Recaps

Qi Si entered a hospital Instance and uncovered links between its frogs, tadpoles, ghosts, and patients while working with Lin Chen across two connected hospitals. After killing Huang Xiaofei and taking the Book of the Dead, Qi Si completed Lin Chen’s task and left the pond with Lu Zimo restrained.

• Qi Si entered the hospital Instance as Cheng An, met Huang Xiaofei, Lu Zimo, and Sun Dekuan, and learned that the Players had five days to cure their illnesses.
• Qi Si and Sun Dekuan investigated the morgue, found clues about the hospital’s hidden frog ponds, and survived the animated corpses until Cheng Xiaoyu led them to a statue beside the pond.
• Qi Si connected with Lin Chen at Green Frog Hospital, exchanged clues about the tadpoles and statues, and helped him lure ghosts and frogs into fighting at the pond.
• Qi Si uncovered the director’s crimes, learned that tadpoles were used for contraception, and discovered that the hospitals and their residents reset while he retained key memories and clues.
• Qi Si recruited Cheng Xiaoyu to make entry-and-exit permits, killed him, and used the permits to help the Players move through the hospital after dark.
• Qi Si and Lin Chen coordinated a plan to draw the female ghosts to the pond, where Qi Si dropped a dead infant into the water to provoke a battle between the ghosts and frogs.
• Lu Zimo offered Qi Si the Book of the Dead in exchange for help killing Huang Xiaofei, but Qi Si stabbed Huang Xiaofei, took the book, and kept Lu Zimo restrained.
• Qi Si forced Lu Zimo to swallow enough tadpoles to complete Lin Chen’s task, learned about the altered invisible ring Huang Xiaofei had stolen, and left the pond with Sun Dekuan and Lu Zimo.

Qi Si and Lin Chen completed Frog Hospital’s True End, then formed the Unnamed Guild as the wider conflict over the Gods’ Gamble gathered force. They entered a new Instance in Poplar Blossom Town, where they faced a deadly search for tiger ghosts among the Players and townspeople.

• Qi Si uncovered Cheng Ping’s corpse ritual, learned the truth behind the frog curse, and used the pond and its sacrifices to bargain with Cheng Ping before the Sea God possessed him.
• Lin Chen carried the Holy Son Idol through the passage and completed the main quest, while Li pulled the Sea God from Cheng Ping and destroyed the resurrected Ancestral God.
• Qi Si became the Undying One, returned to reality as a ghost, and later formed the Unnamed Guild with Lin Chen, naming Frog Hospital as its base.
• Qi Si and Lin Chen established the guild as White Crow received Qi Si’s oracle and prepared her followers to reclaim the crown through holy war.
• Fu Jue told President Yu that the Gate would open in Jiang City and that they needed to reunite Nine Provinces and Listen Wind before the Rules reset the world.
• Qi Si entered the same Instance as Lin Chen, and they joined Tang Yu, Luo Haihua, Luo Jianhua, and Qiu Xin in Poplar Blossom Town, where the Players were tasked with finding tiger ghosts among themselves.
• Qi Si warned Lin Chen that they could not trust each other until morning, then used his lantern to reveal a pit filled with corpses, including the two old men Tang Yu had killed.

Qi Si and the Players uncovered how ghosts, scarecrows, and the tiger demon shaped Poplar Blossom Town, while factions and shifting identities forced them into a plan to survive. Tang Yu killed the tiger demon as Qi Si burned the town and exposed Meng Fang’s role, but Qi Si and Qiu Xin were left separated from Lin Chen after the fire went out.

• Qi Si and Lin Chen investigated the corpse pit and the lodging house, finding clues about the town’s planned destruction and learning that Luo Haihua and Luo Jianhua survived as spirits.
• Qi Si followed the funeral procession and discovered that the townspeople were scarecrows inhabited by ghosts, while the bamboo grove trapped Lin Chen and Tang Yu among scarecrows.
• Qi Si and the others learned that fire revealed Xiyi and that, at midnight, ghosts moved between scarecrow bodies as the townspeople became invisible straw tigers.
• Qi Si led the Players to the Mountain God, where Lin Chen became a Tiger’s Thrall, leaving Tang Yu as the only human and the target of the group’s plan to create a wraith.
• Tang Yu accepted the risk of dying in the bamboo grove, while Qi Si prepared to burn the town and learned more about Meng Fang’s connection to the Instance.
• Qi Si and Qiu Xin set Poplar Blossom Town ablaze as Tang Yu led Lin Chen through the grove and killed the tiger demon, completing the main quest.
• Meng Fang recounted how a deity had used contracts, wraiths, and altered memories to control the town, while Qi Si accused him of sacrificing its people.
• Qi Si and Qiu Xin found straw fakes in place of Luo Haihua and her husband, discovered a false account implicating Tang Yu, and lost contact with Lin Chen when the fire and Qi Si’s candle went out.

Qi Si entered the Beast Arena, where Chang Xu’s attempt to kill him led to a contest governed by Jungle Chess, wishes, and dangerous tower games. Qi Si turned Liu Yuhan into a ghost to keep her alive, then chose the Clock Tower’s timekeeping rule and won a bet that the stage had not consumed real-world time.

• Tang Yu crossed into the Xiyi world and overturned his lantern, while Lin Chen met Qi Si at East Town Residence and vowed to clear the final Instance and revive everyone.
• Qi Si led Lin Chen through the mirror boundary, where Meng Fang’s burning body guided the remaining ghosts home, and the system announced Lin Chen’s team Instance clearance.
• Qi Si adopted the name Zhang San and told Lin Chen to pose as Lin Crow, while the Nine Provinces Guild invited them to its exchange conference and Qi Si’s illness returned after he logged out.
• At the guild conference, Lin Chen appeared as Lin Crow and heard Yu Jinsheng warn that the final Instance might open that year, while Qi Si arranged a joint-operation rehearsal with Ning Xu.
• Chang Xu entered an Instance intent on transcending The Rules, then confronted Qi Si in the Beast Arena and used his Dark Judge Identity Card to seal Qi Si’s Soul Contract and mark him as a sinner.
• Nian Fu outbid the others to become Qi Si’s partner, and the goat sacrificed Cinderella after he attacked Qi Si and was eliminated.
• Qi Si and Nian Fu connected the Arena’s food, masks, and animal ranks to Jungle Chess, then discovered that intense desire turned the rat people and Players to stone.
• The goat began Jungle Chess, and Qi Si entered a tower mini-game while Chang Xu prepared to attack him and Chu Xun plotted to kill Nian Fu for points.
• Qi Si beat his reflection, entered the Clock Tower, and attacked Liu Yuhan before turning her into a ghost so she could not gather resources.
• Qi Si advanced through the Clock Tower despite its pressure, chose 500 points after the countdown, and Liu Yuhan told Chang Xu that they had won their bet because no real-world time had passed.