Chapter Summaries

After resting, Lin Baici led the group to the third floor to search for a God's Taboo Object, where they encountered the Fat Otaku and his deadly demand for Coca-Cola. Lin Baici supplied the drink before the countdown expired, but the Fat Otaku followed up with a new question about cosplay.

• Xia Hongyao and Gu Qingqiu woke Hua Yueyu by falsely telling her Lin Baici had proposed to Jin Yingzhen, and Lin Baici then gathered everyone to leave.
• Lin Baici used the God-Asking Tortoise Shell to learn that the third floor was the safest place to search, then led the group there with the Administrator Key.
• After the group left the seventh room on the third floor, the Fat Otaku appeared and demanded Coca-Cola while a fifteen-minute countdown appeared on everyone's faces.
• Lin Baici warned the group not to touch the countdowns, but Kim Jin-soo touched hers and lost a minute.
• Lin Baici gave the Fat Otaku a bottle of Pepsi, which he rejected, then produced Coca-Cola from his Black Altar Bowl and handed it over.
• The Fat Otaku drank the Coca-Cola and asked the group whether they liked cosplay.

Lin Baici and the others encountered a monster called the Fat Otaku, whose demands forced Hua Yueyu and Dorrisan to cosplay while he photographed them. After Hua Yueyu passed and Dorrisan received a poor accuracy score, the Fat Otaku caused Dorrisan’s chest to explode, leaving the group facing an escalating Rule Pollution.

• The Fat Otaku demanded that the group answer whether they liked cosplay, and Hua Yueyu volunteered to distract him.
• The Fat Otaku used the Role-Playing Gun to transform Hua Yueyu into Keqing and photographed her until he let her go.
• The Fat Otaku transformed Dorrisan into a fantasy elf and ordered her to pose for photographs.
• The Fat Otaku rated Dorrisan’s accuracy at 62 percent and ignored her plea to leave.
• Dorrisan’s chest exploded, startling the group and prompting Kwon Sang-in to recognize that the Rule Pollution had erupted.

Fat Otaku Monster forced the group to cosplay and judged their performances with a camera that punished poor accuracy. After Jin Yingzhen earned a perfect score by whipping him, Lin Baici helped the men pass as goblins by turning their staged beating into a convincing performance, and the monster praised them.

• Fat Otaku Monster transformed Li Yintong into a succubus, and she improved her performance enough to earn a barely acceptable score.
• Jin Yingzhen struggled to pose as a leather-clad queen until Lin Baici told her to whip Fat Otaku Monster, who became her submissive and gave her a hundred points.
• Fat Otaku Monster transformed Xia Hongyao and Gu Qingqiu into bunny girls, praised Xia Hongyao's performance, and ignored Gu Qingqiu before turning the remaining group into goblins.
• Lin Baici activated the Goblin King card, giving his cosplay a convincing goblin aura, then punched Kwon Sang-in and told him to fall down and scream.
• Che Zhengshuo struck Golden Xiang with a spiked mace, and the group’s staged violence delighted Fat Otaku Monster, which ate chips along with a cockroach.

Lin Baici and the others entered the Fat Otaku Monster’s lair, where he ordered them to clean a flesh-covered corridor within an hour or be turned into figurines. As the group struggled against the living corridor and the countdown, they began debating whether to attack the monster instead.

• Lin Baici refused to abandon the others and searched for the Fat Otaku Monster’s requested potato chips with Golden Xiang and Che Zhengshuo.
• Lin Baici delivered the chips, and the Fat Otaku Monster gave everyone one hour to clean the corridor or become figurines.
• Lin Baici warned the group not to use a broom after God of Gluttony revealed that sharp stimulation frightened the Fat Otaku Intestine.
• Golden Xiang scrubbed too forcefully, and the flesh swallowed and expelled him in a burst of slime and foul gas.
• With time running out, Kwon Sang-in and Golden Xiang urged the group to fight the monster, while Gu Qingqiu urged them to seek another solution.

Lin Baici found a way to appease the Fat Otaku Monster by bringing it adult DVDs, earning the group four more hours and a task to find missing figurines. As the team searched the apartment, Golden Xiang found a magical-girl figurine that Lin Baici identified as one the monster wanted.

• Lin Baici searched the mailroom for magazines and DVDs, then brought them to the Fat Otaku Monster in hopes of winning more time.
• The Fat Otaku Monster watched an adult film and stopped requiring the group to clean the hallway, but ordered Lin Baici to find its missing figurines.
• Lin Baici told the others about the new task and led them through the seventeenth floor, unlocking rooms for them to search.
• Golden Xiang found a magical-girl figurine in room 1709, and Lin Baici sensed that it was one of the missing items the monster wanted.
• Lin Baici gave the figurine back to Golden Xiang and ordered everyone to keep searching.

Lin Baici encountered the Head-Wrapped Woman while searching for the Fat Otaku Monster’s escaped figurines, and she removed the time limit on his face after asking him on a date. She took hold of his arm and invited him away, leaving his friends’ fate unresolved.

• Golden Xiang reported that the figurine had vanished from his hand, and Lin Baici told everyone to keep searching while he headed downstairs.
• Lin Baici asked about Rope Art after learning the figurine could be captured by tying it up, then heard the Head-Wrapped Woman approaching.
• The Head-Wrapped Woman appeared in the stairwell and struck Golden Xiang with her handbag when he ran into her.
• The Head-Wrapped Woman asked Lin Baici on a date, kissed the barcode on his face away, and refused to remove his friends’ time limits.
• The Head-Wrapped Woman invited Lin Baici to eat instant noodles and grabbed his arm after saying she liked men with eight-pack abs.

Lin Baici followed the Head-Wrapped Woman to her basement apartment, where he used charm-enhancing God’s Taboo Objects to win her affection and prepare a request. As he secretly transferred her special coffee beans into a bottle, she heard the noise and began walking toward the kitchen.

• The Head-Wrapped Woman killed Dorrisan with a returning bank card, then took Lin Baici downstairs while Xia Hongyao’s group searched for figurines and tried to use the Administrator Key.
• Lin Baici entered the Head-Wrapped Woman’s apartment and used the Lover’s Lipstick, Affair Pipe Wrench, and Muscle Buddha to prepare for dealing with her.
• The Female Office Worker kissed Lin Baici after he bit an apple slice she offered, then watched him go to the kitchen to make coffee.
• Lin Baici discovered that the White Lover Coffee Beans increased a drinker’s goodwill and infatuation, so he secretly poured them into a bottle.
• The Female Office Worker heard the beans rattle and started walking toward the kitchen to investigate.

Lin Baici used romantic God's Taboo Objects to win the Head-Wrapped Woman’s affection and asked her to help him leave the monster apartment. She agreed to take him but could only pay his rent with one life, and she stopped him from going to check on his companions.

• Lin Baici distracted the Head-Wrapped Woman, swapped the coffee beans, and brewed coffee while she and the Female Office Worker chose a movie.
• On the sixteenth floor, Xia Hongyao’s group found the key left by the Knocking Ghost and continued searching for figurines while discussing Lin Baici’s situation.
• Lin Baici learned what the Fat Otaku Monster liked and feared, then used romantic gestures and the coffee to deepen the Head-Wrapped Woman’s affection.
• The Head-Wrapped Woman discovered Lin Baici’s Affair Pipe Wrench, but he kissed her and later persuaded her to take him with her and give him the coffee beans.
• The Head-Wrapped Woman said she could only pay Lin Baici’s rent with one life and could not explain how to kill the Fat Otaku Monster, then grabbed his Kasaya to stop him from checking on his companions.

Lin Baici left the Head-Wrapped Woman and rejoined his companions, then devised a plan to distract the Fat Otaku Monster with a comic while Xia Hongyao prepared to activate the oven. He entered the monster’s flesh-covered floor with the comic, leaving Xia ready to spring the trap when she heard his signal.

• Lin Baici gave the Head-Wrapped Woman a phone and left; she changed into fresh clothes and went after him.
• Lin Baici returned to the fifteenth floor, explained that coffee had made the Head-Wrapped Woman consider him a friend, and borrowed Yi Jisheng’s silicone doll for his plan.
• Lin Baici and Xia Hongyao went upstairs, where he used Divine Grace to draw ten chapters of A Beautiful New World as bait for the Fat Otaku Monster.
• Lin Baici had Xia Hongyao spread honey over his back and arranged for her to plug in the oven when he coughed to signal that the monster was hooked.
• Xia Hongyao set up the extension cord near the stairwell, and Lin Baici entered the monster’s flesh-covered hallway carrying the comic.

Lin Baici and Xia Hongyao used manga, rising heat, and a silicone doll to keep Fat Otaku Monster inside his room until he burned to death. They searched him for tickets, but the chapter ended before they found out what he had dropped.

• Lin Baici distracted Fat Otaku Monster with manga and kept drawing while Xia Hongyao powered up the oven, causing the eighteenth floor to heat rapidly.
• Lin Baici gave Fat Otaku Monster the silicone doll and activated its Rule Pollution, making him stay in his room with it.
• Lin Baici and Xia Hongyao found that the oven repeatedly shut off early, then returned upstairs with Kwon Sang-in and the others.
• Lin Baici found Fat Otaku Monster burned to a charcoal-like state on the bed, with the silicone doll beneath him.
• Lin Baici ordered the group to search Fat Otaku Monster for tickets, and Che Zhengshuo began checking the body.

Lin Baici and the group discovered that the seemingly dead Fat Otaku Monster had survived its burning and turned the eighteenth floor into a living digestive tract. Lin Baici found a way to break through the flesh, but Muscle Buddha was swallowed as the fight continued.

• Yi Jisheng freed his silicone doll while Zheng Zhonggen prepared to examine the Fat Otaku Monster's corpse, which suddenly revived and attacked him.
• The Fat Otaku Monster killed Zheng Zhonggen, then fought Muscle Buddha as the flesh covering the floor and walls regenerated and trapped the group.
• Lin Baici and the others battled the monster's living digestive tract, while Xia Hongyao and Che Zhengshuo struck it with their abilities.
• Xia Hongyao shattered a wave of flesh with Black Helios Flash, but the monster's flesh continued growing and corrosive liquid began dripping from the ceiling.
• Lin Baici used Meat Shattering Strike to free Jin Yingzhen, Hua Yueyu, and Gu Qingqiu and clear a path, but the flesh engulfed Muscle Buddha.

Lin Baici, Xia Hongyao, and the Head-Wrapped Woman fought Fat Otaku Monster in the flesh-covered hallway. Lin Baici killed it with Great Impression Hand, and the monster dropped God's Remains and tickets.

• Lin Baici and Xia Hongyao fought Fat Otaku Monster while their companions escaped through the stairwell, and the monster trapped them in a wave of flesh.
• The Head-Wrapped Woman appeared, cut through the monster's tentacles, and helped Lin Baici by setting it and the hallway ablaze with perfume and a lighter.
• Lin Baici summoned jackals and attacked with the Voodoo Staff as Xia Hongyao and the Head-Wrapped Woman kept Fat Otaku Monster from reaching the roof.
• Fat Otaku Monster battered the Head-Wrapped Woman, then used its remaining fat in an explosive attack and fled toward the stairs.
• Lin Baici ambushed Fat Otaku Monster with Flash of Lightning and Great Impression Hand, killing it and finding tickets and God's Remains.
• Xia Hongyao celebrated their victory, while Lin Baici asked where the Head-Wrapped Woman had gone.

After Lin Baici defeated the Fat Otaku Monster, the Female Office Worker drove the others away and clung to him while they searched the apartment for loot. Lin Baici found several God's Taboo Objects, including a transformation revolver, a camera, and special flip-flops, as the others prepared to move on to the next stop.

• Xia Hongyao questioned Lin Baici about why the Female Office Worker had helped him, and he credited his God's Taboo Objects before checking on the injured monster.
• Xia Hongyao found the Guangzhou Station train ticket, while the other survivors saw that the Fat Otaku Monster's death had made the hallway's flesh crumble away.
• The Female Office Worker claimed the apartment and its contents belonged to Lin Baici, then forced the others to leave the eighteenth floor while keeping him beside her.
• Xia Hongyao told the group they could move on after obtaining the ticket, while Gu Qingqiu left with Che Zhengshuo to search for more spoils.
• The Female Office Worker accompanied Lin Baici into the Fat Otaku Monster's room, where he collected computer towers and received a transformation revolver, a DSLR camera, and Lazybones Flip-Flops.

After defeating the landlord, Lin Baici found that the Female Office Worker had become the apartment building’s owner and wanted him to stay with her, so he sent his companions outside while planning his next move. In the basement bathroom, he ate God's Remains and gained two new Divine Graces, Reverse Two-Dimensional and Muscle Burn.

• Lin Baici collected four God's Taboo Objects and learned that the suitcase could withstand bullets and an RPG strike.
• The Head-Wrapped Woman found the apartment building’s ownership documents, became its landlord, and insisted that Lin Baici stay with her and start a family.
• Lin Baici persuaded the Female Office Worker to let him go outside, then led Xia Hongyao, Gu Qingqiu, and the others out of the building.
• The group waited in the woods while Lin Baici returned to the basement and pretended to shower as the Female Office Worker prepared a feast.
• Lin Baici ate God's Remains and received the Divine Graces Reverse Two-Dimensional and Muscle Burn.

Lin Baici used his new Divine Graces, escaped the Female Office Worker without killing her, and stole two of her God's Taboo Objects. After evading Little Cutie, he reached the station and reunited with Xia Hongyao and the others as they hurried for the train.

• Lin Baici tested Reverse Two-Dimensional by making ordinary copies of a pipe wrench and a God-Asking Tortoise Shell, then learned it could not replicate God's Taboo Objects.
• The God of Gluttony explained Muscle Burn, which let Lin Baici heal physical injuries by burning fat, though it caused intense hunger and rapid weight gain.
• Lin Baici used Lover's Lipstick and White Lover Coffee to gain the Female Office Worker's affection, then tied her up and knocked her unconscious with Drunken Immortal Fist in Wine.
• Lin Baici took the Female Office Worker's Red-Soled High Heels and Chanel Black Lambskin Handbag but left the other God's Taboo Objects behind.
• Little Cutie confronted Lin Baici at the building entrance, but he distracted her with hide-and-seek and escaped toward the station.
• Lin Baici met Xia Hongyao and the others near the station and urged them to board the train before discussing what had happened.

Lin Baici led the group out of the Monster Apartment and secured passage to Guangzhou, then welcomed Gu Qingqiu onto his team. The train announced their arrival at Guangzhou Station, leaving the group ready to face the next stop.

• Lin Baici used the Administrator Key to open the gate, then threw away the padlock so the monsters inside could leave.
• The group boarded the train to Guangzhou, and Lin Baici received an upgrade to the VIP carriage with one female companion; he chose Gu Qingqiu.
• Gu Qingqiu apologized to Lin Baici and asked to join his team, and he welcomed her aboard while reiterating that Xia Hongyao was the captain.
• Lin Baici and Gu Qingqiu discussed the Monster Apartment and reviewed their God's Taboo Objects, while the others washed up and waited on the train.
• The train announced its arrival at Guangzhou Station, and Xia Hongyao called everyone to get off into the surrounding fog.

Little Cutie and the Female Office Worker discovered that the apartment’s gate was open and prepared to leave in search of Lin Baici. At Guangzhou Station, Lin Baici distributed the Red-Soled High Heels, the lambskin handbag, and a cosplay pistol before a stranger approached the group offering to sell them phones.

• Little Cutie left her wardrobe, found the apartment empty, and discovered that leaving no longer caused her pain.
• Little Cutie woke the Female Office Worker, who realized Lin Baici had left through the open gate and decided to pack before following him.
• Xia Hongyao and the others arrived at Guangzhou Station and left the station, finding themselves in a nighttime city crowded with travelers.
• Lin Baici gave the Red-Soled High Heels and the lambskin handbag to Jin Yingzhen, then gave the cosplay pistol to Hua Yueyu.
• A young man wearing sunglasses approached Lin Baici’s group outside the train station and offered to sell them phones.

Lin Baici and the others bought phones from a suspicious peddler in the God Ruins and discovered that the Worker APP listed jobs paying God Coins. After Kwon Sang-in killed the peddler, the group learned that earning one hundred God Coins could let them leave the city.

• Kwon Sang-in kicked the Sunglasses Man, but Lin Baici called him back after suspecting the phones were connected to the God Ruins.
• Lin Baici led the group to buy phones and turn them on, revealing the Worker APP among their apps.
• Kwon Sang-in beat and killed the Sunglasses Man, while Lin Baici opened the Worker APP to inspect its job listings.
• Calls told Gu Qingqiu and Li Yintong to work and earn one hundred God Coins to leave the city.
• Lin Baici told the group to look for jobs through the Worker APP, which offered some positions that paid in God Coins.

Lin Baici chose a job at the New World Grand Hotel after the God of Gluttony advised him to work at a restaurant. He arrived with his companions to apply, but the Boss Lady rushed off to deal with a shortage of Vegetable Head People.

• The God of Gluttony warned Lin Baici that only fifty God Hunters could earn one hundred coins before the game ended, while anyone who failed would become an NPC.
• Lin Baici chose the New World Grand Hotel job listing, and Kwon Sang-in arranged taxis to take the group there.
• The Boss Lady told the group that the hotel was hiring at most three people and that she would assess their abilities.
• A receptionist reported that Fish Seller Kang had given the last truckload of Vegetable Head People to another hotel, so the Boss Lady angrily went outside.
• Lin Baici and the others watched the Boss Lady leave and waited for his decision about what to do next.

Lin Baici accompanied Han Suying to Sea Whale Aquatic Products to retrieve a Vegetable Head Person shipment and beat up Park Jin-kiang after learning he had sold it elsewhere. Park Jin-kiang promised Han Suying a new shipment the next morning, but revealed that Boss Huang had taken the goods she wanted that night.

• Han Suying offered Lin Baici a commission to help recover her Vegetable Head Person, and he persuaded her to give Golden Xiang a chance to cook at New World.
• At Sea Whale Aquatic Products, Han Suying confronted Park Jin-kiang, who admitted he had sold her goods and demanded triple her deposit to repay her.
• Lin Baici slapped and punched Park Jin-kiang, then repeatedly dunked him in a fish tank until he promised Han Suying the next shipment at the lowest price.
• Han Suying demanded the shipment that night, but Park Jin-kiang said Boss Huang had already taken it and promised to deliver new goods the next morning.