Resident Evil

Biodata

Feature	Details
Name	Resident Evil / 生化危机
Alias(es)	[Resident Evil]; originally considered as Resident Evil 7 before Lu Xiu removed the “7” because the previous installments did not exist in this world 3
Species/Race	Player-made instance dungeon 14 17
Affiliation	Created, verified, and launched by Lu Xiu 3 14 17
Occupation/Role	Lu Xiu’s first dungeon; an S-rank horror/survival/puzzle role-playing instance centered on Ethan Winters entering the Baker Estate to find Mia 14
Status	Online as a public instance with a 200 Survival Point ticket price 14 17
First Appearance	Chapter 2, when Lu Xiu enters the name “Resident Evil” after drafting its theme 2

Power Progression

Stage / Realm / Level	Chapter	Notes
Initial concept / C-rank self-rating	2 3	Registered as Resident Evil with the theme Ordinary Person’s Courage; self-rated C-rank, ticket price set to 200 Survival Points, genres listed as horror/stealth/survival.
Core emotional node stabilized	4	The Baker Family dinner scene was created through Visual Mental Imagery and marked as Extreme Oppression-Type Dinner Scene.
Full stage and flow completed	5 6 7 8	Baker Estate, Ethan Winters, combat sequences, branching/ending content, and major flow nodes were constructed and tested.
Verified / upgraded to S-rank	9 13 14	Lu Xiu cleared the instance herself in under four and a half hours; the system upgraded it from C-rank to S-rank.
Public online release	17 18	Launched as an S-rank player-made dungeon; the system applied memory-blurring treatment to preserve challenge fairness.

Dungeon Parameters

Field	Details
Self-Rating	C-rank 3
System Rating	C → S 14
Ticket Price	200 Survival Points 3 14
Creation Genres	Horror / Stealth / Survival 3
Verified Type	Horror / Survival / Puzzle 14
Core Theme	Ordinary Person’s Courage: an ordinary person faces terror for the sake of love 3 14
Core Emotional Node	Extreme Oppression-Type Dinner Scene 4
Main Role	Ethan Winters, an ordinary man searching for his wife Mia 6 14
Main Setting	Baker Estate, an abandoned estate in Louisiana occupied by the Baker Family 14

Background / History

Conception

Lu Xiu chose Resident Evil 7 as the basis for her first dungeon because solo stealth-survival dungeons were popular among ordinary players, and because horror was a direct way to provoke strong emotional reactions and discussion 3.

She removed the “7” from the title because this world had no previous Resident Evil installments, then built the theme around Ethan Winters: an ordinary person willing to enter a demon’s den to save his missing wife 3.

Lu Xiu believed the dungeon could benefit from her own VR experience with the original game, especially its immersive terror, hide-and-seek pressure, and constant tension 3.

Construction

The first scene Lu Xiu built was the Baker Family dinner: dim candlelight, rotting food, buzzing insects, the mad Baker Family, and Ethan tied to a chair in helpless oppression 4.

She expanded the dungeon into a highly enclosed “boxed garden” with the main hall, second floor, old house, courtyard, corridors, cramped rooms, mechanisms, keys, and revisited paths designed to force pressure in tight spaces 5.

Because real players would physically enter the dungeon, Lu Xiu included sensory details such as damp air, decay, filth, and stench rather than relying only on visuals 5.

During testing, she created Ethan Winters as the player vessel; his face was obscured by black mist because Lu Xiu had never seen Ethan’s face clearly in the original game 6.

Verification

Before receiving the official rating and funding, Lu Xiu was forced to clear the dungeon herself in Roleplay Mode as Ethan Winters 9.

She discovered that she still remembered the full game flow, allowing her to bypass most atmospheric setup and reach Mia in less than ten minutes 9 10.

The combat sections still forced her through the dungeon’s intended suffering, including Mia’s repeated attacks, Ethan’s severed left hand, and the final boss’s unavoidable damage 7 12 13.

After Lu Xiu cleared the instance, the system rated Resident Evil as S-rank and listed its type as horror/survival/puzzle 14.

Launch

Lu Xiu launched Resident Evil publicly rather than limiting it to designated players 17.

Because it was a pure role-playing instance with a fixed overall flow, the system varied player experiences only within limits and applied memory-blurring treatment to preserve fairness 17.

Appearance

Resident Evil manifests as a realistic, oppressive Louisiana horror environment centered on the Baker Estate, with dark interiors, cramped routes, decayed rooms, and a stormy swamp surrounding countless parallel copies of the same farmhouse for simultaneous players 5 21.

Distinguishing features include:

• The Baker Family dinner table, filled with rotting food, candlelight, insects, and extreme oppression 4.
• The abandoned guest house where the opening nightmare begins 6 10.
• Pitch-black corridors, narrow rooms, broken furniture, and damp decay 5 6.
• A disgusting kitchen, flooded corridor, basement, attic, main house, old house, courtyard, and other interconnected areas 5 6 7 10.
• A storm-covered marshland where multiple identical farmhouses contain different players progressing through their own copies of the instance 21.
• A final boss arena where the house becomes overgrown with gray-white mycelium-like structures 13.

Dungeon Mechanics

Roleplay as Ethan Winters

Players enter as Ethan Winters, an ordinary man searching for his wife Mia after receiving a message from her three years after her disappearance 14 19.

• Players are stripped of their usual abilities and forced into the perspective of an ordinary person 19 29.
• The roleplay does not forcibly replace the player’s real body; Lu Xiu describes it as wearing an extremely form-fitting role overlay while still sensing her own body 10.
• The emotional core depends on players accepting Ethan’s motive: entering danger alone for love 3 98.

Fixed-but-Variable Flow

The dungeon follows a largely fixed role-playing route while allowing limited variation through the system 17.

• The core progression begins with Ethan arriving at the estate to find Mia 14.
• Major story beats include Mia’s rescue, Mia’s loss of control, confrontations with the Baker Family, escape attempts, and the final extraction by Chris’s team 7 8 14.
• Simultaneous players are placed into separate copied estates within the same vast swamp-like stage 21.

Psychological Horror

The early dungeon weaponizes the absence of enemies as much as enemy encounters themselves 20.

• Players can spend long stretches hearing only footsteps, strange noises, locked-room hints, static televisions, blurry photos, and unexplained environmental details 20.
• Ordinary players tend to investigate for clues, which increases anxiety and fear over time 10.
• Jian Li described the atmosphere as oppressive, with constant psychological pressure and the sense that something could appear in any room 26.

Exploration and Puzzles

The Baker Estate is built around escape-room exploration and pressure-based puzzle solving 5 26.

• Keys, mechanisms, components, ladders, and repeated traversal connect different areas 5.
• Players must solve puzzles while suppressing instinctive panic 26.
• Strategy groups struggled to produce detailed guides because puzzles, combat mechanics, and memory blurring slowed information gathering 35 36.

Survival Combat

Combat is intentionally counterintuitive for players used to direct fighting 29 35.

• Players must conserve ammunition, find routes, solve puzzles, avoid pursuit, and choose running as the optimal answer in many situations 29 35.
• Some segments create desperate urgency rather than fair duels, including mandatory hits during the final boss 13 26.
• Unlike later pure escape dungeons, Resident Evil still allows weapons such as guns, including the special handgun “Albert” dropped for the final boss sequence 13 106.

Enemy Persistence and Scripted Trauma

The dungeon’s enemies often refuse to stay down, making victory feel temporary 29 35.

• Mia revives after being defeated, attacks Ethan repeatedly, pins his hand to a wall, and cuts off his left hand with a chainsaw 7 12.
• Jack Baker can be killed or burned and still return in later scenes 29 35.
• Some injuries are unavoidable parts of the progression, including dismemberment and final-boss damage 7 13 26.

Fairness and Memory Blurring

The system protects the dungeon’s challenge by limiting memory exploitation 17 35.

• Upon launch, the system applies blurring treatment to player memories to maintain fairness 17.
• Frequent or unreasonable deaths can trigger deeper memory blurring, preventing players from brute-forcing a perfect walkthrough through mass deaths 35.
• This mechanic heavily slowed the Coordination Bureau Strategy Group and major guilds 35 36.

Rewards

Creator and Clear Rewards

Reward	Recipient	Effect / Notes
Reverse Visual Imagery	Lu Xiu	Special construction-related skill gained after verifying and clearing the instance 14
Atypical Courage	Lu Xiu	Allows mental power to convert into strength and agility under extreme conditions 14 15
Hand Sanitizer	Lu Xiu / clearing players	S-rated healing item; one player sold a copy for 5,000 Survival Points, described as equivalent to 13 years of lifespan 15 24
D-rated pistol	Lu Xiu	Weapon reward obtained after clearing 15
Survival Points	Lu Xiu	Lu Xiu received major rewards after verification and later earned over one million Survival Points in dividends from the instance 14 59

Ordinary Person’s Courage

Field	Details
Type	Mental / Attribute Enhancement 24
Trigger Conditions	Severe injuries such as dismemberment or impalement; extreme fear; emotional collapse; near-death state 24
Effect	Pain reduced by 50%; 35% of the user’s Mental attribute temporarily converts into Agility and Strength 24
Cost	None 24
Duration	300 seconds 24
Strategic Value	The front-line military representative called Resident Evil exactly the kind of instance they needed after seeing its rewards 26

Relationships

• Lu Xiu — Architect, verifier, and operator of Resident Evil; the dungeon’s success makes her a target for the Coordination Bureau, guilds, and builder groups 3 14 17 28 36.
• Ethan Winters — Playable role and emotional center; an ordinary man who enters the Baker Estate to find Mia 6 14.
• Mia — Ethan’s missing wife and the reason players enter the estate; she becomes unstable and serves as the first major combat threat 10 12 14.
• Baker Family — Main hostile force; their terror, physical torment, and inhuman monsters define the dungeon’s challenge 3 14.
• Zhao Heng — Top player who enters confidently, becomes increasingly terrified, and later warns others not to enter 18 19 21 22.
• Jian Li — Skilled player who clears the instance and gives the Coordination Bureau a high-difficulty assessment 23 26.
• Yan Fushou — Coordination Bureau director who investigates the dungeon, seeks Lu Xiu, and manages strategy efforts around its rewards 23 26 29 35.
• Han Xiao and frontline soldiers — Military users who struggle with the dungeon’s ordinary-person roleplay and counterintuitive mechanics despite their combat experience 29.
• Spirit Pivot Construction Group — Builder group that seeks Lu Xiu, later copies Resident Evil, and receives severe player backlash for shallow imitation 49 97 100.
• Shen Nian — Player and later evaluator who identifies the dungeon’s true strength as its theme and role immersion rather than surface-level horror tricks 66 98.
• Queenie — Prison Rock prisoner who enters Resident Evil expecting a combat trial, fails repeatedly, and is shaken by Lu Xiu’s roleplay design 131 132.

Reception and Impact

Player Response

Resident Evil became famous overnight after its S-rank rating, low entry fee, and player-made status drew enormous attention on the forums 18 22 24.

Many players entered expecting a manageable civilian dungeon and instead encountered punishing horror, psychological pressure, and repeated deaths 22 24.

The dungeon left enough trauma that when Lu Xiu later launched Sekiro, many players refused to be “guinea pigs” again and waited for clear information first 54.

Official and Military Response

The Coordination Bureau held emergency discussions after realizing the value of the dungeon’s rewards 26.

Jian Li’s report emphasized that clearing required calm observation, suppressed instincts, endurance, and puzzle-solving under pressure 26.

Frontline soldiers were considered good candidates for farming the rewards, but even they struggled because the dungeon forced them to play ordinary people and often made running the correct choice 26 29.

Guild and Strategy Group Struggles

The Coordination Bureau Strategy Group progressed slowly because only a handful of top-tier players could clear Resident Evil reliably 35.

Major guilds also struggled with its terrifying atmosphere, unavoidable injuries, complicated puzzles, mechanic-heavy bosses, and memory-fading restrictions 35 36.

Even players who could clear it often rated the experience poorly and had no desire to repeat it 35.

Builder Industry Reaction

Builder societies investigated Lu Xiu because Resident Evil threatened their monopoly and exposed the gap between low-quality civilian dungeons and truly immersive design 36.

After many builders copied Resident Evil, players condemned the clones for repeating the same scenes, the same “save the wife” plot, and crude jump scares without atmosphere 97.

Shen Nian criticized the copies for imitating only the form while missing the theme: an ordinary man entering hell for love despite fear 98.

Later Reputation

Resident Evil became a benchmark for horror-instance construction, repeatedly used to compare later dungeons such as Outlast and The Witch’s House 102 104 161.

Its success proved that strong immersion and emotional impact could produce valuable rewards, a point players later cited when discussing Lu Xiu’s other horror instances 107.

Notable Quotes

“This conviction is the source of the player’s strength against fear. It is also the courage of an ordinary person facing fear for love.” 3

“I’m just an ordinary person. I didn’t come here to save the world. I only wanted to bring my wife home. This ordinary love gave me the strength to face the abyss.” 24

“I’ll go back to the dinner table!! I’ll eat it!! I’ll eat anything!! I’m begging you!! Stop chasing me!! I’m only eighteen!! Please!!!” 21

“To be honest, you only imitated Resident Evil’s form—and actually, even the form isn’t that similar.” 98

Trivia

• Lu Xiu originally wanted to name it Resident Evil 7, but deleted the number because the setting had no previous entries in the series 3.
• The first completed emotional node was the Baker Family dinner scene, not the opening guest house 4.
• Ethan Winters appears with his face hidden by black mist because Lu Xiu had never seen his face clearly 6.
• Lu Xiu retained her full memories during verification, turning much of her first run into a fast progression push rather than a blind horror experience 9 10.
• Later builders considered Resident Evil easier to imitate than Sekiro or Titanfall, but their copies failed because they lacked its atmosphere, structure, and theme 97 98 100.