Chapter Summaries

Lin Baici led the group through a new God Ruin after sealing the fish plate, then reached a desolate town where sudden hazards injured Jin Yingzhen. As he rushed everyone outside, Lin Baici realized Hua Yueyu might be in danger from the flooded, possibly electrified kitchen.

• Lin Baici sealed the fish plate in the Black Coffin, lifted the Pollution, and led the group through a misty walkway into a cold wilderness.
• Lin Baici equipped a shotgun and guided the group to a deserted-looking town, where he ordered everyone to split up and search for clues.
• Lin Baici searched a house while Hua Yueyu approached its refrigerator, and he shot down a falling ceiling fan before it struck Xia Hongyao.
• Jin Yingzhen's leg became trapped in a broken floor, and Lin Baici freed her and treated her injuries while warning the others away.
• A kitchen pipe burst, and Lin Baici carried Jin Yingzhen outside as he realized the water could electrify the area around Hua Yueyu.

Lin Baici and his companions tried to escape a town where deadly accidents kept happening, but their search for a vehicle uncovered a masked Chainsaw Man. The monster blocked Lin Baici’s attack and launched a bloody hook at him, leaving the fight unresolved.

• Lin Baici carried the injured Jin Yingzhen outside, and an explosion destroyed a house across the road as Pan Junjie and the others emerged.
• After learning that one God Hunter had died in a freak accident, Lin Baici sent Xia Hongyao, Gu Qingqiu, Little Yu, and Jin Yingzhen out of town while he and Sannomiya Airi searched for a vehicle.
• Lin Baici found a fueled pickup, then uncovered a masked Chainsaw Man hidden beneath hay in its truck bed.
• The Chainsaw Man attacked Lin Baici and Sannomiya Airi, and Lin Baici drew it away from her before striking with the Bronze Sword.
• The Chainsaw Man blocked Lin Baici’s attack, and a bloodied hook shot from its abdomen toward him.

Lin Baici’s group continued through the God Ruins after he killed Chainsaw Man, but Rule Pollution caused Pan Junjie’s SUV to crash and injure several people. As heavy rain and low fuel forced them to stop at a gas station, an unseen man and a freshly disturbed grave hinted that danger was still following them.

• Lin Baici killed Chainsaw Man with his Divine Grace, searched the garage for supplies, and drove away with the pickup.
• Lin Baici set a ten-minute deadline for Pan Junjie’s group to find vehicles, then had Gu Qingqiu drive while he and others rode in the pickup bed.
• Lin Baici refused to stop at a town despite the rain and low fuel, and Pan Junjie’s SUV later lost a tire and overturned, injuring Ang Ruo, Baditong, and others.
• Lin Baici ordered everyone to patch themselves up and leave, assigned Pan Junjie to his vehicle, and the convoy continued through the downpour.
• A man with a chainsaw watched the road after a battered arm emerged from a grave, while Lin Baici’s convoy reached a gas station and entered its convenience store.

Lin Baici and Sannomiya Airi searched the gas station’s office building for clues while a Chainsaw Man prepared to attack the people sheltering in the general store. The killer struck Ang Ruo and then targeted the others, while Lin Baici remained away and the reason he spared Lin Baici’s companions was still unclear.

• Lin Baici gave Pan Junjie a matching raincoat and boots, then went with Sakura Girl into the office building to search for clues.
• Lin Baici and Sannomiya Airi searched the dark rooms and corridors while joking and talking together.
• The white-masked security guard watched the group on the surveillance cameras, put on rain gear, and took a chainsaw from a locker.
• Ang Ruo mistook the returning Chainsaw Man for Lin Baici and opened the store door despite Gu Qingqiu’s warning.
• Chainsaw Man struck Ang Ruo in the head and chest, then attacked the others while leaving Xia Hongyao and the women in matching raincoats alone.

Chainsaw Man hunted people in the supermarket while Xia Hongyao’s group realized rain gear kept him from targeting them. Lin Baici and Sannomiya Airi found another Chainsaw Man on the security monitors, searched the security room, and prepared to return.

• Chainsaw Man attacked the supermarket, and the panicked survivors hesitated to unite against him.
• Sutai realized Chainsaw Man ignored people wearing raincoats, and the survivors rushed to put on rain gear while Gu Qingqiu stopped Xia Hongyao from saving Baditong.
• Lin Baici and Sannomiya Airi searched the dim office building, and Sannomiya Airi stopped using her wooden clogs’ charm effect on him.
• They found the security room and watched a Chainsaw Man fight Baditong on the surveillance monitors.
• Lin Baici found chainsaw-maintenance tools and spare rain gear, while Sannomiya Airi found a matching mask and then cried that she could not take it off.

Lin Baici returned to the supermarket after helping Sannomiya Airi, and his group prepared to leave once the rain eased. As their convoy set out, a heavily armed-looking group of wasteland punks caught up with them, leaving Lin Baici readying his shotgun.

• Lin Baici discovered Sannomiya Airi had only pretended to wear the mask, and she kissed him before they returned to the supermarket.
• Lin Baici found Baditong badly injured after he had defeated Chainsaw Man, then agreed to share the matching raincoats with the others.
• After the rain eased, Lin Baici arranged the cars and led the group out, with Gu Qingqiu driving beside him.
• Gu Qingqiu teased Lin Baici about kissing Sannomiya Airi and joked about wanting to experiment with him.
• A convoy of punk-styled drivers caught up with Lin Baici's group, so he told Xia Hongyao's cars to go ahead and loaded his shotgun.

Lin Baici and Gu Qingqiu fought off a convoy of hostile drivers with the Lamb Shotgun during a high-speed chase. After the shotgun wiped out the pursuing cars, motorcyclists attacked with grenades, and Lin Baici began taking them down with buckshot.

• Lin Baici stayed behind with Gu Qingqiu while Xia Hongyao and Sannomiya Airi drove ahead, and Pan Junjie blocked the pursuing convoy from passing.
• Gu Qingqiu rammed a Ford Mustang, and Lin Baici shot a GT-R driver's hand before killing him with a second shotgun blast.
• Lin Baici shot down the pursuing cars as Gu Qingqiu drove, then killed the masked Ferrari driver with Heart-Shattering Iron Rain.
• Motorcyclists armed with grenades caught up and bombarded Lin Baici and Gu Qingqiu's car, but Gu Qingqiu dodged the explosions.
• Lin Baici switched the shotgun to buckshot mode and blasted a group of motorcyclists off their bikes.

Lin Baici and Gu Qingqiu fought their way through a highway pursuit, and Lin Baici stopped the indestructible semi-truck by stealing its key. He then took control of a seemingly powerful Harley motorcycle, while Gu Qingqiu rammed its skeletal rider with the Chevrolet.

• Lin Baici shot down pursuing motorcycle riders while Gu Qingqiu drove, then they were chased by a vodka-throwing semi-truck whose driver survived shotgun blasts.
• Lin Baici climbed onto the truck and learned from God of Gluttony that the semi-truck itself was the monster’s true body.
• Lin Baici used a clone as a decoy, entered the cab, and pulled out the key, stopping the truck and leaving its driver monster motionless.
• A skeletal rider on a Harley-Davidson pursued Gu Qingqiu and shot out the Chevrolet’s rear window while Lin Baici recognized the motorcycle as a God's Taboo Object.
• Lin Baici restarted the semi-truck and rammed the skeletal rider off the road, but it returned and pursued Gu Qingqiu.
• Gu Qingqiu swerved the Chevrolet into the skeletal rider as it drew alongside her.

Lin Baici and Gu Qingqiu fought off the Skeleton Rider and the pursuing bikers, then reunited with Xia Hongyao’s group at a gas station. Gu Qingqiu handed Lin Baici the Harley and shotgun they had captured, while Baditong was killed by a Chainsaw Man.

• Gu Qingqiu rammed the Skeleton Rider with the Chevrolet, and Lin Baici shot it with buckshot before his truck ran it over.
• Gu Qingqiu circled back and struck the Skeleton Rider again, then rode its Harley to catch up with Lin Baici as he faced the pursuing bikers.
• Xia Hongyao, Li Yintong, and Sannomiya Airi drove ahead to secure a gas station, while the Chainsaw Man found and beheaded the injured Baditong.
• Gu Qingqiu reunited with the group at the gas station and revealed that the Harley and Winchester M1887 were God's Taboo Objects.
• Lin Baici accepted the motorcycle and shotgun, gave Gu Qingqiu the reins, and prepared to continue on with the group.

Lin Baici’s group explored a struggling city in the God Ruins and went to an STC store to buy phones. When looters stormed the store and mocked the group, Sannomiya Airi cut off their hands and then bowed to Lin Baici.

• Lin Baici and his convoy reached a city filled with homeless people, graffiti, abandoned cars, and protests, and he decided the group should split up to search for clues.
• Gu Qingqiu learned the city’s name and found a nearby big-box store, while Lin Baici stored his Harley and ignored two armed men trying to steal a car.
• The group walked past food distribution lines and boarded-up shops before entering an STC store to buy phones.
• As the group headed downstairs, looters surged into the store, and their leader mocked the group with a racist gesture.
• Sannomiya Airi charged the looters, severed the leader’s hands, and cut the hands off more looters on the escalator before bowing to Lin Baici.

Lin Baici led his group out of a chaotic free-shopping spree, evaded police, and escaped onto the subway. There, a clown shot Sutai and aimed his revolver at Jin Yingzhen.

• Sannomiya Airi cut through the crowd, deflected a bullet with her katana, and helped Lin Baici's group escape the superstore with free goods.
• Lin Baici pulled Jin Yingzhen away from falling flowerpots, then used Floating Life Night Rain, Wild Buddha Blows Out the Lamp to kill the police officers who cornered them.
• Lin Baici's group fled into the subway and boarded a train to get away from the police.
• Gu Qingqiu bought comedy tickets from a clown, and Sutai threw his sticky ticket away before insulting the clown.
• The clown shot Sutai in the forehead and aimed his revolver at Jin Yingzhen.

Lin Baici and the others survived the clown's ticket-based attack, then agreed to travel together under his leadership and head for the Virtue Club. Along the way, Lin Baici stopped at a pharmacy with Sannomiya Airi, leaving Pan Junjie to guess at the reason.

• Lin Baici protected Jin Yingzhen from the clown, and the God Hunters eventually killed it after its attacks targeted people it considered ticketless.
• Li Yintong claimed the revolver, but it misfired and accidentally shot the wedding-ring man, who died from blood loss; Lin Baici later threw the revolver away.
• After leaving the subway station, Lin Baici offered to let the group split up, but everyone asked to stay with him, so they agreed to follow his orders.
• Lin Baici chose the Virtue Club as their next destination, and the group set off in cars.
• Lin Baici stopped at a pharmacy, where he and Sannomiya Airi bought medicine while Pan Junjie tried to find out what they had purchased.

Lin Baici’s group waited near the Golden Dawn Club, exchanged information with Fish Ball Guy and Zhong Shuman, and discovered that Sannomiya Airi had tricked Zhong Shuman with glass-filled coffee. The chapter ended when Takeuchi Kurano and his Japanese companions arrived and confronted Sannomiya Airi and Lin Baici.

• Sannomiya Airi revealed that Lin Baici had tipped the pharmacy clerk to mislead Pan Junjie, who confirmed the lie by asking the clerk what Lin Baici had bought.
• Lin Baici’s group reached the Golden Dawn Club and waited in a café while Gu Qingqiu and Xia Hongyao went to explore nearby.
• Lin Baici’s group met Fish Ball Guy and Zhong Shuman, who shared accounts of deadly pollution involving a fugitive, a wishing koi, bad luck, and a chainsaw-wielding killer.
• Zhong Shuman discovered glass shards in her coffee, and Lin Baici realized Sannomiya Airi had planted them as a prank.
• Takeuchi Kurano arrived at the café with Japanese companions, greeted Sannomiya Airi, and looked with contempt at Lin Baici.

As the talk show’s start approached, Lin Baici warned everyone not to attend, citing only a sixth sense. Most of the group went anyway, while Sannomiya Airi stayed with Lin Baici and the others.

• Sannomiya Airi recounted the contaminations she had encountered, and Gu Qingqiu reported that two other groups of God Hunters were holding back.
• The voice warned Lin Baici that the talk show had a higher death rate, even though attending might help people avoid the clown during the Night of Fright.
• Lin Baici told Xia Hongyao and the others not to attend the talk show, but offered only his sixth sense as an explanation.
• Sannomiya Airi rejected Kamata Daichi’s accusation that Lin Baici meant to abandon his friends, and Lin Baici repeated his warning to the group.
• Takeuchi Kurano led his people toward the talk show, while Sannomiya Airi chose to remain with Lin Baici; Fish Ball Guy also left for the event.

After surviving the Virtue Club’s deadly talk show, Lin Baici’s group reached the Star of Prosperity hotel to rest and prepare for the next danger. At midnight, a filthy clown in a green suit appeared at their door, and the group debated whether to let it in.

• Fish Ball Guy admitted he should have listened to Lin Baici, while Takeuchi Kurano and the other survivors emerged from the Virtue Club with fewer than a third of their people alive.
• Lin Baici chose the Star of Prosperity hotel as a defensible place to rest, and Takeuchi Kurano’s group followed them there.
• Gu Qingqiu paid for presidential suites, but the hotel manager directed Lin Baici’s group and Takeuchi Kurano’s group to different elevators and rooms.
• Pan Junjie tried to sow distrust between Takeuchi Kurano and Sannomiya Airi, then chose a room separate from Lin Baici’s group.
• After everyone settled into the hotel, Xia Hongyao spotted a huge eye peering through the peephole as a clown knocked on their door at midnight.
• Xia Hongyao, Gu Qingqiu, and Sannomiya Airi disagreed over whether to open the door, while Gu Qingqiu realized Pan Junjie’s group had not followed her room arrangements.

Lin Baici’s group accepted a clown’s DNA-test kits and learned they had to mail a follow-up form within an hour. Lin Baici left alone to mail it, while Sannomiya Airi and the others stayed behind expecting the clown to return.

• Panjunjie’s group and the Japanese guests watched as the suited clown visited Lin Baici’s room, where Lin Baici chose to buy three DNA-test kits.
• Lin Baici found a warning that the follow-up form had to be mailed within an hour, and he had Gu Qingqiu fill it out while telling the group not to reveal anything about it.
• Sannomiya Airi visited Takeuchi Kurano’s group, defended her decision to stay with Lin Baici, and reported that Lin Baici expected the clown to return.
• Panjunjie and his group asked Lin Baici for guidance, but he sent them away and arranged for them to take turns watching his room.
• After Gu Qingqiu finished the form, Lin Baici left to mail it and told Sannomiya Airi to stay behind.

Lin Baici mailed a feedback form to temporarily lift the pollution, while Kamata Daichi was killed by the clown after stealing the letter. When two clowns later sold Rubik’s Cubes, Pan Junjie’s group bought them and went to Lin Baici for advice, while Takeuchi Kurano’s group worried about what would happen next.

• Fish Ball Guy joined Lin Baici and Jin Yingzhen to mail a feedback form, and Lin Baici found an envelope and a nearby mailbox with help from a hotel worker.
• Lin Baici mailed the form, temporarily lifting the pollution, while Kamata Daichi stole the envelope and was killed by clowns in the hotel lobby.
• Two clowns passed Xia Hongyao’s room without knocking, then sold Rubik’s Cubes to Pan Junjie’s group and Takeuchi Kurano’s group.
• Pan Junjie’s group brought the Rubik’s Cube to Lin Baici’s room for advice, but they had left it behind because nobody wanted to carry it.
• Takeuchi Kurano concluded Kamata Daichi had likely died from Rule Pollution and looked to Lin Baici for help with the clowns’ next visit.

Takeuchi Kurano sought Lin Baici’s help with a dangerous Rubik’s Cube Rule Pollution, whose victims became idiots if they failed to solve it in time. Gu Qingqiu and Nishimura Morihara solved cubes safely, but Hoodie Guy succumbed to the pollution, and Sannomiya Airi took a cube to prove herself to Lin Baici.

• Takeuchi Kurano chose to visit Lin Baici for help rather than risk his people through trial and error.
• Gu Qingqiu opened the first Rubik’s Cube and solved it, while the God of Gluttony revealed the rules and danger of the pollution.
• Nishimura Morihara solved a second cube in time, but Hoodie Guy failed and became an idiot.
• Pan Junjie handed Gu Qingqiu another cube, but she waited until he took responsibility before reaching for it.
• Sannomiya Airi snatched up the next cube and declared she would solve it, hoping to impress Lin Baici.

Sannomiya Airi solved the Rubik’s Cube and helped Pan Junjie’s group avoid becoming idiots. Lin Baici chose to stay in place and face whatever came next, then told the others to take the Hoodie Guy with them.

• Sannomiya Airi solved the Rubik’s Cube in two minutes and thirty-six seconds.
• Pan Junjie and his group thanked Sannomiya Airi and apologized to Lin Baici.
• Pan Junjie asked Lin Baici whether they should move because another clown might appear.
• Lin Baici said he would stay and told everyone to rest before trying to cleanse the Rule Pollution the next day.
• Lin Baici stopped the group as they left and told them to take the Hoodie Guy with them.

After one clown salesman died, the remaining salesman forced Wu Ze to play Russian roulette, and Wu Ze survived the first shot. The clown spun the cylinder and made him play again, leaving the others horrified as Pan Junjie called Lin Baici for help.

• The remaining clown salesman picked up his dead colleague's revolver and ordered the group to take their turn.
• Pan Junjie and the others pressured Wu Ze to honor his bet, and Pan Junjie forced him to point the gun at his temple.
• Wu Ze pulled the trigger and survived because the chamber was empty.
• Wu Ze celebrated his survival and returned the revolver to the clown salesman.
• The clown spun the cylinder and held the revolver out to Wu Ze again, while Pan Junjie called Lin Baici for help.