Chapter Summaries

Key plot points and events

• Chen Feng finishes his first punishing day of system-mandated push-ups, squats, and sit-ups. Though initially afraid the exercise will seriously harm him, completing the plan instantly restores his energy and permanently improves his physique.
• Over the next week, he keeps training. His dormmates mock him at first, then marvel at his persistence.
• On the seventh day, Li Guolong, Fatty, and Yellow Hair explain their escape plan: steal the training-ground key from the Professor’s Office, get past the Pig Instructor at the main gate by getting him drunk, and evade the Imposter Model Students patrolling at night.
• The group plans to escape the following night, when the professor is expected to be away. Li says this timing comes from a map and key left by Chen Xinran, the only student said to have escaped the Academy.
• Chen recognizes that the professor’s absence is likely real, based on a radio report he remembers from a previous loop. However, he suspects the night patrol—not the professor or the key—is what doomed the earlier escape attempt.
• After completing his C-rank training plan, Chen reaches “Brick-Burst Level,” demonstrating his strength by crushing a brick into powder. The system warns that his Imposter transformation is already 50% complete and that continuing to train could interrupt his progress.

Character developments and interactions

• Chen shifts from dreading exercise to enjoying the steady transformation of his body. His growing confidence makes him believe he can protect the group from the Imposters.
• Li Guolong takes charge of the escape plan and trusts Chen with the office key, while admitting the group is uncertain about the professor’s schedule.
• Fatty and Yellow Hair provide comic relief through their teasing and game-like descriptions of the plan. Fatty’s “borrowed” wine from the cafeteria is meant to incapacitate the Pig Instructor.
• Chen listens to the others’ plan but privately assesses its weaknesses, especially the danger posed by the Imposter patrols.

Significant themes

• Discipline and self-improvement: Consistent effort turns Chen’s exhausting training into measurable, extraordinary strength.
• Trust and cooperation: The escape depends on the group coordinating their separate roles and relying on Chen.
• Danger beneath apparent progress: Chen’s strengthening body comes with the threat of becoming an Imposter, while the Academy’s escape plan may hide risks the others have overlooked.

Plot points and events

• Chen Feng secretly searches the professor’s office for the key needed to cross the foggy field. Discovering a hidden “real” office, he finds a sheep-head key in a desk drawer.
• After dark, Chen Feng, Li Guolong, Fatty, and Yellow Hair sneak out under the pretense of going to the bathroom. The key lets them cross the field, but it does not open the Academy’s heavily locked gates.
• Chen Feng searches the sleeping Pig Instructor’s guardhouse for another key but finds nothing. Yellow Hair suggests going to the dangerous sanatorium to cut the power; Li Guolong volunteers to go alone and asks the others to find his father, Captain Li, if they escape.
• Chen Feng then breaks the gate’s chain lock with sheer strength, making the dangerous trip unnecessary.

Character developments

• Chen Feng proves resourceful, observant, and exceptionally strong: he figures out how to reveal the real office, retrieves the key, and ultimately solves the gate problem by force.
• Li Guolong shows courage and self-sacrifice, ready to face the sanatorium alone so the others can escape. He is also revealed to be Captain Li’s son—and likely the lost child connected to Old Li’s engraved lighter.
• Yellow Hair is eager to claim credit for the escape despite having contributed little, though he becomes emotional during Li Guolong’s farewell.
• Fatty is skeptical and quick to tease, but joins in the heartfelt promise to return and rescue Li Guolong.

Themes and character interactions

• The group’s escape depends on teamwork, but the scene undercuts heroic sacrifice with Chen Feng’s unexpected, practical solution.
• The chapter contrasts emotional courage with physical ingenuity: Li Guolong prepares for a potentially fatal mission, only for Chen Feng to break the lock.
• The four tease and challenge one another throughout, then briefly unite in a sincere farewell. After Chen Feng’s success, Li Guolong is left embarrassed by his dramatic goodbye, and the others marvel at Chen Feng’s strength.

Key plot points and events

• The four escapees leave the seemingly peaceful village beside the monsters’ hideout and reach a road. Yellow Hair celebrates their escape, though it cost the group two lives.
• At a convenience store, Chen Feng knocks out the owner rather than risk trusting a possible monster. The group uses the owner’s unlocked phone to call for help.
• Yellow Hair’s call to his mother reveals that the world no longer recognizes him. Li Guolong offers hope that defeating the monsters may restore their memories.
• When calling the police, Li Guolong sensibly reports a kidnapping instead of mentioning monsters, and asks officers to come armed because many captives remain at the Academy.
• Before the police arrive, a van brings several White Coats. Chen Feng attacks, killing three ordinary White Coat Imposters with ease.
• A smiling, bespectacled White Coat steps out. The group recognizes him as the Professor, their powerful former tormentor.

Character developments

• Chen Feng is cautious and decisive, willing to knock out a stranger to protect the group. His newfound strength is clear in his effortless defeat of the White Coats, though the Professor’s arrival immediately makes him feel threatened.
• Yellow Hair (Wenbo) shifts from exuberant celebration to grief when his mother doesn’t recognize him, then quickly regains his spirits. He is impressed by Chen Feng’s fighting ability and regrets not leveling up.
• Li Guolong is practical under pressure: he chooses a credible story for the police and urges everyone to split up when the White Coats arrive.
• Fatty remains blunt and comic, teasing Yellow Hair while admiring Chen Feng’s strength.

Character interactions

• The group debates whether the village residents can be trusted, prompting Chen Feng to lead them farther away before seeking help.
• Yellow Hair’s call home exposes the painful consequence of escape: his identity has been erased from the outside world. Li Guolong and the others try to reassure him.
• Li Guolong takes charge of the police call, while Chen Feng recognizes his quick thinking.
• The others initially urge flight from the White Coats, but Chen Feng’s anger drives him to attack. Their admiration turns to alarm when the Professor appears.

Significant themes

• Identity and erasure: Yellow Hair’s family no longer knows him, suggesting the escapees have been cut off from their former lives.
• Trust and survival: The group treats even an ordinary shopkeeper as a possible threat, reflecting how danger has made suspicion necessary.
• Power and confidence: Chen Feng’s growth from a vulnerable captive to a formidable fighter marks a major change, but the Professor’s return shows that strength may not be enough.
• Dark humor amid horror: Jokes about cola, farts, and leveling up soften the tension without diminishing the danger.

Key plot points and events

• Professor Sheep captures Chen Feng and his companions after villagers report their escape. He reveals that no one has ever escaped the Academy: even Senior Chen Xinran, who got out, killed her parents and then herself.
• Chen Feng deliberately taunts Professor Sheep to buy time for the police. But Officer Hu believes Professor Sheep’s story—that the four are runaway patients—and returns them to the hospital.
• Back at the Fourth Mental Hospital, Professor Sheep transforms into a goat-like monster. The Rabbit Nurse mentions that a recent captive has agreed to join the staff, and refers to the hospital’s hidden leader, Dean Ox.
• The Rabbit Nurse uses a logbook to make Chen Feng and the others lose consciousness. Chen wakes on the sports field, apparently turned into an Imposter. He can hear and feel but cannot move, and the Save-Load System does not respond because he is not dead.
• Chen activates Lu Xun’s Blessing of Humility, but it does not free him: becoming an Imposter does not count as an abnormal status. He realizes the blessing system still works, however, and recalls that he has another system besides Save-Load.
• The chapter ends with a figure entering the dormitory on a rainy night and snapping Chen’s neck, suggesting he has found a way to trigger the Save-Load System again.

Character developments

• Chen Feng remains resourceful, provoking Professor Sheep to delay the capture and later searching for another way out when his usual system fails. His confidence gives way to genuine panic, then to defiant resolve.
• Yellow Hair, Li Guolong, and Fatty share Chen’s fear and frustration. Their warnings to the police are truthful but are dismissed as delusions.
• Professor Sheep is revealed as a monster who uses authority and the language of discipline to disguise his violence.
• Officer Hu proves complacent and dismissive, choosing the professor’s explanation over the captives’ testimony.
• The Rabbit Nurse appears cold and powerful, and her conversation with Professor Sheep hints that the hospital is recruiting captives into its ranks.

Significant themes

• Institutional abuse and disbelief: The police mistake the victims for troublesome patients and enable their return to captivity.
• Control and helplessness: Chen’s inability to move, despite remaining conscious and able to use some powers, creates a new kind of imprisonment.
• False hope and escalating danger: The failed police rescue and the revelation that escapees do not survive safely undermine the characters’ hopes.
• Adaptation and defiance: When one system fails, Chen resolves to rely on other abilities rather than surrender.

Character interactions

• Chen and his companions challenge Professor Sheep, while Chen uses provocation to stall him.
• Professor Sheep manipulates Officer Hu by presenting the escapees as violent patients; Officer Hu accepts his account and reprimands the captives.
• Yellow Hair tries to expose the monsters, but his warning only reinforces the police’s belief that the group is delusional.
• Professor Sheep and the Rabbit Nurse speak casually about the hospital’s staff, Dean Ox, and a newly recruited “colleague,” revealing the monsters’ confidence and organization.

Plot points and events

• Chen Feng wakes after deliberately summoning the Water Ghost to kill himself, using the save-load system to escape an otherwise hopeless situation. His previous training and rewards have carried over.
• When the Pig-Headed Man tries to have trainees strip him, Chen Feng fights back. He matches the monster’s strength, cracking the marble floor, but is punished with another seven days in solitary confinement.
• The system confirms Chen Feng has made two saves, has nine points, retains the Water Ghost and his completed first-stage training plan, and can unlock the next stage for one point.
• Choosing among system options, Chen Feng considers a cross-world chat group but decides it is too early to use. He activates what he expects to be a quest system—but it turns out to be a check-in system.
• The system reveals several check-in sites. Chen Feng checks in at two places in the Fourth Mental Hospital and learns he must visit the Basement and Nurses’ Station to finish. This means entering the dangerous sanatorium.
• Rather than force his way in, Chen Feng follows the advice of a deceased senior: pretend to be insane. He strips down to his underwear and runs toward the hospital, shouting that he is mad.

Character developments

• Chen Feng is more confident and capable than before, using his retained strength to resist the Pig-Headed Man and his trainees.
• He remains pragmatic: he recognizes the chat group system’s potential but postpones it until he has something to offer and is better prepared.
• Faced with the sanatorium’s unknown dangers, he adapts quickly, relying on observation, remembered advice, and the hospital’s behavioral rules rather than charging in blindly.

Character interactions

• Chen Feng openly defies the Pig-Headed Man and knocks down the trainees who try to strip him; the Pig-Headed Man responds with force, then sentences him to solitary confinement.
• Chen Feng communicates with and tests the system, choosing the check-in option and learning its requirements and rewards.
• The deceased senior’s notes influence Chen Feng’s plan to enter the sanatorium safely.

Significant themes

• Persistence and adaptation: Chen Feng turns failure and danger into opportunities to learn and prepare.
• Power and preparation: Even powerful systems are most useful when Chen Feng has the resources and strength to make use of them.
• Rules as survival tools: Understanding and exploiting the hospital’s rules can be safer than relying on force alone.
• Progress through risk: The check-in reward offers a reason to enter a place Chen Feng would otherwise avoid.

Plot points and events

• Chen Feng enters the sanatorium by pretending to be ill. He confirms that its monsters follow strict rules and identifies the glass-enclosed Nurses’ Station as his Check-In target.
• Over three days, he learns that patients must follow a rigid schedule and take medication. Rabbit Nurse records patients in a Logbook: after learning a person’s name, she can draw five circles beside it to erase their consciousness and turn them into an Imposter.
• Chen Feng’s attempt to Check-In from outside the Nurses’ Station fails. He considers attacking Rabbit Nurse but judges the odds too dangerous.
• He discovers that the patients include genuinely ill people, people who have encountered supernatural beings, and “Healed Ones”—Imposters created when patients are drugged for too long. The supernatural patients’ accounts reveal five-star Check-In locations, including Horror Amusement Park and Crazy Zoo.
• Chen Feng secretly avoids taking his sleeping pill, then disguises himself, breaks out of his room after lights-out, and heads down the corridor. The chapter ends with the reveal of a weak, half-human, half-snake demoness in the basement.

Character developments

• Chen Feng is wary and calculating, studying the sanatorium’s rules and Rabbit Nurse’s power before deciding when to act. Despite his fear, he ultimately chooses to explore the facility at night.
• He becomes increasingly disturbed by the number of Imposters and the possibility that humans may be outnumbered by supernatural beings.
• Rabbit Nurse is established as a watchful, rule-enforcing threat whose Logbook makes a direct confrontation especially dangerous.

Significant themes

• Rules and survival: Understanding and obeying a monster’s rules can keep someone safe, but only temporarily.
• Control and dehumanization: The sanatorium’s routines and medication strip patients of freedom and can transform them into Imposters.
• Uncertainty about reality: People dismissed as mentally ill may be accurately describing supernatural events.
• Hidden danger: The orderly appearance of the institution conceals a system that turns patients into threats to humanity.

Character interactions

• Chen Feng deceives the orderlies and Rabbit Nurse to enter the sanatorium, then follows instructions closely to avoid suspicion.
• A patient who believes he is a dog bites Chen Feng, illustrating the unpredictable behavior inside the ward.
• Chen Feng observes the other patients’ stories and connects them to supernatural locations, while keeping his own plans and medication evasion secret.
• The final scene introduces the demoness in the basement, setting up Chen Feng’s next encounter.

Key plot points and events

• She Qingqing has been imprisoned for three days in the Fourth Mental Hospital after the Rabbit Nurse offered to spare her only if she proved her loyalty by killing someone.
• She reflects on her isolation and her brief hope that Chen Feng genuinely cared for her. She had believed his confession and imagined bringing him to live with her in the mountains, but realized he had deceived her.
• Chen Feng finds her and apologizes for lying and knocking her unconscious. He argues that he saved her from the Landlady’s plan to use her as bait against the Water Ghost. She Qingqing accepts his explanation and thanks him.
• Chen Feng discovers that her cell needs two keys: one in Professor Sheep’s office and another at the Nurses’ Station. He promises to return and free her.
• At the Nurses’ Station, Chen Feng checks in, then attacks the Rabbit Nurse. A powerful barrier stops his blows and blocks attacks from every direction.
• The Nurse identifies Chen Feng through her Logbook and prepares to kill him. Rather than remain trapped as an Imposter for days, Chen Feng slits his own throat, ending the encounter for now.

Character developments

• She Qingqing is revealed as deeply lonely and distrustful, despite longing for companionship. Her disappointment in Chen Feng hardens into bitterness, though his apology quickly persuades her to trust him again.
• Chen Feng shows remorse toward She Qingqing but also remains manipulative, framing his actions to win her gratitude. He is resourceful in recalling the keys and quickly assesses the Nurse’s abilities, but retreats by killing himself when he cannot overcome her defense.
• The Rabbit Nurse demonstrates a formidable defensive ability and an apparent lethal attack tied to the Logbook, making her a dangerous opponent.

Significant themes

• Loneliness and belonging: She Qingqing’s desire for connection conflicts with her fear of betrayal and the violence expected among monsters.
• Trust and deception: She Qingqing’s romantic hopes collapse when she realizes Chen Feng’s confession was a trick; his later apology raises the question of whether trust can be rebuilt.
• Survival and moral compromise: The hospital demands that She Qingqing kill to earn a place among its ranks, while Chen Feng resorts to extreme self-harm to avoid its consequences.
• The divide between humans and monsters: She Qingqing’s anger reflects the chapter’s uncertainty about who is truly cruel or trustworthy.

Character interactions

• She Qingqing confronts Chen Feng with anger over his deception, but he reframes his actions as an unintended rescue, and she accepts his account.
• Their exchange reveals her desperate need for company: she begs him not to leave, then asks whether he will lie again. Chen Feng promises to return with the key.
• Chen Feng then faces the Rabbit Nurse, testing her barrier from multiple angles. Once she identifies him, he chooses to kill himself rather than let her finish the fight.

Key plot points

• Imprisoned in solitary confinement for seven days, Chen Feng plans to escape the Fourth Mental Hospital. He concludes that freeing She Qingqing is essential: her petrifying gaze could incapacitate Rabbit Nurse, whose barrier otherwise seems invulnerable.
• The escape requires both the Sheep-Face Key and Rabbit Face Key. Chen Feng realizes the Sheep-Face Key will be carried by Li Guolong on the seventh day, when the Trio’s attempt to steal it leads Li to venture into the sanatorium.
• He buys one extra Save-Load life, maintaining his rule of keeping at least two lives available to avoid being trapped by a bad save.
• Chen Feng opens a new system and obtains the Cyber Ascension System, which offers permanent body modifications. He installs an ordinary Sandevistan, giving him greatly enhanced speed and reflexes at the risk of bodily damage, memory loss, and eventually becoming a Cyberpsycho.
• After returning to the sanatorium, Chen Feng secretly tells She Qingqing his plan to kill Rabbit Nurse and escape. She doubts they can succeed, but he persuades her to try. The seventh day arrives.

Character developments and interactions

• Chen Feng remains calculating and resource-conscious: he carefully plans around the keys, his limited time, and the danger of exhausting his Save-Load lives. His confidence and jokes persist even in confinement.
• She Qingqing is initially skeptical and fearful of confronting Rabbit Nurse, but Chen Feng’s persuasion gets her to agree to cooperate.
• Chen Feng taunts the Drill Instructor before being locked away, then later approaches She Qingqing in secret to recruit her. His relationship with her shifts toward an uneasy alliance.

Significant themes

• Planning under pressure: Chen Feng solves a complex escape problem by piecing together what others will do and when.
• Risk versus power: The Sandevistan could give him a major advantage, but its serious long-term costs make the upgrade dangerous.
• Resource management and survival: Points and extra lives are precious, and Chen Feng treats both as safeguards rather than spending freely.
• Cooperation and trust: Escaping may depend on She Qingqing’s frightening ability, forcing Chen Feng to convince her to take a risk.

Key plot points and events

• Chen Feng ambushes Li Guolong in the sanatorium, then earns his trust by proving he works for Guolong’s father, Captain Li. Guolong reveals that people brought to the hospital have been erased from others’ memories.
• Guolong gives Chen the Sheep-Face Key. Chen asks him to draw Rabbit Nurse away from the Nurses’ Station so he can steal the second key. Though Rabbit Nurse can still kill Guolong if she watches him for a full minute, Guolong agrees.
• Guolong creates a disturbance and lures Rabbit Nurse away. Chen, having already dealt with the Imposter orderlies, searches the station and finds the other key.
• Chen uses both keys to open the isolation room and rescue She Qingqing. He enters with his eyes closed as she has not yet put on her blindfold, then receives four System Points for checking in at the Fourth Mental Hospital.
• Rabbit Nurse catches Guolong, but he survives by following Chen’s advice to act like a lunatic and roll around on the lawn, triggering a protective rule.
• Back at the sanatorium, Rabbit Nurse encounters two figures. The lights come on, revealing someone whose gaze begins petrifying her. Her glass barrier fails, allowing a masked man to appear beside her and burst her head with a sudden attack.

Character developments and interactions

• Chen Feng is resourceful and manipulative, carefully building trust with Guolong to enlist his help. He also shows loyalty to She Qingqing and keeps his promise to rescue her. A memory slip makes him mistakenly claim he had promised her in this life when the words came from a previous life.
• Li Guolong proves cautious and brave: he verifies Chen’s identity before trusting him, then risks himself to help. He survives by using Chen’s practical advice.
• She Qingqing is relieved and emotional when Chen rescues her, hugging him; her confusion over his supposed promise exposes his memory lapse.
• Rabbit Nurse shifts from calm confidence to alarm when her powers are countered and she is attacked.

Significant themes

• Trust and sacrifice: Chen and Guolong rely on each other despite the danger, with Guolong willingly serving as a decoy.
• Rules as survival tools: Understanding the hospital’s supernatural rules—such as Guolong’s protection from the Logbook and the lawn-triggered response—creates opportunities to survive.
• Memory and identity: The erasure of those taken to the hospital, along with Chen’s muddled memories across lives, complicates personal connections and truth.
• Coordinated resistance: The rescue depends on teamwork, timing, and exploiting the limits of the hospital’s monsters.

Plot points and events

• Chen Feng uses his Sandevistan to land a barrage of punches on the Rabbit Nurse, apparently destroying her head. She Qingqing is astonished, but the nurse soon reappears unharmed, revealing that she can revive while inside the hospital.
• Chen’s second attempt to attack her is stopped by a barrier. The Sandevistan’s repeated use causes nosebleeds, severe headaches, and dangerous strain on his unmodified body.
• Realizing the nurse’s immortality depends on the hospital, Chen uses the Sandevistan a third time to steal her Logbook and pen. He draws five circles on her entry, transforming her into an immobile, expressionless Imposter.
• Before collapsing, Chen explains that the surrounding villagers are Imposters and directs She Qingqing and Li Guolong to free the students and patients as a distraction while the group escapes to the Happiness Internet Cafe.
• Chen wakes the next day in the cafe’s staff dormitory. His companions confirm that they carried out the plan, released the captives, and evaded surveillance. News reports describe the escapees as dangerous psychiatric patients, while the hospital dean vows to recapture them.

Character developments and interactions

• Chen shows quick thinking and strategic ruthlessness: he turns the nurse’s own rules against her rather than continuing an unwinnable fight. His confidence, however, masks the serious physical and memory-related cost of using the Sandevistan.
• She Qingqing is concerned for Chen when he bleeds and later collapses. Li Guolong and the others follow Chen’s instructions and help the group escape.
• Chen’s memory is hazy after overusing the implant, so he initially forgets that he gave the escape plan. He nonetheless praises Li Guolong for carrying it out.
• The Rabbit Nurse shifts from taunting Chen to panic when she loses control of her body.

Significant themes

• Limits and consequences of power: Chen’s implant grants extraordinary speed, but his human body cannot safely sustain it.
• Adaptation and outsmarting stronger foes: Chen wins by exploiting the nurse’s stated weakness and the Logbook’s transformation ability, not by overpowering her.
• Freedom versus confinement: The escape from the hospital offers temporary safety, while the authorities and the dean seek to restore control.
• Unreliable appearances and narratives: The news presents the escapees as murderous lunatics, contrasting with the group’s experience of the hospital as a dangerous, supernatural prison.

Plot points and events

• Chen Feng decides that he and his companions should hide in the Internet Cafe for a month while the city’s Imposters hunt them. He promises Li Guolong he’ll return to the academy and rescue the students who were taken.
• She Qingqing prepares to leave for her secluded temple. She invites Chen Feng to join her, but he realizes he is drawn to danger and excitement, while she wants a peaceful life. They part with teasing remarks about meeting again.
• Chen Feng activates a month-long B-Rank Hero Training Plan, beginning its demanding daily exercises.
• Four people in white coats arrive at the cafe and force open the entrance. Chen Feng leads the others to the third floor, where human skins remain from a former monster. Yellow Hair faints at the sight.
• Chen Feng discovers that Li Guolong posted online about the academy’s crimes. As the group discusses this, they are compelled to repeat a strange chant about sin, the end of the world, and the “Holy Cow.”
• The chant triggers spontaneous combustion. Chen Feng uses his time-slowing ability to rush downstairs and attack the four intruders, killing them easily—but the flames and chant continue. He burns to death.

Character developments

• Chen Feng confirms that, despite being tempted by a quiet life with She Qingqing, he craves danger and intends to pursue revenge and rescue the academy’s captives. His confidence and drive remain strong even as he faces death.
• She Qingqing reveals her preference for a secluded, peaceful existence and accepts that she and Chen Feng are headed in different directions.
• Li Guolong tries to help the academy’s victims by posting warnings online, but his actions unintentionally expose the group to danger.
• Fatty and Yellow Hair show contrasting but limited responses: Fatty initially welcomes the prospect of staying in the cafe, while Yellow Hair is easily overwhelmed by the human skins.

Significant themes

• Different paths and desires: Chen Feng’s appetite for risk conflicts with She Qingqing’s wish for peace.
• Good intentions and consequences: Li Guolong’s attempt to warn others may have alerted their enemies.
• Power and vulnerability: Chen Feng can kill the intruders, yet cannot stop the supernatural curse they unleashed.
• Defiance in the face of danger: Chen Feng chooses to fight rather than wait helplessly, even when he believes death is unavoidable.

Character interactions

• Chen Feng reassures his companions and promises Li Guolong he will act within a month; Fatty’s joking briefly clashes with Li Guolong’s concern.
• Chen and She Qingqing share a tender, teasing farewell that underscores their different ambitions.
• Chen angrily confronts Li Guolong over his online posts, while Fatty tries to defend him.
• The group’s chant turns them against their will into instruments of the attack, culminating in Chen’s desperate attempt to stop the intruders.

Key plot points and events

• After loading a save, Chen Feng realizes that the Director’s chant has contaminated his memory. Whenever he remembers or begins reciting it, the curse causes him to burst into flames—even before anyone has posted online.
• He tries to block himself from speaking, but recalling another part of the chant triggers the fire anyway. Lu Xun’s Blessing briefly suppresses the curse, yet cannot remove the underlying memory, and the flames return when the protection fades.
• With time running out, Chen Feng opens a mystery box and unlocks the Super Avatar System, which lets him resurrect the recently dead Liu Xiaohu as a controllable alternate who can inherit his skills and die without harming him. The powerful new system, however, does not solve the immediate curse.
• Chen Feng loads his save once more, leaving him with five Points and no remaining saves. Concluding that he must erase the memory itself, he repeatedly activates the Sandevistan, gambling on its known risk of memory loss.
• He succeeds: Chen Feng wakes in the internet café, laughing with unsettling intensity. He then stops Li Guolong from registering a forum account and smashes the monitor to prevent him from posting.

Character developments

• Chen Feng shifts from relying on save-loading and luck to analyzing the curse and taking a deliberate, dangerous gamble. His apparent success comes with a disturbing, almost manic demeanor.
• The fat gamer goes from casual concern to fear, wondering whether Chen Feng’s laughter signals mental illness.
• Li Guolong is poised to post online but is forcibly stopped before he can do so.

Significant themes

• The limits of apparent safety: Save-loading restores Chen Feng physically but cannot undo memory-based threats, making repeated resets a potential trap.
• Knowledge as danger: Remembering the chant itself sustains the curse; information becomes a liability rather than an advantage.
• Risk and adaptation: Chen Feng survives by identifying the curse’s mechanism and exploiting a dangerous side effect of his cybernetic system.
• Power has limits: Both Lu Xun’s Blessing and the newly unlocked avatar system are potent, but neither directly addresses the immediate problem.

Character interactions

• Chen Feng’s attempt to warn the gamers comes out as a confession, confusing the fat gamer and revealing that the curse has affected him.
• The fat gamer helps Chen Feng after finding him collapsed, then becomes wary of his unnerving laughter.
• Chen Feng confronts Li Guolong, orders him not to try again, and destroys the monitor to prevent the planned post.

Plot points and events

• Back at the staff dormitory, Chen Feng reviews his remaining Points after the Director’s attack. He plans to strengthen the Save-Load System and restart Hero Training, leaving him with little to spend.
• He activates the Hextech System, a Series 03 system that offers three Augments after each load. Its first Augment is free.
• He rejects Recombobulator, which could turn his Water Ghost into a stronger monster, and Warrior’s Treasure, whose low monster-drop rates make earning Temporary Points impractical. He chooses AFK, which will grant 10 Temporary Points if his original body stays in the Happiness Internet Cafe for three weeks. His Incarnation can still act outside.
• Chen Feng summons his Incarnation, Liu Xiaohu, and reviews the agent’s memories. Liu Xiaohu was investigating the five-star Horror Amusement Park, a Phantasm zone, when he broke a rule and died.
• Chen Feng realizes the park is also a five-star Check-In location with numerous required attractions. Worried that Liu Xiaohu may die while dormant, he urgently decides to activate him.

Character developments and interactions

• Chen Feng shows greater restraint than before: although he considers repeatedly dying to unlock more systems, he recognizes the limits of that strategy and prioritizes saving Points.
• He weighs revenge against long-term growth, choosing the Augment that might eventually earn Points over one that offers immediate combat power.
• Liu Xiaohu’s memories give Chen Feng his first substantial insight into the world’s supernatural organizations and threats. Chen Feng’s internal reactions—especially his surprise at the monster classifications—add humor to the exposition.
• Chen Feng treats his Incarnation as an active agent whose safety matters, and the danger of the park quickly overrides his other plans.

Significant themes

• Resource management and long-term planning: Chen Feng must balance immediate strength, revenge, and future access to systems.
• Escalating supernatural danger: The world contains several distinct classes of monsters, while the five-star park appears more dangerous than the Mental Hospital.
• Knowledge as survival: Liu Xiaohu’s memories provide useful intelligence, but also reveal how deadly rule-based Phantasm zones can be.
• Risk and control: Chen Feng can exploit systems and Incarnations, but cannot fully protect them from the dangers they face.

Plot points

• Chen Feng awakens in the body of Liu Xiaohu at Horror Amusement Park, beside a lifelike inflatable monster. He realizes the Incarnation System has placed him in a stranger’s body, though he can control it naturally.
• He meets Meng Chengcheng, a Medium and Liu Xiaohu’s longtime crush. Chen learns that Liu was a devoted “simp,” repeatedly trying to win her attention with gifts and money.
• Chen finds the park’s Visitor Guide, which lists dangerous rules: visitors must keep the guide, guard their Game Coins, experience attractions, and avoid crying, among other restrictions.
• By reviewing Liu Xiaohu’s memories, Chen discovers how he died: he secretly gave Meng his starting Game Coin, despite the guide warning that coins were “as precious as life itself.” Chen takes the coin back.
• The squad’s mission is to collect ten Game Coins and exchange them for a souvenir—an item the organization wants because a red-eyed monster doll can apparently take a fatal attack in its owner’s place.
• Chen meets the rest of the five-person team: Taoist Lin He, Pastor Haman, and Exorcist captain Wu Changshan. He recognizes that Liu’s romantic rivalry with Lin He and his own lack of experience made the mission especially dangerous.

Character developments and interactions

• Chen Feng is practical and sharply judgmental of Liu Xiaohu’s choices. Rather than respond to Meng’s concern with his usual eagerness, he focuses on recovering the coin and understanding the park’s rules.
• Liu Xiaohu, known through memories, is revealed as inexperienced and reckless: he secretly paid to join a mission with a high death rate just to stay near Meng, and gave away a vital coin to impress her.
• Meng Chengcheng shows concern when Liu wakes, but her attention is rooted in friendship or duty rather than romance. She points Chen toward the other agents.
• Lin He is introduced as a capable Taoist and Liu’s romantic rival; Chen views him as having the familiar background of a heroic protagonist.
• Haman is a powerful but vice-ridden Pastor who often borrowed money from Liu, while Wu Changshan is the experienced, sharp-eyed squad captain.

Significant themes

• Rules and survival: The guide’s rules govern the park’s supernatural dangers, making careful observation essential.
• Obsession versus judgment: Liu’s infatuation clouds his judgment, while Chen’s pragmatic attitude may improve his chances.
• The price of life: Game Coins are explicitly linked to survival, and the red-eyed doll offers a literal way to trade an object for protection from death.
• Danger and competence: The mission sends a wildly unqualified agent into a place where most people do not return, highlighting both institutional recklessness and the importance of skill.

Key plot points and events

• The team rests before Horror Amusement Park opens. Captain Wu explains that the Mental Hospital’s Director survived a recent battle with Class B Agents, while five escapees—including the people who fought their way out—killed the Nurse. Chen Feng privately realizes the group is unknowingly praising him.
• The park’s eerie song announces its opening. Visitors must complete at least five of its ten attractions to leave.
• The team debates which games to try. Chen Feng recommends Ring Toss, Goldfish Catching, and the air rifle game, while avoiding the maze, Haunted House, and roller coaster, which offer less control if danger appears. Captain Wu agrees and leads them to Goldfish Catching.
• At the attraction, posted rules require each visitor to catch one fish without damaging the net, and warn that anyone who fails to catch one within an hour will fail.
• A girl catches a goldfish, but it reveals sharp teeth and chews through the net. The instant the net tears, she dives into the river, where a swarm of vicious fish consumes her in a burst of blood.

Character developments

• Chen Feng moves from being dismissed as a useless tagalong to offering a thoughtful, practical plan. His teammates begin to glimpse that he may be more capable than they assumed.
• Captain Wu is cautious and willing to listen to Chen Feng’s reasoning.
• Lin He resents Chen Feng’s challenge to his suggestion and falls behind the group with visible malice.
• Meng Chengcheng initially assumes the attractions will be easy, but is surprised to see Chen Feng speak up.
• Chen Feng’s hidden confidence contrasts with the team’s ignorance: he knows he is the person they are discussing as one of the formidable hospital escapees.

Significant themes

• Appearances deceive: The goldfish look ordinary but are deadly; the park’s cheerful song masks lethal rules.
• Knowledge versus ignorance: Experienced visitors recognize the danger, while newcomers treat the bones and fish-headed proprietor as harmless decorations.
• Rules govern supernatural danger: The girl’s punishment follows immediately from damaging the net.
• Misjudged ability: Chen Feng is underestimated by the team despite his experience and sound judgment.

Character interactions

• Captain Wu shuts down the Pastor’s and Lin He’s insults, insisting that Chen Feng is part of the team.
• The Pastor sarcastically hints that they need someone as capable as the hospital escapees, unaware Chen Feng is one of them.
• Chen Feng rebukes Lin He’s suggestion that the maze and Haunted House are safe, explaining why more controllable games are preferable.
• The team follows Captain Wu’s decision to start with Goldfish Catching, where they witness the attraction’s true danger.

Key plot points and events

• Visitors realize the goldfish-catching attraction is deadly: the fish can bite through nylon rope, and guests cannot leave Paradise until they clear five attractions.
• The team debates how to catch a fish safely. Meng Chengcheng reasons that the rules require collecting a net but do not require using it—or catching a live fish.
• Lin He uses a magical Coin Sword to kill a goldfish. Captain Wu then shoots another with his enchanted firearm, Holy Judgment, and exchanges it for a Game Coin.
• Captain Wu lends the gun to Meng Chengcheng and Pastor Haman. They succeed, though the pastor wastes several expensive rounds.
• When Chen Feng (disguised as Liu Xiaohu) cannot operate the gun, he claims to have another idea. He infers that the rules’ mention of fishbowls may point to a safer way to catch the dangerous fish.
• Chen Feng walks to the river with a bowl, then shocks the others by reaching his arm into the water. The chapter ends before the result is revealed.

Character developments and interactions

• Chen Feng continues balancing his own intelligence against the need to maintain Liu Xiaohu’s foolish, lovesick persona. He avoids offering analysis when first asked, then finds a clever alternative—but his decision to reach into the river creates suspense.
• Meng Chengcheng demonstrates confidence and quick reasoning by identifying that the team need not use the nets. She is surprised by Chen Feng’s apparent insight.
• Captain Wu is practical and protective: he shares his weapon with the team, but his frustration over wasted ammunition makes him curse at the pastor. He softens when he thinks Chen Feng may be upset.
• Lin He displays magical skill and competitiveness, hoping to impress Chengcheng. He mocks Chen Feng’s plan and expects it to fail.
• Pastor Haman contributes a risky suggestion, then helps shoot the fish, though his poor aim irritates Captain Wu.
• The team’s cooperation contrasts with the rivalry and teasing between Lin He and Chen Feng over Chengcheng’s attention.

Significant themes

• Rules and lateral thinking: Success depends on questioning assumptions rather than following the obvious method.
• Appearance versus reality: The attraction looks like entertainment but is lethal; Chen Feng also hides his real abilities behind Liu Xiaohu’s persona.
• Teamwork under pressure: Members share weapons and ideas, even as fear and frustration strain their relationships.
• Resourcefulness and risk: The team must conserve costly ammunition and find safer ways to survive, while Chen Feng’s unconventional move may prove dangerous.

Key plot points and events

• Chen Feng completes the Goldfish Catching attraction by pulling a fishbowl from a river teeming with flesh-eating goldfish. He is bitten, but his unusually durable body makes the injuries minor. The group earns Game Coins.
• Visitors who refuse to play eventually plunge into the river as if compelled, reinforcing the park’s deadly rule: visitors must participate or die.
• Lin He proposes the Air Rifle attraction, hoping Chen Feng’s poor shooting will make him look foolish—or get him killed. Chen Feng agrees, believing the park’s rules must be survivable even without special skills.
• The Air Rifle’s rules require players to enter a forest alone, survive for ten minutes, and defeat ten attacking monsters with ten bullets. Others may not watch, suggesting observation could reveal a hidden advantage.
• As players disappear and the line grows more frightening, Meng Chengcheng attempts Spirit Communion to gather information. She struggles because an outsider ghost interferes, but eventually makes contact.

Character developments and interactions

• Chen Feng shows nerve and resilience at the fish attraction, while continuing to reason that the park’s challenges must have a way for ordinary people to survive. His success unsettles Lin He.
• Lin He grows jealous and threatened by Chen Feng’s apparent confidence and closeness with Meng Chengcheng. He deliberately pushes the group toward an attraction he thinks will expose Chen’s weakness.
• Meng Chengcheng remains the team’s strategist and uses her Medium abilities to investigate the Air Rifle challenge. Her teasing exchange with Chen Feng briefly lightens the tension.
• Captain Wu relies on Meng Chengcheng’s judgment and backs her plan to use Spirit Communion.

Significant themes

• Survival through participation: The park forces people to play its deadly games; avoidance is no safer than taking part.
• Hidden rules and observation: The Air Rifle’s restriction on spectators implies that success may depend on discovering concealed information, not simply marksmanship.
• Rivalry and mistrust: Lin He’s jealousy turns the group’s choice of attraction into a potential threat to Chen Feng.
• Unusual abilities and practical limits: Meng Chengcheng’s spiritual powers offer help, but her current stage limits her to one communion a day, and even that can be disrupted.

Plot points and events

• Medium Meng Chengcheng communes with a recently deceased visitor. The spirit reveals that balloon monsters use a decoy-and-ambush tactic: one draws attention while another attacks from above with its razor-sharp string.
• The five-person team reaches the forest attraction, where visitors must survive inside for ten minutes. Only two people among the dozens who have gone before them have cleared it.
• Deputy Captain Pastor volunteers first and returns alive, but a balloon monster has severed his arm. His Prayer ability stops the bleeding but cannot restore the limb.
• Captain Wu goes next and returns with a deep chest wound, which Pastor treats. Lin He also survives, but his protective Bagua Mirror is shattered.
• Their injuries and losses suggest that even skilled fighters are vulnerable. Chen Feng reasons that surprise attacks, rather than simply overwhelming numbers, may explain what happened—but he cannot ask the others for details because of the game’s rules.
• Captain Wu orders Meng Chengcheng and Liu Xiaohu not to enter. Meng argues that she must try, since she may otherwise lose her chance to complete the mission. Before the dispute is resolved, Lin He reveals that Liu Xiaohu has already entered the forest.

Character developments and interactions

• Meng Chengcheng demonstrates the practical value of her Medium ability by extracting useful information from the dead. Though usually calm, she insists on taking her turn despite the danger.
• Pastor proves brave and stoic: he risks himself for the team, treats injuries, and jokes about adapting to life with one arm.
• Captain Wu acts protectively, volunteering first and later trying to shield the less combat-capable members. His concern clashes with Meng’s determination.
• Lin He survives an ambush by using his Bagua Mirror, though he loses the artifact. He also taunts the group by revealing that Liu Xiaohu has already gone in.
• Chen Feng quietly analyzes the evidence and admires Meng’s ability, while privately resenting Lin He for getting the chance to praise her first. His thoughts also reveal his growing understanding of Liu Xiaohu’s jealousy.

Significant themes

• Survival through information: Meng’s communion with the dead gives the team insight, but knowledge does not eliminate danger.
• Courage and sacrifice: Pastor and Captain Wu accept personal risk to protect the group.
• Limits and responsibility: Captain Wu urges Meng to recognize her vulnerability, while she sees the mission as worth the risk.
• Uncertainty and hidden danger: Even experienced fighters are caught off guard, leaving the group—and Chen Feng—to question what the forest’s true threat is.

Plot and events

Chen Feng enters a deadly balloon-shooting game, where failed players’ bodies litter the forest. Low on stamina after repeatedly using his Sandevistan, he decides to rely on observation and caution.
The first balloon rushes him. Chen Feng discovers that a gunshot briefly freezes a balloon even when the pellet misses, giving him time to aim again. He also learns that the monsters’ thin string tails can cut deeply, making close contact dangerous. By testing his theory on another balloon, he confirms that the stun can be repeated.
Chen Feng kills several monsters and deduces that each balloon consumes a pellet when hit, while missed pellets can be recovered. With only one pellet available for the final monster, he considers surviving by stalling rather than risking a difficult shot. A hidden pair of balloons nearly ambushes him, but he remembers Meng Chengcheng’s warning and defeats them safely. At the end, only one monster remains. Chen Feng waits rather than attack, and the game ends before he can kill it—costing him the chance to earn a Game Coin but preserving his avatar. Just as he accepts this trade-off, he realizes something may be wrong.

Character developments and interactions

• Chen Feng proves resourceful under pressure, carefully testing the game’s mechanics and adapting his strategy. He prioritizes survival and completing his check-in over rewards, showing that he is cautious rather than recklessly heroic.
• Meng Chengcheng does not appear directly, but her earlier warning helps Chen Feng recognize and avoid an ambush. He increasingly appreciates her value as a medium.
• The game’s owner starts the challenge and later signals that time has expired.

Themes

• Survival versus reward: Chen Feng gives up the Game Coin rather than gamble his life on a low-probability shot.
• Careful observation and improvisation: Understanding the rules becomes as important as marksmanship.
• The danger of appearances: A harmless-looking string tail is lethal, and seemingly obvious targets may conceal traps.
• Caution and uncertainty: Even after making a rational choice, Chen Feng’s final realization suggests the situation may not be over.

Key plot points

• At the Air Rifle attraction, Chen Feng realizes the rules’ “ten monsters” include the owner, not just the balloons. When the owner attacks, he shoots it, takes its Game Coin, and completes the attraction’s Daily Check-in.
• Chen Feng returns from the forest unharmed, astonishing Captain Wu, Lin He, and the pastor. Captain Wu briefly suspects that the man may not really be Liu Xiaohu.
• To avoid drawing further suspicion, Chen Feng warns Meng Chengcheng about the owner—deliberately forfeiting his newly earned coin—and acts foolishly enough to seem like the familiar, lovesick Liu Xiaohu.
• Meng clears the attraction herself and plans to confront Xiao Hu. Chen Feng instead leaves for the hotel, then resumes training at Happiness Internet Cafe, leaving her unanswered when she comes to his room.

Character developments and interactions

• Chen Feng proves observant and resourceful, spotting the attraction’s hidden rule. He is also calculating: he limits his apparent success, protects his Incarnation’s cover, and remains indifferent to Liu Xiaohu’s romantic entanglements.
• Captain Wu shifts from anger and suspicion to relief when Chen Feng behaves like the “simp” he recognizes. He is also mindful not to reveal the attraction’s secret while Meng still has to play.
• Meng Chengcheng is initially annoyed by Chen Feng’s warning, but privately recognizes that it may have saved her. She finishes the game and seeks an explanation, only to be stood up.
• Lin He expects Chen Feng to fail and relishes the prospect of Meng rejecting him, but Chen Feng’s survival and behavior repeatedly surprise him.

Significant themes

• Careful interpretation of rules: Hidden wording can reveal the real danger in a seemingly simple game.
• Deception and identity: Chen Feng must perform Liu Xiaohu’s foolish persona to conceal his own competence.
• Self-preservation over appearances: He sacrifices a Game Coin and ignores social expectations to protect his plans and return to training.
• Dramatic irony: Others interpret Chen Feng’s actions as romantic foolishness, while he sees them as practical choices—and has little interest in the relationship drama.