Chapter Summaries

Gu Mian and Fatty followed traces through a warehouse where earlier survivors had recorded their disappearances, then found Chu Changge and the others’ note pointing below. Gu Mian descended through a trapdoor into a dark shaft, followed by the rest of the group, while Fatty got stuck in the opening.

• Fatty and Gu Mian entered the left passage and found diary entries describing five survivors who had taken refuge in the warehouse before three vanished after day 180.
• Gu Mian read how the survivors had blocked the stairwell to keep ghosts away, explored the warehouse, and eventually discovered a trapdoor beneath the water-storage room shelves.
• Fatty found Chu Changge and the others’ note saying they had gone down first and were waiting below.
• Liu Ruyan located the water-storage room and its open trapdoor, and Gu Mian climbed into the dark shaft.
• Liu Ruyan, Xu Xingcheng, Curly Hair, and Fatty followed Gu Mian down, but Fatty got his butt stuck in the opening.

Gu Mian and the others followed the underground passage beneath Snack Street, where they found a headless corpse before reaching a ladder. Gu Mian climbed out into the school library and discovered that the door had been left open, suggesting Chu Changge and the others had passed through.

• Fatty squeezed through the ladder opening after Little Red kicked him loose, and Little Red landed beside the group.
• The group explored the dark passage and found a headless corpse that Xu Xingcheng estimated had been dead for about a month.
• Gu Mian led the group onward until they reached a ladder and told the others to stay put while he checked above.
• Gu Mian climbed out into the school library and found bookshelves, an open door, and a checkout counter.

Gu Mian and the others explored what appeared to be the school library and found books documenting the detailed layouts of dorm rooms. Curly Hair recognized one room’s arrangement as accurate to the day before, leaving the group facing a disturbing mystery about how the book recorded it.

• Gu Mian identified the space as a likely school library, and Fatty brought Little Red and the others up to join him.
• Curly Hair explained that survivors had only reached the library’s entrance hall, while Xu Xingcheng found fresh handprints showing Chu Changge and his companions had handled books.
• The group discovered that many books were entirely blank, but Liu Ruyan found a written volume titled “Dormitory Layouts and Resident Information for Dormitory Building No. 1.”
• Gu Mian and the others checked the volume’s floor plan for Dormitory 1309, and Curly Hair confirmed it matched the room he had visited the previous day.
• Curly Hair explained that the room’s furnishings had changed after residents moved in, then said there was something disturbing he needed to tell them.

Gu Mian and the others found books that updated in real time with dorm occupants’ movements, deaths, and cafeteria food stocks. The records revealed that food supplies were dwindling and the cafeteria had been restricting portions.

• Curly Hair noticed that the dormitory diagram showed a chair that had been moved and damaged since his previous visit.
• Gu Mian found written records of dorm residents moving in, moving out, and dying, including The Breeze Makes My Crotch Chilly, who had died three days earlier.
• Curly Hair stopped Gu Mian from tearing pages out of the dormitory records, and Xu Xingcheng advised leaving the books untouched for now.
• Liu Ruyan found a book recording the cafeteria’s food inventory, including an obscured item that Gu Mian guessed was the source of the red food balls.
• Gu Mian and Curly Hair saw that supplies had dwindled after the item became unavailable on year 1, day 327, and Curly Hair realized the cafeteria was restricting food.

Gu Mian, Xu Xingcheng, and Curly Hair explored a corridor in the school library and found portraits of grotesque ghosts labeled as outstanding teachers. They reached a section of portraits labeled distinguished alumni and recognized Jing among them.

• The group split up, with Gu Mian, Xu Xingcheng, and Curly Hair taking the corridor while Little Red, Fatty, and Liu Ruyan searched the other rooms.
• The three found a Hall of Honor lined with portraits, including a grotesque creature holding an attendance register and the dorm supervisor made of fused body parts.
• Gu Mian and Xu Xingcheng speculated that the portraits depicted ghosts from the instance, but Curly Hair had not encountered the attendance-register ghost before.
• They passed more strange and blank portraits, then reached the distinguished alumni section and spotted Jing among the portraits.

Gu Mian, Xu Xingcheng, and Curly Hair explored a corridor of portraits depicting outstanding alumni and found a dead player whose death suggested he had seen his own portrait. They continued onward and discovered a portrait of a female player with a completely blank face.

• Curly Hair recognized portraits of players, including Jing, and Gu Mian concluded that the portraits showed living alumni while gaps marked those who had died.
• The group found a mummified male player beneath a bare stretch of wall, and Gu Mian deduced that he had killed himself after seeing something on the opposite wall.
• Curly Hair suspected the dead player had seen his own portrait, raising fears about Jing's fate, and Gu Mian urged them to continue searching for clues.
• At the end of the corridor, the group found a portrait of a female player whose face had no features.
• Xu Xingcheng compared the woman's blank face to a phrase from a romance novel, and Gu Mian teased him about reading Fatty's books.

Gu Mian, Xu Xingcheng, and Curly Hair explored the library hall, found a directory pointing to the Principal’s Office, and encountered a ghost that vanished when the school bell rang. They reunited with Fatty and the others, who had searched the first floor and collected books, as another class bell was due soon.

• Gu Mian and Xu Xingcheng discussed the faceless woman in the portrait before Curly Hair recognized the distant glass doors as the library entrance, blocked by an access gate.
• The group found bodies, a flickering display repeating “I'm not going back. School is my home,” and a portrait of the former principal, whom Gu Mian recognized from Paradise World.
• Xu Xingcheng found a library directory showing the Principal’s Office on the fourth floor, and Gu Mian memorized the floor maps before a black figure appeared beyond the gate.
• A deafening class bell rang, making the figure scream and disappear, and Gu Mian led the group back to the first-floor lobby.
• Gu Mian reunited with Fatty, Liu Ruyan, and Little Red; Fatty explained that they had searched the first floor and collected books from its reading rooms, while Curly Hair warned that the next class bell would ring soon.

Gu Mian and the others found school records that tracked classrooms and dungeon players, including one player’s movements in precise detail. They decided to search the library’s upper floors for their own records and the principal, hoping the books might explain how to leave the dungeon.

• Liu Ruyan showed Gu Mian classroom archives, and he found records of his friends’ past classes and a garbled entry for his group’s current classroom.
• A new classroom record appeared in real time, leading Liu Ruyan to show Gu Mian two books that tracked individual students.
• Gu Mian found that Top Eater had died shortly after entering the library, while Evening Breeze 77’s book recorded his movements up to the present.
• Curly Hair wondered whether destroying their own records could let them escape, and Xu Xingcheng suggested searching the upper floors for more player books.
• Xu Xingcheng explained that the principal’s office was on the library’s fourth floor, and Gu Mian gave Curly Hair the books before setting out to find the principal.

Flying Sky Tiger and Weak Cockroach Man explored a strange library instance where students’ movements were recorded in books, while an unseen killer began twisting players’ heads around. They spotted other people in the library, but another teammate died before they could reach him.

• A teammate died when his head twisted backward, leaving Flying Sky Tiger and Weak Cockroach Man separated from the others.
• Flying Sky Tiger calmed Weak Cockroach Man, and the two explored a library room while searching for their team.
• They found a book labeled with Flying Sky Tiger’s nickname that recorded his entry location and their current hiding place.
• The book updated to say that Jing and csdjs*73#?? had seen them on the stairs, and the pair spotted three people heading upstairs.
• Weak Cockroach Man thought one of the girls mouthed “don’t move,” but as he and Flying Sky Tiger approached another room, a teammate’s head twisted backward and he died.

Gu Mian’s group reunited with two survivors and learned that a new batch of players had entered the library, then continued toward the principal’s office in search of a way out. On the second floor, they faced the Turn-Back Ghost by crawling across the floor while Gu Mian, Xu Xingcheng, and Mondo Hong remained upright.

• Fatty, Gu Mian, and the others met Flying Sky Tiger and Male Cockroach, who said their seven-person team had already lost two members to a ghost that twisted their heads backward.
• Flying Sky Tiger described seeing Young Master Chu and two women head upstairs, and Curly Hair recognized one of them as Sister Jing.
• Curly Hair explained that players had been trapped in the instance for nearly a year and that the group was heading to the principal’s office on the top floor to look for an escape.
• Flying Sky Tiger and Male Cockroach joined the group, and the seven crossed the second floor toward the stairs to the third floor.
• Fatty demonstrated that they could avoid the Turn-Back Ghost by crawling with their faces pointed upward or downward, while Gu Mian, Xu Xingcheng, and Mondo Hong stayed standing.

Gu Mian and Xu Xingcheng searched the second floor while helping Flying Sky Tiger's team avoid the Turn-Back Ghost, and they discovered that multiple ghosts were hunting there. The chapter ended as the female ghost began lowering her head, revealing that she could change her facing direction freely.

• Xu Xingcheng found Earphone and another teammate, and they joined Flying Sky Tiger's group crawling along the floor to avoid facing the ghost.
• Xu Xingcheng found a dead teammate and suspected the Turn-Back Ghost was inside the nearby room, so he and Gu Mian went in to investigate.
• Gu Mian saw a female Turn-Back Ghost, and Xu Xingcheng realized she was different from the male ghost that had twisted his head.
• The female ghost turned her head toward Gu Mian and Xu Xingcheng even though nobody was facing her, showing that she could change her direction.
• Gu Mian wondered whether the ghost could also tilt her head, and Xu Xingcheng saw her slowly lower it.