Chapter Summaries

After surviving the ghost attack, Lin Chen suspected the female teacher had provoked it, while Qi Si investigated the hospital’s records and learned that the Instance reset did not erase items carried by Players. Qi Si then requested a meeting with Director Cheng Ping, drawing the director’s suspicion and a warning that he would visit tomorrow.

• Yu Kun survived the Night Parade of One Hundred Demons but was stabbed from behind and warned to keep the Instance’s events confidential.
• Lin Chen handled the tadpoles at the pond and began suspecting that the female teacher had caused the ghosts to attack by tampering with the frogs.
• Qi Si obtained entry-and-exit permits, killed Cheng Xiaoyu, and found that Cheng An had repeatedly left the hospital at night with the director’s signatures.
• At six in the evening, the Instance reset, but Qi Si kept Lu Zimo’s note and inferred that frogs respawned on a separate schedule from the rest of the Instance.
• Qi Si told Lin Chen to use a Red Frog to draw the female ghosts back to the pond and search for a passage beneath it.
• Qi Si asked to see Director Cheng Ping, and the hospital warned him that the director was suspicious and would visit him tomorrow.

Qi Si and the other Players prepared to search the pond for a passage between the hospitals, while Lin Chen planned to lead the pregnant ghosts there to fight the frogs. After the group used entry-and-exit permits to pass the ghost procession, Qi Si collected tadpoles and a dead infant from the kitchen and waited for the ghosts to arrive.

• Qi Si learned the director would visit the next day and considered how it might affect the Players' plan to explore the pond.
• Lin Chen told the Players that pregnant ghosts had chased him and the female teacher to the pond, where red frogs drew the ghosts into a deadly fight before everything reset at dawn.
• Qi Si told Lin Chen to lure the female ghosts to the pond that night, then search its bottom for a passage once the ghosts and frogs had weakened each other.
• Qi Si gave the Players entry-and-exit permits, and Lin Chen agreed to continue the plan despite the female teacher questioning whether he could contact Cheng An.
• Huang Xiaofei led the Players out of Room 404 after ten, and they used their permits to pass the procession of pregnant ghosts.
• Qi Si picked the kitchen lock, filled a candy jar with tadpoles, retrieved a bloody dead infant, and waited by the entrance as a woman's voice called for her child.

Qi Si and Lu Zimo secretly contracted to kill Huang Xiaofei, while Lin Chen overheard and convinced himself that Qi Si had good reasons for targeting her. After Qi Si used the dead infant to draw frogs and ghosts into a deadly battle at the pond, Huang Xiaofei arrived and trapped Lu Zimo before he could act.

• Qi Si left Huang Xiaofei to hold back the ghosts while he, Sun Dekuan, and Lu Zimo headed through the fog toward the pond.
• Lu Zimo told Qi Si that Huang Xiaofei had controlled and exploited him, and offered to hand over the Book of the Dead in exchange for help killing her.
• Qi Si signed a contract with Lu Zimo, promising to help kill Huang Xiaofei in return for the Book of the Dead.
• Lin Chen overheard the conspiracy through their consciousness link and decided Huang Xiaofei deserved to die, while the female teacher warned that the ghosts had arrived.
• Qi Si dropped the dead infant into the pond, drawing frogs and female ghosts into a bloody battle.
• As Lu Zimo prepared to attack Huang Xiaofei, she bound him with a chain of paper and asked whether she had treated him well enough.

Huang Xiaofei confronted Lu Zimo over his plot against her, but Qi Si killed her and took the Book of the Dead. Qi Si left Lu Zimo bound and gagged, then set out with Sun Dekuan to search the pond for the passage.

• Huang Xiaofei discovered Lu Zimo’s written offer to Qi Si and revealed that Lu Zimo was her biological younger brother.
• Huang Xiaofei confronted Lu Zimo, who accused her of controlling his money, items, points, and life.
• As Huang Xiaofei discussed their next move, Qi Si stabbed her through the heart with his Cursed Pendulum.
• Qi Si fulfilled his contract by taking the Book of the Dead from Lu Zimo, then refused to free him and gagged him with a towel.
• Qi Si recruited Sun Dekuan to search the pond for the passage, and Sun Dekuan reluctantly agreed.

Lin Chen and the female teacher searched Green Frog Hospital’s pond but found no hidden passage, while Qi Si completed the thousand-tadpole task by forcing Lu Zimo to eat a jar of tadpoles. At daybreak, Qi Si took a concealed red ring from Huang Xiaofei’s corpse and led Sun Dekuan, carrying Lu Zimo, back toward the hospital ward.

• Lin Chen suspected Qi Si’s apparent betrayal and killing of Huang Xiaofei might conceal a more complicated truth, while the female teacher urged him to start a new faction and sent him into the pond to search.
• Lin Chen and Sun Dekuan searched their respective ponds, but neither found a passage; Lin Chen also lifted the Holy Son Idol and confirmed the stone platform beneath it was solid.
• Qi Si explained why he had killed Huang Xiaofei and decided Lu Zimo was too dangerous to keep alive, then forced Lu Zimo to swallow enough tadpoles to complete Lin Chen’s task.
• Qi Si removed an invisible ring from Huang Xiaofei’s right pinky, and Lu Zimo said his sister had stolen it from a Sariel member and altered its appearance about a month earlier.
• At six in the morning, Qi Si ordered Sun Dekuan to carry the restrained Lu Zimo back to the ward, and they left the pond as the frogs croaked behind them.

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.