Recaps

After perfectly clearing Rose Manor, Qi Si received the Rose Heart and a time-rewinding Pocket Watch of Fate, then learned his wish to be cured would cost one million points. He left the game still curious about Chang Xu’s unusual ability and unwilling to change his wish to investigate it.

• Players in the Eerie Game’s plaza heard that an unnamed MVP had cleared Rose Manor’s True End.
• Qi Si received 4,500 points, an S rating, the True End, full worldview decipherment, and several achievements.
• Qi Si acquired the Rose Heart and learned that Chang Xu’s Pocket Watch of Fate could rewind objective time by one minute once per instance.
• Qi Si entered a wish to be cured, and the game calculated that it would require one million points.
• Qi Si learned that the game could not directly raise his combat ability and refused to change his wish to learn Chang Xu’s background.
• Qi Si exited the game safely.

After returning from the Eerie Game, Qi Si disposed of Liu Ajiu’s body and talked his way past a police officer searching for the dead man. He discovered that he had brought the Rose Heart back from the instance, leaving him curious about what else the game could do.

• Qi Si found that the corpse he had killed, Liu Ajiu, wore a ring marked with the Sariel Guild’s emblem.
• Qi Si packed Liu Ajiu’s body into a suitcase, cleaned the studio, and called Jin Yusheng for help while arranging to visit Bob’s pig farm the next day.
• Qi Si spotted police cars near the warehouse and avoided them, but a middle-aged officer stopped him and asked whether he had seen Liu Ajiu.
• Qi Si claimed he had been in his studio and that his suitcase contained unfinished specimens, and the officer let him leave without inspecting it.
• After walking away, Qi Si found the Rose Heart pendant around his neck and realized he had brought an item back from the Eerie Game.

After returning home from Rose Manor, Qi Si explored the Eerie Game forum and learned about its rules, guilds, and the Sariel Guild’s Social Darwinist ideology. He uncovered how the red dress had saved players in Rose Manor, but kept his own escape route secret before going to sleep.

• Qi Si returned to his apartment, cleaned up, ate instant noodles, and searched online for the Eerie Game forum.
• Qi Si read the newcomer guide and learned about the game’s history, its Rules, player guilds, official-player status, and the rumored final instance.
• Qi Si researched Sariel and learned that the guild promoted Social Darwinism while threatening to pursue anyone who killed its members.
• Qi Si read Rose Manor walkthroughs and realized the red dress could reverse time once to save a player from a death point.
• Qi Si declined to post his Rose Manor walkthrough, examined a strange rubbing sheet, and went to sleep.

Qi Si entered the randomly generated Carnivore instance and found himself on a bus with ten other players, headed for Su Village. After learning the five-day survival mission and its cryptic warning, he eyed the empty driver’s seat and began considering how to exploit the instance.

• Before the countdown ended, Qi Si prepared a gun, chainsaw, and tools, but none of them came with him into the instance.
• Qi Si entered a mirror vortex and appeared on a bus, retaining his special wristband, Rose Heart, Pocket Watch of Fate, and Humanoid Evil Spirit Identity Card.
• The eleven players woke on the bus, and several experienced players explained the Eerie Game to frightened newcomers, including a crying girl and a confused blond young man.
• The system announced that the players had to survive five days in Su Village and warned that villagers could not harm them if they reconstructed and repeated the truth hidden in the villagers’ remarks.
• Qi Si disliked the prospect of staying in the countryside and studied the empty driver’s seat while considering how to use the instance’s rules.

Eleven players arrived at Su Village for a five-day stay centered on the village’s legendary God Meat, and Qi Si secretly took a tape recorder from the bus. As ominous mist closed in, the group entered the village, with Qi Si keeping his distance and assessing his new teammates.

• The players introduced themselves, and Qi Si used the alias Chang Xu while Zhou Yilin offered her experience with mystery puzzles.
• The bus stopped at Su Village, and Qi Si took a tape recorder from the driver’s seat before joining the others.
• The game’s narrator explained that the eleven players were tourists visiting for five days to taste the God Meat and experience local customs.
• Yang Yundong revealed that this was a newly opened instance, while Zhu Ling comforted Zhou Yilin after an argument with an unkempt player.
• As mist and shadowy figures approached outside the village, Yang Yundong led the players inside, and Qi Si followed at the rear while sizing them up.

Qi Si and the other players entered Su Village, where a hungry ghost boy named A-Xi attacked Zhao Feng until Yang Yundong helped him promise to provide meat. A-Xi led them to his home, where his grandmother welcomed them and offered rooms and meat.

• A-Xi asked the players for meat, and Zhao Feng attacked him with a cross before the system revealed that Su Village’s ghosts could not be killed by outside forces.
• Yang Yundong told Zhao Feng to promise A-Xi meat, and Zhao Feng agreed to bring some the next day.
• A-Xi restored his severed head, introduced himself, and led the players through the deserted village toward his house.
• Qi Si questioned A-Xi about the empty village and learned that the villagers came out at night and that someone had to stay to look after the Ancestral Hall.
• A-Xi brought the players to his grandmother, who welcomed them and told them to choose rooms before they could have meat.

Qi Si learned how Su Village began worshipping the God Meat and secured a room alone after Granny Su described the famine deaths in the village. He found a cryptic poem in the room’s Travel Guide.

• Granny Su warned the players not to eat more meat, described the deaths in the six empty rooms, and assigned them places to stay.
• Qi Si asked Granny Su about the God Meat, and she explained that starving villagers had found a deity whose flesh regrew after they ate it.
• Granny Su said the old village chief had gone with the deity to become one, but gave Qi Si no further explanation.
• The players divided into rooms, and Qi Si took the room closest to the main house by himself.
• Qi Si found a Travel Guide on the dusty table, with a poem about famine and people eating dirt, wood, and stone.

Qi Si and the other players learned they could explore Su Village by day, then faced the strange God Meat at dinner. After seeing a vision of the Evil God and suspecting the villagers’ vegetarianism was an act of atonement, Qi Si secretly took his portion and an abandoned one, while Zhao Feng also kept meat for A-Xi.

• Qi Si studied the village map, noticed its blank western section, and joined the other players for dinner at Granny Su’s house.
• Zhu Ling asked Granny Su to guide them around the village, but Granny Su refused; the system refreshed the rules and warned the players to return before dark.
• Granny Su served the players God Meat, and Qi Si saw a vision of villagers tearing apart a red-robed god before receiving a message that the Evil God had noticed him.
• Granny Su claimed the villagers ate only vegetables to repay the god, but Qi Si suspected their vegetarianism was meant to atone for a past sin.
• The players avoided eating the God Meat, but Zhao Feng pocketed his portion to offer A-Xi, while Qi Si wrapped his own portion and a player’s abandoned serving in cloth.

Qi Si investigated Granny Su’s suspicious injuries and learned that a God-level NPC had appeared as the instance’s rules changed. When hunger struck during the night, he ate God Meat to survive, while the strange effects and corrupted system warnings left him wondering what had happened in his dream.

• Qi Si tricked Granny Su into revealing her cold, bruised left arm, then learned from Zhang Licai that items from the Eerie Game supposedly could not be brought into reality.
• After setting his Pocket Watch to nine o’clock, Qi Si slept fitfully and woke to warnings that a God-level NPC had appeared and that he was already insane.
• Qi Si discovered it was midnight and heard the Tattooed Woman and her roommate fight, after which the injured man crawled outside and ate dirt in a frenzy of hunger.
• Qi Si concluded that God Meat was necessary to survive the hunger and swallowed a piece, feeling it writhe inside him as black smoke flickered around his body.
• Qi Si wondered what had happened in his dream and stared at the corrupted system warnings, uncertain what the God-level NPC’s appearance meant.

Yang Yundong and the other players discovered that three people had died from the night’s supernatural hunger, while their investigation of the village yielded few answers. Qi Si urged Zhao Feng to ignore human laws and consider feeding the ghost with human flesh, leaving the group facing a dangerous choice.

• Yang Yundong and Allen were struck by supernatural hunger on their night walk and survived by eating God Meat, then spotted faint green lights in the darkness.
• Zhu Dafu relived memories of famine as hunger overwhelmed him in his room.
• Qi Si found Lu Keliang dead in the courtyard, and Yang Yundong later discovered Wu Heng and Zhu Dafu dead inside a room.
• Yang Yundong told the players that villagers had demanded meat and that fog prevented access to mapped landmarks during the night.
• Zhao Feng admitted that he still needed meat for the little ghost, and Qi Si privately suggested that human flesh could satisfy it.

With the God Meat gone, Qi Si identified the Village Chief's House as a possible source and learned that dead players' mutated flesh could not replace it. He suggested that Zhao Feng provide fresh meat, leaving Zhao Feng facing the choice without guilt or hesitation.

• Zhao Feng considered harvesting flesh from the dead players, and Qi Si gave him a blade while reinforcing their alliance.
• At breakfast, Granny Su refused to serve more God Meat, but Qi Si prompted her to confirm that the village chief was still at the Village Chief's House and had become a god.
• Zhao Feng tried cutting flesh from the bespectacled man's corpse, but the flesh vanished and prompts warned that mutated flesh could not be used.
• Qi Si told Zhao Feng that the monsters wanted fresh food and implied that he should kill someone to provide it.

Qi Si manipulated Zhao Feng into cutting flesh from himself to satisfy A-Xi, then used the promise of joining Sariel to recruit him into a plan to control the instance’s sacrifices. Zhao Feng accepted Qi Si’s reasoning, and Qi Si left him poised to help deal with A-Xi.

• Qi Si warned Zhao Feng that targeting another person could make him a target and hinted that Zhao Feng could offer his own flesh to A-Xi.
• Zhao Feng cut a piece of flesh from his arm, kept it, and tried to hold onto Qi Si’s blade.
• Qi Si let Zhao Feng keep the blade temporarily and claimed he was a Sariel Guild member, offering to recommend Zhao Feng to the guild.
• Qi Si showed Zhao Feng a black butterfly ring, convincing him that he belonged to Sariel.
• Qi Si argued that the instance would force the players to provide more meat and that they should eliminate the strongest players before deciding who would be sacrificed.
• Zhao Feng grew convinced by Qi Si’s plan, while Qi Si offered to help him get past A-Xi.

Zhao Feng traded flesh to A-Xi for a nursery-rhyme clue, while the players planned their route through the village and confronted the problem of feeding the monsters. Qi Si subtly suggested sacrificing some players to preserve the others’ strength, and Yang Yundong shut down the idea before leading the group to the Village Chief’s House.

• Zhao Feng gave A-Xi a piece of his flesh, and A-Xi recited a story about a grandmother who ate a younger brother and left his bones behind.
• Qi Si played the nursery rhyme on a Tape Recorder he had taken from the bus, while Zhao Feng asked about the recorder and his bandaged arm.
• Granny Su refused to let Zhu Ling accompany her to the Ancestral Hall, so Yang Yundong proposed visiting the Village Chief’s House and Village History Museum before going there.
• Yang Yundong questioned Zhao Feng about his wound, and Zhao Feng revealed that players had to find meat for the monsters.
• Qi Si suggested that sacrificing a few players could preserve the group’s strength, but Yang Yundong rejected the idea and led everyone toward the Village Chief’s House.

The players reached the Village Chief's House, where living slime from a gigantic flesh tumor attacked them and a compelling aroma stirred their hunger. The tumor, apparently the village chief, warned them that they were guilty for eating the God and told them to worship at the Ancestral Hall, while Qi Si began craving its flesh.

• Zhou Yilin asked to stay behind, and Yang Yundong allowed her to remain at Granny Su's house while the other players set out for the Village Chief's House.
• Qi Si picked the lock at the Village Chief's House, and the players entered its overgrown, shadowed courtyard.
• Allen touched and licked living slime that dripped from the canopy, but Zhao Feng struck him until he came to his senses.
• The players saw slime spreading across the courtyard and a strong meaty aroma affecting Allen, Zhang Licai, and the Tattooed Woman.
• Yang Yundong opened the main house and revealed a huge flesh tumor that appeared to be the village chief.
• The village chief muttered that they had killed and eaten the God, urged them to worship at the Ancestral Hall, and warned them against eating it as Qi Si struggled with an urge to take a bite.

Qi Si broke free of the village chief’s illusion and used sunlight to destroy the tumor, revealing that it had become edible God Meat. With the other players incapacitated, he weighed killing them to clear the instance but chose to keep them alive for now.

• Qi Si regained his lucid awareness, while Allen succumbed to the slime and began melting into it.
• Qi Si pieced together that sunlight was the villagers’ weakness and threw Yang Yundong’s Pu Saber through the south-facing window.
• Sunlight struck the village chief, who melted into a pool of God Meat after muttering, “The God cursed us...”
• The other players began recovering, leaving Qi Si as the only one able to stand and temporarily in control of their lives.
• Qi Si considered killing the players and Zhou Yilin to trigger an immediate clear, but decided to preserve the group and continue exploring the instance.

Qi Si and the others split up to investigate the Ancestral Hall and Village History Museum after the Tattooed Woman began melting from eating the mucus. At the museum, Qi Si found that Granny Su and A-Xi had died before the god arrived, while the village history revealed Granny Su had killed and eaten A-Xi during the famine before taking her own life.

• Yang Yundong covered Allen's face, then divided the players between the Ancestral Hall and the Village History Museum as the Tattooed Woman's condition worsened.
• Zhao Feng joined Yang Yundong and Zhu Ling's group, while Qi Si, Zhu Ling, and Zhang Licai headed to the Village History Museum.
• Qi Si found a household register showing Granny Su and Su Xi had died on the same day, before the village's later deaths stopped being recorded.
• Qi Si questioned how Granny Su could be sinless yet connected to God Meat, and wondered who had returned her and A-Xi to the human world.
• Zhu Ling read that during the famine Granny Su, starving and delirious, threw A-Xi into a cooking pot, then jumped into a well; the god's body fell into the village the next day.

Zhu Ling and the others read how Su Village’s greed over the God Meat eventually transformed all its villagers, then realized Granny Su’s people wanted the travelers’ flesh rather than money. The village chronicle offered no cure or explanation for their appetite, so Qi Si led the group back to Granny Su’s house to continue searching for clues.

• Su Village’s chief and elders invented divine permission to sell God Meat to outsiders, and the villagers grew wealthy as the legend spread.
• The God’s wounds healed more slowly, some villagers transformed, and eventually the villagers passed off the transformed villagers’ corpses as God Meat until everyone had changed.
• Zhang Licai blamed the villagers’ greed, while Qi Si and Zhu Ling discussed how desire could lead people to ruin.
• Zhu Ling read that the transformed villagers hid from sunlight, and Qi Si pointed out that Granny Su had not been paid, prompting the group to realize the villagers wanted their flesh.
• The group found no explanation for why the villagers wanted their flesh, and Qi Si led them back to Granny Su’s house.

Qi Si and the other players returned to Granny Su’s house, where they found evidence that the villagers had marked them for death and discussed searching the Ancestral Hall. The Travel Guide changed at the end, warning them not to stay in the house in pairs and never to enter the Ancestral Hall alone.

• Qi Si found Lu Keliang’s body reduced to a clean skeleton and took a bath while Zhou Yilin left him fresh clothes containing a mysterious black-marked slip of paper.
• Yang Yundong returned with the worsening Tattooed Woman and reported that the locked Ancestral Hall would open in the morning.
• Qi Si questioned Granny Su about A-Xi wanting meat, but she denied that her grandson ate it and refused to explain further.
• Zhou Yilin showed the players an Atonement ledger listing their assumed names, with Lu Keliang, Wu Heng, Zhu Dafu, and Allen newly crossed out.
• Yang Yundong divided the God Meat among the players and urged them to search the Ancestral Hall together the next morning.
• Qi Si saw that the Travel Guide’s verses had been replaced with warnings not to stay in the house in pairs and never to enter the Ancestral Hall alone.

Qi Si repelled the Starved Ghost by playing recorded village verses, then used the Pocket Watch of Fate to escape when the ghosts attacked again and gained a clue about their lingering resentment. In the morning, he found Yang Yundong gravely injured and suspected Zhu Ling had altered the players’ clues, while Zhou Yilin’s motives remained unclear.

• Qi Si drove a spike into the Starved Ghost’s hand, played A-Xi’s recordings to repel the ghosts, and completed the mandatory side quest.
• Qi Si provoked the returning ghosts, activated the Pocket Watch of Fate to rewind one minute, and received a clue connecting the Starved Ghosts to the villagers and ancestral halls.
• Zhu Ling reassured Zhou Yilin while privately revealing that she had urged her to stay at the residence so Yang Yundong might die and Zhu Ling could gain control of the group.
• Qi Si found that the Tattooed Woman’s body had dissolved into slime and discovered Yang Yundong alive but badly wounded after the ghosts attacked him.
• Qi Si told Yang Yundong that someone with an item could have changed a stroke in the Travel Guide, suggesting that his clue had been altered.

After discovering that someone had altered the lodging clue and caused Yang Yundong’s severe injuries, Qi Si tried to secure an alliance with him before the players visited Su Village’s Ancestral Hall. Inside, Qi Si recognized evidence linking the memorial tablets and the villagers’ transformation, while he and Zhou Yilin quietly positioned themselves by the exit.

• Yang Yundong showed the players that their Travel Guides contained different lodging clues, and the group suspected someone had altered his guide.
• Qi Si proposed working with Yang Yundong and presented him with a choice between several strategies for surviving the instance, but Yang Yundong condemned players who killed others for their own benefit.
• The six players followed the map to the Ancestral Hall, where Zhu Ling pointed out signs that its location and construction were meant to suppress something.
• Qi Si opened the Ancestral Hall’s door, and the players found rows of Su family tablets, human bite marks on a meat bucket, and faces arranged across the ceiling.
• Qi Si noticed that every tablet recorded a death in the year the villagers began transforming, then moved beside the exit as Zhou Yilin cautiously made room for him.

After the Ancestral Hall trapped four players and demanded meat, Qi Si’s manipulation helped turn Zhao Feng and Zhu Ling against Yang Yundong, who was killed to satisfy the ghosts. The surviving players returned to pay their respects, while Qi Si hinted that his allegiance might not be with the players.

• Qi Si confronted Zhou Yilin outside the sealed Ancestral Hall about changing his clue, and she admitted she had acted to oppose Zhu Ling.
• Inside the hall, Zhu Ling concluded that someone had to die to trigger the exit, while the ghosts demanded meat and Zhao Feng secretly prepared to kill Yang Yundong.
• The system refreshed the rule requiring one adult’s worth of meat, and Zhao Feng emerged with Zhu Ling after Yang Yundong had been killed and eaten by the ghosts.
• Qi Si recognized that Yang Yundong had chosen to die for the others and helped turn the dying man toward the sunlight before he passed away.
• Zhu Ling urged the survivors to pay their respects and search for clues, and the players returned to the Ancestral Hall.

Qi Si confronted Granny Su with his theory about the Ancestral Hall and pressured her into revealing Su Village’s history. Granny Su’s story ended with a Black-Robed Taoist promising to restore her and A-Xi to life if they followed his instructions.

• Qi Si took an ancestral tablet from the Ancestral Hall and returned to Granny Su’s house with Zhao Feng.
• Qi Si accused the villagers of having their mutated souls suppressed in the Ancestral Hall and threatened to tear down its talisman unless Granny Su told him the truth.
• Granny Su explained that she and A-Xi had witnessed Su Village’s rise through selling God Meat and its later mass mutation.
• A Black-Robed Taoist taught the villagers to rebuild the Ancestral Hall as a place of suppression and told them to gather human flesh to complete the Evil God’s corpse.
• The Black-Robed Taoist drew Granny Su and A-Xi’s ghosts from the well and promised them new life if they obeyed him.

Qi Si killed Zhao Feng, concealed the crime, and then confessed to Zhang Licai while forcing him to choose a side in the growing conflict among the players. He left Zhang Licai holding a blade to his throat and warned that he would destroy the dungeon’s key clues if he died.

• Qi Si realized the dungeon’s core rule was that villagers could not personally kill people, then killed Zhao Feng and hid his body while framing Chang Xu.
• Zhu Ling and Zhou Yilin left the Ancestral Hall, and Zhang Licai took Yang Yundong’s Pu Saber before returning to Granny Su’s courtyard.
• Zhang Licai discovered Zhao Feng’s corpse, and Qi Si pretended to be shocked as Zhu Ling accused him of murder.
• After the players ate Granny Su’s God Meat, Qi Si spat his portion out and invited Zhang Licai to share his room.
• Qi Si confessed to killing Zhao Feng and explained the rivalries among himself, Zhou Yilin, and Zhu Ling, demanding that Zhang Licai choose a faction.
• Qi Si put a blade in Zhang Licai’s hand and warned him that if he died, he would destroy the clues needed to clear the dungeon.

Zhou Yilin revealed her control over Zhu Ling and joined Qi Si and Zhang Licai in a scheme to manage the other players. Qi Si left them behind and dragged Zhu Ling into West Village, where he rejected the ordinary path to clearing the instance and sought a bargain with an unseen presence as night fell.

• Zhou Yilin used a thread to control Zhu Ling and taunted her over her past betrayal of Sariel.
• Qi Si told Zhang Licai that the Minimum Death Quota would force players to kill one another, while Zhou Yilin staged a plea for help outside the room.
• Zhang Licai knocked Zhu Ling unconscious, and Qi Si ordered him to fetch a rope while Zhou Yilin pretended Zhu Ling had forced her to alter his Travel Guide.
• Qi Si proposed taking Zhang Licai to the Ancestral Hall, but Zhou Yilin persuaded him to let her leave with Zhang Licai instead.
• After Zhou Yilin and Zhang Licai left, Qi Si dragged Zhu Ling toward West Village and spoke to an unseen presence about trading an extra price for something valuable.
• Qi Si listened to his Pocket Watch in the fog until its hour hand marked sunset.

Qi Si followed a trail of golden light to the God’s corpse beneath the Golden Giant Tree and realized it needed sin, not human flesh and blood. He approached the corpse and asked whether the sin on his soul was enough.

• Zhang Licai and Zhou Yilin left the Ancestral Hall and discussed whether Chang Xu could be trusted.
• At night, villagers surrounded Qi Si and demanded meat, but he invoked the rule that they could not kill people with their own hands and redirected them toward the unconscious Zhu Ling.
• Qi Si continued into the western part of Su Village, followed golden lights, and found the wounded God’s corpse beside a golden river.
• Qi Si reasoned that the God needed the sin committed by ghosts and players, rather than their flesh and blood.
• Qi Si took the corpse’s skeletal hand and asked the Evil God whether the sin on his soul was enough.