttony's prompts and decided to jog around the area for half an hour, with Working Uncle, Che Zhengshuo, Gao Heng, and others joining him.
• Lin Baici led the group from the apartment plaza into a dark woodland, cutting through branches with his Bronze Sword as they jogged.
• After more than twenty minutes without incident, Gao Heng declared that going outside had been the right choice, but someone suddenly screamed.

Lin Baici led the God Hunters through the woods to investigate a monster that silently killed two people, then encountered a muscular Dog-headed Man that challenged them to match its poses or die. After the God of Gluttony revealed that they had to copy the creature’s movements, the group began attempting its difficult handstand pose.

• Lin Baici found a God Hunter whose neck had been twisted around, and the group continued through the woods despite arguing over whether to turn back.
• Lin Baici followed the corpses’ stench and spotted a Flying Stone strike a tree before the Dog-headed Man dropped silently from the sky.
• The Dog-headed Man showed off its muscles and demanded that anyone whose muscles were smaller than its own could not leave unless they beat it.
• The Dog-headed Man challenged the group to perform its handstand pose, and the God of Gluttony warned that anyone who failed would be singled out.
• Lin Baici told everyone to copy the pose, and the God Hunters began trying to balance on their hands and thumbs.

Lin Baici and the others faced the powerful Dog-headed Man, which killed its challengers Apa and a big-eyed young man using the evasive Dog King Slide Step. The survivors fled to the apartment and shut the gate, leaving two women outside as the Dog-headed Man caught up with them.

• The Dog-headed Man challenged the group, killed the big-eyed young man with a slap, and chose Apa as its next opponent.
• Apa attacked with his curved knife and Divine Grace, Rhino Horn, but the Dog-headed Man dodged with its Dog King Slide Step and killed him.
• The Dog-headed Man named Havertz as its next opponent, and Jesus fled with him before confronting the monster again; Lin Baici took Apa's curved knife and gave it to Yi Jisheng.
• Lin Baici carried Jin Yingzhen while Yi Jisheng carried Hua Yueyu, and the group raced back to the apartment as Jesus and others escaped through the closing gate.
• Gao Heng shut the gate while two women were left outside, and the Dog-headed Man leaped in front of them and declared that they would all die.

Lin Baici faced the Dog-headed Man after it forced the lobby survivors to choose an opponent, then exploited its vanity to ambush it in the restroom. The fight continued out of sight, leaving the others unsure whether Lin Baici could survive the monster’s counterattack.

• The Dog-headed Man killed a woman who fled outside and then tore apart Sportswear Man for running from the lobby, before declaring that anyone who could make it bleed could leave.
• The Dog-headed Man chose its opponent through a dog-barking contest, but selected Lin Baici when he refused to bark.
• Lin Baici provoked the Dog-headed Man and led it to the restroom, where he used his boosted strength and pipe wrench to batter it until its face bled.
• The Dog-headed Man cornered Lin Baici and launched a powerful punch as the people in the lobby heard the fight and wondered whether they should help.

Lin Baici fought the Dog-headed Man in a public restroom, using Divine Graces and the urine-covered floor to disable its Climbing Boots. He killed the monster with Floating Life Night Rain, Wild Buddha Blows Out the Lamp, and the God of Gluttony urged him to eat.

• Lin Baici dodged the Dog-headed Man’s punch with Snake Bone Soft Body and struck its eye with the pipe wrench, but the monster evaded his Great Impression Hand with Dog King Slide Step.
• The Dog-headed Man battered Lin Baici and cornered him, so Lin Baici smashed a urinal and flooded the floor, leaving urine that prevented the monster’s boots from activating.
• Lin Baici used Drunken Immortal Fist in Wine to disorient the Dog-headed Man, then landed Great Impression Hand on its wrist; the monster tore off its right arm to escape the attack’s spreading effect.
• The Dog-headed Man pinned Lin Baici to the floor and tried to crush him, but Lin Baici’s Clay Figure stones and Snake Bone Soft Body bought him time.
• Lin Baici summoned a gigantic Buddha Statue, whose Floating Life Night Rain, Wild Buddha Blows Out the Lamp extinguished the Dog-headed Man’s soul Bonfire and killed it.
• Lin Baici survived the fight, and the God of Gluttony urged him to get up and eat the Dog-headed Man.

Lin Baici killed the Dog-headed Man, claimed its magical climbing boots, and ate its blood and kidneys for their restorative benefits. He reunited with the group as their standing rose, while Jesus discovered what Lin Baici had done and resolved to wait for another chance to seize the best spoils.

• Lin Baici took the Dog-headed Man's climbing boots and learned they let him evade attacks but compelled him to mark new territory by urinating.
• After God of Gluttony described the Dog-headed Man's blood and organs, Lin Baici drank its blood and ate its kidneys.
• Lin Baici emerged victorious, and the group crowded around him while Jesus watched them rally to his side.
• Lin Baici warned everyone not to touch the Dog-headed Man's corpse, then went to shower with Hua Yueyu and Jin Yingzhen following him.
• Jesus found the corpse drained of blood and missing its kidneys, grew alarmed at Lin Baici's strength, and decided to wait for a chance to claim greater spoils.
• Lin Baici kicked Li Yintong out of the bathroom when she tried to join him in the shower.