Chapter Summaries

After transmigrating into a gamified world, Lu Xiu discovered she had only 23 Survival Points and 23 days to live. With dungeon entry fees beyond her means and other options too risky, she turned her attention to the system announcement inviting players to become Dungeon Architects.

• Lu Xiu examined her status panel and learned she had 23 Survival Points, which would last only 23 days.
• She recalled how the Deity had transformed the world into a game where players entered dungeons to earn rewards and Survival Points.
• Lu Xiu realized that most player-created dungeons were scams and that the original owner had lost much of her balance to one.
• She considered watching ads, entering a system dungeon, and taking out a loan, but rejected each option as inadequate or dangerous.
• Lu Xiu focused on the system announcement inviting players to become Dungeon Architects.

Lu Xiu returned home and registered as a Level 1 Architect, hoping to earn Survival Points and find a way to protect herself without entering a dungeon. She began designing her first dungeon, Resident Evil, and set its theme around an ordinary person's courage in the face of terror.

• Lu Xiu left the riverbank and observed the gamified city, its dungeon advertisements, and signs of the authorities' efforts to keep order.
• Lu Xiu returned to the original owner's apartment and felt an unexpected sense of security inside the tidy home.
• Lu Xiu decided to spend her remaining Survival Points creating an unofficial dungeon to earn income and possibly gain self-defense abilities.
• Lu Xiu registered as a Dungeon Architect and opened the dungeon creation form.
• Lu Xiu named her dungeon Resident Evil and described a player facing the Baker Family's horrors while searching for his missing wife.

Lu Xiu designed a C-rank Resident Evil dungeon, drawing on its stealth-survival horror and Ethan Winters’s determination to save his wife. After submitting the dungeon’s basic information, she entered the construction space.

• Lu Xiu chose the name Resident Evil, set its rating to C-rank, priced tickets at 200 Survival Points, and selected horror, stealth, and survival as its genres.
• Lu Xiu described the dungeon’s theme as an ordinary person’s courage, with players searching for a missing wife while facing the Baker Family and inhuman monsters.
• Lu Xiu considered how a history of reckless dungeon challenges had made stealth-survival dungeons popular among ordinary people with few Survival Points left.
• Lu Xiu chose Resident Evil 7 because her VR experience could help make the dungeon immersive and because Ethan Winters’s courage and love for his family could move players.
• Lu Xiu submitted the dungeon’s basic information and vanished into the construction space.

Lu Xiu discovered that she could use visual mental imagery to construct an instance, and recreated the Baker Family’s dinner from Resident Evil 7 in the Construction Space. She marked it as a core emotional node and began considering how to finish the instance and cover its Rule Stabilization Cost.

• Lu Xiu learned that completed instances required Survival Points for Rule Stabilization, then found the Visual Mental Imagery Construction Method in the tutorial.
• Lu Xiu activated the method and imagined the Baker Family’s dinner scene from Resident Evil 7.
• The Construction Space transformed into the Bakers’ decaying dining room, complete with the family and their dinner scene.
• Lu Xiu marked the scene as the “Extreme Oppressive Dinner Scene,” and the system stabilized it and entered manual editing mode.
• Lu Xiu considered whether her instance could earn an Architect reward and grant players skills or items, then began forming an idea about the stabilization cost.

Lu Xiu used memories of Resident Evil 7 to construct the Baker Estate as a dungeon, but the effort left her dizzy and nauseated. As she rested, she realized she had never cleared a dungeon in this world and had no idea how her creation would compare with local dungeons.

• Lu Xiu expanded Hell Dining Table by creating a corridor and began forming the Baker Estate from her memories of Resident Evil 7.
• Lu Xiu built the estate’s connected rooms, corridors, stairs, and surrounding yard, including the fences, overgrown grounds, and abandoned trailer.
• After hours of construction, Lu Xiu left the oppressive scene and rested in the white construction space, suffering from dizziness and nausea.
• Lu Xiu questioned whether her dungeon could earn rewards for her or grant skills and items to players who cleared it.
• Lu Xiu recognized that she had never cleared an official dungeon or experienced a real unofficial one, leaving her unable to judge whether the Baker Estate would fit this world or vastly surpass its dungeons.

Lu Xiu spent three days building the Resident Evil instance dungeon and tested its scenes by controlling Ethan Winters through the game flow. She found a minor issue during the test and paused the dungeon to adjust it.

• Lu Xiu struggled to cook while completing the instance dungeon’s scenes, game flow, and branching content.
• Lu Xiu finished the abandoned guest house and backyard, submitted her flow document, and activated Flow mode.
• The system generated Ethan Winters as the protagonist, and Lu Xiu controlled him through the guest house to test the dungeon’s progression.
• Lu Xiu paused the simulation and consulted the tutorial to change the path of the cockroaches crawling through the house.

Lu Xiu tested her instance dungeon by guiding Ethan through its progression, repeatedly fixing bugs generated from her design document. After testing Mia’s interactions and the brutal combat sequences, she continued toward Ethan’s encounter with his father-in-law, unaware of how serious the problem was.

• Lu Xiu explored the map and tested the dungeon’s gameplay, quests, combat, and items, but the generated progression repeatedly contained problems.
• Lu Xiu paused the sequence to fix missing recordings, unexpected scenes, and other bugs while consulting tutorials and using Visual Mindscape.
• Lu Xiu saw that NPCs could respond dynamically to players and preset Mia’s dialogue, though she worried the system would generate flawed responses.
• Lu Xiu guided Ethan through Mia’s scripted attack, the hand axe fight, and the scene where Mia severed Ethan’s left hand with a chainsaw.
• Lu Xiu advanced Ethan’s battle with Mia to her defeat, then watched his father-in-law knock him out with one punch.

Lu Xiu finished and sealed her horror dungeon, only to learn that it could not launch until she personally cleared it as its first player. The system removed her memories of the dungeon and forced her into live verification, leaving her to realize she would suffer the horrors she had designed.

• Lu Xiu completed the dungeon's final scenes and tested its story flow, then received the system's confirmation that the dungeon could be sealed.
• Lu Xiu sealed the dungeon, and the system packaged it and calculated a Rule Stabilization Cost of 3000 Survival Points.
• The system announced that Lu Xiu had to enter the dungeon as an ordinary player, with her memories of it temporarily removed, before it could go live.
• Lu Xiu protested the mandatory verification, but the system gave no response and forced her into the dungeon, prompting her to despair.

Lu Xiu realized she had to clear her completed dungeon herself before receiving its rating and applying for a Builder Special Fund loan, so she entered it as Ethan Winters. After arriving on the road to the Baker Estate, she found that she still remembered the dungeon’s progression and questioned what the system had stripped away.

• Lu Xiu learned that architect verification required her to clear the dungeon with relevant memories stripped before she could receive its rating and rewards.
• Lu Xiu decided to face the dungeon rather than give up and rely on system ads to survive.
• Lu Xiu confirmed entry into the dungeon and was assigned the role of Ethan Winters as memory stripping began.
• Lu Xiu found herself driving toward the Baker Estate and realized she remembered the dungeon’s events in detail.

Lu Xiu entered the Resident Evil 7 dungeon with her game memories intact and raced through its opening sections, reaching Mia in the basement in under ten minutes. After Mia vanished, Lu Xiu followed the sequence upstairs and prepared to face her first combat encounter as Mia battered at the door.

• Lu Xiu realized the system had erased many recent everyday memories but left her memories of her previous life and the game intact.
• Lu Xiu arrived at the Baker Estate in her own body, which the dungeon made feel like she was wearing a form-fitting bodysuit as Ethan.
• Lu Xiu ignored the abandoned house’s frightening sights and clues, rushed through its opening, and reached Mia in the basement in under ten minutes.
• Lu Xiu followed Mia through the basement until they found the sealed exit, then waited in an adjoining room while Mia screamed and disappeared.
• Lu Xiu went upstairs through the dark, rain-soaked house and stopped at the basement door, expecting Mia to charge in and attack her.

Lu Xiu overcame her fear of fighting as she faced Mia’s violent attack in the basement. After Mia’s possession resurfaced and she attacked again, Lu Xiu fought back with an axe and struck her down.

• Lu Xiu opened the basement door, and Mia crawled up the stairs before throwing her down and attacking her with a knife.
• Lu Xiu defended herself with her hands, and Mia briefly regained control, dropped the knife, and collapsed.
• Lu Xiu treated her wounds in the bathroom and resolved to stop letting fear and assumptions define her.
• When Lu Xiu approached Mia, Mia woke and hurled her through a wooden wall, then advanced with her knife.
• Lu Xiu found an axe and struck Mia in the shoulder and chest before delivering a final blow to her neck.
• Mia fell to the floor, her madness fading as blood poured from her wound.

Lu Xiu endured Mia’s repeated attacks, lost her left hand, and finally killed Mia with the handgun. As the instance continued and the Baker Family arrived, a burly figure punched Lu Xiu, leaving her fate unresolved.

• Lu Xiu recovered the fuse and installed it after killing Mia, but Mia returned and pinned Lu Xiu’s left hand to the wall with a screwdriver.
• Mia severed Lu Xiu’s left hand with a chainsaw, but Lu Xiu collected it and climbed to the third floor to retrieve a handgun and bullets.
• Mia attacked Lu Xiu again at the attic ladder, and Lu Xiu shot her repeatedly until she collapsed and stopped moving.
• Lu Xiu left the room, but a burly figure appeared and punched her as the Baker Family began to arrive.

Lu Xiu cleared the Resident Evil 7 instance she had created, defeating the final BOSS with the plot weapon after charging through the farmstead without fear. The system awarded her an SSS rating and began teleporting her out, while she raged at being called a coward, crybaby, and lunatic.

• Lu Xiu fought her way through the farmstead, treating its traps, puzzles, and monsters as little more than obstacles.
• Lu Xiu injected the final BOSS with necrotoxin, then endured its giant mycelial form throwing her across the estate.
• Lu Xiu picked up the Albert weapon dropped by Chris's team and repeatedly shot the final BOSS until its body calcified and collapsed.
• Chris's team rescued Lu Xiu by helicopter, and the system confirmed that she had cleared the instance with 100% completion and an SSS rating.
• Lu Xiu cursed the system's evaluation until the countdown reached zero and teleported her out of the dungeon.

After clearing Resident Evil, Lu Xiu reviewed her S-rank instance evaluation and the rewards she had earned as both its creator and its player. She decided to take out a loan and launch the instance, then considered how to build her self-defense skills further.

• Lu Xiu read the S-rank evaluation for Resident Evil and learned that its theme earned players the skill Ordinary Person's Courage.
• Lu Xiu received Level 3 Constructor status, seven Mental Attribute points, and the SS-rank scouting skill Reverse Visual Imagery.
• Lu Xiu earned 2,400 Survival Points, attribute bonuses, and the SSS-rank skill Atypical Courage for her first clear of the instance.
• Lu Xiu compared Atypical Courage with Ordinary Person's Courage and found that her version was stronger and could be activated manually.
• Lu Xiu considered repeatedly clearing her own instances for Survival Points but decided to borrow money and put Resident Evil online for 200 points per ticket.
• Lu Xiu wondered whether to create an action game to gain offensive abilities, then tested a punch and worried that her real body was not like Ethan's.

After testing her new skills and inspecting her rewards from clearing the Resident Evil dungeon, Lu Xiu submitted an application for the Builder Special Fund. At the Dungeon Resource Management Division, Su Miao and Lin Xiao discovered that her civilian dungeon was rated S-rank.

• Lu Xiu used [Visual Mindscape] to map nearby living beings and confirmed she could activate it with a brief eye closure.
• Lu Xiu examined the S-ranked Hand Sanitizer and D-ranked MPM Pistol she had obtained from the [Resident Evil] dungeon.
• Lu Xiu submitted an application for the [Builder Special Fund] using the system menu.
• Su Miao and Lin Xiao discussed the poor reputation and low returns of most civilian dungeons at the Dungeon Resource Management Division.
• Su Miao noticed that Lu Xiu's [Resident Evil] application listed an S-rank rating and told Lin Xiao that an S-rank civilian dungeon had applied for funding.

Su Miao’s privately created Resident Evil dungeon received an S-rank rating, prompting the Coordination Bureau to approve Lu Xiu’s loan and plan to test the dungeon. Lu Xiu ignored the Bureau’s invitation and prepared to enter a dungeon with her newly issued survival points.

• Su Miao showed Lin Xiao Lu Xiu’s S-rank Resident Evil dungeon application, including its horror-survival format and chance to obtain skills.
• Su Miao forwarded the application through the Coordination Bureau until it reached Director Li Bao.
• Yan Fushou called the dungeon an impressive imitation and recommended approving Lu Xiu’s loan and inviting her to join the Central Planning Bureau.
• Li Bao ordered the Strategy Group to send people to clear the dungeon once it went live and asked Yan Fushou to arrange counseling for Jian Li.
• Lu Xiu received the approved loan, ignored an email and friend request from the Bureau, and realized she could finally enter a dungeon.

Lu Xiu launched her public S-rank [Resident Evil] Roleplay Instance, and the system automatically blurred key details in players’ memories to preserve its challenge. As forum users discovered the new instance and confirmed its rating, attention shifted from Zhao Heng’s S-rank clearance to Lu Xiu’s unexpected dungeon.

• Lu Xiu rejected an offline entrance and a designated-instance restriction, then submitted [Resident Evil] for launch without enabling clearance memory erasure.
• The system detected the instance’s optimal solution and automatically blurred players’ memories of key procedures, triggers, and puzzles after clears.
• Lu Xiu confirmed the final launch prompt, putting [Resident Evil] online as an S-rank instance.
• Zhao Heng drew attention on the forum by announcing that he had cleared the S-rank [Mist City Corridor] and planned to challenge an SS-rank instance.
• A forum user claimed to have found an S-rank private instance named [Resident Evil] and posted a screenshot listing Lu Xiu as its Architect.
• Forum users checked the database, confirmed that [Resident Evil] was real, and flooded the thread with reactions.

A screenshot of Lu Xiu’s S-rank player-made dungeon, [Resident Evil], ignited a forum debate, and Zhao Heng publicly claimed he would clear it easily. Curious despite his confidence, he entered the dungeon, while players across the land—including two members of the Coordination Bureau’s Strategy Group—also began entering.

• A screenshot revealed that Lu Xiu had created the first known S-rank player-made dungeon, [Resident Evil], prompting widespread speculation and excitement on the forum.
• Zhao Heng said the dungeon was likely modeled on a system dungeon and boasted that he would clear it easily.
• Privately, Zhao Heng questioned how Lu Xiu had earned an S rank and wondered what dungeon she had imitated.
• Zhao Heng deposited nearly sixty thousand Survival Points in the bank, then paid the entry fee and entered [Resident Evil].
• As forum interest grew, more players entered the dungeon, including two members of the Coordination Bureau’s Strategy Group.

Zhao Heng entered an S-ranked role-playing instance as Ethan Winters, an ordinary man searching for his missing wife, Mia, and followed the trail to a remote house in Louisiana. After finding disturbing signs of violence and encountering a mysterious old man, he entered a dark house whose door slammed shut behind him, leaving him unable to see.

• Zhao Heng realized the instance had stripped away his abilities and learned that he was playing Ethan Winters, who had come to Baker Estate to find Mia.
• He reached the chained gate of the main house, found a production crew’s proposal document in an abandoned van, and spotted an old man in a yellow work uniform.
• Zhao Heng found rotting animal remains and crawled beneath an archway decorated with severed limbs, saw blades, and barbed wire.
• He arrived at a wooden house and entered through its open door, which shut behind him and plunged the room into darkness.
• Zhao Heng panicked in the dark, unable to see the door or use any enhanced senses.

Zhao Heng explored a disgusting, unsettling house in the original Resident Evil instance while searching for his wife, enduring mounting psychological pressure and a terrifying trip through the flooded basement. He finally found a woman lying in a lit cell.

• Zhao Heng searched the abandoned house, finding grotesque filth, strange clues, and no enemies.
• Zhao Heng watched a videotape about a doomed crew exploring the same house and used its clue to uncover a hidden passage to the basement.
• Zhao Heng fell down broken stairs, lost his flashlight in the darkness, and recovered it before continuing.
• Zhao Heng waded through foul water and was startled by a swollen corpse that surfaced in his path.
• Zhao Heng reached a lit cell and found a woman lying on the bed.