Vol. 2The Red Maple Fire

Qi Si cleared the Double Happiness Town and Scarlet Theater Instances, became the Main God of the Eerie Game, and entered the Red Maple School Instance. After helping burn the school and preserve its evidence, he returned to reality, faced new threats, and entered a hospital consultation room.

  • Sister Xu lodged Qi Si and the other Players at Xi’er’s house, where Qi Si found Xu Wen’s phone and investigated the town’s ghostly wedding customs.
  • Qi Si followed the clues beneath the well, learned Xu Yao had accepted an Evil God’s offer, and cleared the Instance after the other Players died, while Li Yao found Qi Wen’s corpse.
  • Qi Si entered the Grand Performance disguised as Zhou Ke and uncovered Charlie’s bargain with the God.
  • Qi Si made a new contract with Charlie, escaped the theater with Dong Zixi, and cleared the Instance with the True End, “The Lonely Playwright.”
  • Qi Si became the Main God of the Eerie Game, sent 109 new Players into Instances, and entered Red Maple School disguised as student 47.
  • Qi Si recruited Zhang Yiyu as an Evil God Follower while Jiang Jue investigated letters linking the school to indigenous witchcraft.
  • Qi Si and the Players uncovered the Foundation’s crimes and used a ritual to burn down the school, clearing the Instance after Chang Xu placed the evidence at Grave No. 47.
  • Qi Si returned to reality, dealt with new threats, and answered a call to enter Consultation Room 4.
Chapters 101–200 Read from Ch. 101

Arc 5Double Happiness Town

Qi Si investigated Double Happiness Town’s wedding and funeral rituals, uncovering a trafficking scheme and a town trapped in a cycle beneath a well. After the other Players died, he cleared the Instance with a reduced evaluation, while Li Yao found Qi Wen’s corpse in the Temple of the Mourning God.

  • Sister Xu lodged Qi Si and the other Players at Xi’er’s house, where Qi Si found Xu Wen’s phone and began investigating the town’s ghostly wedding customs.
  • Qi Si and Shang Qingbei encountered funeral processions and dream apparitions, while Li Yao and Liu Bingding uncovered evidence of Xi’er’s disappearance and the Xu family’s crimes.
  • After realizing the phone’s clues had misled them, Qi Si connected the town’s rituals to trafficking and followed Xu Wen’s map down the well.
  • At the well’s bottom, Qi Si found a corpse with his face and used a Soul Contract to transfer his thoughts, memories, and belongings into it.
  • Xu Wen led Qi Si through the town beneath the well, then betrayed him under an evil god’s influence and sealed him inside a coffin.
  • Du Xiaoyu and Shang Qingbei died, and Qi Si’s corpse body killed Shang Qingbei before Qi Si died beneath the well and watched a golden-eyed entity collapse.
  • Qi Si learned Xu Yao had accepted an Evil God’s offer to rule the town, invoked the Pact to urge her to seek help against Xu Wen, and cleared the Instance after the remaining Players died.
  • The Eerie Investigation Bureau recorded the Normal End, “Sacrificial Victim,” while Li Yao found Qi Wen’s corpse and an Evil God item in his finger bone.
Chapters 101–12525 summaries Read

Arc 6The Scarlet Theater

Qi Si entered the Grand Performance, where Players were forced through deadly games built around their sins and roles in a play. He uncovered Charlie’s bargain with the God, escaped the theater by making a new contract, and cleared the Instance with Dong Zixi.

  • Qi Si entered the Grand Performance disguised as Zhou Ke, and Charlie told the Players that one of them was a killer who would be executed by vote.
  • Qi Si helped direct the vote against Hansen, then found Hansen’s ghost and began collecting clues about Charlie’s play.
  • The Players survived Catch the Fox and Crazy Blackjack, while Qi Si obtained the Villain Character Card and discovered that Dong Xiwen could see the script’s progress.
  • In the battle royale, Heyi betrayed Dong Xiwen, who killed her through his Otherworld card, and Qi Si reunited with Dong Xiwen and Cynthia in a birdcage.
  • The Players voted Qi Si for execution, but he remained the Villain and awoke in a false theater space, where he confronted Charlie and proposed a deal.
  • Qi Si learned that Charlie had accepted the God’s offer to remain trapped in the theater in exchange for actors and an audience, and Charlie agreed to Qi Si’s new contract.
  • With Charlie’s help, Qi Si attacked Cynthia and made Dong Xiwen sign a Soul Contract, learning that his real name was Dong Zixi.
  • Qi Si and Dong Zixi reached a buried wooden box, and the system confirmed the True End, “The Lonely Playwright,” before Qi Si showed Dong Zixi his self-inflicted facial wounds and noticed a ghostly figure watching them.
Chapters 126–15025 summaries Read

Arc 7The Red Maple School

Qi Si became the Main God of the Eerie Game, then entered the Red Maple Leaf Boarding School Instance disguised as student 47. As the Players uncovered the school’s history of abuse and deadly rules, Qi Si manipulated Zhang Yiyu and watched Jiang Jue investigate the school’s links to indigenous witchcraft.

  • Qi Si claimed Qi Family Village as an anchor point, made its surviving villagers choose between remaining with the ghosts or becoming Players, and sent 109 new Players into Instances.
  • Qi Si entered the boarding school Instance as student 47, where Chen Lidong and Zhou Datong found him starving in solitary confinement and Zhang Yiyu sensed the power concealed beneath his ordinary appearance.
  • Ms. Medina led the Players into the school, where Qi Si recorded the nursery rhyme and learned that the rules were hidden in its words.
  • The Players explored the school and encountered deadly phenomena, while Qi Si saw visions of an open grave marked 47 and returned from the kitchen with poisonous mushrooms.
  • In the bathroom, faces in the water devoured an extra student, prompting the system to update the main quest to killing Ms. Medina, and that night, Sun Lin died as flowers and butterflies erupted from his body.
  • Qi Si burned the archives, found records about the school’s abuse of indigenous children and the deadly Insomnia infection, and received quests to uncover the foundation’s scheme and kill the Philanthropist.
  • As Insomnia caused the Players to forget details, Qi Si recorded clues, poisoned the breakfast with mushrooms, and later recruited Zhang Yiyu as an Evil God Follower after revealing himself as Si Qi.
  • Jiang Jue proposed attacking Ms. Medina, but after three Players were sent to detention and one was killed, he led the others toward clues, and Qi Si secretly watched him recover letters mentioning the natives’ witchcraft.
Chapters 151–17525 summaries Read

Arc 8The Red Maple Leaf Fire

Qi Si and the other Players uncovered the boarding school’s crimes and used a ritual to burn it down, clearing the Instance while leaving its evidence at Grave No. 47. Back in reality, Qi Si investigated the aftermath, dealt with new threats, and was called into a hospital consultation room.

  • Qi Si found that the Foundation had confined Indigenous children for experiments, while the Players uncovered the insomnia outbreak and its deadly, false cure.
  • Chen Lidong buried Qi Si in a coffin and tried to reduce the number of survivors, but Chang Xu and Dream Teller found Qi Si alive and helped him escape.
  • Qi Si explained that the school’s past and present were connected, then joined with Zhang Yiyu, Chang Xu, and Dream Teller to complete the ritual using his own body as material.
  • Zhang Yiyu set fire to the school, and she and Qi Si trapped Ms. Medina inside as the flames consumed the building.
  • Chang Xu placed the iron box of evidence at Grave No. 47, clearing the Instance, and he and Dream Teller dug Zhang Yiyu out of her coffin.
  • Qi Si returned to reality, obtained the Insomnia Pathogen and Cursed Pendulum, and learned that news of the Memorial Hall fire had spread online.
  • After learning that the ghost domain required an outsider each month, Qi Si sent Xu Yao to handle the corpses in Qi Family Village and considered limited cooperation with the Church of the Scales.
  • At the hospital, Qi Si drove off an attacking girl ghost with the Cursed Pendulum and answered a call to enter Consultation Room 4.
Chapters 176–20025 summaries Read
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