Recaps

After Huang Xiaofei died, Qi Si reasoned that the hospital reset its dead at six and decided to investigate the director’s office. He left the ward with Sun Dekuan and used a contract with Cheng Xiaoyu to make the boy take them there.

• Qi Si tested whether his backpack could hold a living blue frog, then concluded that the hospital’s three bowls of soup showed its staff knew Huang Xiaofei was gone.
• Qi Si told Sun Dekuan that the director was likely pleased with their disruption and said they would search the director’s office.
• Huang Xiaofei returned to the ward, and Qi Si killed her again after suspecting she was a projection created by a six a.m. reset.
• Qi Si led Sun Dekuan to Cheng Xiaoyu and used Soul Contract to make him participate seriously in a game.
• Qi Si named the game “Playing the Director” and ordered Cheng Xiaoyu to take them to the director’s office.

Qi Si and Sun Dekuan explored Cheng Ping’s office, where they uncovered the story of Xu Qing’s death and a hidden chamber filled with corpses. As the corpses stirred, they fled, but Qi Si suddenly lost control of his body and heard a voice ordering treatment to continue.

• Cheng Xiaoyu led Qi Si and Sun Dekuan through a newly appeared corridor flooded with bloody water to Cheng Ping’s office.
• Qi Si pushed Sun Dekuan into the dark office first, then followed after learning Cheng Xiaoyu was forbidden to enter without permission.
• Sun Dekuan recognized the family in a photograph as Cheng Ping, Xu Qing, and Cheng Xiaoyu, while Qi Si found documents revealing that Xu Qing died during an abortion operation and Cheng Xiaoyu had been aborted.
• Sun Dekuan discovered a concealed doorway, and Qi Si saw a chamber full of corpses wriggling toward him as blood poured out.
• Qi Si and Sun Dekuan fled the office, but Qi Si lost control of his body and heard a voice say the patient had reacted and treatment should continue.

Qi Si was trapped in an electroshock-treatment hallucination while Sun Dekuan considered Lu Zimo’s plan to kill him. Meanwhile, Lin Chen followed the female teacher to investigate the principal’s office, leaving the chapter with their next lead still unexplored.

• Qi Si awoke restrained before a bloody corpse and was subjected to electroshock therapy by a voice he addressed as Director Cheng.
• Sun Dekuan returned to Room 404 without Qi Si and found Lu Zimo bound there.
• Lu Zimo urged Sun Dekuan to join him in killing Cheng An, arguing that Cheng An would eliminate them to become the sole survivor.
• Sun Dekuan began to consider Lu Zimo’s proposal and agreed to untie him.
• The female teacher led Lin Chen away from the pond, reasoning that the Instance’s refreshes implied an undiscovered passage or protected location.
• Lin Chen and the female teacher found the staff dormitory floor cleaned and decided to investigate the principal’s office.

Qi Si endured electroshock therapy, recovered memories of Cheng Ping’s ritual to revive his wife and child, and learned a secret about the dead god tied to it. As blood threatened to reach him and his items failed to free him, Lin Chen and the female teacher uncovered a hidden room full of corpses in the director’s office.

• Qi Si analyzed the shock-induced memories and concluded Cheng Ping had performed a dangerous ritual after Xu Qing’s death.
• Qi Si saw Cheng Ping place his wife’s and infant’s corpses on a stone platform and use blood symbols in an attempt to revive them.
• Qi Si’s Secret Seeker effect revealed that the ritual’s god was dead and that something eerie remained, but his Cursed Pendulum could not cut through his restraints.
• Lin Chen read letters showing that someone had been manipulating the Players, had trapped Cheng An, and intended to use them to complete a final step.
• The female teacher opened a hidden door in the director’s office, where Lin Chen saw the corpses of Bai Xiaowei and Yu Kun.

Qi Si escaped the blood-soaked operating room by using the frogs, then discovered the director’s role in the deaths and cured his hemophobia. As the reset began, Lu Zimo and Sun Dekuan failed to find him and assumed he was dead.

• Qi Si swallowed tadpoles to summon frogs, which blocked the blood pool and stripped away his restraints before he covered the blue frog’s eyes and stopped the horde.
• Lu Zimo freed himself in Room 404, persuaded Sun Dekuan to kill Cheng An at the reset point, and revealed he had secretly questioned a nurse about Cheng An’s location.
• Qi Si entered the director’s office and read notes explaining the corpse ritual, the frog curse, and the one-day cycle, completing the clue about the director’s secret.
• Qi Si learned that the director, not Cheng An, had caused Wang Ying’s death, and the revelation cured his hemophobia.
• At six o’clock, Lu Zimo and Sun Dekuan found the abandoned operating room empty and assumed Cheng An was dead when a nurse asked whether they had seen him.

Qi Si used the [Book of the Dead] to survive the world refresh in the director's hidden room, then joined a procession of corpses led by Xu Qing. Meanwhile, the female teacher confessed to Lin Chen that she had killed Yu Kun to find the corpse-storage area and revealed her name as Sariel.

• Qi Si activated the [Book of the Dead], hid among the corpses, and discovered the hidden room remained unchanged during the refresh.
• Qi Si fell asleep, woke at nine o'clock, and followed Xu Qing and the other female corpses out of the hidden room.
• Lin Chen concluded that Qi Si had likely been targeted by other players after Sun Dekuan evasively answered his call.
• The female teacher told Lin Chen she had tracked and switched Yu Kun's corpse, then killed him so his corpse could locate the place where corpses were stored.
• The female teacher dismissed justice as a tool for social order and identified herself as Sariel.

Qi Si witnessed the director’s corpse-sacrifice ritual open a passage between the hospitals and suspected that whoever reunited the Holy Son Idol and Madonna Statue would bear the resulting Sin. At Green Frog Hospital, Lin Chen found the passage but, following Qi Si’s warning, did not bring the Holy Son Idol through it yet.

• Qi Si followed Xu Qing’s procession of female corpses to the pond, where frogs devoured them as part of the ritual.
• Black smoke carrying Sin entered Qi Si and marked his Sea God Scepter, while a vortex passage opened in the pond.
• Qi Si concluded that the ritual linked the two hospitals and that completing the statues’ reunion could make someone bear the greatest guilt.
• At Green Frog Hospital, the female teacher led Lin Chen to the pond, where the final corpse marked S1000 was sacrificed and another passage opened.
• The female teacher told Lin Chen to carry the Holy Son Idol through the passage, but Qi Si contacted him and warned him to wait while he sought a way to avoid the Sin being transferred to him.

Lin Chen sought Qi Si’s help after the female teacher parasitized him with Puppet Thread, and Qi Si devised a dangerous way to replace her control with a Soul Contract. After the contract succeeded, Lin Chen broke free and summoned the Umbrella Dweller against the teacher.

• Qi Si explained that the Puppeteer’s control could be escaped and asked Lin Chen to risk surrendering his soul to him instead.
• Lin Chen accepted and used [Top Student's Note] to learn the Three-Line Divine Name for Qi Si and confirm his own name, forging a connection between them.
• Lin Chen used [Pilgrim's Blessing] on Qi Si, who rolled a successful result with the golden dice.
• The female teacher tried to persuade Lin Chen to serve Sariel while offering him limited freedom, and Lin Chen realized she feared Qi Si’s method of breaking Puppet Thread control.
• The Soul Contract formed under the Rules of the world, the Puppet Threads collapsed, and Lin Chen opened [Umbrella Filled with Pain] to unleash the Umbrella Dweller on the female teacher.

After exceeding the Soul Contract limit, Qi Si became a ghost and returned to Room 404, where he killed Lu Zimo and spared Sun Dekuan. He recovered the blue Frog and discovered that contact with living people and their bodily fluids harmed him.

• Qi Si exceeded the Soul Contract limit, became a ghost, and noticed his body was colder and the world's colors had faded.
• Sun Dekuan and Lu Zimo shared their items and concluded from the breakfast bowls that only two Players remained alive in Blue Frog Hospital.
• The Ghost-Pointing Compass identified the recreated Huang Xiaofei and the returning Cheng An as ghosts.
• Qi Si attacked Lu Zimo with the Cursed Pendulum and killed him, while Sun Dekuan dropped his kitchen knife and begged for mercy.
• Qi Si spared Sun Dekuan, emptied his bowl of tadpole soup, retrieved the blue Frog, and realized that touch and bodily fluids from living people injured him.

Lin Chen killed the female teacher to escape the Puppeteer's control, then shared his clues with Qi Si before being ordered to catch tadpoles by two orderlies. Qi Si lured Cheng Xiaoyu into eating tadpoles and summoned a swarm of frogs, drawing the director into the open as he prepared to confront him.

• Lin Chen killed the female teacher with the black umbrella, then cut off his little finger and confirmed he had escaped the Puppeteer's control.
• Qi Si told Lin Chen he had killed someone to break Lu Zimo and Sun Dekuan's advantage, while Sun Dekuan remained captive under the Cursed Pendulum.
• Lin Chen relayed his clues to Qi Si, but their connection cut off before Qi Si could finish warning him; two orderlies then told Lin Chen to catch a full bucket of tadpoles.
• Qi Si concluded that the director might be manipulating the clues and that the hospital's surgeries had stopped after a thousand corpses were collected.
• Qi Si fed Cheng Xiaoyu gummies concealing tadpoles and used the Blue Frog to summon a swarm that attacked him.
• Qi Si taunted Cheng Xiaoyu about the tadpoles, provoking the director to appear as a vast shadow, and announced that he had a flashlight.

Qi Si tried to bargain with the director, Cheng Ping, then exposed the hospital as a shared consciousness space and identified Cheng An as another of Cheng Ping'an's personalities. Cheng Ping ambushed and pinned Qi Si, while Lin Chen kept fleeing through Green Frog Hospital with the Holy Son Idol until Qi Si told him to return to the pond.

• Qi Si used the flashlight and frog swarm to threaten Cheng Ping through Cheng Xiaoyu, but Cheng Ping refused to protect his family and revealed that he could control the hospital's patients.
• Qi Si covered Blue Frog's eyes to halt the frog swarm, then claimed that he could control the hospital too and explained why he believed it was a false consciousness space shared by Cheng Ping and Cheng An.
• Cheng Ping confirmed Qi Si's theory, ambushed him with two scalpels, and pinned him to a wall, revealing that Qi Si had another use to him.
• Lin Chen escaped the orderlies by taking the Holy Son Idol hostage and kept moving through Green Frog Hospital as his strength failed.
• Qi Si contacted Lin Chen and instructed him to return to the pond but wait for further instructions before entering the passage.

Cheng Ping's memories revealed how he built Green Frog Hospital and manipulated the frogs and Players to complete a ritual for his dead wife and son. Qi Si exposed the ritual's hidden danger and offered Cheng Ping a way to turn Sin into power, leaving him tempted by the chance to become a god.

• Cheng Ping recalled how his family's deaths led him to make a pact with a god, create Green Frog Hospital, and use pregnant women and the frogs to gather ritual materials while avoiding Sin.
• Cheng Ping restrained Qi Si and planned to use the Holy Son Idol and Madonna Statue to complete the ritual, unaware that Qi Si had discovered the pond's importance.
• Lin Chen received a vision of Qi Si in danger, but Qi Si told him not to come to Blue Frog Hospital without orders and used Cheng Xiaoyu to buy time.
• Qi Si deduced that too many deaths in the pond would strengthen the descending god, so he had Sun Dekuan stand there and then used the Cursed Pendulum to kill him.
• The frogs consumed Sun Dekuan's corpse, causing the god's pressure to descend and blood to appear on the Madonna Statue as Cheng Ping confronted Qi Si.
• Qi Si offered Cheng Ping a deal: trade the hospital for a way to turn Sin into power and potentially attain the divine status of The God.

Lin Chen completed the main quest, but the Instance’s apparent ending gave way to a catastrophe as Cheng Ping was possessed by the Sea God and Li destroyed the resurrected Ancestral God. Qi Si learned more about the Gods’ Gamble and received an offer of cooperation from the woman in gold-rimmed glasses.

• Cheng Xiaoyu fled when a woman in a black suit arrived at Blue Frog Hospital and greeted Qi Si, while Lin Chen carried the Holy Son Idol through the pond’s vortex.
• Lin Chen placed the Holy Son Idol in the Madonna Statue’s arms and completed the main quest, but blood rain and black shadows overtook Green Frog Hospital after the system message broke down.
• The woman told Qi Si that the Gods’ Gamble enforced limits on interference and that the Puppeteer wanted to cooperate with him.
• Cheng Ping absorbed the Sin in the sky with the Sea God Scepter, but the Sea God possessed him and reunited with the Madonna and Child statue.
• Li pulled the Sea God from Cheng Ping, took the scepter, and destroyed the resurrected Ancestral God after discovering that male corpses had corrupted the sacrifices.
• The woman revealed her Fallen Savior Identity Card, offered to cooperate through the Puppet, and burned herself to ashes.

Li’s golden vines erased the hospital’s horrors and brought Lin Chen to the dying Qi Si, who secured the Sea God Scepter and maneuvered Lin Chen into binding the Bird-Beaked Doctor card. After Frog Hospital’s True End was recorded, the pair prepared to leave, while Qi Si burned Cheng Ping’s grieving family to ash.

• Li’s golden vines swept through the hospital as it collapsed, revealing Cheng Ping’s monstrous corpse and bringing Lin Chen to Qi Si.
• Qi Si considered the Puppeteer’s claims and taunted Cheng An, while the Sea God Scepter and two Identity Cards emerged from the statue’s rubble.
• Lin Chen retrieved the Sea God Scepter and found the Undead Shepherd and Bird-Beaked Doctor cards; Qi Si urged him to bind the Bird-Beaked Doctor, and Lin Chen drew its upright position.
• Qi Si revealed that he had become a ghost after Soul Contract’s backlash and let Lin Chen believe the card had revived him, while secretly ensuring Lin Chen chose it over the card that could control undead.
• Qi Si offered Lin Chen a team ring, and the system recorded Frog Hospital’s True End before the players’ transfer out.
• Cheng Xiaoyu and his mother mourned Cheng Ping, and Qi Si used the Sea God Scepter to burn them to ash as Lin Chen watched.

After clearing Frog Hospital, Qi Si returned to the Eerie Game as the ghost Undying One and received his rewards. He examined his new status and the spoils from the Instance, then set his sights on saving another 16,000 Points for a desired item.

• Li visited Contract at Rose Manor with the Ancestral God's final remains, and Contract insisted that the Ancestral God would not die.
• The Eerie Game offered Qi Si rebirth as a ghost, and he accepted the Undying One identity despite suspecting a catch.
• Qi Si returned to the Eerie Game and received 33,000 Reward Points, several achievements, and the Director's Special Pass for Frog Hospital.
• Qi Si reviewed his new status and the limit on Soul Contract, then used the Sea God Scepter to free Cheng An from the scalpel pinning him to the wall.
• Qi Si collected the Book of the Dead, a team ring, and other items from Huang Xiaofei and her brother, bringing his balance to 134,000 Points.

Qi Si bought items, managed his followers’ points, and recruited a hundred people infected by the Insomnia Pathogen before leaving the Eerie Game. Back in reality, he discovered that becoming a ghost had drained the world of its colors and emotions, then arranged to meet Lin Chen at the Ruins of Sunset.

• Qi Si bought the Self-Harmer's Paper Knife, gloves, and candy, and set rules to deduct 30% of Liu Yuhan and Dong Zixi's points before distributing the rest.
• Qi Si examined the Insomnia Pathogen's spread, selected a hundred highly compatible infected people, and brought them into the Eerie Game.
• Qi Si exited the game and realized that his ghostly state had made the colors and emotions of reality fade away.
• Qi Si returned Lin Chen's missed call, reassured him, and invited him to meet at the Ruins of Sunset the next afternoon.
• Lin Chen told his roommate that Qi Si was a friend who had helped him greatly and saved his life.

After Sun Dekuan’s death, his warning about Qi Si’s contract skill and pendulum spread across the Eerie Game forum, forcing Qi Si to consider hiding his signature abilities. Liu Yuhan pieced together evidence linking Si Qi to Qi Si and his past allies, but as she contemplated how to protect herself, a voice told her that her deductions were not enough.

• Lu Zimo told Huang Xiaofei that Cheng An had killed him, and she took him for a final walk before their deaths.
• Sun Dekuan posted a warning identifying Cheng An’s contract skill, red pendulum, and accomplice Lin Chen before he died.
• Players debated whether Sun Dekuan’s callout was genuine, while Qi Si watched the discussion and decided to rely less on Soul Contract and Cursed Pendulum.
• Liu Yuhan connected Cheng An to Si Qi and traced Si Qi’s past links to Qi Si, Chang Xu, and Lin Chen across several Instances.
• Liu Yuhan considered leaking information from the Church of the Scales to escape Si Qi’s control, but a voice behind her said her work was still not enough.

Qi Si guided Lin Chen through registering the guild Unnamed and explained why Lin had to lead it despite the dangers posed by veteran guilds. The chapter ended with Unnamed established around Frog Hospital, with Lin Crow as guild leader and Si Qi as vice guild leader.

• Qi Si and Lin Chen registered a guild in a deserted area, each contributing five thousand points.
• Qi Si explained that Lin Chen needed to become guild leader and prepare to face pressure from established guilds and dangers targeting his Identity Card.
• Lin Chen named the guild Unnamed, chose Lin Crow as his alias, and listed Si Qi as vice guild leader.
• Qi Si designated Frog Hospital as the guild base after revealing he had gained control of it.
• Qi Si warned Lin Chen against recruiting strangers, and Lin Chen drew a slanted-cross emblem for the guild.
• The system announced that Lin Crow had registered Unnamed, and the guild appeared on the power rankings with Si Qi as vice president.

Qi Si established the Unnamed Guild as a front and invoked an oracle urging White Crow to compete for the final crown of the Ruins of Sunset. White Crow received the warning, weighed her options, and called her followers to holy war.

• Lin Chen and Qi Si established the Unnamed Guild and chose a wilderness plot as its supposed base.
• Qi Si considered the guild’s potential role in the coming conflict, then found that his name and Frog Hospital record had vanished from the leaderboards.
• Qi Si touched White Crow’s Soul Leaf and delivered an oracle about the Gate, the Tower, and competing for the final crown.
• White Crow took control of Red of Truth’s remnants in the Gulan Autonomous Region and acquired a bronze longsword she suspected was connected to the Eerie Game.
• After hearing Qi Si’s oracle, White Crow recognized it as a warning from the god behind her Identity Card and declared that her followers would reclaim the crown through holy war.

Fu Jue met with Listen Wind vice president Yu to discuss the Gate opening in Jiang City and their cooperation against the pact. Fu Jue revealed that he had abandoned his former plan of salvation and intended to draw “him” into the game, leaving his own death as part of the wager.

• Fu Jue told President Yu that the Gate would open in Jiang City and asked how much support Listen Wind could provide.
• Fu Jue explained that Nine Provinces and Listen Wind needed to reunite and gather their remaining cards before the Rules reset the world.
• Fu Jue described his wager against the pact and said he believed humanity should determine its own fate rather than rely on gods.
• President Yu recalled Fu Jue’s former idealism and challenged the public’s faith in him as a savior.
• Fu Jue said the path of salvation had failed, that four million people would be sacrificed in ignorance, and that he hoped his death would be worthwhile.
• President Yu agreed to help draw “him” into the game and contain the Gate’s influence in Jiang City, while Fu Jue declined to intervene in forum criticism.

Qi Si established the Unnamed Guild, sent an ambiguous oracle to the Church of the Scales, and managed its new points system before returning to the real world exhausted. After waking from a disturbing dream about Jin Yusheng, he reflected on who had arranged his entry into the Eerie Game and began reconsidering how he maintained relationships, ending by sending oranges to Jin Yusheng.

• Players on the forum debated the Unnamed Guild and speculated that its vice president, Si Qi, was extraordinary and that the guild might be connected to the Church of the Scales.
• Lin Chen reached Level 2 by posting summaries of useful forum information, then saw the growing discussion about the guild and Si Qi.
• Qi Si sent White Crow a muddled oracle, checked the guild’s point system, restocked its shelves, and exited the Game Space to sleep.
• Qi Si repeatedly lost Go to Jin Yusheng in a dream, then smashed Jin Yusheng with the board and woke after sixteen hours of sleep.
• Qi Si visited the breakfast shop, considered who had orchestrated his entry into the game, and listened as the proprietress spoke about her friend’s death and her son.
• Qi Si read Lin Chen’s messages about the forum and an invitation to dinner, then ordered oranges to be delivered to Jin Yusheng.

After failing to regain his lost perception by killing a man, Qi Si prepared to enter a new Instance with Lin Chen, who concealed his identity and refused to livestream. Qi Si joined the same Instance and found Lin Chen waiting to load in.

• On April 14, Qi Si killed a gambling addict behind Ruidanshen Casino, but his perception remained unchanged, and he noticed the breakfast shop owner's son leaving the casino.
• On April 15, Qi Si created a frog-covered corpse specimen, tested his inability to heal himself in reality, and told Lin Chen to queue for an Instance with him the next day.
• Lin Chen learned more about Qi Si and Chang Xu's past Instances, tried unsuccessfully to contact Qi Si, then bought a [Camera Filter] and entered the Game Space without livestreaming.
• Qi Si checked on the people in his temple, saw that Lin Chen was matching for an Instance, and entered the same Instance.

Lin Chen entered the team survival Instance The Chāng Ghost alone, found Qi Si and the other Players outside Poplar Blossom Town, and learned that their quests involved curing Old Madam Meng, killing the mountain god, or escaping town. The group crossed the archway and found the town bustling in what appeared to be daylight, despite the night outside.

• Lin Chen inspected his physician identity and quest, encountered smiling scarecrows and a mutilated corpse, and heard the Instance's warning about tiger-bite victims becoming chāng ghosts.
• Qi Si contacted Lin Chen through their ring and guided him along a hidden path to the town entrance, where Lin Chen met the other Players.
• Tang Yu, Luo Haihua, Luo Jianhua, and Qiu Xin introduced their identities and quests, while Qi Si presented himself as the Taoist priest Lin Wen hired to treat Old Madam Meng.
• The Players decided to enter Poplar Blossom Town rather than search for an exit in the dark.
• Lin Chen, Qi Si, Tang Yu, Luo Haihua, and Luo Jianhua crossed the archway and discovered a lively town that seemed to be experiencing daytime.

The Players entered Poplar Blossom Town, where the townspeople suspected them of being tiger ghosts and required outsiders to stay two to a room. Qi Si warned that the townspeople might be tiger ghosts who believed themselves human, and Tang Yu killed the lodging-house keeper so the Players could take separate rooms.

• The Players read a notice describing the tiger, the chang ghosts, and the dangers facing Poplar Blossom Town, while Qi Si noticed the townspeople had tiger-shaped shadows and the Players had none.
• A scholar confirmed that Tang Yu, Lin Chen, and Qi Si had been invited by Master Meng, then ordered all outsiders to stay two to a room under the town’s rules.
• The system refreshed the mandatory quest to find the tiger ghosts among the Players, and the scholar warned that anyone who refused the lodging house would be vulnerable after midnight.
• Qi Si consulted the Netherworld Record and explained that the townspeople might be tiger ghosts who believed they were human and would not attack unless the Players exposed them.
• When the lodging-house keeper arrived to lead them, Tang Yu killed him and took his keys, deciding that the Players would stay one to a room.

The Players reached the lodging houses, where an old man they had killed reappeared and forced them to follow the rule of two people per room. Qi Si and Lin Chen discovered a pit filled with corpses behind their room, including the old men Tang Yu had killed.

• Qi Si told Lin Chen that he and Chang Xu were pieces in the Gods' Gamble but had joined forces against the gods' efforts to make them fight.
• Tang Yu opened a lodging house door and encountered an old man identical to the one he had killed; after Tang Yu killed him again, another unharmed copy appeared at the neighboring building.
• Qi Si proposed that Players with the same main quest share rooms, and the group divided into three pairs before following the old man upstairs.
• Qi Si and Lin Chen discussed who might be a tiger ghost, and Qi Si said neither of them could trust the other until morning.
• Qi Si shone his lantern through holes in the window, revealing a pit piled with human corpses and the two old men Tang Yu had killed.