Chapter Summaries

Zeng Shuang and Takeuchi Kurano died after trying to stop the Rule Pollution by smashing monitors and shutting down the main computer. A-Tain then announced a three-question game, and Gu Qingqiu earned the first correct answer with an extreme declaration of devotion.

• Zeng Shuang kept smashing monitors, developed cracks across her skin, and burst apart while Takeuchi Kurano watched.
• Lin Baici ordered Takeuchi Kurano to shut down the main computer, but Takeuchi Kurano died after turning it off and the computer restarted.
• A-Tain appeared on the monitors and announced that a contestant who answered three questions correctly could leave the Carnival Club alive.
• Wang Qing and Lin Baici gave incorrect answers to A-Tain's first question, while Melanie earned a point.
• Gu Qingqiu answered that she would raise her crush's child, give the child her surname, and hand over her salary, earning A-Tain's enthusiastic approval.

Lin Baici and Gu Qingqiu tested A-Tain while it forced them to choose between intimacy and fighting, then worked together to shut it down before anyone else was killed. The Rule Pollution ended, and Lin Baici handed Gu Qingqiu the remote control they had used.

• Lin Baici and Gu Qingqiu probed A-Tain through their conversation, and A-Tain demanded that they either make love or fight to the death.
• A-Tain began a countdown and killed a Japanese man with electricity when time ran out, then gave Lin Baici and Gu Qingqiu another chance to fight or find someone willing to clap with them.
• Gu Qingqiu drew her katana and attacked Lin Baici, while Lin Baici dodged and Melanie volunteered to help them survive.
• The monitor abruptly went black, the countdown stopped, and the samurai vanished after Lin Baici used a remote control to shut A-Tain down.
• Gu Qingqiu high-fived Lin Baici, and he handed her the remote control as Melanie asked what they had done.

Lin Baici and Gu Qingqiu deduced that a remote control had ended the Rule Pollution, but an invisible monster attacked when Gu Qingqiu restarted the computers. Lin Baici carried her back toward the monitoring room while the others fled down the hall, where the monster killed one of them.

• Lin Baici explained that a faint button sound had revealed the remote control, and Gu Qingqiu confirmed it by pressing a button.
• Lin Baici tested the remote against the monitors while Gu Qingqiu restarted a computer, but an invisible monster struck him and he shielded her.
• Lin Baici carried Gu Qingqiu through the hall as the Ghost Lamp and Red Oni Maru failed to reveal the monster.
• Lin Baici turned back toward the monitoring room, while Gu Qingqiu pressed buttons on the remote and the monster stopped pursuing him.
• An invisible force smashed a fleeing person's head against the wall, and Wang Qing led the others onward instead of following Lin Baici.

Lin Baici activated the security system and discovered that its AI, Ox-Horse No. 7, controlled a dangerous Queen Remote Control and could guide people through the maze. It directed Xia Hongyao and her companions toward Lin Baici, who waited in the security room.

• Lin Baici replaced the remote's batteries, activating the monitors and Ox-Horse No. 7.
• Ox-Horse No. 7 demonstrated the Queen Remote Control by shocking Gu Qingqiu, and Lin Baici learned that it could control people through a biological virus.
• Lin Baici ordered Ox-Horse No. 7 to stop the Love Bug and show him the people detected by surveillance.
• Lin Baici spotted Xia Hongyao beating a man while Hua Yueyu and Sannomiya Airi accompanied her through the maze.
• Ox-Horse No. 7 contacted Xia Hongyao's group and gave them a building map so they could find Lin Baici.

Xia Hongyao and Sannomiya Airi headed to reunite with Lin Baici, while Cow-Horse No. 7 summoned the survivors to him after he purified the monitoring-room Rule Pollution. As Lin Baici gathered everyone to face Mrs. Oliver, the group learned that the formidable He Qian was already approaching her dressing room, and several survivors balked at joining the expedition.

• Xia Hongyao persuaded Sannomiya Airi that the mechanical voice was trustworthy because it knew Lin Baici, and they set out to find him with the third item.
• Cow-Horse No. 7 summoned Wang Qing, Melanie, and the other survivors to Lin Baici, who had purified the Rule Pollution in the monitoring room and waited for the others.
• Wang Qing told Lin Baici that He Qian, nicknamed God Sender, had killed three Dragon Ranks and was leading a large group through the Rule Pollution.
• Xia Hongyao and her companions arrived, and Lin Baici gave her the remote before turning off the monitors and preparing to leave for Mrs. Oliver's dressing room.
• Wang Qing and several survivors tried to wait for He Qian instead of joining the expedition, but Lin Baici left without forcing them to come, and Wang Qing hurried after the group.

Lin Baici led the group to Mrs. Oliver’s mansion by following his hunger radar, and they climbed its enormous staircase toward her lair. The stairs collapsed and dropped everyone into a new area, where moving mannequins welcomed them to Madam’s dressing room.

• Lin Baici guided the group through the KTV and into Mrs. Oliver’s giant mansion, where he chose the left staircase.
• As they climbed, Sannomiya Airi declared that Melanie would have to call her Mrs. Lin if they survived, prompting Gu Qingqiu to tell her to stop flirting.
• The staircase broke into shifting cubes and sent the group falling, so Lin Baici used teleportation and his Platinum Crow Feather to rescue several companions.
• Fish Ball Guy slowed his fall with a mushroom that grew like a parachute, while Krazer deployed mechanical wings and the others landed on a springy floor.
• The group found itself surrounded by rows of black and white mannequins, which began moving as an elegant voice welcomed them to Madam’s dressing room.

Lin Baici’s team fought through hordes of mannequins toward a gate, only to find it locked and face stronger, exploding monsters. Lin Baici used the Dream Candle to calm the attackers, and when one mannequin collapsed, Taimai retrieved it so Gu Qingqiu could search it for clues.

• Lin Baici split the group into three teams, sending Wang Qing and Wu Hongfu east, Krazer south, and leading the largest team north.
• Lin Baici’s team fought its way through the mannequins until it reached a gate, but Fish Ball Guy could not open it.
• The mannequins grew stronger and began exploding when damaged, forcing Lin Baici’s team to use collected items against them.
• Lin Baici lit the Dream Candle, which calmed the mannequins and caused one to collapse.
• Taimai dragged the fallen mannequin back, and Sannomiya Airi asked Gu Qingqiu to examine it.

Lin Baici used the Dream Candle to weaken and put the mannequin monsters to sleep, then summoned and defeated the Butler to obtain a key. After learning the north gate led to the lady’s bedroom, he headed there with his group while Krazer and Melanie set out to join them.

• Lin Baici spread the Dream Candle’s scent, weakening the monsters and allowing his group to explore safely.
• Wang Qing and Wu Hongfu reached the locked east gate, lost their teammates to the monsters, and eventually found Lin Baici and his group.
• Lin Baici’s group killed the sleeping monsters until the Butler appeared, then burned him with candle wax until he surrendered a key.
• The Butler told Lin Baici that the north gate led to the lady’s bedroom and warned him that the other gates led back into the Rule Pollution.
• Lin Baici ordered the Butler to direct his temporary allies to the north gate, then took his group there.
• Krazer stopped trying to open the south gate after the monsters halted, and he and Melanie left to meet Lin Baici.

Lin Baici led the group through the mannequin-filled domain to Mrs. Oliver, using the Dream Candle to clear the way and bringing her wine as a gift. Mrs. Oliver welcomed them to sit and said she had planned to skin them for sofas but would let them go because of the wine.

• A mannequin butler sent Krezer and his group to the north gate, where Krezer joined Lin Baici and the others.
• Lin Baici guided the group down a vast corridor and used the Dream Candle to calm the moving figures carved into a bronze door after they tore apart a man Krezer had sent ahead.
• The group entered Mrs. Oliver’s oversized living room and found her watching television with a white cat on her lap.
• Lin Baici offered Mrs. Oliver four bottles of red wine, and she invited the group to sit on sofas that slid over from a wardrobe.
• Mrs. Oliver told the group she had planned to skin them and make sofas but would let them go because of the wine.

Mrs. Oliver revealed that the sofas were made from people and attacked Melanie after demanding to hear her dream. As Melanie suffocated, a sofa hand began choking Hua Yueyu, leaving Lin Baici and the others trapped in their seats.

• Lin Baici warned everyone to stay seated when the sofas began speaking and moving, and the group saw human-shaped figures trapped beneath the upholstery.
• Mrs. Oliver proudly called the sofas her works of art and described her abandoned dream of becoming an architectural designer.
• Mrs. Oliver asked Melanie about her dream, then smashed a wine bottle over her head and stabbed her when she could not answer.
• The sofa restrained Melanie and covered her mouth and nose, leaving her to suffocate as Mrs. Oliver walked away.
• A raised hand from Hua Yueyu's sofa grabbed her throat and began choking her.

Lin Baici and the others escaped the man-eating sofas when Sannomiya Airi's song calmed them and Lin Baici burned them. Mrs. Oliver then summoned Edward Housekeeping, whose servants unleashed a swarm of hornets on the group.

• Lin Baici chanted the Diamond Sutra, slowing the ghostly hands, but Mrs. Oliver threatened him and the sofas began to consume Melanie.
• Sannomiya Airi sang with her Sea Song Divine Grace, calming Mrs. Oliver and stopping the sofas from attacking.
• Lin Baici led the group away from the sofas and used a Pine Torch to burn them, including the sofa Melanie had merged with.
• Mrs. Oliver praised Sannomiya Airi's singing and announced she would turn her into a vinyl record.
• Mrs. Oliver summoned two teams of Edward Housekeeping servants and ordered them to attack the group; the servants released a swarm of hornets.

Lin Baici and the others fought Mrs. Oliver’s regenerating mechanical butlers and maids until Lin Baici discovered the remote could shut them down by targeting their exposed control centers. The group gained a way to disable the monsters, while Mrs. Oliver remained on the second floor watching them.

• Krazer summoned his Ghost Ship and blasted the charging monsters, but they repaired themselves and resumed attacking.
• The group tried Gu Qingqiu’s remote without success, while Mrs. Oliver watched the fight from the second floor.
• God of Gluttony told Lin Baici how to expose a maid’s control center and shut it down with the remote.
• Lin Baici asked Krazer to bombard the monsters again, and Red Oni Maru and Muscle Buddha cleared a path for Gu Qingqiu to bring him the remote.
• Lin Baici cracked open a maid’s head and held down the remote’s power button, successfully shutting it down.
• Krazer urged the group to crack open the remaining monsters’ heads, and Lin Baici’s allies began disabling them.

Lin Baici’s group fought Mrs. Oliver after disabling the monster housekeepers, and her teleportation and deadly scream killed Wu Hongfu. The battle continued with Fish Ball Guy’s hook catching her and Lin Baici’s golden dart piercing her throat, interrupting her attack.

• Wu Hongfu and Wang Qing helped Lin Baici’s group shut down the monster housekeepers, and Mrs. Oliver applauded them from the second floor.
• Mrs. Oliver teleported behind Wu Hongfu and unleashed a high-pitched scream; Xia Hongyao wounded her before she escaped back to the observation deck.
• Mrs. Oliver’s scream made Wu Hongfu swell and explode, while the others prepared to face her next attack.
• Fish Ball Guy’s hook caught Mrs. Oliver’s nightgown when she appeared behind Sannomiya Airi, and Sakura Girl attacked her with a back kick.
• Lin Baici fired a golden dart through Mrs. Oliver’s mouth and neck, cutting off her voice.

Lin Baici and his allies fought Mrs. Oliver, using their Divine Graces and Giant’s Fingers to overpower her until she exploded in a bloody blast. In the blood mist that followed, an unseen attacker began striking Lin Baici, while Xia Hongyao tried to draw it away.

• Lin Baici’s Champion Dart interrupted Mrs. Oliver’s Ghost-Voice Opera, and the group attacked her with a series of Divine Graces.
• Mrs. Oliver broke free from Fish Ball Guy’s fishing line and attacked him, so Lin Baici transformed with the Giant’s Finger and knocked her away.
• Xia Hongyao, Jin Yingzhen, and Hua Yueyu also transformed into giants, and they joined Lin Baici in beating Mrs. Oliver.
• Mrs. Oliver inflated and exploded, filling the living room with blood, and Lin Baici ended his giant form and called out to the others.
• An unseen attacker struck Lin Baici repeatedly in the blood mist, while Xia Hongyao ended her giant form and shouted to lure the attacker toward her.

Lin Baici fought Mrs. Oliver in her blood-mist field, endured her Queen’s Lipstick, and found that the Horse Trainer’s Whip could hurt her. Mrs. Oliver’s attacks turned into desperate pleas for mercy as Lin Baici continued whipping her.

• Mrs. Oliver ambushed Lin Baici through the blood mist, and he used sound to anticipate her attacks before landing a sword strike during her combo.
• Mrs. Oliver tried to make Lin Baici her dog and beat him with Queen’s Lipstick, whose hundred hits would taint his will.
• Lin Baici lit the Dream Candle, which revealed Mrs. Oliver and stopped her from teleporting, then fought her with his Bronze Sword.
• After Queen’s Lipstick failed to enslave him, Lin Baici tested a remote control and then discovered that the Horse Trainer’s Whip made Mrs. Oliver pause and could injure her.
• Lin Baici struck Mrs. Oliver with repeated lashes until she cried and begged him to stop.

Lin Baici subdued Mrs. Oliver with the Trainer’s Teaching Whip and secured her obedience, then learned she viewed the God Ruins as her people’s home. He took her Queen’s Lipstick and ordered her to lead him back to his companions, while Hua Yueyu, Jin Yingzhen, and Sannomiya Airi searched through the blood mist.

• Lin Baici repeatedly whipped Mrs. Oliver, and the Trainer’s Teaching Whip made her bark and eventually submit.
• Mrs. Oliver explained that the God's Remains were her home and accused humans of invading it, while Lin Baici argued that the God Ruins had taken human territory and lives.
• Lin Baici forced Mrs. Oliver to surrender Queen’s Lipstick, confirmed his companions were safe, and ordered her to take him to them after she offered him her wealth.
• Hua Yueyu and Jin Yingzhen reunited in the blood mist and continued searching for Lin Baici, while Sannomiya Airi told them to wait as the monsters dealt with the others.
• Sannomiya Airi expressed confidence that Lin Baici could handle Mrs. Oliver, and the blood mist began to clear.

Lin Baici reunited his surviving companions after defeating Mrs. Oliver and brought her onto the team, then gathered the remaining survivors and left the estate. Mink Aunt learned that the estate had been breached.

• Sannomiya Airi, Jin Yingzhen, and Hua Yueyu met Lin Baici, who returned with Mrs. Oliver and introduced her as an ally.
• Lin Baici reunited with Xia Hongyao and Gu Qingqiu, then found Krazer, who joined them after learning Mrs. Oliver was with the group.
• Lin Baici found Wang Qing and Suzuka Tetsuwo, gathering all the surviving members together.
• Xia Hongyao praised Lin Baici and claimed she had discovered and supported him, and Lin Baici credited her invitation with helping him become a God Hunter.
• The group followed Mrs. Oliver to the garage, drove away from the estate, and Mink Aunt received news that it had been breached.

Lin Baici’s group drove through the contaminated city with Mrs. Oliver, who warned him that Mink Aunt’s operation would kill millions and destroy several cities. When Lin Baici sensed something near an abandoned steel mill, he rode there with Gu Qingqiu to investigate, leaving the group to follow.

• Mink Aunt learned that Krazer’s team had purified the Bankruptcy City and ordered her subordinate to check the report again.
• Mrs. Oliver warned Lin Baici that Mink Aunt’s plan would sacrifice cities and tens of millions of people, while Xia Hongyao and the others discussed her sister’s strength and the Qin Palace.
• Lin Baici sensed something near an abandoned steel mill, and Mrs. Oliver warned him that the site held major contamination.
• Lin Baici set off for the steel mill on Ghost Rider with Gu Qingqiu riding behind him, and she urged him to go faster.

Nangong Shu and her group faced Rafios’s demand for the Inorganic Heart, East Asian god intelligence, and a meeting with her backer inside the God Ruins. Just as Rafios’s countdown ended, Lin Baici arrived with Gu Qingqiu and approached Nangong Shu.

• Rafios’s group cornered Nangong Shu’s people in an abandoned factory and demanded that she strip and entertain them.
• Rafios gave Nangong Shu one minute to hand over the Inorganic Heart and East Asian god intelligence and arrange a dinner with her powerful backer.
• Nangong Shu refused Rafios’s demands as her frightened companions urged her to submit, and Rafios began a countdown.
• Lin Baici rode a Harley into the factory with Gu Qingqiu behind him, provoking Rafios’s anger.
• Lin Baici got off the motorcycle, ignored Rafios, and asked Nangong Shu if she wanted to go for a ride.

Lin Baici reunited with Nangong Shu and Gu Qingqiu in the abandoned factory as Rafios threatened the group over Nangong Shu’s refusal to cooperate. After Ian killed one of Nangong Shu’s companions, Lin Baici revealed Casey’s still-beating heart, leaving Rafios’s side shaken and silent.

• Lin Baici arrived at the factory and greeted Nangong Shu, while Gu Qingqiu joined them and revealed that the two newcomers knew her.
• Rafios’s group introduced their strength and demanded that Nangong Shu give in, but Lin Baici refused to leave.
• Nangong Shu rejected Rafios’s demand, and Ian killed one of her companions by hitting a baseball through the air.
• Casey collapsed, and Lin Baici revealed Casey’s still-beating heart, threatening Rafios’s group with the unexplained killing.
• Ian’s group cursed Lin Baici but fell silent when he complained that they were too loud.