Chapter Summaries

Lin Baici searched the castle for coins and spring water so he could use a mysterious telephone, killing servants and manipulating a butler to get what he needed. He finally connected the call, but the person who answered had not yet been identified.

• Lin Baici found spring water in the kitchen, drank it, and became visible to the castle’s ghosts and servants.
• When the kitchen servants spotted him, Lin Baici killed two maids, burned their bodies, and took their coins.
• Lin Baici spent coins trying to use the study telephone, learned the call required more money, and sought a higher-ranking servant for help.
• Lin Baici used gold, liquor, food, and cigarettes to gain the butler’s trust, then killed him and found more coins.
• Lin Baici returned to the telephone, inserted all his coins, and heard someone answer.

Lin Baici summoned Gu Qingqiu from her prison-break mission to help him face the Little Girl in a lethal chess game. Gu Qingqiu arrived and began the match by provoking the Little Girl into removing two of her own pieces.

• Lin Baici called Gu Qingqiu and explained that he urgently needed a chess player to face the Little Girl.
• Gu Qingqiu briefed Sannomiya Airi and Xia Hongyao about Green Dream, left them to continue the prison break, and agreed to join Lin Baici.
• Lin Baici used the castle phone to summon Gu Qingqiu, who appeared beside him and hurried with him to the stairwell.
• The Little Girl defeated the white man and chose Melanie as her next opponent, but Lin Baici returned with Gu Qingqiu before Melanie had to play.
• Gu Qingqiu took Melanie's place, let the Little Girl move first, and offered her queen as a handicap, prompting the Little Girl to remove her own queen and an extra rook.

Gu Qingqiu defeated the Little Girl at chess, freeing the black-and-white armored soldiers and earning passage for the group. Lin Baici agreed to let Krazer join them, and the group prepared to contact Hongyao and the others after discovering the chessboard’s unusual power.

• Gu Qingqiu won the first chess game with a two-piece handicap, and the Little Girl let her take up to three people through.
• Melanie pleaded with Lin Baici and Gu Qingqiu for a place, while Krazer offered Gu Qingqiu a Divine Grace in exchange for help passing the trial; Lin Baici accepted the deal after Gu Qingqiu confirmed she could win.
• Gu Qingqiu challenged the Little Girl to a fair rematch, staking the group’s freedom against information about the castle’s owner, and defeated her after an hour and a half.
• The Little Girl vanished, and the black-and-white armored soldiers turned into light and lined up on the chessboard, indicating the pollution had been purified.
• God of Gluttony revealed that the chessboard could sometimes grant black technology after ten thousand victories, though some discoveries could drive people insane.
• Lin Baici told the group to put away the chessboard and contact Hongyao and the others, but the pieces began moving rapidly as Gu Qingqiu prepared to take it.

Lin Baici and Gu Qingqiu learned that Popeye could defeat Mrs. Oliver’s minions, then gathered coins and used the castle’s phone to summon Sannomiya Airi and Xia Hongyao. They reunited in the study, but calls to Hua Yueyu and Li Yintong went unanswered.

• The chess pieces spelled out clues about defeating Mrs. Oliver, and Gu Qingqiu refused to reveal them to Krazer.
• Lin Baici and Gu Qingqiu explained the spring water, split the group up to collect coins, and told everyone to meet in an hour.
• Lin Baici and Gu Qingqiu searched wealthy residents’ rooms for coins and returned to the study.
• Lin Baici called Xia Hongyao but got no answer, then successfully summoned Sannomiya Airi, who said she and Xia Hongyao had escaped prison and were at a mob boss’s house.
• Lin Baici summoned Xia Hongyao, who reunited with the group, then tried calling Hua Yueyu and Li Yintong without reaching either of them.

Lin Baici gathered allies in the study and prepared to find Mrs. Oliver, but gunmen ambushed the group with grenades and machine guns. As Xia Hongyao charged into the hallway, Lin Baici teleported after her to fight the attackers.

• Krazer and Wu Hongfu brought collected money to Lin Baici, who explained that Popeye could defeat Mrs. Oliver’s minions and that three unknown items were needed to kill her.
• Sannomiya Airi contacted Narita Hyouji and summoned the Great Radiance group, while Lin Baici reached Taimai and brought Li Yintong, Fish Ball Guy, and Zhong Shuman through the phone line.
• Lin Baici gave spring water to Sannomiya Airi and Taimai, then prepared to tear out the phone line and search for Mrs. Oliver when Hua Yueyu failed to answer.
• Three grenades were thrown into the study, and Lin Baici shielded Jin Yingzhen and Gu Qingqiu as the explosions went off.
• Three armed men stormed the study; Gu Qingqiu, Krazer, and Xia Hongyao fought them, and Xia Hongyao charged into the hallway as Lin Baici teleported after her to confront more gunmen.

Lin Baici’s group fled up the castle stairs after an ambush and the ensuing alarm, but they became trapped in a staircase pollution. At the top, seven Barbie Dolls appeared, and Lin Baici destroyed the first with Storm Hammer, triggering a powerful explosion.

• Lin Baici and Xia Hongyao counterattacked the black-suited gunmen, while Krazer flanked them and killed their bomb-wearing leader.
• The group learned that drinking from the spring had protected people from bullets, then moved to a guest room as the castle guards sounded an alarm.
• Lin Baici ordered everyone upstairs, and the group kept climbing despite warnings that the endless staircase was polluted.
• Sannomiya Airi rejected appeals from Great Yao’s members and told them to follow Lin Baici’s lead.
• Seven rainbow-colored Barbie Dolls appeared on the stairs, and Lin Baici struck the first one with Storm Hammer, causing it to explode.

Lin Baici and Jin Yingzhen tried to survive the Barbie Dolls’ deadly hide-and-seek game while Lin Baici searched for a way to counter the monsters. After escaping a Barbie Doll by imitating a cat, they moved to another room, where a strange song began playing.

• The damaged Barbie Dolls announced the hide-and-seek rules, including that they would explode when they found a mouse, and started a sixty-second countdown.
• Lin Baici told the group to split up, then stayed on the floor with Jin Yingzhen, while Gu Qingqiu, Sannomiya Airi, and Xia Hongyao also chose to remain there.
• Lin Baici and Jin Yingzhen hid in rooms as the Barbie Dolls searched, and Lin Baici used the White Antler Bone Flute and cans of luncheon meat to draw them toward his traps.
• When a Barbie Doll spotted Lin Baici, he escaped into a room and used Master Performer to imitate a cat, frightening it into retreating before he and Jin Yingzhen changed floors.
• After an explosion sounded nearby, Lin Baici and Jin Yingzhen heard a Barbie Doll singing about searching for its mother.

Lin Baici and Jin Yingzhen escaped the Nursery Rhyme Princess and discovered that cats could repel the Barbie Dolls. As the survivors searched for cat-related items and tried to regroup, Lin Baici found a cat costume in a wardrobe.

• Lin Baici and Jin Yingzhen hid under a bed, softened their bodies with Snake Bone Soft Body, and escaped when explosions drew the Nursery Rhyme Princess away.
• Lin Baici caught a Persian cat with Death God's Grasp and confirmed that cats could ward off Rule Pollution.
• Gu Qingqiu, Xia Hongyao, and Sannomiya Airi used an orange cat's cries to drive a Barbie Doll away from their room.
• Fish Ball Guy, Zhong Shuman, and Li Yintong scared off Barbie Dolls with a cat, then stayed hidden when more dolls gathered in the hallway.
• Lin Baici worried about Gu Qingqiu and the others, searched a wardrobe, and found a cat costume.

Lin Baici and Jin Yingzhen searched the castle for cat-related items and learned that cat clothing could kill Barbie Princess and end the Rule Pollution. Lin Baici joined Fish Ball Guy, Li Yintong, and the badly wounded Zhong Shuman in battle, then ordered the group to fight their way out as more Barbie Dolls closed in.

• Lin Baici found cat-themed clothes and learned that using cat items too often could attract Barbie Princess, while wearing cat-related clothing allowed people to kill it.
• Jin Yingzhen insisted on joining Lin Baici downstairs, where Fish Ball Guy and the others were fighting Barbie Princess.
• Barbie Princess repeatedly exploded and attacked the group, setting Zhong Shuman on fire as she tried to draw it away.
• Lin Baici arrived in a Tom costume, rescued Zhong Shuman, and attacked Barbie Princess with his Bronze Sword and Storm Hammer.
• Jin Yingzhen warned that more Barbie Dolls were approaching, and Lin Baici told the group to fight their way out and help him kill Barbie Princess.

Lin Baici and his allies killed the Barbie Princess, ending the attack by the Barbie Dolls, but Zhong Shuman died from her injuries. After the battle, they searched for loot and Krazer arrived late.

• Fish Ball Guy joined Lin Baici's fight and hooked the Barbie Princess while Li Yintong tried to treat Zhong Shuman and Jin Yingzhen held off the Barbie Dolls.
• Xia Hongyao, Sannomiya Airi, and Gu Qingqiu arrived and helped defend the corridor as Fish Ball Guy dragged the hook to the Barbie Princess's cheek.
• Lin Baici seized the opening, struck the Barbie Princess with his Divine Grace, and teleported away as the dolls beneath her skirt exploded.
• Xia Hongyao confirmed the Barbie Princess was dead, and the remaining Barbie Dolls collapsed; Zhong Shuman had died from her injuries.
• Lin Baici and the others searched the battlefield for loot, and Krazer arrived at the stairwell.

Lin Baici defeated Barbie Princess, reunited with Hua Yueyu, and led the group up an endless staircase to a karaoke corridor where a new Rule Pollution began. A masked woman appeared on a television, seemingly the madam they had been searching for.

• Lin Baici took Barbie Princess's hair clip and learned how to befriend the summoned Barbie Princess.
• Lin Baici connected Love Before the Common Era to a telephone and summoned Hua Yueyu, then gave her the hair clip.
• Lin Baici and the others continued upstairs with Wu Hongfu's group and Takeuchi Kurano's group until they reached a fire door at the top.
• The fire door opened onto a karaoke corridor, then slammed shut behind the group as Lin Baici followed his Hunger Radar.
• Krazer found two masked men wrestling in a private room, and Lin Baici opened the door after they attacked him.
• The television showed a masked, mature woman reclining on a sofa bed, whom Xia Hongyao suspected was the madam.

Lin Baici and the others fought Mrs. Oliver’s minions while trying to solve the Popeye riddle before the thirty-minute deadline. Gu Qingqiu’s Green Dream cans appeared to transform Narita Hyouji into Popeye, but the chapter ended before revealing whether he could defeat the monsters.

• Mrs. Oliver offered Lin Baici a place as her bodyguard and threatened to kill the others if no one made a choice within thirty minutes.
• Mrs. Oliver ordered her minions to attack the people she considered trash, while more masked men emerged from the club’s private rooms.
• Fish Ball Guy and the others found that the minions could recover from their wounds, and Lin Baici’s group searched for a way to stop them.
• Gu Qingqiu suggested using Green Dream, and Xia Hongyao produced cans of the fermented vegetable for the group to test.
• Narita Hyouji ate a can of Green Dream, and his muscles began swelling until his clothes tore.

Lin Baici and Gu Qingqiu searched for the three items needed to kill Mrs. Oliver after their group defeated the minions. They were transported into a lightless room where they could not ignite a light source.

• Narita Hyouji and the other men who had eaten Green Dream grew stronger and helped defeat the minions, while Fish Ball Guy forced Wu Hongfu and Wang Qing to eat the cans.
• Fifteen minutes later, the group finished the fight and split into teams to search the floor for clues.
• Lin Baici and Gu Qingqiu searched more than fifty private rooms without finding anything useful.
• Gu Qingqiu opened an unlocked private room and was swallowed by darkness, and Lin Baici entered after her.
• Lin Baici and Gu Qingqiu found themselves separated in the darkness and discovered they could not light a torch or magnesium sticks.

Lin Baici and Gu Qingqiu searched a pitch-black area while joking and discussing their plans, until scalding liquid began dripping on them and the contamination intensified. Lin Baici caught a faint smell after they ran deeper into the darkness, suggesting they were nearing the source.

• Lin Baici and Gu Qingqiu felt their way through the darkness and talked about protecting each other, summer plans, and Sannomiya Airi.
• Scalding drops began landing on Gu Qingqiu, and Lin Baici tried to identify the liquid by feeling where it hit her.
• The liquid started burning Lin Baici too, and the drops fell faster until they were like rain.
• Lin Baici shielded Gu Qingqiu as they ran through the worsening contamination, then stopped after detecting a faint smell.

Lin Baici purified the Dream Candle and secured the first item before entering a stable under Minotaur control. He killed his handler and disguised himself, while Gu Qingqiu, Zeng Shuang, Narita Hyouji, and Melanie were forced to crawl and endure brutal treatment.

• Lin Baici followed the scent to a Dream Candle, lit it with the Pine Torch, and purified it by blowing it out after learning its effects.
• God of Gluttony guided Lin Baici and Gu Qingqiu to another private room, where a flash of light transported Lin Baici to a stable.
• A Minotaur ordered Lin Baici to recite the Horse Rules and crawl; Lin Baici obeyed temporarily, then killed the Minotaur when it attacked him.
• Lin Baici saw Gu Qingqiu, Zeng Shuang, Narita Hyouji, and Melanie crawling among the other captive man-horses, and disguised himself with the dead Minotaur's clothes and head.
• Minotaurs stripped and scrubbed Narita Hyouji, then whipped and electrocuted him when he resisted.

Lin Baici watched the Horse King use a magical riding crop to enslave Narita Hyouji, then left the stables disguised as a Minotaur to attack him. Gu Qingqiu recognized Lin Baici’s move and urged the others to prepare to fight.

• The Horse King ordered Narita Hyouji killed, but Narita Hyouji attacked him and was subdued by the Trainer's Teaching Whip.
• Lin Baici learned that the whip made its victims increasingly submissive and could eventually make them fall in love with its wielder.
• Gu Qingqiu identified the whip as one of the three items mentioned in the clues, while Wang Qing argued that the group should avoid fighting.
• Gu Qingqiu told the others that her captain was about to act, and they spotted Lin Baici disguised as a Minotaur approaching the Horse King.
• Lin Baici launched a freezing fist at the Horse King's head as the trainers began whipping Narita Hyouji.

Lin Baici and the others fought the transformed horse trainers and Horse King, while Lin Baici revealed he could become a giant and overpower the Horse King. Gu Qingqiu used the Giant Finger Bone to transform into a giantess and rushed to help him.

• Lin Baici attacked the Horse King and knocked it through a railing as Wang Qing and the others joined the fight.
• The horse trainers transformed into centaur giants and attacked Wang Qing and the others.
• The Horse King grew to fifteen meters tall, but Lin Baici transformed into a giant, threw it down, and pounded it.
• The centaur giants piled onto Lin Baici, but he burst free and sent them flying.
• Gu Qingqiu put the Giant Finger Bone in her mouth, transformed into a giantess, and charged to support Lin Baici.

Lin Baici killed the Horse King Giant and ended the contamination, then claimed the Trainer's Teaching Whip from Melanie. He led the survivors out of the karaoke room to find the last item needed to deal with Mrs. Oliver.

• Gu Qingqiu transformed into a giant but was pinned down by three Minotaurs while Lin Baici fought the Horse King Giant.
• Lin Baici tore off and crushed the Horse King Giant's head, causing the Minotaurs to revert and flee.
• The survivors returned to the karaoke room, where they found Narita Hyouji dead and Melanie took the Trainer's Teaching Whip before giving it to Lin Baici.
• Lin Baici struck Melanie with the whip and Gu Qingqiu suspected it could distort and enslave people's wills.
• Lin Baici led the group into the hallway to search for the last item, while Melanie obediently opened the door.

Lin Baici led the group through the castle as his hunger guided him toward a source of Rule Pollution. They found several people transformed into doglike crawlers, and the chapter ended with Lin Baici stopping at a door.

• The group followed Lin Baici and opened private-room doors until he ordered them to stop and led them onward.
• Lin Baici’s group found a white man crawling and barking like a dog, and Gu Qingqiu cut him in half when he lunged.
• Lin Baici continued despite Melanie’s suggestion that they leave the area.
• The group found Takeuchi Kurano crawling like a dog; he said Krazer had abandoned him and fled with trusted followers.
• Lin Baici turned at an intersection and stopped in front of a door.

Lin Baici and the others entered a surveillance room where opening the door triggered Rule Pollution that turned people dog-like. As Zeng Shuang’s transformation worsened, she smashed a monitor in hopes of stopping it.

• Lin Baici used his God Ruins key to open the security door, and Takeuchi Kurano became unable to speak except by barking.
• Lin Baici warned that the contamination was spreading, and the group entered the surveillance room to search for clues.
• Takeuchi Kurano put on a security uniform, but it did not stop the pollution, and Gu Qingqiu began barking too.
• Melanie suggested turning off the monitors, but static appeared on the screens before anyone tried it.
• A monitor showed Zeng Shuang transforming into a dog-like figure, and she smashed it with a chair.