Chapter Summaries

Xu Huo deduced rules governing the Wax Figure Museum and concluded that Bai Wenxian had interfered with the group. Xu Huo attacked Bai Wenxian, who fell into an apparent Abyss and fought his way toward a green light.

• Xu Huo, Xie Ling, and Bai Wenxian realized that melting wax from the museum walls might trap them inside.
• Xu Huo explained his deductions about the ghost-story clues and the wax figures, while Bai Wenxian challenged his theories.
• Xu Huo attacked Bai Wenxian with abilities and items after suspecting he had tampered with the museum.
• Bai Wenxian counterattacked with bright lights, a bladed whip, and items that pushed Xu Huo away.
• Xu Huo opened a door behind Bai Wenxian, sending him falling into an apparent Abyss.
• Bai Wenxian called the Abyss an illusion, threw a glow stick toward a green light, and charged at it with an axe.

Xu Huo killed Bai Wenxian after extracting information about the Wax Figure Museum and examined the items he acquired. As the museum filled with melting wax, Xu Huo and Xie Ling returned inside and prepared to track Bai Wenxian’s corpse.

• Xu Huo trapped Bai Wenxian in a hallucination, learned that the museum’s ghost stories involved an exchange, and killed him when he tried to escape.
• Xu Huo claimed Bai Wenxian’s items and tested Danger Prediction and Slim Chance of Surviving, discovering that the giant wax figure was the lobby’s most promising escape route.
• When Xie Ling reported that the wax was melting faster, Xu Huo carried Bai Wenxian’s corpse back inside and warned that the underground space could soon be sealed.
• Xie Ling tried to cut through the giant wax figure with a disc-shaped item, but the molten wax swallowed it and forced her to retreat into the museum.
• Xu Huo tied Kite String around Bai Wenxian’s corpse, and Xie Ling placed tracking items in his clothes so they could find him if he was buried.

Xu Huo and Xie Ling fought through the underground wax layer, freed Long Aotian and Xu Ruosi, and escaped back to the lounge as the Wax Figure Museum rose. The group compared their ghost-story clues and wondered whether finding the buried corpses had solved the disappearances.

• Xu Huo followed the kite string to the funeral hall floor, where he and Xie Ling melted and scraped through the wax while fighting wax figures that could reattach themselves.
• Xu Huo uncovered the sealed Players, freed Long Aotian, and helped him cut Xu Ruosi out of a glass shell.
• Xu Ruosi split the floor open and revealed a space packed with corpses, prompting the group to flee toward the Ghost Story room.
• Xu Huo and the others climbed through an opening above the Ghost Story room and returned to the lounge as the Wax Figure Museum rose.
• Xie Ling explained the earlier ghost-story encounters, Xu Ruosi shared her clue, and Long Aotian described being struck from behind before he was sealed in wax.
• Long Aotian asked whether finding the corpses had solved the mystery of the disappearances.

Xu Huo and the others solved the Wax Figure Museum’s disappearance mystery by realizing it was containing a deadly disease, but they remained trapped until the museum reset at dawn. After escaping, they reunited with the other players and learned that six of the fourteen had died overnight.

• Xu Huo explained that the Wax Figure Museum sealed people inside to contain a disease, advancing the disappearance mission to 1/6.
• Xu Huo noted that the museum was rebuilding itself, and the group stayed in the entrance hall until dawn rather than exploring further.
• At dawn, the wax melted from the door, allowing Xu Huo, Xu Ruosi, Long Aotian, and Xie Ling to leave; Xu Huo saw three shadows running near Decapitation Cemetery.
• The group reunited with the players at the crossroads and learned that six of the fourteen players had died, while the long-haired female player had lost an arm.
• The surviving players gathered amid growing suspicion and hostility toward one another.

Players in Museum City argued over the previous night's deaths, and Xu Huo’s group cautiously agreed to travel with the survivors. After resting and drawing lots, they set off for the Mannequin Building, where Xie Ling noticed the midday heat.

• The long-haired woman accused the middle-aged man and his companions of attacking her, then killed the female player who challenged her.
• Xu Huo and Long Aotian revealed that players had died in the Wax Figure Museum, while the middle-aged man explained that his group had left the hotel after three companions disappeared.
• The long-haired woman proposed that the remaining players stick together, and Xu Huo’s group agreed to rest before choosing their next destination.
• The players drew lots, and Long Aotian chose the Mannequin Building.
• As the group headed toward the Mannequin Building, Xie Ling remarked that the sun was unusually hot.

Xu Huo and the others noticed that time seemed to be passing strangely in Museum City when a second batch of players entered the instance. After finding that a date-tracking item showed a day later than the game panel, Xu Huo led the group toward the Mannequin Building, suspecting the city itself was causing the discrepancy.

• Long Aotian and Xie Ling chatted about tattoos before the group realized the time had advanced to noon far sooner than expected.
• Xu Huo spotted the short shadow beneath his feet, and the group noticed a new batch of players entering Museum City.
• Xu Huo and Long Aotian discussed the risks and possible benefits of cooperating with the newcomers.
• Xu Huo searched nearby shops for a calendar, and Xu Ruosi showed the group an item that tracked dates and time.
• The item matched the game panel's time but showed a date one day ahead, so Xu Huo took the group to the Mannequin Building.

Xu Huo and the others investigated the Mannequin Building and Mad Prison, finding clues that the attractions might reflect real deaths and torture. After they searched beneath the prison floor, its doors locked and chains sealed the building as a group of hostile players arrived outside.

• Xu Huo's group explored the Mannequin Building and found numbered dummies whose sequence appeared to match the graves at Decapitation Cemetery.
• Xiao Ling and Yu Guangnan explained that cemetery graves contained numbered dummies and tortured human skeletons, while Xu Huo noticed gaps in the Mannequin Building's numbering.
• The group entered the Mad Prison and found displays of mannequins depicting prisoners being abused, tortured, and killed.
• Xu Huo agreed to search beneath the prison floor, but the group found no remains.
• The Mad Prison's doors slammed shut and chains covered the building as hostile players appeared outside and one of them leered at Xiao Ling.

Xu Huo and his companions fought four Cannibal Players who had trapped them inside Mad Prison with an electrified Artifact chain. After Xu Huo killed one attacker and Xiao Ling’s curse helped corner the others, one Cannibal Player escaped while the remaining fight continued.

• Long Aotian and Yu Guangnan tried to break the electrified chain, while Xu Huo’s group attacked the Cannibal Players holding it.
• Long Aotian used a corrosive Metal Block to destroy the chain, then fought off the four attackers surrounding him.
• Xu Huo saved Long Aotian, killed one Cannibal Player, and escaped the man’s Balloon Artifact after pulling him into his Spiritual World.
• The other three Cannibal Players tried to retreat, but Xiao Ling bound them with Love Means Mutual Destruction, and Yu Guangnan’s group closed in.
• One Cannibal Player slipped free of the cord and threw poison gas bombs, but his feet froze as he tried to escape.

Xu Huo and the others killed the Cannibal Players and agreed to avoid a fight with other players near the Mannequin Building. They headed to Needle Mountain Physiotherapy before sunset and entered to find a mannequin impaled on long metal spikes.

• Xu Huo used his Spiritual World to kill the Cannibal Player who tested its boundary with pea seeds.
• Xiao Ling tortured and killed the fat Cannibal Player, then Xu Huo teased her about licking her bloody hand.
• Xu Huo agreed to stay out of the way of players hiding nearby, but they refused his offer to complete the Dungeon task together.
• Xu Huo led the group toward Needle Mountain Physiotherapy before sunset, and they entered despite concerns about spending the night inside.
• The group found a mannequin pierced by three-meter metal spikes and rusty surgical instruments displayed near the entrance.

Xu Huo and the others searched Needle Mountain Physiotherapy and the Doll Clothing Store for clues, finding no bodies but discovering dolls with signs of stitching. The chapter ended when the dolls in the store all turned to face the group and an iron skewer narrowly missed Xu Huo.

• Liu Chengyi recognized the surgical tools at Needle Mountain Physiotherapy, where the group found unsettling displays of needles but no bodies.
• Xie Ling suggested the attractions might only become active at night, and Xu Huo agreed to wait while they searched the neighboring Doll Clothing Store.
• Xie Ling discovered that a doll's eye was a realistic silicone eyeball, while Yu Guangnan found that some dolls had been cut open and sewn back together.
• Xiao Ling said a life-sized doll had turned to face the group, so Xu Huo tied it to a display case to keep it in place.
• An iron skewer flew past Xu Huo, and the dolls throughout the room turned their heads toward the group.

Xu Huo and Xie Ling fought their way through the Doll Clothing Store as the dolls came alive and attacked with metal spikes. Xie Ling’s attempt to send a doll searching failed when her Ability wore off, and Xu Huo tried to create an opening so they could keep searching.

• Dolls fell from the display cases and attacked the group, and one broke Xie Ling’s leg before piercing her chest with a metal spike.
• Xu Huo rescued Xie Ling, set fire to the mobile dolls and the lights, and tried to escape through the darkened store.
• Xu Huo and Xie Ling fought off waves of dolls, and Xu Huo told her to search for a doll representing the Twins.
• Xie Ling sent out a doll to explore, but it returned under the dolls’ control and attacked her after her Ability wore off.
• Xu Huo asked how many dolls Xie Ling could affect, then drew attackers away while she continued searching; one doll pounced on him and stuck to his Protective Suit.

Xu Huo and the others fought their way out of the Doll Clothing Store and Needle Mountain Physiotherapy as the Dolls and mannequins pursued them through Sun Museum City. From a rooftop, Xu Huo began piecing together connections between the themed buildings, including a possible link between the Dolls and the pregnant women in Mad Prison.

• Xu Huo dismantled attacking Dolls and rescued Xie Ling from beneath a pile of Dolls in the Doll Clothing Store.
• Xiao Ling used Roadkill to collapse part of the Doll Clothing Store entrance, helping the group escape Needle Mountain Physiotherapy.
• Mannequins emerged from Mad Prison and pursued Xu Huo and the others, while Long Aotian and Liu Chengyi split off to hide.
• Xu Huo took Xie Ling to a nearby store, where Xiao Ling and Yu Guangnan joined them and Xu Ruosi found a small Warehouse.
• Xu Huo climbed onto the roof in his Invisibility Cloak and considered how the buildings' stories might connect, including whether the Dolls corresponded to Mad Prison's pregnant women.

Xu Huo connected Museum City’s venues to a history of captivity, abuse, and human experimentation, advancing the completion task to 3/6. The group realized the dungeon’s date had stopped changing and feared they could be trapped if they failed to clear it within seven days.

• Xu Huo submitted his theory about prisoners, human experiments, and children used as test subjects, raising the task progress to 3/6.
• Xu Huo led the group around the searching mannequins and back near Mad Prison.
• Xu Ruosi checked her timekeeping item, and the group saw that midnight passed without the dungeon’s date changing.
• Xu Huo explained that the stopped date could leave them trapped, while game time might still impose a seven-day deadline and expose them to a high-risk instance.
• Xiao Ling asked Xu Huo to share the clue that had earned progress at Wax Figure Museum.

Xu Huo and the others compared progress in Sphinx's Riddle and debated whether the instance’s frozen time was part of its final challenge. They left the Decapitation Cemetery riddle unresolved as mannequin activity subsided and tension rose over Xie Ling’s injury.

• Xie Ling and Xu Ruosi exchanged information with Xiao Ling and Yu Guangnan after Xiao Ling confirmed she had gained one-sixth of the progress.
• Xiao Ling suggested that the instance’s final riddle might involve why time was stuck on the first day, and Xu Huo proposed watching for new Players at noon to test their theory.
• Xu Ruosi submitted her explanation of the Decapitation Cemetery, but the game did not register it as progress, so the Players considered that the cemetery might not be one of the six riddles.
• As the mannequins grew quieter, Yu Guangnan climbed out to investigate, while Xie Ling said she had recovered from her injury.
• Xiao Ling accused Xie Ling of pretending her broken leg was healed, and Xu Huo tried to ease the resulting tension.

Xu Huo and his companions survived a coordinated ambush by a group of players who withdrew after testing their strength. Suspecting Xiao Ling and Yu Guangnan of possible betrayal, Xu Huo refused to cooperate with Xiao Ling and demanded that she prove herself.

• Xie Ling openly displayed her items while keeping her distance from the others, and Xiao Ling said Yu Guangnan had left to look for the missing mannequins.
• Xu Huo and the others escaped a shop as six beams of light sliced it apart, then fought off attackers who had surrounded them.
• Xu Huo fought one attacker, destroying his metal spider legs and forcing him to flee after he used a whistle to escape.
• The attackers withdrew, and Yu Guangnan returned to help Xiao Ling, who accused him of leading the ambush and held a sword to his throat.
• Xu Ruosi questioned Xiao Ling's apparent interrogation, and Xu Huo rejected working together, telling her to prove herself if she wanted their trust.

Xu Huo and the others weighed Yu Guangnan’s report of a rumored high-level item before agreeing to split up and investigate nearby exhibits. At the Infectious Disease History Museum, Xu Huo found photographs documenting epidemics across a decade and names written on the back of a medical staff group photo.

• Yu Guangnan told the group that pursuers had discussed searching the Dungeon for an unowned high-level item, and Xu Huo judged that he was likely telling the truth.
• Xu Huo set aside the rumor and urged the group to focus on clearing the Dungeon and learning the dangers of its exhibits.
• The group rested near the central exhibits, then agreed to split up after daybreak while staying close enough to help one another.
• Xiao Ling and Yu Guangnan headed for the Styx Ferry, Xu Ruosi and Xie Ling planned to investigate the attic, and Xu Huo chose the Infectious Disease History Museum.
• Xu Huo noticed someone leave the Adult Psychological Treatment Room before dawn, then entered the Infectious Disease History Museum after it grew light.
• Xu Huo examined the museum’s photographs of epidemics and found several rows of names on the back of a group photo of medical staff.

Xu Huo uncovered evidence that the Shang family’s history and Museum City’s epidemic records were unreliable, then found a hidden basement beneath the Adult Psychological Treatment Room. Inside an illusionary living room, a doll sang a disturbing rhyme as the doorbell rang, and Xu Huo began investigating its clues.

• Xu Huo examined the epidemic exhibits and notebook, finding that a doctor surnamed Shang had survived ten years of outbreaks without being recorded as infected.
• Xu Huo concluded that the game’s account of Museum City’s origins and the Shang family’s hereditary disease might be unreliable, then discovered black dust on his fingers that would not wash off.
• Xu Huo entered the Adult Psychological Treatment Room, found a concealed button beneath the desk, and descended a staircase into a clean underground room.
• Xu Huo sat in the basement chair and found himself in an illusionary living room, where a doll sang a rhyme about a family meeting grisly deaths.
• Xu Huo was transported back to the sofa when he approached the door, then explored the kitchen and found food preparations and a missing knife as the doll began its song again.

Xu Huo tried to survive the nursery rhyme’s fatal loop but discovered that the mother and child’s deaths could not be prevented through ordinary defenses. After hearing the father’s regrets upstairs, he realized that turning back time might save them, and the middle-aged man vanished, leaving a Potion on the chair.

• Xu Huo tested the Doll, the doors, and the stairs, then concluded that the nursery rhyme’s events caused his death regardless of where he went.
• Xu Huo tried blocking entrances, using his items, hiding in Shelter 101, and breaking a window, but each attempt still ended in his death.
• Xu Huo heard the nursery rhyme reveal that the Doll and mother died and that the father came home and lay down beside them.
• A glass marble rolled to Xu Huo’s feet, and a light appeared upstairs, allowing him to enter the Study Room.
• The middle-aged man described the chain of delays that had made him arrive five minutes late, and Xu Huo realized he might save the family by turning back time.
• The middle-aged man vanished, and Xu Huo found a Potion on the chair.

Xu Huo discovered that the potion in the basement had been a hallucination, then fought Players who ambushed him at the Styx Ferry. He escaped deeper into the underground waterway and found gravestones suggesting that many members of the Shang family had died in the same year.

• Xu Huo realized the potion and chair in the basement had been hallucinations, then encountered a badly injured Long Aotian upstairs.
• Xu Huo killed the disguised puppet Long Aotian and chased the fleeing person into the Styx Ferry, where new Players tried to rob him.
• Xu Huo fought the Players using smoke and his items, killing several before the Bright Red Sword's eye opened and made him retreat.
• Xu Huo boarded a ferry and passed displays of human bones and fuel made to resemble a river of blood.
• Xu Huo noticed around twenty gravestones bearing the Shang surname, most marking deaths from the same year.

Xu Huo evaded the players pursuing him through the River of the Dead while Long Aotian, Xiao Ling, and Yu Guangnan ambushed and fought another group. As the three headed onward, a strange shadow killed the final pursuer, and the stronger players who had attacked them the previous night forced them to flee back through the winding channel.

• Xu Huo used his invisibility outfit and the Poster of Repentance to mislead the players chasing him along the waterway.
• Long Aotian, Xiao Ling, and Yu Guangnan overturned the pursuers’ boat and killed or drove off the players who attacked them.
• The three found more corpses and saw a ghostly shadow kill the last player from the pursuing group.
• A twisting band of light pulled the three toward the players who had ambushed them the previous night, so Xiao Ling used a propeller-like item to send their boat back the way they came.
• Long Aotian questioned whether they were trapped underground as the group fled through the winding waterway.