Chapter Summaries

The narrator followed a dream into the events surrounding Zhou Tengfei’s kidney transplant and discovered that Zhou Xixi had become a powerful ghost. After Zhou Tengfei’s surgery, the narrator realized Zhou Xixi had taken hold of him while he was still alive.

• The narrator possessed an unknown woman and traveled with Zhou Fusheng to the hospital, where Zhou Tengfei was preparing for a kidney transplant.
• The narrator heard Zhou Fusheng’s wife blame Zhou Xixi for refusing to donate a kidney and learned the family had arranged an illegal transplant from a paid donor.
• During the difficult surgery, intense yin energy surged in the operating room, and the narrator recognized Zhou Xixi’s powerful resentment.
• After the surgery, a nurse said Zhou Tengfei was stable and had been moved to intensive care.
• The narrator saw heavy yin energy surrounding Zhou Tengfei and realized Zhou Xixi had possessed him despite his heartbeat and breathing continuing.

The narrator watched Zhou Fusheng and his wife as Zhou Tengfei recovered from a kidney transplant, then saw Zhou Xixi use the transplanted kidney to torment him. The dream ended with doctors telling Zhou Tengfei that his right kidney had died.

• The narrator learned that Zhou Fusheng had deliberately run over Zhou Xixi while drunk and regretted being caught more than killing her.
• Zhou Tengfei was moved from intensive care to a private hospital room, where he angrily ordered his parents to leave.
• The narrator's dream shifted from Zhou Fusheng's wife to Zhou Tengfei, and the narrator felt a sudden pain in their kidney as Zhou Tengfei clutched his side.
• Doctors examined Zhou Tengfei during a painful spasm but found his surgical wound intact and his transplanted kidney functioning well.
• The dream briefly showed Zhou Tengfei writhing in pain at home before doctors told him that his right kidney had died.

The narrator watched Zhou Tengfei receive a series of yin-tainted organ transplants and suffer worsening supernatural attacks. Zhou Tengfei revealed that his parents had run over a woman and tried to take her kidney, while a mysterious woman had promised they could use their relatives’ organs.

• The narrator saw a donor kidney full of yin energy implanted in Zhou Tengfei, after which he suffered severe pain and supernatural pressure around his waist.
• Zhou Tengfei was discharged, then returned to the hospital for liver and lung transplants and a cornea transplant, each organ blackened by yin energy.
• The narrator watched a hand-like presence move beneath Zhou Tengfei’s skin and strike near his heart, leaving raised marks before vanishing.
• Zhou Tengfei blamed his parents, saying they had tried to take a woman’s kidney and that she was coming after him.
• The narrator received memories of Zhou Fusheng and his wife running over a woman, seeking her organs, and planning to deny knowing her.
• A mysterious woman told Zhou Fusheng and his wife that they could use their closest blood relatives’ organs, promising something in return.

The narrator watched Zhou Xixi’s revenge drive Zhou Tengfei to demand his mother’s kidneys and arrange an illegal organ transplant from his parents. The operation began in a makeshift room, where yin energy spread and Zhou Fusheng and his wife woke as the doctor prepared to remove their organs.

• The old woman told the Zhou family that Zhou Tengfei’s suffering was karmic retribution and that they had to settle their grudge with Zhou Xixi.
• Zhou Tengfei demanded that his mother give him her kidneys, and she hesitated while Zhou Fusheng watched.
• The scene shifted to a makeshift operating room, where Zhou Tengfei ordered doctors to replace his organs with those of Zhou Fusheng and his wife.
• The doctors began cutting into Zhou Tengfei and Zhou Fusheng, but yin energy spread through the room and the Zhou family woke up.
• Zhou Tengfei urged the doctors to continue despite his parents’ pleas, and the narrator saw black veins spreading across the doctor’s face.

The doctor possessed by an unknown presence took organs from Zhou Fusheng and his wife and transplanted them into Zhou Tengfei, who briefly celebrated his recovery. After the operating room went dark, the Zhou family’s victims tore into Zhou Tengfei, and the chapter ended with the doctor appearing before the narrator as a new consciousness entered the narrator’s mind.

• The doctor removed a kidney from Zhou Fusheng and transplanted it into Zhou Tengfei, then took organs from Zhou Fusheng and his wife for further transplants.
• The doctor and the medical staff left the three members of the Zhou family in the operating room, where Zhou Tengfei woke and celebrated that his pain had stopped.
• Zhou Tengfei threatened to find someone to deal with Zhou Xixi and promised to find working organs for his parents.
• The operating room plunged into darkness, and Zhou Fusheng and his wife seized Zhou Tengfei and tore at his wounds, demanding their organs back.
• When the doors opened, the Zhou family’s bodies spilled into the corridor, and the narrator sensed the doctor nearby as a new consciousness struck their mind.

Zhou Xixi’s lingering consciousness traveled through transplanted organs and found Zhou Tengfei, then was pulled into Uncle Tai’s body and captured. The narrator returned to his own body and, after speaking with Ye Qing, learned that Sun Bin had still died and turned to Nangong Yao for help finding his boss.

• Zhou Xixi’s hatred let her travel through diseased and transplanted organs until she found Zhou Tengfei and enacted her revenge, leaving three bodies dead.
• Zhou Xixi was pulled into Uncle Tai’s body, where a shadow seized her and she suffered burning pain before the narrator returned to his own body.
• The narrator went to Workers and Peasants Sixth Village, found Ye Qing’s office empty, and heard Ye Qing say Sun Bin’s name before leaving.
• The narrator went to Sun Bin’s residential compound and learned from a neighbor that Sun Bin had died from overwork the previous night.
• The narrator called Wu Ling and decided he needed Nangong Yao’s help to find Sun Bin’s workplace and boss.

After learning that the souls in the neighborhood had gone silent, the narrator waited with his coworkers and considered the danger of ghosts growing stronger by consuming souls and people. The group then learned that Xiao Zhang had been arrested for killing a college classmate, and they went to the police station.

• Gu Mo listened over the phone and told the narrator that no souls could be heard, while Nangong investigated whether Sun Bin or Ye Qing was responsible.
• The narrator returned to Workers and Peasants Sixth Village and told Skinny and the others about his encounter with Ye Qing.
• Chen Xiaoqiu warned that trapped souls and the idea of growing stronger by eating ghosts or killing people could lead to more powerful murderous ghosts.
• Director Mao told the group that Xiao Zhang had been arrested for killing a college classmate and that police knew he had visited the residents' committee.
• After the police contacted the demolition office, the narrator and his four coworkers gathered their things and went to the police station.

After Zhang’s arrest, the narrator learned that Sun Bin’s boss had been killed by a ghost and that investigators were looking into Sun Bin’s workplace grudges. Back at the office, the narrator heard that Hu Kai had killed his niece during a dispute over demolition compensation.

• The narrator and the others gave the police their account of Zhang’s actions, while reporters sought interviews about the incident.
• Wu Ling told the narrator that Sun Bin’s boss had been found dead, apparently frightened to death by a ghost, and that Sun Bin remained missing.
• Wu Ling said investigators had uncovered workplace conflicts and suspected Sun Bin might target others he resented.
• The narrator reported the incident to the old leader and Director Ma, then spoke with Jiang You about Hu Kai, who had recently been released from prison.
• A coworker told Jiang You and the narrator that Hu Kai had killed his niece by striking her with a teacup during a family argument over demolition compensation.

After Hu Kai’s family dispute became a public-relations threat for the demolition office, Lin Qi learned that Sun Bin’s rise as a ghost could signal a wider danger. Director Ma took Lin Qi to the detention center to confront Hu Kai and address the family’s plans to blame the office and raise money.

• Director Ma blamed the latest crime for risking renewed attention on the Xu family case, while Lin Qi and his coworkers discussed the recent rise in violent incidents.
• Lin Qi heard Wu Ling’s message that Sun Bin had devoured many souls, and she warned that stronger ghosts might begin killing more people.
• Director Ma and Jiang You summoned Lin Qi to visit Hu Kai at the detention center, and Lin Qi messaged Skinny and the others.
• Jiang You explained that World Weekly wanted to cover the family conflict and that Hu Kai’s relatives planned to raise funds to fight his case while shifting blame onto the demolition office.

At the detention center, the Hu family and the demolition office argued over Hu Kai’s case and whether the victim’s family would forgive him. The narrator sensed a vengeful ghost, and Hu Xiayi appeared, revealed Hu Kai was already dead, and attacked her father.

• The narrator accompanied Director Ma and Jiang You to the detention center, where the Hu family and World Weekly reporters were waiting.
• Hu Guohua, Tang Xiaolan, and Hu Shi blamed the demolition office for the conflict, while Jiang You presented records to dispute their claims.
• The detention center director asked whether Hu Xiayi’s mother, Xia Ling, had agreed to forgive Hu Kai, and the Hu family’s lawyer claimed she had.
• The narrator sensed a murderous ghost behind them, which left before a police officer brought Hu Xiayi into the visiting room.
• Hu Xiayi told Hu Shi that Hu Kai was already dead and refused to forgive the family, then broke Hu Shi’s shin with a stomp.

Hu Xiayi took revenge on her family at the police station, killing the three Hu relatives and later causing her aunt and uncle’s deaths. Lin Qi entered a dream of Hu Xiayi’s death and, after separating from her spirit, placed a hand on her corpse.

• Hu Xiayi attacked Hu Shi, Tang Xiaolan, and Hu Guohua over their past abuse, then followed them into the ambulance.
• Wu Ling later reported that the three Hu relatives had died from injuries and that Hu Xiayi had also caused the deaths of her aunt and uncle.
• Wu Ling told Lin Qi to destroy Hu Xiayi if she appeared in a dream, and Lin Qi went to sleep hoping to find her.
• Lin Qi dreamed through Hu Xiayi’s memories of the family fight that led to her death.
• Lin Qi’s spirit separated from Hu Xiayi’s body, but he could not see Hu Xiayi’s spirit, so he placed his hand on her corpse.

The narrator tried to save Hu Xiayi, but she died again amid her family’s scheming and became a vengeful ghost. Hu Xiayi killed Hu Kai in prison, and the narrator regained awareness in a hospital, sensing danger and remembering Wu Ling’s instruction to destroy her.

• The narrator revived Hu Xiayi, but her relatives delayed getting help while arguing over money and blame.
• Hu Xiayi died again, and her family discussed exploiting her death for compensation and donations while Hu Kai threatened them.
• Hu Xiayi began crying as her family silenced Xia Ling, then faded away and became consumed by hatred.
• Hu Xiayi went to Hu Kai’s prison cell and crushed his head, killing him.
• The narrator regained some awareness, realized Hu Xiayi posed a danger, and found themself in a hospital.

Lin Qi relived a dream in which he killed members of Hu Xiayi’s family, then realized Ye Qing had intervened and caused Hu Xiayi’s soul to dissipate. Wu Ling told him that souls were increasingly falling into depravity and that the situation was worse than expected.

• Lin Qi, while trapped in a muddled state, watched himself torture Hu Shi and kill Tang Xiaolan and Hu Guohua.
• Lin Qi recognized Hu Xiayi and tried to stop himself from killing her, but she died in a collision with a truck and became overwhelmed by power.
• An unseen figure lifted Hu Xiayi, and Lin Qi was shoved out of the dream.
• Lin Qi realized Ye Qing had caused Hu Xiayi’s soul to dissipate and called Wu Ling to explain what happened.
• Wu Ling told Lin Qi that Nangong was checking for similar cases and that many souls were falling into depravity instead of being reincarnated.

The narrator read Nangong Yao’s records of cases where offenders who received victims’ families’ forgiveness later died alongside members of those families. The victims’ memories overwhelmed the narrator with repeated visions of their deaths, leaving the narrator sobbing before Peng Han’s grieving relatives.

• The narrator read case records describing several crimes, offenders receiving forgiveness, and subsequent deaths among offenders and victims’ families.
• After viewing the victims’ photos, the narrator experienced a vision of stabbing their own eye with scissors and losing sight in it.
• The narrator relived a man’s death in a car crash and heard his relative plead that accepting compensation had seemed preferable to a harsher sentence.
• The narrator experienced a surviving daughter’s terror as an intruder broke into her room, then saw relatives argue over insurance compensation.
• The narrator relived deaths by stabbing, carbon monoxide poisoning, and fire before witnessing a worker crushed in a factory machine.
• The narrator came to kneeling and sobbing before Peng Han’s family as they said Pan Yuanhai had not caused the accident on purpose.

The narrator relived Pan Yuanhai’s memories and witnessed him slaughter a family before killing himself, then realized the victims’ souls were continuing to fall into ghosts. The chapter left the narrator and Wu Ling worrying about how Ye Qing’s fall could empower him while making the world more dangerous.

• The narrator experienced Pan Yuanhai’s memory of killing an old couple, a mother, and her daughter, then turning the knife on himself.
• The narrator recovered from the vision and recognized that intense negative emotions were causing souls to fall and become increasingly powerful ghosts.
• The narrator told Wu Ling what had happened and asked what would become of Ye Qing.
• Wu Ling said Ye Qing’s growing abilities might let him kill Old Tian, but warned that his actions could strengthen ghosts and that killing Heaven might bring unknown consequences.

The Demolition Office planned its response to the Hu family deaths while the narrator and his coworkers discussed why victims’ relatives sometimes became ghosts. Fatty discovered that livestream host Xiao Zuo had made Greenleaf the subject of a paranormal investigation video, which ended as he rang the intercoms at the office.

• The old leader laid out a response plan after Director Ma reprimanded the Demolition Office, and the Publicity Office took over visiting Xu Bingjie and contacting his mother.
• The narrator told Skinny, Guo Yujie, and Chen Xiaoqiu about Hu Xiayi and Greenleaf’s documents, and Chen Xiaoqiu suggested two reasons the dead might become ghosts.
• Fatty found that Xiao Zuo, the livestream host seen at Junli Hotel, had rented Room 403 at No. 54 and posted a video about Greenleaf’s paranormal investigation office.
• The coworkers watched Xiao Zuo film Workers and Peasants Sixth Village and Building Six before he pressed the intercom buttons for all four sixth-floor apartments.

The group discovered that the daredevil streamer planned to investigate Minqing’s abandoned labor camp farm, a case Greenleaf had already resolved. Qi retrieved the old case file and began reading how Bao Jiaxiu’s cousin first learned of the farm’s ghostly army.

• The daredevil failed to get into Workers and Peasants Sixth Village and announced plans to keep investigating Greenleaf.
• The Fatty found the streamer’s post announcing a Sunday livestream at Minqing’s abandoned labor camp farm.
• Qi remembered Greenleaf’s file titled "Abandoned Farm" and called Wu Ling, who said the incident had been resolved.
• Qi went home, found the case file, and read Bao Jiaxiu’s account of her cousin hearing rumors about bones, nighttime marching footsteps, and a ghostly army.

A woman recounted her cousin’s story about students sneaking out to a labor camp farm, where a boy and an instructor vanished in the fields before later claiming they had been trapped in a ghostly loop. Years afterward, the instructor was found dead in farm machinery, and the boy disappeared again.

• The cousin’s friend led a group of students and an instructor from their training base to the edge of a farm to tell ghost stories.
• While one boy told a tale about a farmer’s son killed by a harvester, the classmate he named vanished into the weeds.
• The instructor entered the fields after the missing boy, and the frightened students fled when they heard footsteps moving through the grass.
• Searchers found the instructor and the boy at daybreak, and the boy later said they had gotten lost in the fields after playing a prank.
• The girl who had organized the outing learned that a young instructor’s body had been found mangled in farm machinery, and the boy vanished from school the next day.

Miss Bao hired the investigators to look into Minqing Farm after her cousin Jin Shanshan’s classmates Zhu Ziyang and Xie Liu disappeared. The investigators confirmed that Shanshan had encountered a ghost and began investigating the missing students and a murdered instructor.

• Miss Bao explained that her sister had gone missing after suggesting a search of the labor camp farm, and asked the investigators to uncover what had happened there.
• The investigators described the possible dangers of an earthbound spirit or another evil ghost and asked to meet Jin Shanshan.
• The investigators researched Minqing Farm’s history and learned that it had closed in 2001.
• The investigators met Jin Shanshan and detected lingering yin energy, which they said indicated she had encountered a ghost.
• Jin Shanshan identified Zhu Ziyang as the missing boy and Xie Liu as the classmate who went to look for him, and said their murdered instructor’s surname was Zhang.

The investigators examined Zhang Wei’s death at Minqing Farm and interviewed a local farmer about the farm’s history as a work site for convicts, released prisoners, and demobilized soldiers. The farmer described prisoners who were taken away after fighting and never returned, but the interview ended before he answered whether there had been accidental deaths or injuries.

• The case file stated that Zhang Wei had been reported missing on September 28 and was found dead at Minqing Farm on October 3, killed by traumatic injuries from a rotary tiller.
• The investigators examined photos showing the tiller was rusted and inoperable, though blood, flesh, and torn cloth remained caught on its blades.
• On November 1, an investigator interviewed a local farmer who recalled convicts being brought to the farm to work the fields and released prisoners and demobilized soldiers living nearby.
• The farmer said that convicts who fought or disobeyed were taken away by police and never returned to work, though he did not know what happened to them.
• The farmer explained that released prisoners and demobilized soldiers used the farm as a place to make a living, and the interview turned to whether anyone had died or been injured in an accident.