Chapter Summaries

Kang Kang, Xiao Ye, Brother Hong, and the Daredevil entered the cafeteria after Tyr emerged from the kitchen, then discovered old bloodstains in the lobby. They found the electrical panel switched off, but the lights remained on, leaving the group frightened and unable to explain what was happening.

• Kang Kang and Xiao Ye panicked at the sight of the bloodstain, and the Daredevil went downstairs to look for Tyr.
• The Daredevil found Tyr in the cafeteria, and Brother Hong and the Daredevil carried Kang Kang inside.
• Xiao Ye and Kang Kang insisted they had seen blood and a boy, while the Daredevil denied staging the events.
• The Daredevil and Brother Hong lifted floor tiles and found faint marks that viewers identified as possible old bloodstains.
• After a viewer questioned how the abandoned building had electricity, the Daredevil asked Tyr about the lights, but Tyr said he had not turned them on.
• Brother Hong found an electrical panel with every switch down, but flipping them changed nothing as Kang Kang begged to leave.

Red, Xiao Ye, Kangkang, and the daredevil tried to leave the labor camp but became lost in the weeds, while their calls for help failed. When the daredevil called someone, loud music drew their attention to a rotting figure emerging from the grass, and the group fled in panic.

• Red and Xiao Ye discovered that their phones could not make calls, though the livestream still worked, and viewers confirmed that the towing company could not find the road to the labor camp.
• The daredevil agreed to leave, but the group wandered through the weeds for nearly ten minutes without finding the road.
• Red accused Xiao Zuo of staging more than the prison-cell scene, and the daredevil admitted he had prepared fake blood and something else.
• The daredevil made a call, and loud rock music began playing from somewhere nearby.
• Xiao Ye spotted shaking weeds as a bluish-black hand pushed them aside and revealed a bloated, rotting face, prompting everyone to scream and run.

The reckless daredevil confessed that his team had staged past livestreams but insisted the strange events that night were real. Tyles revealed that the place was haunted and linked it to his missing girlfriend and a long-ago military training tragedy, leaving the group unsure whether she was dead or someone nearby was responsible.

• The group found Kangkang in the clearing, and the reckless daredevil explained that P and Old K had helped stage noises and other scares.
• The reckless daredevil revealed that an instructor had died nearby and admitted that he and his friends had staged earlier livestreams, including one that left Xiaosi hospitalized.
• Tyles said his girlfriend had trained at the nearby base in 2007, when an instructor and two students died or disappeared, and that Greenleaf Paranormal Agency had investigated the haunting.
• Tyles found his missing girlfriend's bracelet in the kitchen and identified the person seen being drained of blood as her classmate Zhu Ziyang.
• Tyles said his girlfriend had disappeared two years earlier, and the reckless daredevil suggested someone might be hiding a murderer nearby.

As the livestreamers sought help at the former labor camp, a female humanoid monster attacked Tyles on camera. The narrator recognized it as resembling Old K but remained baffled about what it was.

• Red and the daredevil argued over whether the earlier supernatural events were faked, then asked livestream viewers to call the police because they could not get through themselves.
• The narrator tried calling Wu Ling but learned he was outside the service area, and Chen Xiaoqiu said police might struggle to find the labor camp.
• Kangkang and Xiao Ye shouted that someone was by the bungalow window, and Tyles charged into the house.
• A bloody, decayed female monster attacked Tyles through the canteen window, bit his neck, and dragged him inside as the others screamed.
• The narrator recognized the monster as resembling Old K and wondered whether such a creature could really exist.

A livestream from the labor reform farm turned deadly when a monster attacked the group, killing Red Brother and then Kangkang. The viewers learned of the farm’s eerie history and missing children, but the police could not find the place, and the chapter ended with the monster biting Kangkang.

• The monster appeared at the labor reform farm, and Tyles’s reaction led viewers to suspect it was his girlfriend.
• Little Ye warned that the monster could turn off the lights as Red Brother accused the Daredevil of staging the attack.
• Red Brother ran at the monster with the camera pole, but the monster killed him with a slash to the neck.
• Kangkang picked up the camera and begged viewers to call the police, while commenters said officers could not find the farm.
• A commenter described the farm’s history of failed development and two missing children, as Kangkang searched around the building.
• The monster appeared behind Kangkang and bit her neck as blood sprayed across the screen.

The narrator watched the aftermath of Kangkang’s apparent death and followed online discussions that connected Tyles, Jin Shanshan, and Bao Jiaxiu to Greenleaf and past hauntings. As the narrator debated whether to intervene, a viral post accused Jin Shanshan’s former companions of concealing a trip back to Minqing before she disappeared.

• Kangkang let go of the camera, and the livestream showed the ground as sounds of chewing and breaking bones continued before the image froze.
• Online posts linked Tyles to Jin Shanshan, his missing girlfriend, and identified Bao Jiaxiu as her cousin, whose family had once sought help from Greenleaf.
• The narrator failed to reach Wu Ling, Gu Mo, and the others, then weighed going to Ye Qing or entering the dreamscape while Chen Xiaoqiu and the Skinny One urged caution.
• A viral post claimed that five members of Jin Shanshan’s haunted-house group returned to Minqing before she disappeared, prompting commenters to speculate about what they had done.

The narrator learned from Wu Ling that the labor reform farm had become a cursed land after zombies attacked, and that the group had escaped. The next morning, a police statement confirmed seven deaths and revealed that Qian (Daredevil) had survived.

• After the livestream ended, the narrator received Wu Ling's call and learned that she and the others were safe at the labor reform farm.
• Wu Ling explained that the land had become cursed, turning corpses into zombies, and would need to be sealed off.
• The narrator asked whether public attention posed a problem, and Wu Ling said Greenleaf could redirect it with a news report.
• The narrator dreamed of zombies chasing them and woke exhausted.
• The narrator read a Minqing police statement listing seven bodies found at the farm and confirming that Qian (Daredevil) had been rescued unconscious.

After the deadly Truth or Dare incident drew public attention away from Greenleaf, Lin Qi learned the survivor was being left to face the consequences. Director Ma ordered Lin Qi and Jiang You to prepare for interviews and control what their colleagues said, while Skinny warned that the supernatural would eventually be impossible to conceal.

• Lin Qi called Wu Ling, who admitted that her group had found the daredevil alive and let him keep wandering while the zombies pursued Kang Kang and Xiao Ye.
• At the office, Chen Xiaoqiu told Lin Qi, Fatty, and the others that Chen Yihan had seen blurry shadows at the labor camp and believed the killer was not human.
• Director Ma summoned Lin Qi and Jiang You and told them Xu Bingjie's lawyer had requested a psychiatric evaluation, while reporters planned to change their coverage of the investigation.
• Director Ma ordered Lin Qi and Jiang You to draft interview responses before noon and warned them to keep their colleagues from sharing supposed inside information.
• Lin Qi returned to the office and relayed Director Ma's instructions, and Skinny said supernatural events would eventually become impossible to hide.

The narrator prepared a press statement about Greenleaf and the Xu family, then rehearsed answers with Director Ma. Director Ma began considering whether the deaths in both families might be linked to a hazard at the former No. 3 Municipal Steel Plant.

• The narrator drafted a cautious account of Greenleaf, describing its members as rebellious young people who had moved on, and rejected the skinny guy's suggestion that they had scammed people.
• The narrator printed the statement and reviewed it with Director Ma, who coached him through difficult interview questions and told him to center the Xu family story on Xu Bingjie.
• The narrator explained that only Xu Guangzong and his sons, Xu Gang and Xu Tie, had negotiated with the demolition office, and that he had never met Xu Bingjie.
• The narrator told Director Ma that residents still found Greenleaf's history strange and that Ye Qing's family had died one after another before he was sent to an orphanage.
• Director Ma asked whether the former No. 3 Municipal Steel Plant might have caused radiation exposure and wondered if the deaths of both families were connected.

Reporter Yuan questioned the demolition office about recent hauntings and the key to the apartment where Greenleaf Paranormal Agency was located, while Director Ma redirected the interview. Public attention remained focused on the livestream incident as MeowMeow Live was shut down and the Weekly World reignited online discussion with a feature on strange incidents.

• Director Ma questioned Mr. Lin about the apparent coincidences, but Jiang You arrived and interrupted the conversation.
• Reporter Yuan interviewed Mr. Lin, Jiang You, Director Ma, and the senior leader, then asked about hauntings and requested access to Building Six in Workers and Peasants Sixth Village.
• Mr. Lin explained why he had the apartment key, and Director Ma refused to let Reporter Yuan film inside without the owner's permission.
• Director Ma asked whether anything was wrong with the apartment, and Mr. Lin gave a vague answer before he and Jiang You left the conference room.
• The Thin One, the Fat One, and Chen Xiaoqiu discussed the interview and worried about the key, while online attention stayed focused on the Reckless Daredevil and the livestream incident.
• MeowMeow Live was investigated and shut down, and the Weekly World published a feature about strange incidents that set off another wave of online debate.

The narrator worried that Reporter Yuan’s investigation of Workers and Peasants Sixth Village could expose the demolition office, while Wu Ling assured him Ye Qing would not make a mistake. The reporter’s visit remained unresolved, and the chapter ended with a new case interview in which Zhou Nan described discovering that others remembered actions he could not recall.

• The narrator saw the World Weekly’s article about recent strange events spread online and discussed it with the office staff.
• Director Mao told the narrator that Reporter Yuan had wanted to enter Building Six, while residents asked the staff about the homes of arrested men Zhang and Xu Guangzong.
• The narrator spotted Reporter Yuan driving into Workers and Peasants Sixth Village, but Chen Xiaoqiu advised the group not to follow her.
• Wu Ling reassured the narrator that Ye Qing would not make a mistake, leaving the narrator afraid that Ye Qing might silence the reporter.
• The narrator spent a sleepless night worrying, then found no news of harm to Reporter Yuan or any resolution to the investigation.
• Zhou Nan told investigators that his parents and coworkers recalled gifts, absences, and signed documents that he could not remember doing.

A man described how repeated incidents left him with no memory of a second version of himself living his life, and how he began to suspect an impostor was inside his home. He had not yet confirmed what was happening when his mother spoke to him about a woman named Li whom he had never heard of.

• The man explained that he had undergone hospital examinations abroad after discovering unexplained work activity, but doctors found nothing wrong.
• Linda called to thank him for a bag and claimed they had spent the night together, though he was beside another woman and remembered no such encounter.
• A woman and the bartender described his supposed night with Linda, while he remembered leaving the bar early and going home.
• The man noticed family photos and belongings that seemed unfamiliar, including formal suits and a fountain pen, and his parents insisted he had bought them.
• His friends dismissed his concerns, and when he returned home, his mother asked about his relationship with Li, whom he did not know.

Mr. Zhou described how a ghost impersonated him, using his phone and belongings while his family and friends believed the impostor was him. The investigators planned to question his parents and examine his life and finances before using a spell to locate the entity.

• Mr. Zhou told the investigators that his phone had shown calls and messages from a week he could not remember, then later erased them.
• Mr. Zhou said the ghost used his toothbrush and towel, left clothes in his laundry, and taunted him after he tried religious protections.
• The investigators gave Mr. Zhou protective talismans and asked about illness, deaths, unusual events, and when the impersonation began.
• Mr. Zhou admitted he had not checked whether the ghost used his money, and the investigators told him to review his bank accounts and speak with his parents.
• The investigators warned Mr. Zhou that the ghost could grow stronger if those around him accepted it as him, and said they would investigate his family before trying a locating spell.

The Greenleaf Paranormal Agency investigated Zhou Nan’s apparent double and found yin energy in his room, but an amulet had failed and the agency suspected an unknown pact. Zhou Nan’s mother dismissed the haunting and planned a psychiatric appointment, while the agency agreed to continue investigating after asking when his behavior first changed.

• The agency reviewed Zhou Nan’s records and family history, finding no recent deaths or unusual circumstances.
• At Zhou Nan’s residence, the investigators examined photographs and belongings that seemed to belong to his double and detected yin energy in his room.
• The investigator told Zhou Nan that the failed amulet suggested he had unknowingly formed a pact with the ghost.
• Zhou Nan’s mother arrived, rejected his claim that a ghost was impersonating him, and said she had arranged for him to see a psychiatrist.
• The agency persuaded Zhou Nan’s mother to let them continue investigating his social connections and the onset of his symptoms, then asked whether anything unusual had happened when they began.

Zhou Nan reported hearing someone washing in his bathroom, then became unsettled when Li recalled private details of his childhood and his memories began returning. The investigators debated whether he had encountered a ghost or was experiencing a mental health problem, leaving the answer dependent on Zhou Nan’s own judgment.

• Zhou Nan’s mother told the investigator she wanted Zhou Nan to see a doctor before deciding what to do.
• Zhou Nan called after hearing washing sounds in his bathroom, but the investigator heard nothing and suggested he might be hallucinating.
• Zhou Nan told the investigator that Li had recounted private childhood memories and helped him recall his grandfather and familiar objects.
• Zhou Nan said his parents had arranged an appointment with a specialist and that he planned to fly out to see one.
• The investigators considered a ghostly pact or a mental health problem and concluded that the next step depended on Zhou Nan’s own will.

Mr. Zhou’s attempt to summon a spirit brought back a glimpse of fire and darkness, and surveillance footage showed no unusual activity. After hypnosis, he remembered a drunken night at an abandoned church and contacted an old friend, who confirmed the group had stopped there.

• Mr. Zhou agreed to try the spell, but during the ritual he saw an unfamiliar light and then darkness instead of a summoned ghost.
• The investigators reviewed footage outside Mr. Zhou’s home and found no unusual activity.
• Mr. Zhou called from Country A after hypnosis and recalled drinking with friends, driving into the countryside, and seeing a fire and lighter near an abandoned church and cemetery.
• The investigators identified the church as Bonia Church, and Mr. Zhou later contacted Jose, who confirmed the group had stopped at an abandoned church that night.

Zhou Nan told the investigators he believed his apparent possession had been a mental health episode and closed the case, but years later Zhuang Meilan insisted that the man who returned from treatment was not her son. She began recounting how he behaved after coming home, leaving the mystery unresolved.

• Zhou Nan told the investigators he had been drinking and crying at the church, then concluded his memories had become mixed up and he had suffered a mental health issue.
• Zhou Nan reported that he was recovering, said the yin energy around him had disappeared, and ended the case on October 6, 2001.
• In 2010, Zhuang Meilan called the agency and insisted that the person who had returned was not her son, before the call abruptly ended.
• The investigators learned that Zhuang Meilan was receiving psychiatric treatment at St. Mary's Sanatorium and visited her there.
• Zhuang Meilan said Zhou Nan had returned from Country A seeming cured, but described his affairs, a broken engagement, and a pregnancy dispute at his father's company.

Mrs. Zhuang told investigators that she believed a ghost from the past had replaced her son, Zhou, after he became violent and took over the family’s inheritance. The investigators gave her their contact information and advised her to report Zhou missing, while they continued searching for him.

• Mrs. Zhuang described how Zhou’s behavior changed, including his disputes with his father and his violence toward her after his father collapsed and died.
• Mrs. Zhuang recounted that Zhou sold the family’s company and house, took her abroad, and later had her confined in a sanatorium.
• Mrs. Zhuang explained that Zhou’s food preferences, speech, interests, and old-fashioned possessions convinced her that he was not her son but someone from a past era.
• The investigators told Mrs. Zhuang that the sanatorium had stopped receiving payments from Zhou and that he could not be located.
• The investigators gave Mrs. Zhuang their contact information and suggested she report Zhou missing, and she agreed to call the police.

Ye Qing, Liu Miao, and Wu Ling investigated an abandoned village and church while traveling to Bonia Church, uncovering human remains beneath the church floor and in a cemetery grave. After Liu Miao broke the skeleton’s neck with a shovel, its head jerked up and seemed to stare at the camera.

• The car reached a deserted village and cemetery, where Wu Ling called the place ill-omened rather than simply haunted.
• Ye Qing entered the empty church and discovered a hole in the rotten floor containing a human bone.
• Ye Qing and Liu Miao removed the floorboards and found human bones packed beneath the church; Wu Ling said they were not arranged like part of a ritual.
• Ye Qing led Liu Miao and Wu Ling to the cemetery, where Liu Miao accidentally crumbled a tombstone.
• Ye Qing and Liu Miao opened a grave and found a complete skeleton among the rotted coffin boards.
• Liu Miao struck the skeleton’s neck with a shovel, and its head jerked up as if staring at the camera.

Ye Qing questioned Jame, a skeleton in the abandoned cemetery, and learned that the dead residents blamed the people buried at Bonia Church for their abandonment. The cursed site was cleared, but thirteen ghosts had left Bonia and only four were accounted for; the case file later confirmed Zhou Nan had died of alcohol poisoning and Zhuang Meilan had recovered.

• Ye Qing smashed skeletons emerging from nearby graves, then stopped Jame from fleeing and questioned him.
• Jame said he had died in 1970 and accused the town’s residents of abandoning the dead; he claimed Father John had blamed Black people for a plague and ordered them killed and sealed away.
• Ye Qing learned Jame had died at home while drunk and had left behind a daughter and two sons.
• Greenleaf’s people set the church and graves alight with strange flames, and figures rose from the fire as two people ran toward the church.
• The case record stated that thirteen ghosts had left Bonia, only four were located, Zhou Nan had died of alcohol poisoning, and Zhuang Meilan had been discharged from the hospital.