Chapter Summaries

Si Qi took four hostages and forced Lin Jue to contact him, then learned why Lin Jue wanted to cooperate against the Ancestral God. He demanded a ride back to Jiang City, despite Lin Jue warning that the journey would lead through a world overrun by eerie beings.

• Si Qi used the Soul Contract to silence Dream Teller, Jiang Jue, Yu Jinsheng, and the other captive, then called the Public Security Bureau and threatened to kill them unless Fu Jue called him back.
• The operator relayed Si Qi's demand, and Fu Jue called the front desk half an hour later, explaining that he would soon return to the identity of Lin Jue.
• Lin Jue proposed continuing their cooperation because neither wanted the Ancestral God to restart the worlds and reclaim everyone else as fuel.
• Si Qi mocked Lin Jue's reasoning and described himself as a madman willing to welcome destruction, but admitted that he wanted the Eerie Investigation Bureau to send a vehicle to Jiang City.
• Lin Jue warned that everywhere beyond Shangri-La Town was overrun by eerie beings and ghosts, while Si Qi said he might welcome them as fellow townsfolk.

Si Qi arranged to return to Jiang City despite Yu Jinsheng’s warnings, driven by what he saw in Baima’s mirror: evidence that Qi Si might still be alive. Meanwhile, Xu Yao awoke in Qi Family Village beside what appeared to be Qi Si’s corpse.

• Yu Jinsheng warned Si Qi that the Eerie Investigation Bureau had prepared for him in Jiang City and that Lin Jue could arrange an accident along the route.
• Si Qi required Lin Jue to have the Listen Wind Guild provide their vehicles and supplies, forcing the guild to learn about the journey and making covert interference harder.
• Yu Jinsheng asked why Si Qi insisted on returning to Jiang City, but Si Qi told him to guess.
• After seeing Baima’s mirror, Si Qi recalled visions of Qi Si following him and decided to return to Jiang City to find or destroy Qi Si’s possible body.
• Xu Yao regained her memories in Qi Family Village and found Qi Si lying dead in a bedroom, then tried unsuccessfully to wake him.

Si Qi and his companions set out for Jiang City while Lin Jue learned that a blood-seeping bronze sword had appeared there and the rose Eeries had resumed attacking. Si Qi then posted publicly that his death would unleash several mass-killing Eeries, forcing people to oppose Fu Jue’s plan to kill him and inviting them to worship him.

• Si Qi secured an off-road vehicle from a Listen Wind Guild member, left Tsering Dondrup behind to monitor Shangri-La Town, and departed for Jiang City with Jiang Jue, Dream Teller, and Yu Jinsheng.
• Lin Jue boarded a Listen Wind Guild helicopter and read messages reporting a bronze sword in Jiang City and renewed attacks by the rose Eeries.
• Lin Jue recognized the bronze sword from a photograph of White Crow leaving a meeting with Red of Truth in the Gulan Autonomous Region.
• Si Qi told Lin Jue that several dangerous Eeries remained under his control and would cause mass casualties if he died.
• Si Qi posted on the Eerie Game forum that Fu Jue intended to kill him and that his death would unleash the Eeries, then urged readers to recite his divine name.

Qi Si, Fu Jue, Chu Yining, and Xiao Fengchao climbed to the snow mountain’s summit and witnessed the sky collapse in a vision resembling Ragnarok. As the guide and climber suddenly saw them, Chu Yining could no longer see Qi Si and Fu Jue.

• Chu Yining wondered whether the summit held the key to clearing the final instance, and the four followed a guide toward the top.
• Fu Jue discovered that they could influence certain people and objects after reaching Shangri-La Town, prompting Chu Yining to plan a message for the Eerie Investigation Bureau.
• The four pushed through a supernatural resistance and reached the summit, where the sky split and fire poured down from above.
• The guide and climber saw Chu Yining and Xiao Fengchao, while Chu Yining asked where Qi Si and Fu Jue were because she could no longer see them.

In 2035, as the Eerie Investigation Bureau contained threats across the ruined North Capital, Chu Yining asked to deliver a warning to Fu Jue. She revealed that Qi Si must never be killed, though the Eerie Game blocked her from explaining why.

• After the final Instance, investigators subdued an old locust tree and transported it to the North Capital Eerie Investigation Bureau for containment.
• A driver mistook the Bureau for a shelter, and an investigator explained that its underground levels were dangerous because they held many Eerie.
• At the Bureau, Chu Yining asked to see Fu Jue, but the investigator told her he was in Shangri-La.
• Chu Yining said she had finally understood His arrangement and warned that people who died, including Xiao Fengchao and Qi Si, could return.
• Chu Yining told the investigator to relay to Fu Jue that he must never kill Qi Si.

As Si Qi’s posts turned public opinion against Fu Jue, Lin Jue evaded an attempt to kill him and traveled toward Jiang City. There, he found the Rose Eerie had devastated Jinjiang Residential District, and he killed a dying investigator who begged him to end his suffering.

• Si Qi warned that the Eerie entities under his control could cause mass casualties, while influential players and ordinary people pressured Fu Jue to stop pursuing him.
• Lin Jue told Si Qi he planned to kill him and then himself, but Si Qi warned him that the [Fallen Savior] card would not save him again without his death.
• After a helicopter carrying Lin Jue was shot down, Lin Jue and the Listen Wind members traveled by bus toward Jiang City to avoid the people seeking his life.
• At Jinjiang Residential District, the Rose Eerie trapped and killed investigators who had mistaken an infected civilian for Qi Si.
• Qiu Lihua recovered her memories as Lin Jue shot her, and she saw the corpse of her son, Yang Yao.
• A dying investigator recognized Lin Jue as Fu Jue, asked him to end his suffering, and lunged at him as a rose emerged from his mouth; Lin Jue shot him.

Qi Si entered the Happy Life solo puzzle Instance, killed Zhu Ming and his uncle, and discovered that the diary’s creator was a mirror version of himself. After escaping the Instance, he learned that the entity who created him as an incarnation of malice planned to put him at the center of a world-ending struggle fueled by Sin.

• Qi Si woke in a distorted version of his life and saw the Eerie Game’s quest to kill the creator of the world.
• Qi Si lured Zhu Ming to a secluded spot, killed him, and discovered that Zhu Ming returned as a vengeful ghost.
• Qi Si found a diary about the life he was playing and concluded that its owner was the world’s creator.
• Qi Si killed his uncle while fleeing, escaped the ghosts, and used the car’s rearview mirror to confront the mirror figure and clear the Instance.
• In the Game Space, the entity explained that it had created Qi Si from malice and asked him to take part in a coming struggle over the world’s fate, with Sin as its fuel.

As the Eerie continued ravaging the world, Lin Jue returned to Jiang City, claimed the Godslaying Sword, and announced a plan to end the game and resurrect the dead. He revealed his identities and threatened to unleash the incidents tied to his puppets if he died, leaving the Players to choose whether to oppose Si Qi or risk humanity’s destruction.

• Li Yan was nearly strangled by rose vines outside a mall, but Lin Jue rescued him and said he would end the disaster.
• Mu Dongxu told Lin Jue that Old Liao had died, and Lin Jue promised to resurrect everyone if he won the game.
• Lin Jue took the Godslaying Sword and concluded that he knew a guaranteed winning strategy for the round.
• Lin Jue addressed the world, promised to restore order and revive the dead, then revealed that he was also the Puppeteer and that his death would unleash thousands of incidents.
• Players learned that Lin Jue was using his puppets’ incidents as leverage to turn them against Si Qi, who mocked Lin Jue over the phone.
• Lin Jue agreed with Si Qi that they were both selfish and said they would continue their madman’s game.

Si Qi returned to Jiang City despite Lin Jue’s apparent trap because he needed Qi Si’s body to complete himself and compete for the Ancestral God’s authority. At his studio, he gathered his allies and coerced Bob into supplying materials for his plan, leaving the final confrontation approaching.

• Si Qi returned to his studio in Jiang City, spoke with Lin Jue, and accepted that he had to enter the trap to retrieve Qi Si’s body.
• Si Qi summoned Yu Jinsheng, Dream Teller, and Jiang Jue to the studio and teased Yu Jinsheng before preparing a list of needed supplies.
• Si Qi called Bob and asked him to gather the listed items within twenty-four hours.
• When Bob refused to help, Si Qi threatened Bob’s adopted granddaughter and revealed that Bob had helped spread the Insomnia Pathogen through the Mississippi River.
• Si Qi demanded that Bob deliver the supplies to the studio by noon the next day and reflected on Qi Si’s reluctance to embrace the coming conflict.

Meng Wenfei reflected on how Lin Jue and Fu Jue had shaped humanity’s hopes as the truth about Fu Jue shattered his public image. Meanwhile, Lin Jue confronted the corrupted Lu Li and used the Godslaying Sword to begin the final sacrifice by striking at the Sea God.

• Meng Wenfei recalled first hearing Lin Jue’s name, his death at the Ruins of Sunset, and Fu Jue’s rise as his apparent successor.
• Li Yunyang dismissed Meng Wenfei’s questions and led Team 3-518 toward Jinjiang Residential District to eliminate eerie entities.
• Investigators grappled with Fu Jue’s admission that he was the Puppeteer and questioned how much of their past faith had been built on deception.
• Lin Jue visited Lu Li in a containment chamber, where Lu Li described seeing a future in which Lin Jue won but left no place for him.
• Lin Jue drove the bronze sword into the ground, shattering the barrier and beginning the Godslaying Sword’s first attack on the Sea God.

White Crow asked Charlie Woodward to bring Zhou Ke back before the Eyes-Closed Dictator claimed the Scarlet High Priest. Meanwhile, Si Qi led the Listen Wind Guild through a hidden passage into Jiang City, where an explosion at the exit injured him and drew his demigod blood.

• White Crow showed Charlie Woodward the turmoil gathering in Jiang City and asked him to retrieve Zhou Ke from the Eyes-Closed Dictator.
• Si Qi gathered weapons and supplies, then ordered Yu Jinsheng, Jiang Jue, and Dream Teller to enter Jiang City with him through Yu Jinsheng’s hidden passage.
• Si Qi suspected Lin Jue had prepared a countermeasure against him and the eerie, but chose to proceed without drugging the three guild members.
• The group descended through a toilet into the underground passage and headed toward Jinjiang Residential District, where the Eerie Investigation Bureau was besieging Si Qi’s rose monsters.
• Si Qi silenced his companions through their Soul Leaves and sensed an explosion just before the passage exit, which blasted apart the iron door and left his demigod blood on his arm.

Si Qi escaped Lin Jue’s explosion and the Eerie Investigation Bureau’s ambush as the dying Sea God’s power engulfed Jiang City, but the godslaying ritual stripped him of his powers and he failed to find Qi Si’s body. Lin Jue received Chu Yining’s warning not to kill Qi Si, revealing that the gods’ plan involved humanity itself.

• Lin Jue’s explosives gravely wounded Si Qi, Yu Jinsheng, and the Listen Wind members, while the Eerie Investigation Bureau waited to finish off anyone who survived.
• Si Qi summoned the rose monsters and used the Sea God Scepter to unleash a supernatural flood, breaking through the investigators’ encirclement and reaching Jinjiang Residential District.
• As the Sea God’s dying power faded, the city turned gray, eerie entities and divine powers vanished, and Si Qi realized Lin Jue had trapped him in a godslaying ritual.
• Si Qi searched Qi Si’s apartment but found neither Qi Si nor the skeleton specimens, and he realized false memories had driven him into Lin Jue’s trap.
• Lin Jue returned to the Eerie Investigation Bureau, where he watched Chu Yining warn that humanity was on the gods’ chessboard and urge Fu Jue never to kill Qi Si.

Si Qi tried to escape the Eerie Investigation Bureau, but Li killed him after a series of violent interceptions. Lin Jue recovered two Identity Cards from the wreckage and realized the Ancestral God possessing White Crow had already arrived, while Qi Si’s return remained uncertain.

• Si Qi jumped from the window and ran through Jinjiang Residential District as the Sea God’s power faded, but Lin Jue blocked his path with a tranquilizer gun.
• Lin Chen regained consciousness and took the bullet meant for Si Qi, urging him to run before collapsing.
• Charlie Woodward tried to drive Si Qi away, but Li, inhabiting Chang Xu’s body, rammed their jeep with a Lamborghini and dragged Si Qi from the wreckage.
• Li strangled Si Qi, then leaped from the overpass into the river as the eerie domain spread beyond Jiang City.
• Lin Jue recovered the [Despair Playwright] and [Scarlet High Priest] cards from the burned vehicle and recognized the threat posed by the Ancestral God possessing White Crow.
• Li Yunyang asked whether Qi Si would return, and Lin Jue admitted he did not know.

After Si Qi’s death, Jiang City and its people were restored, while Lin Jue lost his powers and surrendered to the Federation. Congressman Hayes sentenced him to life imprisonment, and Lin Jue was locked in a containment chamber as a dangerous human.

• The eerie entities vanished, the dead returned to life, and Jiang City repaired itself after the rain brought by Si Qi’s death.
• Investigators found the three wounded members of Listen Wind, and Li Yunyang told Yu Jinsheng that Lin Jue was in Federation custody.
• Congressman Hayes confronted Lin Jue in the Jiang City Branch interrogation room and explained why the Federation would not let him lead humanity.
• Hayes read the charges against Lin Jue and sentenced him to life imprisonment for crimes against humanity.
• Lin Jue accepted the sentence and was locked in a containment chamber labeled “Fallen Savior.”

Lin Chen’s deployment to purge eerie beings outside Dragon County ended when the white-haired woman seized his Identity Card, unleashing a worldwide mutation among children. As the Ancestral God’s power spread and civilization’s technology failed, Congressman Hayes proposed gambling on Lin Jue’s help.

• Senator Hayes authorized Lin Chen to travel across Dragon County with his ghost army, and the Eerie Investigation Bureau sent him to Maple Leaf County.
• Lin Chen ran toward the original eerie site of Red Maple Leaf Boarding School, where the white-haired woman removed his Identity Card and left him bleeding on the ground.
• Children in Ruidanshen Casino’s basement mutated, broke out of their cages, and attacked Jack as children under fourteen transformed across the world on June 1st.
• Congressman Hayes and the other officials learned that the white-haired woman’s actions had preceded the crisis, and Hayes identified the approaching threat as the Ancestral God rather than White Crow.
• Hayes argued that humanity should make one final gamble on Lin Jue instead of waiting passively for the Ancestral God to destroy it.

Lin Jue traveled to Shangri-La to confront the Ancestral God as the world fell to widespread contamination. He appeared to accept the Ancestral God’s offer to restart the world, but destroyed the [Fallen Savior] card, revealing that he was Fu Jue and ending the contract.

• Senator Hayes told Lin Jue that every city except Jiang City had fallen and asked him to make one final attempt against the Ancestral God.
• Lin Jue took the [Godslaying Sword] and traveled alone to the snow mountain in Shangri-La after the Ancestral God sent a vision of the world melting.
• Lin Jue climbed the mountain with four Identity Cards and met the Ancestral God, who offered him the [Undead Shepherd] card and authority to restart the world.
• Lin Jue vowed to restart the world as The Rules desired, and golden threads bound him under a world-guaranteed contract.
• Lin Jue seized the [Undead Shepherd] and [Fallen Savior] cards, then destroyed the [Fallen Savior] card; the contract vanished, and the revelation showed that the person on the mountain was Fu Jue.

After the Ancestral God died, the Rules declared that all eerie phenomena would perish, and the world’s dead returned to life. A year later, Lin Chen joined an expedition to Shangri-La and found Lin Jue’s frozen body, learning that Lin Jue had sacrificed himself to protect humanity.

• A torrential rain fell across the world after the silver-white eye vanished, and the Rules announced that the eerie and mysterious things of past and future would perish in Godfall Land.
• The councilors learned that Lin Jue had won, while rain restored the dead and ghosts to human life across the world.
• A year later, Lin Chen returned to Jiang City, joined the Eerie Investigation Bureau, and volunteered to investigate the storm-shrouded Shangri-La mountain.
• Lin Chen and Li Yunyang’s expedition found Lin Jue’s frozen corpse, and Li Yunyang explained that Lin Jue had become the Ancestral God and killed himself to protect the world.
• Lin Chen and the expedition members saluted Lin Jue in silence.

Qi Si realized he could affect reality and suspected Zhou Ke’s death had triggered a forgotten plan to return him to the 2035 timeline. In Xiang City, “Yuan” revealed that he had made a deal with a god and decided to fulfill their agreement in Jiang City.

• Qi Si tried to separate from Fu Jue, but Fu Jue followed him toward Jiang City until a supernatural catastrophe engulfed the mountain.
• The [Fallen Savior] Identity Card was destroyed, and Fu Jue merged with the figure from the cross before disappearing from Qi Si’s sight.
• Qi Si inferred that Lin Jue had become a god and brought Fu Jue back into his body, then wondered whether Zhou Ke’s death was part of a forgotten plan.
• Qi Si made a snowman that a climber could see, realizing he could now affect reality and might be able to return to the 2035 timeline.
• In Xiang City in 2014, “Yuan” told Dong Xiwen about his deal with a god and said he would go to Jiang City at the appointed time to fulfill it.

Qi Si returned to Jiang City and uncovered the god’s memories of the plan that had shaped his life. Using the [Fool Deceiver] Identity Card, he deceived The Rules and began traveling back through the god’s past, arriving at the 2029 correction camp where the god first met him.

• Qi Si returned to Jiang City, reached his childhood home, and watched scenes from his infancy, including Fu Jue questioning his parents about a newborn-swapping case.
• “Yuan” told Qi Si that the crucial date was August 7, 2029, prompting Qi Si to use the date to recover the god’s missing memories.
• Qi Si learned how the god had planned to end the Eerie Game, made deals with “Yuan” and White Crow, and arranged for Qi Si to return to reality.
• Qi Si realized the god had orchestrated events from the beginning and used the [Fool Deceiver] Identity Card to deceive The Rules and fate.
• Qi Si arrived in a correction camp as a sixteen-year-old, where the god visited him and offered birthday wishes seven months late.

On January 1, 2038, Lin Chen witnessed the Tower of Babylon emerge from Shangri-La Snow Mountain, revealing that the Eerie Game had not ended. A returning god who resembled Qi Si killed Lin Chen and climbed the tower alone, ultimately declaring that he would rather become The Rules than the new Ancestral God.

• Lin Chen visited the memorial site in the snow mountain, where a sudden storm shattered the monument and destroyed Lin Jue's corpse, leaving the Godslaying Sword behind.
• A black tower rose through the ice as the Ruins of Sunset spread across the sky, and Lin Chen realized the final Instance was still underway.
• A red-robed god resembling Qi Si appeared before Lin Chen, pierced his chest, and tore out his heart.
• The god entered the Tower of Babylon alone, and The Rules identified him as the only qualified participant for the next level.
• He passed through successive tower levels and, above the nascent World Tree, said he would rather become The Rules than the new Ancestral God.