Recaps

After Round Two ended, the Players received only three minutes to rest before Level 10 Ghost Constables began inspecting the floors. A Ghost Constable killed several veteran Players on the Fourth Floor, leaving a witness to warn the chatroom as the threat of a floor-wide massacre emerged.

• Xu Lang and the others learned that Ninth-Floor Players had delayed the round, forcing the rest period to shrink to three minutes.
• The Dormitory Broadcast announced that Ghost Constables would patrol and advised Players to cooperate with their investigation.
• Tong Qi spotted a Player's death on the Fourth Floor, and Xu Lang checked the chatroom for details.
• A Player in Dormitory 77 saw a Level 10 Ghost Constable dragging corpses and heard it kill four Players who lied during its inspection.
• The Dormitory 77 Player reported the Ghost Constable's behavior to the chatroom, fearing it could wipe out an entire floor.

Xu Lang sought advice on surviving the Ghost Constable and learned that it liked porcelain, then shared the clue with the Players. Li Li used porcelain during a room inspection and survived, suggesting the game’s item descriptions could be unreliable and Intel Notes were more trustworthy.

• Xu Lang paid Xu Ruyan for advice, learned to disable automatic attacks, and decided the Players should study the Ghost Constable’s behavior rather than try to kill it.
• Zhang Dahai told Xu Lang that the Ghost Constable liked porcelain, while Li Shuwen continued selling the Intel Note for 5,000 Copper Coins.
• Xu Lang publicly revealed the porcelain clue, and Zhang Dahai and Li Shuwen confirmed that the information was true.
• When the Ghost Constable inspected Li Li’s dormitory, Li Li slipped a porcelain vase into its sleeve before answering that he had seen no ghosts.
• The Ghost Constable let Li Li live, and he remembered a veteran Player’s warning that item descriptions could lie while Intel Notes had the highest priority.

After Li Li shared how to survive the Ghost Constable, Xu Lang exploited the sudden demand for ceramics and made a fortune selling his surplus stock. As his teammates celebrated the bumper harvest, the Ghost Constable appeared on surveillance, dragging a chain of people.

• Li Li broke down after the Ghost Constable left and shared his survival information with other Players.
• Xu Lang traded Li Xue a ceramic bowl and plate for more than three thousand Copper Coins, then noticed ceramics were scarce and prices had soared.
• Xu Lang listed more than forty ceramics at prices below the competition, triggering a price war that let Players buy ceramics more cheaply.
• Xu Lang sold most of his stock and said the team had earned around seventeen thousand Copper Coins, bringing their total to forty-five thousand.
• Xu Lang spotted the Ghost Constable entering the surveillance view with a long chain of people trailing behind him.

Xu Lang bribed the ghost constable with a blue-and-white bowl and received an invitation to the Netherworld along with a warning about the Ten-Day Bells. After the patrol ended, the players gathered outside his dormitory to praise him, and Cao Yaxuan invited him to bathe with her.

• The ghost constable bowed to the ghost child, then Xu Lang greeted him at Dormitory 200.
• Xu Lang handed the ghost constable a blue-and-white plum blossom bowl, and the constable advised him to collect all the Ten-Day Bells and offered to arrest two enemies.
• The ghost constable gave Xu Lang an Underworld Invitation, which could send eligible dormitory residents to the Netherworld together.
• Xu Lang shared copper coins with Cao Yaxuan, Tong Qi, and Wang Yazhi before meditating through the night as the ghost constable patrolled.
• At dawn, the broadcast announced that the third round had ended and the fourth monster wave would arrive at six that evening.
• Players gathered outside Dormitory 200 to praise Xu Lang, and Cao Yaxuan invited him to bathe with her.

Xu Lang and the others rested after a night of preparation while players across the floors scoured buildings and strengthened their groups. On the Tenth Floor, Nie Xiaozhu found a King of Hearts card, and Xu Ruyan warned that the floor might need its power to delay the next game.

• Xu Lang asked Wang Yazhi whether she had chosen the sword as her main weapon, then went to bed with her.
• Lei Ting led the exhausted First Floor players in searching buildings, while the Mad King Building’s survivors grew stronger by scavenging abandoned dormitories.
• Wu Huihui and most Tenth Floor players gathered together as they searched for supplies and support.
• Nie Xiaozhu found a King of Hearts card that could delay the game by three days or upgrade a dormitory once.
• Xu Ruyan explained that the Ninth Floor had collapsed and urged Nie Xiaozhu to postpone the game, warning that the Tenth Floor was weak and the next round would be harder.

After the fourth round was delayed by Nie Xiaozhu’s King of Hearts, Xu Lang accumulated more than a thousand Nightmare Coins and considered how to improve his skills and defenses. He refused Thunder’s attempt to draw him outside and ended the chapter planning to upgrade Meditation or the Nightmare Bed.

• Nie Xiaozhu used King of Hearts, delaying the fourth round by three days, and Xu Lang welcomed the extra time to rest.
• Xu Lang’s Nightmare Coins rose to 1,057, and he considered upgrading his Azure Steel Gate while worrying that his unusual progress might attract attention.
• Xu Lang asked Xu Ruyan and the Chat Room about skills that could raise physique, but Ye Fan sent him a set of inappropriate exercises instead.
• Thunder offered Xu Lang a Blood Threadworm Larva Egg that increased physique, but Xu Lang refused to meet in person, suspecting Thunder wanted to lure him outside.
• Xu Lang ate with Wang Yazhi and the others, then planned to spend Nightmare Coins upgrading Meditation or the Nightmare Bed.

Xu Lang spent 1,000 Nightmare Coins to upgrade his Nightmare Bed, then slept and earned 342 Nightmare Coins from its increased conversion rate. Afterward, Tong Qi fed Soul Shards to the Ghost Child and named it Tong Bao.

• Xu Lang weighed upgrading his Nightmare Bed against saving coins for defense, then chose to spend 1,000 Nightmare Coins on the bed.
• The upgraded bed increased Xu Lang's Nightmare Coin conversion rate, and he slept for eight hours to earn 342 Nightmare Coins.
• Xu Lang considered using his gains to upgrade two turrets and discussed wanting more monsters so he could recruit another Xiao Mei.
• After the meal, Tong Qi asked to feed the Ghost Child Soul Shards, and Xu Lang moved it closer to the doorway.
• The Ghost Child eagerly ate the Soul Shards, and Tong Qi called it Tong Bao before leaving.

Xu Lang and the three women read a book about zombies and strange folk arts, then Xu Lang upgraded it into a more detailed account of the Ten Evil Arts Masters. The chapter left him reading the biographies of the ten notorious practitioners.

• Xu Lang paused his meditation and joined Cao Yaxuan in reading the Compendium of Folk Oddities, which described zombie ranks and other supernatural creatures.
• Xu Lang suggested that Cao Yaxuan use black zombie essence blood to pursue a zombie bloodline, but she refused because she thought zombies were ugly.
• Xu Lang, Cao Yaxuan, Wang Yazhi, and Tong Qi read the book together and discussed its accounts of strange creatures and arts.
• Xu Lang spent 10 Nightmare Coins to upgrade the book into Secret Tales of Folk Oddities.
• Xu Lang found detailed biographies of the Ten Evil Arts Masters and learned that the folk organization had consisted of ten practitioners infamous for horrific crimes.

Xu Lang prepared for the fourth round by prioritizing turret firepower, while the Players discussed their upgrades and equipment. As a ten-minute monster tide began, Xu Lang upgraded his turret and had to choose among four Tier 3 crossbow paths.

• After reading about the Ten Evil Arts Masters, Xu Lang decided to save Nightmare Coins to upgrade both turrets before improving the Azure Steel Gate or his Meditation Technique.
• Xu Lang collected his overnight Nightmare Coin earnings, and Tong Qi found an outfit that raised her comfort level to 96.
• Players discussed turret types in the Chat Room, where Li Shuwen explained the differences between physical, magical, and costly hybrid-damage turrets.
• The fourth round began with a ten-minute monster tide, and Xu Lang went to upgrade his turret while Cao Yaxuan, Wang Yazhi, and Tong Qi watched.
• Xu Lang spent 210 Nightmare Coins and received four Tier 3 crossbow upgrade options, including two hybrid-damage turrets, leaving him unsure which to choose.

Xu Lang upgraded two Bronze Repeating Crossbows into a Silver Iron Wing Crossbow and an Army-Breaking Heavy Crossbow before a building-wide monster tide began. The turrets started killing the monsters and earning points, leaving Xu Lang confident Dormitory 200 could withstand the attack.

• Xu Lang upgraded one Bronze Repeating Crossbow into a Silver Iron Wing Crossbow, then turned another into an Army-Breaking Heavy Crossbow.
• A monster tide appeared throughout the dormitory building, with different creatures on each floor and zombies flooding the Tenth Floor.
• Xu Lang activated automatic attack mode on both turrets, and the Silver Iron Wing Crossbow’s demon-breaking bolts killed a zombie in two shots.
• The turrets fired into the zombies gathering outside Dormitory 200, rapidly earning Xu Lang points as only a few monsters could attack the gate at once.
• Tong Qi, Cao Yaxuan, and Wang Yazhi calmed down as the defenses held, while Xu Lang wondered whether Wu Huihui and the others would survive.

As zombies battered the Tenth Floor, Wu Huihui urged her companions to trust Xu Lang, while Players across the building fought off zombies and monsters from the Ninth Floor. Xu Lang lured zombies to his own doorway and learned that thirteen Players had already been eliminated, leaving him worried that more dormitories would fall in a chain reaction.

• Wu Huihui, Wang Tingting, and Nie Xiaozhu worried that their poorly supplied dormitory could not withstand the zombies, and Wu Huihui insisted Xu Lang would lure the monsters away.
• Xu Ruyan used her turrets against the zombies, then attacked wolves, leopards, and monkeys from the Ninth Floor with poisonous mist.
• Zheng Kai shared information about the monsters and threw Molotov cocktails into the corridor to weaken them before they reached other dormitories.
• Xu Lang cleared the monsters outside Dormitory 200, opened his door to draw zombies away from Dormitory 199, and shut it again.
• Tong Qi reported that thirteen Players had been eliminated, including one who abandoned her dormitory and became a Roamer, and Xu Lang feared a chain of further losses.

Xu Lang and his companions survived the fourth round, killed monsters, and collected resources, though the turrets’ ammunition costs ate into their profits. The broadcast canceled the fifth round and announced that the sixth round, “Ten Evil Arts Masters,” would begin tomorrow at six.

• Xu Lang used Fireball to stop Green-Eyed Monkeys from leaping into the corridor while Tong Qi shot the approaching monsters.
• Wu Huihui led Nie Xiaozhu and Wang Tingting out to kill monsters, and Wang Tingting noticed the resources piled outside Xu Lang’s dormitory.
• Xu Ruyan left Dormitory 180 by jumping from the Tenth Floor as her points began to rise.
• Xu Lang’s group gathered more than thirty thousand Copper Coins’ worth of resources, but Xu Lang realized turret ammunition had reduced their Copper Coins from over forty thousand to thirty-nine thousand.
• Xu Lang checked the Chat Room and discussed the casualties with Wang Yazhi and Tong Qi while they waited for the broadcast.
• The Dormitory Broadcast announced that more than half the Players had survived the fourth round, canceled the fifth round, and scheduled the final round for six o’clock tomorrow.

Xu Lang and the others prepared for the final test while discussing the dormitory’s difficulty-balancing theory and gathering supplies. After raising his Spirit stat to 10, Xu Lang considered using the Zombie Virus Immunity Serum and taking risks to gain greater rewards.

• Xu Lang told Cao Yaxuan and Wang Yazhi that they might need to take risks with him in the final test to earn more score points.
• Players debated the skipped round, Xu Lang’s impact on their survival, and the theory that the dormitory adjusted difficulty to keep players at a desired state.
• After the game ended, players ventured into the corridor to scavenge, and Xu Lang waited for the sixth round scheduled for the next day.
• Xu Lang used the Meditation Technique while mentally exhausted and raised his Spirit stat to 10, strengthening his ability to sustain fireballs.
• Xu Lang considered using the Zombie Virus Immunity Serum and concluded that he needed to prepare for human opponents and seek greater benefits.

Xu Lang upgraded the Zombie Virus Immunity Serum into an Evolution Serum and prepared his group to exploit the zombies’ weaknesses during Round Six. The round began with the Tenth Floor’s turret slaughtering waves of zombies, until the Corpse Chief and two Bronze-Armored Zombies emerged from the stairwell.

• Xu Lang spent Nightmare Coins to upgrade the Zombie Virus Immunity Serum into an Evolution Serum and stored it without using it.
• After sleeping, Xu Lang collected 452 Nightmare Coins and decided to save them for an offensive upgrade rather than strengthen the dormitory door.
• Xu Lang explained to Cao Yaxuan, Wang Yazhi, and Tong Qi that the monsters had weaknesses described in Secret Tales of Folk Oddities, and said the Tenth Floor’s boss would likely be a zombie.
• Round Six began, and the turret killed successive groups of three zombies as they rushed toward the dormitory.
• The ringing in the corridor stopped, and the level-four Corpse Chief arrived with two level-three Bronze-Armored Zombies.

After Xu Lang’s quick clear drew out the bosses, Players across the floors learned that the round might pit them against ten Tier 4 Monsters. At Dormitory 200, Xu Lang’s defenses defeated the two Bronze-Armored Corpses, but the Corpse Chief pressed its attack on the Azure Steel Gate.

• Wang Yazhi shared information about three monsters in the Chat Room, prompting Players to warn that ten Tier 4 Monsters might appear.
• Li Shuwen, Lei Ting, Zheng Kai, Ye Fan, and other Players prepared for the threat, with Zheng Kai turning off his turrets’ automatic attack mode to avoid drawing more bosses.
• Xu Lang calmly instructed Tong Qi and Cao Yaxuan to defeat the two Bronze-Armored Corpses before targeting the Tier 4 Corpse Chief.
• Xu Lang’s Army-Breaking Heavy Crossbow helped bring down both Bronze-Armored Corpses, which cost the Azure Steel Gate 12 durability.
• The Corpse Chief summoned waves of Tier 2 Zombies and attacked the gate while directing the zombies toward the turrets, rapidly draining the gate’s durability despite its recovery.

Xu Lang and his companions killed the Corpse Chief after weakening him with Beast Blood, and Cao Yaxuan delivered the final blow. They returned with valuable loot, including a Jade Burial Suit that Xu Lang equipped, while the chapter left them examining a mysterious bronze bell.

• Xu Lang had Tong Qi and Wang Yazhi operate the turrets against the Corpse Chief while Cao Yaxuan prepared to join the fight.
• The Third Floor BOSS and Sixth Floor BOSS attacked players, and the Third Floor BOSS broke through a dormitory door with three blades and slaughtered its occupants.
• Li Shuwen doubted that the Third Floor BOSS was an ordinary Tier 4 BOSS and warned that it seemed as strong as a Tier 5 Monster.
• Xu Lang's group splashed Beast Blood on the badly wounded Corpse Chief, and Cao Yaxuan finished him with a hand crossbow shot.
• The group collected the loot, and Xu Lang equipped the Jade Burial Suit before turning his attention to a dark bronze bell.

Xu Lang acquired Ten-Day Bells: Corpse and learned Corpse Refinement Art before using Golden Revolution to greatly increase his attributes. Meanwhile, two bosses cornered Zheng Kai and the last unit on the Eighth Floor, until unexpected gunfire interrupted their attack.

• Xu Lang put Ten-Day Bells: Corpse in his inventory and learned Corpse Refinement Art.
• Xu Lang spent 340 Nightmare Coins to obtain Golden Revolution, which granted him five Constitution and five Spirit.
• Xu Lang injected Golden Revolution, endured several minutes of intense heat and sweating, and felt his strength surge.
• On the Eighth Floor, Zheng Kai and the remaining tenants faced attacks from the Ninth Floor boss and Ghost Scholar after other Players were killed.
• The bosses broke into Dormitory 159, leaving Zheng Kai and the others in despair, when gunfire suddenly rang out.

Xu Lang and Wang Yazhi killed Wolf Savage and Ghost Scholar after rescuing Zheng Kai and his teammates. They collected the bosses’ drops and headed for the seventh floor together.

• Xu Lang and Wang Yazhi ambushed Wolf Savage with the Corpse Chief and Corpse Poison, killing him.
• Xu Lang used hypnotic incense to distract Ghost Scholar, and Wang Yazhi beheaded him.
• Zheng Kai and his teammates emerged, thanked Xu Lang, and watched him and Wang Yazhi leave.
• Wang Yazhi arranged for Wu Huihui and the others to loot the bodies, while Xu Lang gave her Ten-Day Bells · Beast.
• Xu Lang and Wang Yazhi continued toward the seventh floor together.

Xu Lang and Wang Yazhi confronted Mad Craftsman on the seventh floor and killed him by exploiting his vulnerability to blades. After clearing away the remaining mechanism puppets, they left the floor.

• Mad Craftsman destroyed the seventh dormitory and headed toward He Qi’s dormitory, but turned back when he saw Xu Lang and Wang Yazhi waiting by the stairwell.
• Xu Lang and Wang Yazhi used the narrow stairwell to cut down the tall, thin mechanism puppets as Mad Craftsman summoned and protected his other puppets.
• Xu Lang leapt past the shield-bearing puppets, killed Mad Craftsman’s son puppet, and dodged the strengthened puppets’ attacks with help from a zombie.
• Xu Lang used paper figures, zombies, and allies to occupy Mad Craftsman’s puppets, then smashed the daughter and wife puppets apart.
• Xu Lang slashed Mad Craftsman to death before his summoned puppets could save him, and he and Wang Yazhi cleared the battlefield and left the seventh floor.

Xu Lang and Wang Yazhi killed the Blood Gu Child with an animal trap, then fled after clashing with Liu Changgeng and his tenants. On the Fourth Floor, a hidden presence seized Xu Lang from behind, with Red Sleeve Shoes beneath his heels.

• Xu Lang and Wang Yazhi recovered after fighting Mad Craftsman and headed to the Sixth Floor.
• Xu Lang drew the Blood Gu Child toward a concealed Level 3 animal trap, which killed it and released the Blood Venerable Gu.
• Xu Lang took one Ten-Day Bells from the drops despite Liu Changgeng's protests, then escaped with Wang Yazhi.
• Wang Yazhi's traps caught Liu Changgeng's pursuing group, and Xu Lang fired into the stairwell before leading her downstairs.
• Xu Lang and Wang Yazhi passed the misty Fifth Floor and reached the Fourth Floor, where an unseen figure grabbed Xu Lang as Red Sleeve Shoes appeared beneath his heels.

Xu Lang and Wang Yazhi killed the second-floor boss, Uncountable, and collected his drops before retreating from the players gathering to hunt monsters. General Golden Spear pursued them to the fourth floor, where the players blamed Xu Lang and began calling for others to stop him.

• Wang Yazhi used a mirror to frighten the Red Lady to death, and Xu Lang collected the Ten-Day Bell and Soul Stealer drops.
• Xu Lang and Wang Yazhi went to the second floor, where Uncountable's bewitching incense had drawn players out of their dormitories and into danger.
• The Mad Craftsman helped suppress Uncountable with the Heartwood Chip, and Xu Lang killed him with fireballs as he tried to flee.
• After receiving a warning that players had organized to hunt monsters, Xu Lang chose to return to the dormitory rather than lead them.
• General Golden Spear followed Xu Lang and Wang Yazhi to the fourth floor and killed several players who ran toward them.
• Players accused Xu Lang of leading General Golden Spear to their floor and called on others to stop him.

After killing seven BOSSES, Xu Lang returned to the Tenth Floor with Wang Yazhi and sorted through their valuable loot. He upgraded Beast Form Fist into the Dragon-Elephant Combat Method while tensions with Liu Changgeng’s group grew.

• Liu Changgeng saw Xu Lang and Wang Yazhi escape, then told the Sixth Floor Players to finish the game before settling the score.
• Xu Lang returned to the Tenth Floor and found Players condemning him in the Chat Room for stealing monsters.
• Tong Qi treated Wang Yazhi’s injuries while Xu Lang ordered Cao Yaxuan to watch the BOSS rankings and counted their loot.
• Xu Lang swallowed a Blood Threadworm Larva Egg, raising his physique by one point, then used Artisan's Heart to upgrade Beast Form Fist.
• Xu Lang chose the Dragon-Elephant Combat Method and gained increased physique and new combat knowledge.

Xu Lang helped Wu Huihui learn how to defeat the Painted Skin Ghost, then urged her to pursue a higher ranking by hunting more BOSSes. Wu Huihui reached second place after killing General Golden Spear, while Xu Ruyan went to face Blind Eye and vanished during the dangerous fight.

• Xu Lang gave Cao Yaxuan and Tong Qi the Ten-Day Bells and asked Cao Yaxuan which BOSSes were still alive.
• Xu Lang taught Wu Huihui how to counter the Painted Skin Ghost, and she defeated it and traded its Ten-Day Bells: Painting to him.
• After Xu Lang asked whether she wanted to make the top three, Wu Huihui gathered her group and led them to hunt General Golden Spear.
• Wu Huihui used burning paper figures to kill General Golden Spear and his subordinates, losing two Players but earning three divine artifacts and rising to second place.
• Wu Huihui asked to hunt Blind Eye, but Xu Lang said he had assigned the dangerous task to Xu Ruyan.
• As Lei Ting and others struggled against Blind Eye's ghosts, Xu Ruyan disappeared while an old Player was speaking to her.

Xu Ruyan killed Blind Eye, ending the game round early, and Xu Lang claimed the top rank and its rewards. After upgrading his dormitory, Xu Lang considered which facility to choose next.

• Xu Ruyan took Blind Eye’s bell and used it to summon ghosts that killed him, ending the round early.
• The leaderboard ranked Xu Lang first, Wu Huihui second, Xu Ruyan third, Wang Yazhi fourth, and Lei Ting fifth.
• Ye Fan celebrated surviving the round and accepted Zhang Dahai’s invitation to visit his room.
• Xu Lang received three Artisan’s Hearts and other rewards, then upgraded his dormitory with a study layout chosen by his group.
• Xu Lang opened the facility reward and hesitated over which facility to select.

Xu Lang chose a radio facility and spent thousands of Copper Coins trying to contact other Dormitory Buildings. He finally reached the Blood Mist Mutual Aid Society and learned from its administrator, Rainy Night Swordsman, that the station had seven members and their buildings were nearby.

• Xu Lang chose the Radio facility, created the user profile Zero, and began tuning for signals.
• After 47 attempts, Xu Lang detected the Blood Mist Mutual Aid Society and connected with its administrator, Rainy Night Swordsman.
• Xu Lang learned that Rainy Night Swordsman was a ninth-round veteran and that the station had seven members.
• Rainy Night Swordsman said the connected Dormitory Buildings were probably nearby, but meeting in person would require crossing the Blood Mist World.
• Xu Lang asked about the Players’ levels and past meetings, and Rainy Night Swordsman said they were probably above the sixth round and joked that he was nearly a tenth-round big shot.