Chapter Summaries

Qi Si entered the Ruins of Sunset to inspect the player rankings, then met Liu Yuhan under a disguised face and ordered her to infiltrate the Nine Provinces Guild. He left her with a way to earn early release by finding public evidence that could identify him.

• Qi Si extended his time in the Game Space, disguised himself with the Human Skin Mask, and entered the Ruins of Sunset.
• Qi Si learned that the World Tree was named “World” and checked the rankings, where he was listed anonymously at rank 93.
• Qi Si considered how his first-clear records and rankings might reveal his identity, then arranged to meet Liu Yuhan through a Soul Leaf.
• Qi Si told Liu Yuhan to join the Nine Provinces Guild within a week or be erased, adding the demand as a clause to their contract.
• Qi Si offered to release Liu Yuhan early if she found concrete identifying evidence about him in publicly available records, rankings, or forums.

Qi Si created a shop, currency, and murder mission for Qi Family Village while using his Scarlet High Priest Identity Card to explore becoming a god. After learning the Insomnia Pathogen had been released into the Mississippi River, he left the village for Jiang City.

• Qi Si spent points on supplies, added them to Qi Family Village’s Game Shop at double the price, and created Scarlet Points and Main God Missions.
• Qi Si issued the villagers a mission to kill the outsiders expected to arrive in two days, and they prayed to him as the Scarlet Lord.
• Qi Si planned to use the villagers and Xu Yao to disguise future deaths as civil disputes while secretly trying to act as a true god.
• Bob told Qi Si that Jin Yusheng was safe and that the Insomnia Pathogen had been poured into the Mississippi River.
• Qi Si packed his belongings and departed Qi Family Village for Jiang City.

After recovering from his illness, Qi Si studied his abilities and gathered information through his Soul Leaves while events unfolded around The Foundation and the Eerie Game forum. When the countdown ended, he entered a randomly assigned Instance after Rose Manor proved unavailable.

• Qi Si rewarded the seventeen villagers who survived the second Instance, and the villagers killed The Foundation's collectors when they entered Qi Family Village.
• Fu Jue announced that he was leaving the Nine Provinces Guild, while Qi Si practiced using [Cursed Pendulum] and discussed his discoveries with Liu Yuhan.
• Qi Si ordered Liu Yuhan to infiltrate Nine Provinces and investigate how its party-forming item was made, then learned about the Church of the Scales through Dong Zixi.
• Qi Si watched Zhang Yiyu being held by the Eerie Investigation Bureau and considered expanding his influence within Listen Wind and Sariel.
• After the seven-day countdown ended on April 11, Qi Si tried to choose Rose Manor, found it occupied, and accepted a random Instance.

Qi Si entered the role-playing instance at Blue Frog Hospital as Doctor Cheng An and learned that he had to check into a ward as a patient. After seeing a blood-soaked body wheeled out of the operating room, he discovered that he suffered from hemophobia and collapsed.

• Qi Si woke in an abandoned operating room and learned that failing to play his assigned role would raise his failure rate.
• Qi Si wrote Cheng An on his badge, met a nurse, and learned that the hospital director had ordered him to stop working and recover as a patient.
• Qi Si accompanied the nurse on rounds and observed the hospital's patients, wards, and deteriorated operating room.
• Qi Si heard frog-like cries as a bloodied body was wheeled out of the operating room, triggering his hemophobia and causing him to lose consciousness.

Qi Si returned to ward 404 at Blue Frog Hospital, where he met three other Players and shared what he knew about his surgeon identity and the blue frog following him. The team’s first task began when a nurse delivered medicine to Lu Zimo: cure the illness on their bodies within five days.

• Qi Si walked through the damp hospital corridor with a blue frog following him and entered ward 404.
• Qi Si met Huang Xiaofei, Lu Zimo, and Sun Dekuan, then told them he was a surgeon with hemophobia and showed them the frog.
• Huang Xiaofei said she and Lu Zimo were playing a married couple scheduled for an abortion in five days and urged the group to follow her arrangements.
• Huang Xiaofei suggested everyone rest, but a nurse knocked and delivered a jar of black contents to Lu Zimo.
• The system announced that the Players had five days to cure the illness on their bodies.

Lu Zimo swallowed fourteen tadpoles and triggered a frog attack, which Huang Xiaofei and Qi Si helped bring to an end. After Huang Xiaofei confronted Qi Si over his inaction, the Players answered a ringing telephone and heard a caregiver named Lin Chen introduce himself.

• Lu Zimo revealed his rash and ate fourteen tadpoles as prescribed, prompting the blue frog to summon a swarm of green frogs that attacked him.
• Huang Xiaofei blocked and burned the frogs at the doorway, while Qi Si covered the blue frog’s eyes to stop the assault; Huang then killed the blue frog, and Lu Zimo’s rash worsened.
• Huang Xiaofei questioned Qi Si about not helping, and he claimed he had been too frightened to move; she warned him she would not save him later.
• A telephone rang in the ward, and Lu Zimo answered it, hearing the caller identify himself as Lin Chen, a caregiver at Green Frog Hospital.

Lin Chen, forced by Yu Kun to call Blue Frog Hospital, reconnects Qi Si and shares clues about their linked hospitals and missions. The call ends before they can learn more, while Lin Chen resolves to help Qi Si from Green Frog Hospital despite Yu Kun’s threats.

• At Green Frog Hospital, Yu Kun forces Lin Chen to call Blue Frog Hospital and question whoever answers about the tadpoles.
• Qi Si answers, and Lin Chen recognizes him as Cheng An while hinting to the others that they had cleared an Instance with a True Ending together.
• Qi Si and Lin Chen exchange clues about their hospitals, including their shared director, the tadpole task, the frogs, and a damaged baby stone statue at the pond.
• Lin Chen tells Qi Si that his side has made 140 people consume tadpoles, and Qi Si says Blue Frog Hospital will try to persuade more patients to take them.
• Lin Chen begins to suggest that the Instance concerns childbirth, but the call cuts off at nine o’clock as a nurse summons the Blue Frog Hospital players for their uniforms.
• Yu Kun questions Lin Chen about Qi Si and the Nine Provinces Guild, then warns him not to make trouble; Lin Chen obeys outwardly but resolves not to let Qi Si down again.

At Blue Frog Hospital, Qi Si stayed behind when Huang Xiaofei led Lu Zimo and Sun Dekuan out to explore after lights-out. A frog and a female ghost attacked him in the ward, and after escaping into the corridor, he encountered a procession of pregnant ghosts before collapsing.

• Lu Zimo gave patient uniforms to Huang Xiaofei and Sun Dekuan, and Huang Xiaofei proposed scouting the hospital after lights-out.
• The nurses ordered patients to stay in bed with doors and windows closed, but Huang Xiaofei woke the others at midnight and led Lu Zimo and Sun Dekuan out.
• Qi Si stayed in the ward and saw a blue frog appear on the bloodstain left by the dead frog.
• A female ghost grabbed Qi Si's ankle from beneath the bed, and the Cursed Pendulum drove her off as blood and red frogs filled the room.
• Qi Si fled into the corridor, where he saw a ghostly procession led by a woman with a black umbilical cord, then collapsed.

Qi Si dreamed of Cheng An’s traumatic memories, then learned that fleeing the ward had raised his roleplay failure rate by 20%. After comparing notes with the other Players, Qi Si withheld his exact failure rate, while a letter from the hospital director revealed that he had stopped the Players from leaving and was watching the plan closely.

• Qi Si witnessed a memory of Cheng An performing an abortion on Xu Qing, whose death from massive bleeding left Cheng An with hemophobia.
• Qi Si woke in the ward and learned that leaving after lights-out had raised his failure rate by 20% and made Xu Qing suspicious of him.
• Huang Xiaofei, Lu Zimo, and Sun Dekuan returned soaked and exhausted after being trapped by female ghosts while exploring at night.
• Qi Si told the group that a frog and a female ghost had entered his room, and that his character’s trauma was tied to Xu Qing’s death.
• Sun Dekuan shared a prompt about his character’s cowardice, and Qi Si teased Huang Xiaofei rather than revealing his failure rate.
• The hospital director wrote to a hidden recipient that he had stopped the other Players from leaving and was patiently guarding a nearly completed plan.

Qi Si used a lie about his failure rate and suspicions about Huang Xiaofei to recruit Sun Dekuan as a teammate for pursuing a TE clear. Outside an operating room, Sun Dekuan witnessed a red frog leap from a bloodied hospital bed and vanish.

• Lin Chen received a note from the female teacher urging him to work with her to kill Yu Kun on the fifth day.
• Qi Si falsely claimed that pouring out tadpole soup raised his failure rate, leading Huang Xiaofei and Lu Zimo to arrange for Lu Zimo to drink their soup instead.
• Qi Si told Sun Dekuan that Huang Xiaofei and Lu Zimo were untrustworthy and persuaded him to team up for a TE clear.
• Qi Si and Sun Dekuan reached an operating room, where a nurse announced a patient had died from massive hemorrhaging.
• Sun Dekuan saw a red frog leap from the bloodied hospital bed and disappear.

Qi Si and Sun Dekuan investigated Blue Frog Hospital’s kitchen and morgue, uncovering a bloody barrel of tadpoles and signs that pregnant patients were being processed after death. The morgue trapped them inside and assigned them a mandatory half-hour survival quest.

• Qi Si and Sun Dekuan reached a sealed-off area with a fog-filled gate, a kitchen, and a morgue, then Qi Si picked the kitchen lock.
• Qi Si and Sun Dekuan found tadpoles swimming in bloody liquid in the kitchen, and Qi Si uncovered an embryo that changed into a dead red frog.
• Qi Si and Sun Dekuan found a gurney bearing Jiang Xue and a half-formed infant outside the kitchen, while the morgue door opened by itself.
• Qi Si entered the morgue and noticed that many female corpses had wristband numbers beginning with S, which he suspected marked pregnant women.
• An unseen force pushed Sun Dekuan, leaving bloody handprints on his back, and the morgue door slammed shut and locked.
• The system gave Qi Si and Sun Dekuan a mandatory side quest to survive in the morgue for half an hour.

Qi Si and Sun Dekuan survived a morgue full of animated corpses by using eight unmoving female corpses as shields, completing the side mission and uncovering a clue about the hospital raising frogs. They began disguising their visit by rearranging the morgue, but a child’s voice found them before they could leave.

• Qi Si discovered that eight female corpses with wristband numbers beginning with “S” remained still while the other corpses awoke, and he found the refrigerated cabinets empty despite the “Full” sign.
• Qi Si deduced that someone had removed the bodies and used the remaining corpses to scare intruders, then told Sun Dekuan to use the motionless female corpses as shields.
• Qi Si and Sun Dekuan retreated into corners behind the corpses and held off the wandering horde until the side mission ended.
• Qi Si received the clue “Hospital's Secret,” which described ponds behind the hospital where blue and green frogs were raised, and all the animated corpses collapsed.
• Qi Si and Sun Dekuan restored the corpses and cabinets while Qi Si rearranged the beds to obscure what they had discovered.
• A child’s laughter sounded as it declared, “I found you!”

Qi Si avoided a roleplay failure by persuading Cheng Xiaoyu not to report their morgue visit and followed him through the mist to a pond. There he found a Madonna Statue and a new quest to find the Holy Son Statue, while his observations about the frogs suggested the two hospitals—and their sins—were connected.

• Cheng Xiaoyu discovered Qi Si and Sun Dekuan in the morgue and threatened to tell the director, raising their failure rate to 40%.
• Qi Si claimed to be the director’s cousin, Cheng An, and convinced Cheng Xiaoyu that the boy had caused the morgue incident; he bribed him with candy and reduced their failure rate to 25%.
• Cheng Xiaoyu led Qi Si and Sun Dekuan through a foggy stairwell to a pond where a Madonna Statue triggered disturbing voices and a new quest to find the Holy Son Statue.
• Qi Si noticed that green frogs were among the blue frogs and wondered whether things, patients, corpses, and sin circulated between the hospitals.
• After Cheng Xiaoyu warned that harming frogs brought a curse, Qi Si tossed a frog into the pond, where the others tore it apart, and arranged for Cheng Xiaoyu to guide them again the next day in exchange for more candy.

After an apparent reset returned Qi Si to the beginning of the day, he tested the hospital’s repeating events and questioned its staff about the tadpoles. Back in Room 404, he used conflicting accounts of their source to push the Players toward cooperation, then proposed binding their partnership with a contract.

• Qi Si secretly washed tadpoles and stored them in a candy jar, telling Sun Dekuan he wanted to draw the director into the conflict rather than feed them to anyone.
• Qi Si suddenly found himself back in the operating room, with his memories intact and the time at six in the evening; the patients and nurse acted as though they were meeting him for the first time.
• Qi Si questioned the patients and nurse about tadpole soup, the hospital’s tadpole supply, and the deaths blamed on frog curses, then went to Room 404.
• Qi Si told Huang Xiaofei, Lu Zimo, and Sun Dekuan that the nurse’s account contradicted what Green Frog Hospital had said, and suggested tadpole consumption might trigger a curse.
• Huang Xiaofei offered the copied medical records and proposed cooperation; Qi Si produced a contract, and Huang Xiaofei agreed to sign if she could supply the paper and pen and keep the original.

Qi Si and Huang Xiaofei formed a contract and compared clues about the hospitals, the tadpoles, and the looping ghost domain. As both groups planned to search for a way to connect their hospitals, a bloodied voice demanding her child appeared outside Lin Chen’s dormitory door.

• Huang Xiaofei signed a contract promising to help Qi Si, and he shared his group’s discoveries while she revealed how night patrol badges and exit permits might allow movement after dark.
• Qi Si examined the medical records and concluded that the Players needed to find another treatment before their fifth-day surgeries; Huang Xiaofei proposed that the hospitals were part of a limited ghost domain.
• Qi Si and Huang Xiaofei reasoned that the Eerie Game, rather than the ghost domain, controlled whether Players lived or died, and Qi Si called Lin Chen at Green Frog Hospital.
• Lin Chen reported that hospitals secretly used tadpoles for contraception, that recent surgeries had caused fatal hemorrhaging, and that his group had triggered the quest to find the Holy Mother Statue.
• Qi Si told Lin Chen that his own group had received the quest to find the Holy Son Statue and suggested that frogs could use a hidden passage between the hospitals; Lin Chen resolved to investigate the pond.
• A woman’s voice outside Lin Chen’s dormitory demanded her child back, and blood seeped beneath the closed door.

Qi Si learned that Cheng An had surrendered his body in hopes of getting help against the hospital director, while Lin Chen escaped the staff dormitory with the female teacher using his black umbrella. The chapter ended as ghostly women approached Lin Chen and the teacher in the back mountain.

• Qi Si advised Lu Zimo to cook the tadpoles, but Huang Xiaofei told him he could skip eating them that night.
• Qi Si dreamed of Wang Ying’s corpse and spoke with Cheng An, who revealed the director’s crimes and asked Qi Si to kill him.
• Qi Si refused to help Cheng An without a worthwhile offer.
• Female ghosts attacked the Players in the staff dormitory, and Yu Kun fought them as the room caught fire.
• Lin Chen summoned the Umbrella Dweller, escaped through the window with the female teacher, and landed in the back mountain.
• The female teacher questioned Lin Chen about not killing Yu Kun, then ghostly women appeared among the trees behind them.

Qi Si established a connection with Lin Chen and told him how to use a red frog to draw the female ghosts into a fight at Green Frog Hospital. Lin Chen’s plan worked, but the hospital remained dark and the director’s fate was still unresolved.

• Qi Si revealed that the director was the hospital itself and negotiated with Cheng An for a way to connect Blue Frog Hospital and Green Frog Hospital.
• Cheng An helped Qi Si contact Lin Chen through the razor blade Qi Si had given him, and Lin Chen explained that female ghosts had cornered him and the female teacher by a frog-filled pond.
• Qi Si told Lin Chen to turn a frog red by peeling off its skin, then throw it into the pond as bait for the female ghosts.
• Lin Chen skinned a green frog and threw its bloody body into the pond while the female teacher held off the ghosts.
• The female ghosts and frogs fought in the pond until the water settled, leaving the infant statue alone; Lin Chen and Qi Si confirmed that the plan had worked.

Qi Si pieced together clues about the Frog Hospital’s curse and severed part of his connection to Cheng An’s identity, while Lin Chen’s dream connection persisted after waking. As Lu Zimo’s roleplay failure worsened and his rash improved after missing his tadpole medicine, breakfast brought the Players another choice about whether to consume tadpole soup.

• Qi Si translated the song with Lin Chen’s help and learned clues linking the frogs to dead infants, abortion, religious symbolism, and the hospital’s curse.
• Qi Si questioned Cheng An, then partially severed himself from Cheng An’s identity and escaped the dream as dawn arrived.
• Qi Si found the blue Frog restored in the ward, covered its eyes, and hid live tadpoles inside wrapped candies for Cheng Xiaoyu and other ghosts.
• Lu Zimo received a notification that his roleplay failure rate had risen to sixty percent after he failed to take his tadpole medicine, while Huang Xiaofei tried to comfort him.
• Qi Si noticed Lu Zimo’s rash had improved and suggested tadpoles were causing it; when breakfast arrived, Huang Xiaofei drank her bowl of tadpole soup.

Qi Si drank the tadpole soup and learned about Lin Chen’s luck-based skill, then led the group toward the morgue to deliver candy to Cheng Xiaoyu and pursue an exit permit. Huang Xiaofei remained wary of Qi Si’s unexplained plan as they entered the hospital corridor, where the patients and relentless broadcasts made the hospital’s horrors clear.

• Qi Si confirmed that tadpole soup did not count toward mission progress and drank it anyway so the Instance’s hidden force would not leave him out of danger.
• Qi Si examined Lin Chen’s skills and items, asked whether he had encountered a god, and told him to turn off his livestream before ending their mental connection.
• Huang Xiaofei agreed to explore with Qi Si and obtain the duty pass, but Qi Si proposed visiting Cheng Xiaoyu with candy and suggested the director might approve an exit permit.
• Huang Xiaofei questioned Qi Si’s plan and warned Sun Dekuan to remind her to burn the contracts in her Book of the Dead after the Instance; she left Lu Zimo behind to guard the room.
• Qi Si, Huang Xiaofei, and Sun Dekuan walked through the hospital corridor, passing masked nurses, emaciated patients, disturbing broadcasts, and newly dead bodies as they headed toward the morgue and kitchen.

Qi Si provoked Cheng Xiaoyu into attacking so Huang Xiaofei would intervene, then used a Soul Contract to make Cheng Xiaoyu agree to play a game. At dawn, Lin Chen and the female teacher discovered the pond had reset, while the hospital director wrote to an unseen correspondent about the curse and a plan that needed to be completed within five days.

• Qi Si told Huang Xiaofei that he wanted her protection while he tried to get Cheng Xiaoyu to sign a contract, and she agreed to help under their existing contract.
• Qi Si posed as Cheng An, a colleague of Cheng Xiaoyu’s father, and used candy to draw the ghost out of the mist.
• Qi Si refused to give Cheng Xiaoyu candy, prompting Cheng Xiaoyu to attack him with umbilical cords until Huang Xiaofei threatened him with fire and he began to cry.
• Qi Si used Soul Contract to make Cheng Xiaoyu agree to participate wholeheartedly in a game, then announced the first task was to make four valid entry and exit permits.
• Lin Chen and the female teacher saw the pond restored at dawn and concluded they would need to search it after the frogs died at night but before the environment reset.
• The hospital director wrote to an unseen correspondent about the curse, his plan to finish within five days, and his belief that the players could help complete its final step.