Chapter Summaries

Lin Baici and Xia Hongyao punished a group of players who had been robbing others, then Lin’s team challenged the World Boss Isarek. They survived the boss’s first phase and entered the second phase, with Isarek charging toward Gu Qingqiu.

• Xia Hongyao and Lin Baici defeated the robbers at the Stranglethorn Vale crossroads, reclaimed their stolen gold, and forced the group to strip before Xia killed the sales director.
• Xia Hongyao warned players through the World Channel not to rob or bully others, then she and Lin Baici left as the remaining robbers turned on one another.
• Gu Qingqiu’s team claimed First Kills in The Hammer of Curse, Demon's Den, and Titan's Horn before deciding to challenge Isarek in Elegy Forest.
• Lin Baici recruited five players for the raid, explained the risk of losing all their levels, and led the group into battle against Isarek.
• Lin Baici directed the team through Isarek’s first-phase attacks, helping them survive Pierce Stars, Life-Taking Shot, Stars Fall, and Rage Frenzy.
• Isarek summoned the Pure White Tiger and began phase two by charging toward Gu Qingqiu, while Lin Baici followed and used his skills to draw the boss’s aggro.

Lin Baici’s team defeated the World Boss Isarek and claimed the First Kill, then prepared for the Dark Temple as the game’s deadline approached. After Lin Baici reached level 60 and the Dark Temple opened, Gu Qingqiu began recruiting dungeon teammates while Lin Baici leveled his Alchemy; the chapter ended with King Qin Is Here leading the first team into the Gate of Corruption.

• Lin Baici and Xia Hongyao managed Isarek’s tank swaps and deadly attacks, and their group defeated the World Boss to claim the First Kill.
• Lin Baici distributed Isarek’s loot, gave Hua Yueyu the White Tiger mount, and kept the Breath of Nature necklace for the Dark Temple.
• Li Luyou watched the battle, while players including Su Manni and Wang Xiao reacted to the First Kill and sought ways to join Lin Baici’s team.
• Lin Baici became the first player to reach level 60, and the game announced that players would be wiped out unless the Dark Temple’s Final Boss was defeated within a week.
• Gu Qingqiu recruited players for max-level dungeons as Lin Baici leveled his Alchemy and prepared protection potions.
• King Qin Is Here led a team into the Gate of Corruption, becoming the first team to challenge the Dark Temple.

Lin Baici and Hua Yueyu led First Star into Dark Temple, where their team defeated the first three bosses with remarkable consistency. The chapter left the national team still progressing through the raid while other players watched and struggled with the bosses themselves.

• World announcements opened a live broadcast of the Dark Temple raid and warned that players who exhausted their attempts would lose their levels and achievements upon death.
• Hua Yueyu led First Star through the dungeon, and Lin Baici calmly prepared the team before they challenged the Titan Guardian.
• First Star defeated the Titan Guardian in one attempt, impressing viewers with their coordination and preparation.
• First Star overcame the three-headed Dark Hellhound and the Icewing Dragon without losing a team member.
• King Qin Is Here’s national team advanced through Dark Temple, while Brother Kun and God Tri-Split’s group repeatedly wiped against the Titan Guardian.

Seventh Star fought through the Dark Temple and defeated the enslaved Elemental King and Archmage Sandria, earning the first-kill announcement. Their victory also revoked the elimination rule, leaving the players in the forest safe from being erased.

• Peanut Butter won 100 attempts, and Lin Baici led Seventh Star through the Dark Temple until they reached the enslaved Elemental King.
• The team battled the Elemental King through its dangerous attacks, but most of Lin Baici's recruited players died, leaving Porsche, Hua Yueyu, Lin Baici, and Gan to finish the fight.
• After clearing the first three bosses in one go, Seventh Star received a boon: defeating the Evil God would revoke the elimination rule.
• Seventh Star entered the royal library and fought Archmage Sandria, whose overlapping attacks and minions forced the survivors to rely on precise dodging and coordination.
• Porsche, Hua Yueyu, Lin Baici, and Gan defeated Archmage Sandria, and the game announced that Seventh Star had secured the first kill.
• The elimination rule was revoked, and the players in the forest cheered when they learned they would not be erased.

Li Luyou and He Yunjia awoke in body bags inside a freezing morgue, where the God of Gluttony revealed that they had entered a game and had to purify Rule Pollution to survive. As Li Luyou investigated the refrigerated drawers, someone trapped nearby called for help.

• Li Luyou escaped his body bag and discovered a champion's ring bearing his name, while He Yunjia climbed out of her own bag and clung to him for warmth.
• The God of Gluttony explained that Li Luyou and the others had to complete the game and purify the Rule Pollution, and warned Li Luyou not to use Divine Grace or God's Taboo Objects.
• Li Luyou refused He Yunjia's advances and searched the rows of refrigerated drawers as she shivered in the cold.
• Li Luyou heard someone calling for help, found the drawer marked 109, and discovered a body bag inside that was writhing.

Lin Baici and the others woke in a morgue, where they freed people trapped in body refrigerators and discovered they had returned to reality without their game powers. A living corpse attacked Brother Kun, while Da Tianjie confronted Song Guanxin and Batuge, leaving the group surrounded by danger and without a clear way out.

• Lin Baici helped pull Zheng Yuhuang from a body bag, and the two recognized each other as people from the game.
• Lin Baici, Zheng Yuhuang, and others opened the cold-storage drawers and released twenty-four people, including Song Guanxin, Tang Keke, and Brother Kun.
• The group realized their status menus and powers were gone, and Da Tianjie challenged Song Guanxin over their past fight in the game.
• Da Tianjie punched Batuge when he tried to intervene, making the morgue fall silent.
• A rotting living corpse emerged from another body bag and attacked Brother Kun, biting his neck as the others watched in horror.

Lin Baici and Zheng Yuhuang fought and restrained the living corpses in the morgue while the trapped group struggled to survive. After they dealt with a female corpse and confronted Zhao Qing, an urgent warning revealed that more corpses were waking and ordered everyone into morgue drawers.

• Brother Kun awoke inside a body bag, bit Big Raccoon Dry Noodles and Durian Too Expensive, and was subdued and zipped into the bag.
• A female living corpse climbed from a refrigerated drawer, but Zheng Yuhuang and Lin Baici fought her, bound her, and returned her to a drawer.
• Zheng Yuhuang scolded the group for relying on others, slapped Batuguer and Shanjī for their earlier behavior, and beat Zhao Qing after he attacked Da Tianjie.
• Lin Baici explained that the group needed to find their assigned morgue drawers and the key to cleanse the rule pollution.
• An urgent warning announced that more living corpses were waking, that their stench could poison people, and that everyone should hide in morgue drawers.

Zheng Yuhuang led the survivors in restraining the reanimated corpses in the morgue and searching the cabinets for a key to the locked exit. Several people were bitten and began turning, while Simp Classmate found keys that might get the group out.

• Zheng Yuhuang restrained Brother Kun after he reanimated, then warned the group that anyone bitten would soon turn into a walking corpse.
• When more corpses began knocking from the refrigerated cabinets, Zheng Yuhuang organized the survivors into teams to tie them up, bag them, and lock them away.
• Lin Baici and several others joined the effort, while Durian Too Expensive, the instant-noodle raccoon, and others were bitten during the chaos.
• Zheng Yuhuang and the others continued opening cabinets as the group searched for a key to the morgue door.
• Simp Classmate revealed that he had found a key in his mouth, and Lu Aina took the keys as the group prepared to try the exit.

Trapped on the negative first floor of an old hospital, Zheng Yuhuang and Lin Baici searched for a way to escape while living corpses closed in. Zheng Yuhuang worked out that a key was hidden in a morgue drawer, and Liu Chenze led the group back to the morgue to hide in the drawers as the corpses battered their way inside.

• Zheng Yuhuang took charge of the group, sent Batu Lingge and others to search the underground garage, and discovered that the elevator was out of service.
• Zheng Yuhuang reasoned that a key was inside a refrigerated morgue drawer and told everyone to find the drawer with their name on it.
• Living corpses broke through the garage windows, so Zheng Yuhuang led the group back to the morgue and locked the door behind them.
• Liu Chenze instructed everyone to put on body bags and lie in their named morgue drawers while the living corpses battered the fire door.

Lin Baici used Eidetic Memory to help the survivors find their named morgue drawers, where they hid from the living corpses. After several people died when they failed to follow the rules, Zheng Yuhuang led the survivors back toward the morgue, and the chapter left them searching for clues to escape.

• Lin Baici remembered the drawer locations after reading the names and guided the survivors to their own drawers.
• The living corpses broke into the morgue and killed Suman, while Peanut Butter and Loves to Wear Speed Shoes were also found and killed after hiding in the wrong places.
• Zheng Yuhuang waited for the corpses to leave, then explored the autopsy room and found clues among the garbage and belongings.
• Lin Baici suggested using the keys to open the locked door, and Zheng Yuhuang led the survivors out of the morgue.
• The survivors returned to the morgue to hide again, while Zheng Yuhuang and the others prepared to search for clues to escape.

He Wenshan guided the trapped group through the autopsy doctor’s attack and explained how to survive the living corpses by hiding in the morgue drawers. The doctor killed and injured several people before the corpses arrived, leaving the survivors scrambling to follow He Wenshan’s instructions and escape the danger.

• He Wenshan warned the group that they could not leave and told them to hide in morgue drawers, wear body bags, and stay still when living corpses checked them.
• The autopsy doctor appeared with a clipboard and scalpel, pursued the fleeing group, and repeatedly stabbed the sales director and Lin Baici.
• The doctor took Song Tianni and Shanjī with him, while Baoyan escaped and returned to He Wenshan, grateful that she had followed his advice.
• He Wenshan and the others hid as the living corpses entered and checked the morgue drawers; Deng Ziyu survived when she kept her eyes closed.
• The group learned that the living corpses targeted the drawers associated with people whose hearts were beating fastest, while He Wenshan remained calm and continued seeking a way out.

Lin Baici and the others survived another assault by the living corpses in Death Hospital, while Zheng Yuhuang risked himself to rescue people and uncover how to disrupt the Coroner’s work. The group left the autopsy room with the Coroner still a threat and more Rule Pollution ahead.

• Lin Baici killed the living corpses attacking the group, and the God of Gluttony warned that more Rule Pollution awaited them.
• Zheng Yuhuang found the Coroner dissecting Li Luyou and discovered that the autopsy list required two bodies to be accounted for, or the Coroner would have to find a replacement.
• Zheng Yuhuang used the forgotten body bag to bring Ge'er back to life, then poured hydrofluoric acid over the Progenitor Meat Chunk to destroy it.
• Zheng Yuhuang and the others waited out the danger, and Lin Baici urged them to work together before leading the group onward.

Li Luyou watched Lin Baici escape the living-corpse attack before turning to Xia Hongyao’s livestream, where Yang Haoqiong and the others faced a brutal nurse in a hospital. Zheng Yuhuang used charm and quick thinking to get through admission, and the group reached the eighteenth floor, where the dangers remained unclear.

• Li Luyou praised Lin Baici’s careful escape from the living corpses and switched to Xia Hongyao’s livestream.
• Yang Haoqiong, Da Tianjie, and the others encountered the nurse, who forced them through examinations and beat Zhou Laoye when he tried to refuse treatment.
• Zheng Yuhuang charmed the nurse, completed his admission, and helped the others avoid provoking her.
• The nurse sent Yang Haoqiong, Da Tianjie, and another companion to the Water Room, where the group endured a high-pressure wash and further examinations.
• Zheng Yuhuang and the others boarded the elevator, which carried them to the eighteenth floor as Da Tianjie noticed a male nurse waiting outside.

Zheng Yuhuang and the others tried to survive the brutal rules of a psychiatric hospital, where nurses punished patients for disobedience and forced them through violent examinations. After entering the ward, they began investigating the missing patient in Bed 6 and searching for a way to escape.

• The head nurse ordered the newcomers to fill out bedside cards, stay in bed, and clean the filthy ward, punishing those who resisted by forcing them to lick surfaces and toilets.
• Zheng Yuhuang explored the ward, questioned a patient about the missing person in Bed 6, and returned to find the nurses tormenting the others.
• The nurses smothered Zhao Qing to death and tore off Simp Classmate's pinky toe, terrifying the remaining patients into obeying.
• Zheng Yuhuang urged everyone to act like patients while he looked for clues, and Suman received instructions to steal a patient's bracelet from Room 1820, Bed 8.

Lin Baici fought and killed the Bed 6 patient, whose intestines attacked everyone in the restroom, then took the patient’s wristband in hopes of avoiding nurse inspections. He put the tight wristband on by softening the bones in his hand, shocking Su Manni.

• Lin Baici entered the restroom and found numerous corpses hanging from intestines, including Zoro of Three Sword Style.
• The Bed 6 patient attacked Lin Baici with intestines from inside a stall, knocking him into a urinal.
• The patient's intestines caught Zheng Yuhuang, Da Tianjie, and Su Manni, but Lin Baici tore a urinal from the wall and used it to kill the patient.
• Lin Baici took the patient's disposable wristband, explaining that he thought it could help them avoid nurse inspections.
• Lin Baici softened the bones in his left hand to fit on the wristband, and Su Manni asked if he had used Soft Bone Technique.

Lin Baici fought a corrosive-bile monster patient that killed Zheng Yuhuang, then searched the hospital for clues while trying to learn how to escape before the dean’s inspection. He returned to his room with a lead, but nurses began forcing treatment on Su Manni and preparing to restrain Da Tianjie.

• A huge-bellied patient attacked Zheng Yuhuang with corrosive bile, killed him, and was beaten to death by Lin Baici before its belly burst.
• Lin Baici returned to the room, refused Zhao Qing’s advances, and went alone to gather information from the nurses.
• Lin Baici learned that the dean would make rounds at three and saw Zhou Laoye brought back mutilated and assigned to Bed 3.
• Lin Baici searched the nurses’ changing room for a God's Taboo Object, then returned to his room with a lead about the hospital.
• Nurses forced Su Manni to swallow a bottle of pills and prepared to strap Da Tianjie to her bed for an IV.

Lin Baici distracted the monster nurses by impersonating a coworker, but Zhao Qing died from their electric shocks before he returned. As the survivors recovered in room 1808, Da Tianjie and Tang Keke pursued Lin Baici, while Su Manni woke and discovered them together; Lin Baici insisted they had urgent business to handle.

• The monster nurses repeatedly failed to place Da Tianjie's IV, shocked Zhao Qing during an ECG, and began drawing Tang Keke's blood.
• Lin Baici impersonated a nurse's coworker over the bedside speaker, causing the nurses to leave, but Zhao Qing had already died; Da Tianjie tried CPR, and Lin Baici later confirmed he could not revive her.
• Su Manni vomited up some of the medicine, then fell asleep while Lin Baici comforted her and Da Tianjie decided she needed to rely on him to survive.
• Da Tianjie kissed Lin Baici and took him into the bathroom, where Tang Keke joined them after catching them together.
• Su Manni woke to find the room empty, heard the others in the bathroom, and approached as Tang Keke suggested they play mahjong; Lin Baici told them he had urgent business to take care of.

Lin Baici fought the hospital’s respawning nurses while searching the changing room for a God's Taboo Object. He got Da Tianjie and Tang Keke inside, but the nurses battered the locked door as Xiao Fo and A Bowl of Shrimp struggled to break through a fire door elsewhere.

• Su Manni tried to get close to Lin Baici, but Simp Classmate interrupted to report that Xiao Fo and the others had started a riot against the nurses.
• Lin Baici warned the group not to join the riot, then killed a nurse who entered their room and followed the others into the corridor.
• Lin Baici fought through a wave of nurses, took two scalpel wounds while protecting Da Tianjie and Tang Keke, and led them into the changing room.
• Lin Baici locked the changing-room door and searched the lockers for a God's Taboo Object while Da Tianjie and Tang Keke held the door against the nurses.
• Su Manni and Simp Classmate fled down the south corridor as Xiao Fo and A Bowl of Shrimp failed to break open a fire door with a fire extinguisher.

Lin Baici found a way to stop the nurses from attacking by putting on the pink nurse's dress, while Xiao Fo and Su Manni were captured after trying to escape. After the massacre, Lin Baici stayed in the ward with Tang Keke and Song Tian, but a nurse arrived to take them to see the doctor.

• Xiao Fo and Batuguer fought a nurse, but the head nurse appeared and killed patients as the group panicked and fled.
• Xiao Fo and Su Manni escaped toward the lobby, while the head nurse killed Batuguer and Simp Classmate and slaughtered the remaining patients.
• Lin Baici found the Pink Battle Skirt and put it on, persuading the head nurse to spare him, Tang Keke, and Da Tianjie.
• Xiao Fo and Su Manni reached the lobby but were subdued by a security guard and left injured on a bench.
• Lin Baici returned to the ward with Tang Keke and Song Tian, declined Song Tian's advances, and discussed his feelings for someone else.
• A nurse came to take beds five and six to see the doctor, and Lin Baici offered to go with them.

Lin Baici discovered that Doctor Miao would help them avoid immediate tests if they dealt with the Dean, but the Dean’s Rule Pollution magnified patients’ illnesses and killed those with health problems. The chapter ended with Tang Keke dead and the Dean turning his attention to Da Tianjie.

• Lin Baici found Momo’s head being used as a flowerpot and learned from Doctor Miao’s diary and photo that the doctor resented the Dean.
• Lin Baici persuaded Doctor Miao to let them skip tests for three days in exchange for helping deal with the Dean, and he returned to the ward with Song Tian and Tang Keke.
• Lin Baici and the others ate their boxed lunches, then Wang Xiao returned after the hospital had gouged out one of her eyes.
• The Dean arrived on his rounds and had the nurses throw Wang Xiao out the window after condemning her for moving around while sick.
• The Dean ordered Lin Baici to leave, then targeted Tang Keke for her stomach problem; Tang Keke jumped from the window, fell from a tree, and died.
• The Dean turned to Da Tianjie and criticized her poor health and eyesight.