Chapter Summaries

Key plot points and events

• After finishing a late-night workout and meal, Chen Feng switches to his Incarnation, Liu Xiaohu, and is immediately struck by intense hunger. He finds the amusement park’s buffet-style Dining Hall, where food is free.
• There, he discovers that visitors are trading attraction secrets. They have learned that revealing information costs Game Coins, that sharing a secret with multiple people costs a coin per person, and that anyone who learns an attraction’s secret cannot earn its completion coin. Visitors who have not tried an attraction can compare observations without penalty.
• Chen trades information with Mr. Wang. Chen reveals that the Air Rifle attraction requires killing ten monsters—and that the owner counts as one. Wang explains the Haunted House’s central rule: never look back. It brings a visitor’s fears to life and uses convincing tricks, including familiar voices and a false exit.
• Wang says he escaped one illusion by checking for the Game Coin he expected to receive upon completing the attraction. Chen points out that Wang’s own disclosure now prevents Chen from earning that coin, exposing a flaw in Wang’s advice.
• Chen then suggests Wang may still be trapped in an illusion, and Wang panics, mistaking Chen for the attraction’s owner. The scene is revealed as a hypothetical imagining: Chen is actually speaking with a real Haunted House survivor in the Dining Hall.
• The survivor says the Haunted House repeatedly deceives visitors, but its true solution is to endure until the park closes at 7 a.m. He spent twelve hours inside and warns Chen that surviving may leave someone mentally broken.
• A system notification tells Chen that his Haunted House check-in is invalid because he cannot obtain a Game Coin.

Character developments and interactions

• Chen Feng adapts quickly to the park’s rules, spots the practical value of information trading, and uses humor and skeptical questions to test what he hears. His imagined exchange with Wang shows how readily he considers the possibility that even apparent safety or evidence could be part of an illusion.
• Mr. Wang presents himself as clever and confident, but his advice contains a contradiction: by sharing the Haunted House secret, he prevents Chen from using the expected Game Coin to verify an escape. In Chen’s imagined version of events, Wang’s confidence collapses when confronted with the possibility that he never escaped.
• The Haunted House survivor offers Chen a more reliable account, emphasizing endurance rather than cleverness and warning him of the psychological cost.
• The exchanges are shaped by mistrust: visitors need one another’s knowledge, but sharing it can cost both money and the chance to complete an attraction.

Significant themes

• Trust and uncertainty: Information may be helpful, incomplete, or itself a trap.
• Rules as survival tools—and hazards: Visitors study loopholes, but the Game Coin system makes knowledge costly.
• Fear and perception: The Haunted House turns private fears into convincing illusions and undermines confidence in what is real.
• Survival’s price: Escaping danger may come at the cost of sanity, while Chen’s invalid check-in shows that not every attraction is worth attempting.

Key plot points and events

• After learning that people given leaked mission information lose eligibility for Game Coins, Chen Feng worries about Meng Chengcheng. She confronts Liu Xiaohu (Chen Feng in disguise), angry that his warning made her fail the mission, but awkwardly thanks him for protecting her. His joking marriage proposal earns an immediate “Get lost!”
• Captain Wu reports survival estimates for the amusement park’s attractions. The team rules out Ring Toss, suspecting its apparent 100% survival rate is misleading, and chooses Hide-and-Seek and Bumper Cars.
• At Hide-and-Seek, the rules require players to find mascot costumes, remain inside the castle, and survive a one-hour game. Players are safe for the first half-hour; then giant, human-intelligent cats hunt them. Wearing a costume is required to earn a Game Coin.
• Meng Chengcheng suggests that avoiding the costumes may improve a player’s odds of survival, though it means forfeiting the coin. Lin He tries to provoke her and Chen Feng into taking risks, but Captain Wu and Pastor volunteer to wear costumes. Chen Feng then insists that everyone wear one.
• The team watches the first round rather than joining it. A visitor who enters the castle to investigate is immediately killed by a giant cat, proving that even spectators are unsafe inside. After an hour, only two of the ten players emerge alive, and neither wore a costume; none of the costumed players survive.

Character developments and interactions

• Chen Feng/Liu Xiaohu remains irreverent, using jokes to deflect tension, but also takes a conspicuous risk by volunteering for a costume. His interactions with Meng Chengcheng mix teasing, protectiveness, and her growing, reluctant interest in him.
• Meng Chengcheng is frustrated by losing her mission eligibility but channels that frustration into careful strategic analysis. Her pride makes her susceptible to Lin He’s provocation.
• Captain Wu takes responsibility for the group’s safety, while Pastor supports him as deputy captain. Their willingness to shoulder danger contrasts with Lin He’s self-interested scheming.
• Lin He hopes to shift danger onto Chen Feng and Meng Chengcheng, but ultimately stays quiet when the plan changes.

Significant themes

• Survival versus reward: The costume rule forces players to choose between earning Game Coins and reducing their chances of being hunted.
• Information and unintended consequences: Chen Feng’s warning protects Meng Chengcheng but costs her the chance to complete the mission.
• Trust, sacrifice, and self-interest: Captain Wu and Pastor accept risk for the team, while Lin He tries to manipulate others to protect himself.
• Misleading appearances: The park’s survival statistics—and the apparently harmless role of spectators—prove unreliable.

Plot points and events

• Captain Wu’s group enters the Castle and finds ten realistic Mouse Mascot Costumes. They scout the sprawling, four-level building and identify possible hiding places and weapons.
• Meng Chengcheng suggests the Cattery might be a safe hiding spot before the cats begin hunting. The group investigates and finds ten enormous Black Cats eating human remains.
• Chen Feng proposes killing the cats during the protected thirty-minute period. Lin He blinds one with his Coin Sword, and Captain Wu brings it down with gunfire—but it revives, revealing that the cats are extraordinarily difficult to kill. The group abandons the attack.
• Through Spirit Communion, Meng Chengcheng learns how one victim tried to hide in the Bathhouse using water, noise, and perfume. The cats ignored those defenses, found her immediately, and tortured her to death, showing they are clever and terrifyingly cruel.
• Back in the hall, the group finds six costumes left. Captain Wu and the others put them on, discovering that the suits enhance their speed and hearing but turn their speech into squeaks.
• When the thirty minutes end, the cats leave the Cattery and the hunt begins.

Character development and interactions

• Chen Feng remains quick-thinking and irreverent, proposing both scouting the Cattery and attacking the cats while they are temporarily unable to hunt. He also comforts the shaken Meng Chengcheng by bringing her water.
• Meng Chengcheng shows initiative by proposing the Cattery plan and using Spirit Communion to uncover a victim’s hiding strategy. Witnessing the victim’s death deeply frightens her.
• Captain Wu leads the group’s reconnaissance and decisions, tests the cats with his firearm, and looks after Meng Chengcheng by asking Chen Feng to help her.
• Lin He bravely attacks a cat but discovers how little a normal strike can accomplish.
• The group works together to assess the Castle and exchange survival ideas, but the cats’ intelligence and apparent resilience undermine their confidence.

Significant themes

• Appearances and assumptions are dangerous: the cats defy expectations about water, scent, and noise, and the Mascot Costumes alter their wearers in unexpected ways.
• Knowledge is necessary but not sufficient: careful preparation and scouting help, yet even a victim’s well-planned hiding place cannot guarantee survival.
• Survival under pressure: the characters must improvise, share information, and face frightening choices as the rules shift from preparation to pursuit.
• Monstrous intelligence and cruelty: the cats are not merely powerful predators; they deliberately exploit human expectations and prolong their victim’s suffering.

Plot points and events

• Five non-agent players enter the Castle alongside the Agent Squad. Most wear Mascot Costumes to improve their chances of survival. Because players must complete five attractions but only four seem relatively safe, they need information about the especially dangerous games.
• The players choose different hiding places: a homeless man hides in garbage, a civil engineering student finds a secret room, a painter disguises himself with paint and hides under a bed, and two brothers conceal themselves inside wine barrels.
• The agents also prepare: Lin He climbs to the roof, the Pastor hides in the Chapel, Captain Wu plans to fight from the Training Ground, and Meng Chengcheng hides near the Cattery before sneaking into its enormous Litter Box. Chen Feng’s location remains unknown.
• The Black Cats search familiar hiding places first. Lin He spots One-Eyed Cat and uses sword light to lure it toward the homeless man, who is caught and brutally killed.
• Realizing the cats are too dangerous to fight, Lin He prioritizes his own survival. He then draws three cats into the Chapel by blasting a hole in its ceiling. The Pastor recognizes Lin’s betrayal and shouts his name.

Character developments

• Meng Chengcheng applies what she learned through Spirit Communication, reasoning that the cats will search the safest places first and overlook a dangerous one. She acts on this by hiding in the Cattery’s Litter Box.
• Lin He reveals himself as calculating and ruthless. Faced with the cats’ strength, he abandons his costume, sacrifices a stranger, then turns on a teammate to divert danger from himself.
• The Pastor shifts from trusting fate to fighting for his life—and immediately understands that Lin He has betrayed him.
• Captain Wu remains pragmatic, choosing a location that lets him confront the monsters rather than depend on hiding.

Significant themes

• Self-preservation versus loyalty: Lin chooses survival over compassion or team solidarity.
• Intelligence and strategy: The players’ survival depends on studying the Castle, anticipating the cats, and exploiting their habits.
• The cruelty of the game: The cats deliberately prolong the homeless man’s suffering, while the rules force players into dangerous choices.
• Appearance versus reality: Costumes and hiding places offer advantages, but they cannot guarantee safety.

Character interactions

• Lin manipulates the Black Cats’ sharp hearing by making noise near the homeless man, then again near the Chapel.
• Meng’s strategy is shaped by information from her earlier contact with the game’s dead.
• Lin’s attack on the Chapel turns the Black Cats against the Pastor, who recognizes the act as a deliberate betrayal.

Plot points and events

• Three black cats return from the Chapel after killing the Pastor. Captain Wu rushes to avenge him, shoots the cats, and fights off reinforcements. Although he is badly wounded, he sacrifices himself with a Psionic Grenade, destroying three cats permanently.
• Lin He, watching from above, counts the losses and considers using Meng Chengcheng to draw the monsters away. He tries to stop the one-eyed cat from climbing toward him, but the cat learns from the repeated attacks and follows him.
• Lin blinds the one-eyed cat, then uses his own blood to empower the Coin Sword and strike six sword beams at once, blinding three more cats. He celebrates his sudden breakthrough—but the one-eyed cat has killed itself and revived to restore its sight, then kills Lin.
• In the Cattery, Meng Chengcheng hears the others die and realizes she may be the last survivor besides the missing Xiao Hu. The scarred one-eyed cat then returns to her hiding place.

Character developments and interactions

• Captain Wu lives up to his creed of never abandoning a teammate: he tries to save the Pastor and sacrifices himself to eliminate the cats. His courage and marksmanship contrast with the monsters’ ability to revive.
• Lin He shifts from calculating and self-preserving to improvising under pressure. His genuine breakthrough and clever tactics briefly offer hope, but his overconfidence—and the cat’s intelligence—prove fatal.
• Meng Chengcheng is overwhelmed by fear and isolation as she hears the deaths of those around her. Her next encounter with the returning cat leaves her in immediate danger.
• The Pastor’s hidden combat strength, Captain Wu’s rescue attempt, and Lin He’s effort to avoid sacrificing Meng Chengcheng reveal how the survivors’ fates are tightly linked, even as Lin increasingly treats others as potential distractions.

Significant themes

• Unfair survival: The monsters can revive, while humans die from a single mistake.
• Intelligence and adaptation: The cats learn from their opponents and exploit their tactics.
• Hope overturned: Lin’s dramatic breakthrough resembles a heroic turning point, but it cannot overcome the brutal rules of Cihang City.
• Self-preservation versus loyalty: Captain Wu dies protecting others, while Lin weighs others’ lives against his own chances.

Key plot points

• In the Cattery, Meng Chengcheng hides in a litter box as a Black Cat approaches. She realizes the cats may be people wearing Black Cat costumes—the counterpart to the Mouse Mascot Costumes—and that the costumes explain the game’s rules and its thirty-minute window.
• Chen Feng, disguised in a Black Cat hide, protects Meng Chengcheng. He has gained enhanced strength, agility, hearing, and resistance to fatal injuries, but the disguise makes him increasingly violent and drawn to the scent of human flesh. He kills the approaching One-Eyed Cat and gives Meng Chengcheng its hide, allowing her to escape detection.
• The Hide-and-Seek game ends with four survivors: Chen Feng, Meng Chengcheng, the painter, and the younger brother. The painter survives through careful hiding; the younger brother survives because he and his brother exploited the costume rule, though the older brother sacrificed himself to mislead a cat.
• Chen Feng and Meng Chengcheng remove their Black Cat costumes before their growing aggression turns them into monsters. The game’s player limit drops from ten to seven, and Chen Feng notes that the captain killed three monsters.
• Back at the inn, Chen Feng comforts the shaken Meng Chengcheng and promises to get her out. She develops a crush on him and considers moving into his room. Before she can act, she senses the long-following ghost and uses Spirit Communion to identify it as Liu Xiaohu.

Character developments and interactions

• Meng Chengcheng moves from terror and helplessness to insight, correctly deducing the costume trick. After the captain’s death, she breaks down and seeks reassurance from Chen Feng; his kindness deepens her romantic feelings. She then confronts the ghost pursuing her.
• Chen Feng demonstrates resourcefulness and protectiveness, using the Black Cat disguise to save Meng Chengcheng. He also recognizes the danger of the costume’s effects and removes it before losing control.
• The younger brother survives through a risky loophole, but his brother’s sacrifice leaves him visibly grief-stricken rather than relieved.
• The chapter also highlights the strained bond between Chen Feng and Meng Chengcheng: she relies on his confidence and protection, while he offers reassurance without initially recognizing her romantic attachment.

Significant themes

• Rules, loopholes, and inference: Survival depends on reading rules carefully and questioning assumptions about the game.
• The cost of survival: Several characters live only through sacrifice, and victory does not erase grief.
• Transformation and self-control: The Black Cat costumes offer power but threaten to make their wearers monstrous.
• Trust and emotional dependence: In a hostile environment, Chen Feng’s promise of safety becomes a source of comfort—and romantic hope—for Meng Chengcheng.

Key plot points and events

• Meng Chengcheng uses Spirit Communion to inspect the dead Liu Xiaohu’s memories and learns that Lin He deliberately tricked him into giving away his Game Coins. Because the coins were life-preserving, Liu Xiaohu collapsed and died.
• The memory confirms Lin He’s role in Xiao Hu’s death, but leaves Meng Chengcheng unsure who—or what—the current “Liu Xiaohu” is.
• She concludes that a supernatural entity has taken over Xiao Hu’s body. Believing it may be using her to infiltrate her organization, she decides to conceal her suspicions, stay close to it for survival, and report it once she returns to base.
• The next afternoon, Chen Feng offers Meng Chengcheng strawberry ice cream before they enter the Bumper Cars attraction. She dislikes his thoughtless gesture but accepts it to keep him on her side.
• When she suggests exchanging attraction information, Chen Feng hesitates because he needs to earn Game Coins. She misreads his silence as a monster’s confidence in its own knowledge and supplies him with an excuse. He goes along with it, and they enter the attraction together.

Character developments

• Meng Chengcheng shifts from grief and anger to suspicion and strategic caution. She now believes Xiao Hu is a monster, yet plans to act affectionate and cooperative until she can reach safety.
• Chen Feng, unaware that his cover is compromised, tries to act like a devoted admirer. He mistakes Meng Chengcheng’s calculated friendliness for genuine affection and credits his success to romance anime.
• Liu Xiaohu is shown in memory as trusting and eager to please: Lin He exploits his feelings for Meng Chengcheng to persuade him to surrender his Game Coins.
• Lin He is revealed as manipulative and directly responsible for setting Xiao Hu’s death in motion.

Significant themes

• Deception and mistaken assumptions: Meng Chengcheng and Chen Feng both misread each other, each believing they understand the other’s motives.
• Survival through performance: Meng Chengcheng hides her fear and suspicion, while Chen Feng plays the role of a romantic admirer.
• Trust exploited: Lin He weaponizes Xiao Hu’s affection and trust, turning a well-meant gesture into a fatal mistake.
• Humanity and monstrosity: Meng Chengcheng’s feelings for someone she now believes is a monster complicate her resolve to treat it as an enemy.

Character interactions

• Lin He manipulates Liu Xiaohu by framing the Game Coins as less important than the souvenir doll, encouraging him to put them in Meng Chengcheng’s bag.
• Chen Feng offers Meng Chengcheng ice cream; she pretends to appreciate it while privately criticizing his lack of consideration.
• Meng Chengcheng gently steers Chen Feng away from an awkward refusal to trade information, helping him maintain his cover—even though she thinks she is managing a monster.
• Chen Feng promises to protect her, while each privately interprets the growing closeness differently: she sees it as a survival tactic; he sees it as romantic progress.

Plot points and events

• Chen Feng and Meng Chengcheng arrive at the Bumper Cars attraction at Horror Amusement Park. A family of three cuts in line; the parents are rude and dismissive, while the little boy is eager to play.
• Meng Chengcheng persuades Chen Feng not to confront them, reasoning that the family may be rushing toward danger. She studies the attraction’s rules and concludes that players must cooperate to keep the ghost cars from repeatedly striking and destroying their white cars. She also suspects players might be able to switch cars.
• The first group enters, but when the curtain lifts, the visitors are gone. The frightened people in line flee, leaving Chen Feng’s group and the family next to play.
• Inside the arena, five grotesque black ghost cars appear and attack. The family’s father dismisses them as harmless machines. He rams two ghost cars, briefly stunning them, while learning that repeated impacts make a white car warn that it may soon explode.
• Chen Feng thinks the game should be manageable if everyone cooperates—until the boy deliberately rams him. The father then argues with Chen Feng and crashes into his car too, setting off its warning. Chen Feng realizes the family’s ignorance and recklessness may be more dangerous than the ghost cars.

Character developments

• Chen Feng begins irritated by the family’s line-cutting but accepts Meng Chengcheng’s reasoning. He shows confidence in his ability to read the game, then recognizes that he has underestimated the human threat.
• Meng Chengcheng demonstrates sharp rule analysis and practical judgment. Though privately annoyed by Chen Feng’s habit of asking for her opinion, she gives useful advice and prevents a pointless confrontation.
• The father is arrogant and dismissive of danger, treating the attraction like ordinary bumper cars and escalating conflict with Chen Feng.
• The mother is uneasy about the missing visitors but allows her husband to reassure her.
• The boy acts mischievously, deliberately hitting Chen Feng and worsening the danger.

Significant themes

• Cooperation versus selfishness: The rules make teamwork essential, but the family’s behavior threatens the group’s survival.
• Danger hidden beneath amusement: A cheerful theme song and familiar ride conceal a lethal game.
• Human folly as an added threat: The players must contend not only with supernatural enemies but also with people who refuse to recognize danger.
• Knowledge and judgment: Meng Chengcheng’s careful interpretation of the rules contrasts with the family’s careless assumptions.

Character interactions

• Chen Feng and Meng Chengcheng work as a team: he seeks her assessment, and she tempers his anger and helps interpret the game.
• Chen Feng’s attempt to warn the family and propose cooperation fails because the father mocks him and continues attacking his car.
• The father and boy’s reckless actions put Chen Feng directly at risk, leaving him frustrated and newly aware that the group may be sabotaged from within.

Key plot points and events

• Chen Feng is trapped between the greasy man’s car and his son’s, but uses the Sandevistan to escape: he briefly leaves his car and pushes it out of their path, causing the father and son to crash into each other.
• A ghost car strikes the boy’s damaged vehicle. Its warning bell accelerates, making the other ghost cars retreat—then the car explodes, killing the boy.
• The boy’s mother rushes toward the wreckage but is swallowed by a ghost car. The greasy man blames Chen Feng, who taunts him into another collision and escapes by jumping into Meng Chengcheng’s car. The man is then eaten too.
• Chen Feng realizes their remaining car cannot handle five monsters alone. He suspects the black ghost cars may offer a way to survive, but recognizes that approaching one is dangerous.
• After reasoning that brute strength would reveal his unusual abilities, Chen Feng appears to devise a way for an ordinary person to kill a monster. He turns the car toward the ghost cars, alarming Meng Chengcheng.

Character developments and interactions

• Chen Feng remains cool and resourceful under pressure, using his abilities creatively while concealing his identity. He also taunts the greasy man, treating their feud as a joke even as it turns deadly.
• Meng Chengcheng tries to protect Chen Feng and challenges the greasy man’s attempt to shift blame. She is unsettled by Chen Feng’s casual response and irritated when he calls her his girlfriend, though she stays focused on survival.
• The greasy man escalates from bullying Chen Feng to furious accusations after his family dies. He directs his anger at Chen Feng rather than the monsters, and his final charge ends in his own death.
• The boy and his mother are killed, while Chen Feng and Meng Chengcheng are left to face the remaining ghost cars together.

Significant themes

• Consequences and blame: The family’s aggression helps precipitate their deaths, yet the father refuses to accept responsibility and blames Chen Feng.
• Improvisation under pressure: Chen Feng turns limited resources and close observation into possible solutions.
• Survival versus trust: The group’s safety depends on cooperation, but hostility and the loss of teammates make survival increasingly precarious.
• Hidden identity: Chen Feng’s effort to pass as ordinary constrains how he can use his powers.

Plot points and events

• At the bumper-car attraction, Chen Feng deliberately uses the white car’s collision countdown and explosion to destroy the ghost cars. He and Meng Chengcheng escape just before the blast, and Chen Feng checks in by getting into a ghost car.
• With the easier attractions completed, they choose Ring Toss instead of the more dangerous-looking Dancing or Mascot attractions. Chen Feng suspects the sparse rules conceal a danger, but both successfully earn a Game Coin and complete the attraction.
• Chen Feng notices that a rabbit disappears whenever its cage is ringed. He and Meng Chengcheng each receive a personal Mr. Rabbit that only its owner can see. Meng Chengcheng’s rabbit bites her, revealing the threat behind the rule that Mr. Rabbit is hungry.
• Alarmed by what this might mean for his own rabbit, Chen Feng rushes back to his room. The Incarnation System warns that his original body is under attack; he wakes in the real-world dormitory with a white rabbit biting his face.

Character developments and interactions

• Chen Feng shows resourcefulness at bumper cars, recognizing that the exploding vehicle can be used as a weapon. He also remains cautious about suspicious rules, though he does not understand Ring Toss’s danger until too late.
• Meng Chengcheng trusts Chen Feng’s judgment during the bumper-car crisis and contributes observations at Ring Toss. Her matter-of-fact confidence and rabbit-raising knowledge contrast with the supernatural setting.
• Their partnership is practical and lightly teasing: Chen Feng questions her comments, while she challenges his choice of attraction. Her injury becomes the first clear sign that the rabbits pose a real threat.

Significant themes

• Rules and hidden dangers: Apparently harmless attractions conceal deadly conditions, and seemingly simple instructions—“Mr. Rabbit is very hungry”—carry serious consequences.
• Caution versus confidence: Chen Feng’s experience helps him spot danger, but even his deductions cannot fully predict the park’s rules.
• Horror crossing boundaries: The amusement park’s supernatural threats reach beyond the game setting, endangering Chen Feng’s original body in the real world.

Plot points and events

• Mr. Rabbit tracks Chen Feng to his real body, bites him, and drinks his blood—showing that Chen Feng’s danger isn’t limited to his alternate character.
• Chen Feng repeatedly attacks the rabbit, first crushing it, then chopping it into tiny pieces and burning it. Each time, Mr. Rabbit regenerates, returning larger than before. Chen Feng concludes that ordinary physical violence won’t stop it and worries it may grow into a major threat.
• Chen Feng considers other options, including using a curse or resetting events with Load Save, but rejects them because of the risks and costs. He switches back to his alternate character, reasoning that the rabbit has already fed.
• At the amusement park, Chen Feng discovers Meng Chengcheng has left without him. He seeks information about stopping Mr. Rabbit, but the Dining Hall visitors refuse to help because the problem concerns Ring Toss.
• Chen Feng heads to the exit to seek help from a survivor who has cleared the attractions. The giant Red-Eyed Monster comes alive, licks him, verifies that he completed five attractions, and allows him to leave. Those who try to leave without completing the attractions are apparently eaten.

Character developments and interactions

• Chen Feng shifts from confident aggression to wary frustration as he realizes Mr. Rabbit cannot be killed through conventional means. He weighs costly or uncertain solutions but remains reluctant to sacrifice his progress.
• Mr. Rabbit is revealed as a persistent, blood-drinking monster that tracks Chen Feng and grows larger after each apparent death. Its mocking laughter intensifies Chen Feng’s sense of helplessness.
• Meng Chengcheng has left the amusement park without Chen Feng, disappointing him and making him question their friendship.
• The fat man jokes that Chen Feng is carrying tissues because he has been overexerting himself; Chen Feng dismisses him.
• The Red-Eyed Monster acts as the amusement park’s gatekeeper, checking whether visitors have completed enough attractions before letting them leave.

Significant themes

• Survival through rules and loopholes: Monsters have distinct conditions for revival or defeat, so understanding their rules matters more than brute force.
• The cost of choices: Resetting or using a curse might help, but each option risks undoing progress or creating new dangers.
• False security: Chen Feng’s alternate character cannot fully shield his real body from threats.
• Uncertain bonds and trust: Meng Chengcheng’s departure leaves Chen Feng unsure how strong their relationship really is.

Key plot points and events

• Meng Chengcheng survives the Horror Amusement Park mission. Though her team was devastated and the entity possessing Liu Xiaohu abandoned her after the attractions were completed, she escapes with her Game Coin and feels close to advancing from Medium to Intermediate Medium.
• She takes the still-dangerous Mr. Rabbit to P.E.A.C.D.’s heavily secured underground base beneath Guangming Hospital.
• India, a teasing Tarot prophet, tells Meng Chengcheng that the park’s other survivor, Jiang Die, is in E District undergoing Imposter training.
• Meng finds Jiang Die, who quickly deduces that Mr. Rabbit is the unresolved threat. Following her instructions, Meng pets him: his menacing laughter turns to pained whimpering, confirming that kindness weakens him.
• Jiang Die explains that weakening Mr. Rabbit is not enough to kill him. The Ring Toss attraction has a hidden fifth rule, though its posted instructions list only four.
• As Meng tries to work out what the missing rule could be, Liu Xiaohu appears and says the rule for killing Mr. Rabbit had been given to them all along.

Character developments

• Meng Chengcheng survives a mission beyond her team’s ability and may be approaching a new rank, but remains impulsive and easily provoked—especially by India. She also has to confront the consequences of bringing Mr. Rabbit back with her.
• Jiang Die proves far more perceptive and capable than her delicate appearance suggests. She reads the situation immediately and understands the distinction between weakening Mr. Rabbit and defeating him.
• India uses Tarot to predict events accurately, unsettling Meng and reinforcing their mutual hostility.
• Liu Xiaohu reappears unexpectedly at the cliffhanger, suggesting he knows something crucial about the park’s hidden rule.

Significant themes

• Appearances can mislead: Jiang Die’s gentle, petite appearance conceals remarkable insight, while apparently simple rules hide a deeper solution.
• Rules and interpretation: The posted instructions are incomplete—or deliberately conceal a fifth rule—making careful observation essential.
• Kindness as a weapon: Treating Mr. Rabbit well weakens a monster that grows stronger when attacked, reversing ordinary expectations.
• Survival and adaptation: Meng’s survival marks growth, but the unresolved threat shows that escaping danger does not necessarily end it.

Character interactions

• Meng and India trade strained, sarcastic remarks; India’s accurate reading of Meng’s situation makes her seem even more irritating to Meng.
• Meng approaches Jiang Die for help, initially surprised by her appearance, then follows her instructions despite fearing Mr. Rabbit’s bite.
• Jiang Die guides Meng from the immediate discovery—that kindness weakens the rabbit—to the larger mystery of the missing rule.
• Liu Xiaohu’s sudden arrival interrupts their investigation and raises the stakes, ending the chapter on a revelation about the fifth rule.

Key plot points and events

• Jiang Die reveals the solution to the amusement park mystery: Mr. Rabbit’s constant smile hints that he fears tears, and tears can kill him.
• She explains that the Visitor Guide conceals survival strategies for the park’s hardest attractions. Its first rule helps identify truthful Imposters in the Maze; the Haunted House can be cleared by enduring it until closing time, as specified in the guide.
• Meng Chengcheng accepts that Jiang Die’s reasoning was more than luck. Chen Feng then confronts Meng over leaving him behind at the park; she says she rushed to report the mission.
• The narrative flashes back to Chen Feng arriving at the base in Liu Xiaohu’s body and getting lost while searching for a survivor. He asks India, a striking woman he meets in the corridor, to guide him to E District.
• India recognizes that the man is not really Liu Xiaohu, though she keeps her discovery to herself. She believes Meng Chengcheng has brought a monster into the base and intends to report her.
• Back in the present, India proudly tells Meng that she guided “Xiao Hu” there. An alarm immediately announces that an Imposter has escaped containment in E District.

Character developments and interactions

• Jiang Die demonstrates her keen insight, connecting the guide’s rules to survival methods and explaining her deductions calmly.
• Meng Chengcheng is initially defensive about being treated as foolish, then concedes Jiang’s point. She also justifies leaving Chen Feng behind as a mission-related necessity.
• Chen Feng remains dependent on his partial memories of Liu Xiaohu, but begins to suspect India knows more than she lets on.
• India uses charm and apparent helpfulness to investigate Chen Feng, while privately identifying him as an impostor in Liu Xiaohu’s form and plotting to expose Meng.
• The exchanges between Jiang Die, Chen Feng, and Meng Chengcheng mix tactical reasoning with teasing and unresolved resentment; India’s smug rivalry with Meng adds tension.

Significant themes

• Clues and interpretation: Survival depends on recognizing hidden meanings in rules, behavior, and divination.
• Deception and mistaken identity: Chen Feng’s disguise, India’s suspicions, and the misleading nature of appearances drive the chapter’s conflict.
• Trust and betrayal: Meng’s abandonment of Chen and India’s concealed intentions complicate alliances.
• Uncertainty: India’s tarot reading seemed definitive, yet her interpretations—and the identity of the apparent survivor—remain open to doubt.

Key plot points and events

• Imposters escape into P.E.A.C.D’s E District lobby, causing panic among inexperienced trainee agents.
• Recruit Zhou Yi fights back with immense strength and near-invulnerability, but the sheer number of Imposters begins to overwhelm him.
• Chen Feng’s group is targeted by a fast, big-headed Imposter. Chen kills it with one punch, revealing power far beyond what the others expected.
• Chen then helps Zhou Yi by killing two more Imposters. Base security arrives and shoots down the remaining monsters.
• After the danger passes, India invites Chen to get late-night food. Meng Chengcheng objects, insisting that Chen is her friend and should go with her.

Character developments

• Chen Feng: Tries to keep his abilities hidden, but acts decisively when the group is threatened. His overwhelming strength surprises both Meng Chengcheng and Jiang Die.
• Zhou Yi: Introduced as a powerful but naïve recruit, capable of fighting many Imposters yet prone to foolish reasoning.
• Meng Chengcheng: Recognizes Chen’s strength and regrets not leaving with him. Her sharp jealousy when India approaches him suggests growing personal attachment.
• India: Interprets Chen as a powerful figure tied to her tarot reading and sees him as a valuable potential ally. She openly courts his attention to recruit him.
• Jiang Die: Is visibly impressed, confirming her earlier suspicions that Chen is far more capable than he appears.

Significant themes

• Appearance versus ability: Chen’s unassuming appearance conceals extraordinary strength, while the grotesque Imposters vary widely in form.
• Power and survival: Even supposedly weak monsters pose serious danger in numbers; individual strength can change the balance.
• Alliance and ambition: India treats relationships strategically, hoping Chen’s strength could help her team attempt a higher-ranked mission.
• Jealousy and shifting relationships: The crisis gives way to romantic tension, as Meng Chengcheng and India both claim an interest in Chen.

Character interactions

• Chen protects his group, then frees Zhou Yi from the Imposters; Zhou thanks the wrong direction, adding comic relief.
• India privately identifies Chen with the “Reversed Knight of Cups” from her reading and decides to recruit him.
• India takes Chen’s hand and invites him out, prompting Meng Chengcheng to confront her and insist that Chen eat with her instead. The security captain is stunned by the reversal of the base’s usual assumptions about Chen’s relationship with Meng Chengcheng.

Key plot points and events

• Jiang Die asks to join India’s team after confirming it has an unusually strong safety record. India also invites Zhou Yi, who is mainly interested in finding food. Meng Chengcheng keeps Chen Feng from being recruited away.
• On their late-night walk, the group encounters a B-rank Wheel Monk disguised as a taxi. After learning how dangerous it is, everyone retreats—though Zhou Yi briefly considers fighting it for a meal.
• Chen Feng attends a debriefing for the Horror Amusement Park mission, which the organization upgrades from B-rank to A-rank. He then researches Bull Face, the director of the Fourth Mental Hospital, but cannot access the restricted files.
• Chen Feng persuades Meng Chengcheng to help him pursue an A-rank mission: rescuing researcher QP from the Crazy Zoo. He claims to be a psychic who can create doubles from the dead, concealing his actual ability and identity. Meng Chengcheng trusts him and agrees to go, despite the danger.
• Chen Feng delays the expedition so he can train. Over the next month, he strengthens his main body while Meng Chengcheng practices Spirit Communion. India’s team advances, while rumors that Meng Chengcheng has lost her nerve increase her anxiety.
• After completing the B-rank Hero Training Plan and reaching Wall-Burst Rank, Chen Feng takes Liu Xiaohu’s body with Meng Chengcheng to the Fourth Mental Hospital. He breaks through its defenses, kills Pig Face with one punch, then defeats Goat Face alone.
• Chen Feng returns carrying Goat Face’s severed head. He tells Meng Chengcheng that their accomplishments—including defeating the two monsters, clearing the hospital, and rescuing its students and patients—should earn her promotion to B-rank.

Character developments and interactions

• Chen Feng grows substantially stronger through training and becomes increasingly confident, though he still chooses to delay a dangerous mission until he is better prepared. He continues hiding his true identity and powers from Meng Chengcheng.
• Meng Chengcheng is ambitious and competitive, especially after India’s promotion, and worries that she is falling behind. Despite her caution, she trusts Chen Feng and ultimately goes with him; his victory demonstrates how far he has surpassed the threats that once challenged him.
• India remains proud and competitive with Meng Chengcheng, but successfully recruits Jiang Die and Zhou Yi and leads them to full-agent status.
• Jiang Die joins India’s team after choosing it for its record of keeping agents alive. She also serves as a knowledgeable guide to Cihang City’s supernatural dangers.
• Zhou Yi is cheerful and food-obsessed, but backs off when confronted with the Wheel Monk’s true danger.

Significant themes

• Growth through training: Chen Feng’s month of preparation turns him from a survivor into someone capable of defeating powerful monsters with ease.
• Ambition and rivalry: Meng Chengcheng’s pride and India’s advancement fuel her urgency to rise in rank.
• Trust and concealment: Meng Chengcheng places faith in Chen Feng, while he carefully hides the truth about himself.
• Dark humor amid danger: The group’s aborted dinner plans, Zhou Yi’s hunger, and Chen Feng’s casual remarks contrast with the lethal supernatural world.
• Risk and preparation: Chen Feng’s decision to postpone the Crazy Zoo mission shows that courage does not mean rushing into danger unprepared.

Key plot points and events

• Meng Chengcheng proudly carries Goat Face’s severed head around P.E.A.C.D headquarters, repeatedly announcing that she killed him. India, having left on a Rank B assignment to avoid Chengcheng’s boasting, never appears.
• Chen Feng is frustrated that Bull Face did not show up at the Fourth Mental Hospital. He suspects Bull Face can possess Imposters and use them to cast curses, leaving Bull Face’s true body hidden.
• Chen Feng and Chengcheng are summoned to Zone A. There, a man in a lab coat recites a strange phrase that compels them to repeat it. A system warning reveals that Chen Feng’s true body is under attack.
• The chapter then reveals that Bull Face met secretly with Cihang City’s major monsters: the Demon Lord, the Great Yokai, the Ghost King, and the Queen Mother. They blame P.E.A.C.D agents for attacking their territories, while the Demon Lord defends his covert control of the organization.
• The monsters agree to rebuild the Fourth Mental Hospital and to surrender some humans for Bull Face to kill. They also fear the release of a mysterious woman, whom they say could bring about the apocalypse. Bull Face doubts that she can be sealed away forever.

Character developments and interactions

• Meng Chengcheng is exuberant and eager for recognition after killing Goat Face, though her constant bragging annoys other agents. She and Chen Feng are summoned together to Zone A.
• Chen Feng remains wary of Bull Face and is caught off guard by the lab-coated man’s apparent mental attack.
• Bull Face is revealed as the hospital’s director and a powerful demon leader. Though angry over the hospital’s destruction, he negotiates with the other monsters rather than acting alone.
• The Demon Lord secretly founded P.E.A.C.D. and has been sabotaging promising agents to protect the monsters’ dominance. He presents this as a service to the others, who resent the losses caused by the agents.
• The monsters’ discussion exposes a tense alliance: they cooperate to maintain their rule, but Bull Face demands compensation and the others fear both the loss of his support and the danger posed by “the woman.”

Significant themes

• Deception and hidden identities: Bull Face may operate through bodies and clones, while P.E.A.C.D. itself is secretly controlled by a demon.
• Corrupt institutions and power: The organization meant to protect humans is being used to suppress its strongest agents and preserve monster rule.
• Uneasy alliances: The monsters share power and negotiate over human lives, but their cooperation is fragile and self-interested.
• Foreshadowing and looming catastrophe: The mysterious woman is presented as a threat even the city’s monsters fear, suggesting a larger danger ahead.

Chapter Summary

• Chen Feng wakes from another reset on July 31, furious that most of his progress has been erased: Meng Chengcheng’s affection is back to zero, Liu Xiaohu’s Incarnation is again trapped, and Professor Sheep is alive. His completed B-Rank Hero Training and Do-Nothing plans are the only major gains preserved. He uses Sandevistan repeatedly to break free of Bull Face’s Memory Curse, noting that his Wall-Breaking Body has made him more resistant.
• He suspects P.E.A.C.D is collaborating with Bull Face. Finding the agency’s base apparently empty and recalling that Bull Face’s Imposter clone was there, Chen Feng concludes that P.E.A.C.D may be a front working with monsters. Though the possibility is disturbing, he remains confident that his systems can help him fight back.
• Chen Feng reviews his accumulated resources: one Save-Load Count, six System Points, ten Temporary Points, several blessings, a controllable Water Ghost, and Liu Xiaohu’s Incarnation. He also sees an unfamiliar system identifier but chooses a known one instead.
• He activates the Cheat-Code System, whose one-minute powers include invincibility, infinite health or magic, zero cooldowns, a guaranteed one-hit kill, accelerated cultivation, pausing time, and protection from losing a save-load on death. Excited by its potential against Bull Face and the Red-Eyed Giant Beast, Chen Feng soon recognizes that powerful cheats are of limited use if he cannot locate his enemies.
• A Hextech choice offers three options: sell his abilities for temporary points, reactivate a previously obtained system, or sacrifice lifespan for future points. He rejects selling his combat abilities and considers the lifespan cost too risky. He chooses the option to restore an old system, initially thinking about the Cyber or Proficiency System—then realizes he might bring back the Quest System.
• The chapter ends with Chen Feng eagerly calling for the “Great Benefactor System,” recalling that it cost him nine points.

Character Developments and Interactions

Chen Feng is angry and resentful after losing his progress, especially toward Bull Face, but remains resourceful and optimistic. He treats systems as allies and potential tools, weighing their costs and benefits rather than blindly choosing the most powerful option. His interactions with Bull Face and P.E.A.C.D are mostly indirect: he curses Bull Face, uses the Memory Curse to infer a possible conspiracy, and prepares to confront the threat. He also reflects on his lost progress with Meng Chengcheng and Liu Xiaohu, showing how personally invested he is in the people he has helped.

Significant Themes

• The frustration of lost progress: The chapter opens with the gaming-like pain of defeating challenges only to lose unsaved gains.
• Power balanced by information: Even near-unstoppable abilities are less useful without knowing where to find the enemy.
• Distrust and hidden corruption: Chen Feng’s suspicion that the monster-fighting agency serves the monsters deepens the sense that the world’s institutions may be compromised.
• Strategic choice and risk: Chen Feng weighs permanent strength, temporary power, points, and lifespan before committing to a system.

Key plot points and events

• The Great Benefactor System assigns Chen Feng three missions: destroy the Crazy Zoo and the Holy Cow Cult/Fourth Mental Hospital, and expose the truth about P.E.A.C.D. He chooses the Crazy Zoo as the first target, but decides to gather intelligence before entering.
• At the Horror Amusement Park, Chen Feng awakens in his Liu Xiaohu incarnation and takes control of Captain Wu’s team. He quickly establishes his authority, disarming Wu and killing Lin He when Lin tries to attack Meng Chengcheng.
• Chen Feng leads the group through the park’s attractions by exploiting loopholes and overwhelming force: a Water Ghost catches the goldfish, he defeats the Air Rifle attraction’s owner, and he brute-forces the Cattery and Bumper Cars. At Ring Toss, he makes the others cry to satisfy the attraction’s requirement.
• After completing five attractions, Chen Feng leaves the park. He avoids fighting the Red-Eyed Giant Monster, reasoning that it offers no reward and may be able to revive itself.
• To investigate the Crazy Zoo without risking Liu Xiaohu, Chen Feng creates another incarnation. After relaxing some settings, he receives Da Lang, a wolf yokai who patrols the zoo’s mountain.

Character developments

• Chen Feng is increasingly strategic as well as powerful: he weighs risks and rewards, avoids unnecessary fights, and uses his systems and incarnations to pursue multiple goals safely.
• Captain Wu, the Pastor, and Meng Chengcheng are intimidated by Chen Feng but also recognize that his help made surviving the park possible.
• Da Lang’s memories reveal a defeated, resentful yokai: despite a century of catching humans, he has never eaten one. After secretly sparing a human intended for sacrifice, he is beaten by fellow yokai and left to die.

Character interactions

• Chen Feng intimidates Wu’s team, tests Lin He’s loyalty with a deceptive bargain, and kills him when he attempts to attack Meng Chengcheng.
• Wu and the Pastor privately fear Chen Feng, while Meng Chengcheng reflects that they might not have survived without him.
• Chen Feng’s dealings with Da Lang are one-sided so far: he selects the wolf yokai’s body and plans to use its zoo position to gather information and complete a check-in task.

Significant themes

• Power and pragmatism: Chen Feng uses overwhelming strength but avoids spending resources on fights that offer no benefit.
• Rules and loopholes: He repeatedly exploits the amusement park’s rules, while recognizing that rule-based protections may not work against every threat.
• Trust and deception: Chen Feng’s promise to Lin He is technically honored but deliberately framed to expose and punish him.
• Exploitation and sacrifice: The Crazy Zoo forces its yokai to provide living humans to the Great Yokai, while Da Lang’s refusal shows the personal cost of resisting the system.

Key plot points and events

• Chen Feng awakens in Da Lang’s body in a cave, tended by Er Lang, his younger brother. Wolf Vanguard—one of the yokai who had beaten Da Lang—arrives with “zoo visitor rules” leaflets and orders the brothers to patrol.
• Chen Feng realizes the Crazy Zoo is a yokai killing ground disguised as a Rules Horror site. Its fake rules are designed to make human agents obey and let the yokai attack them without resistance.
• During patrol, Chen Feng learns the Carnivore Zone contains several powerful yokai factions, including wolf, leopard, lion, bear, and tiger clans. The Great Yokai controls the human prey and keeps most of the rewards, while lower-ranking yokai compete for scraps.
• Wolf Vanguard taunts the brothers for returning without catching a human and mocks them over food. Er Lang’s odd behavior leads Chen Feng to discover that, despite believing himself a wolf, he is actually a husky.
• Chen Feng takes Er Lang to the wolves’ communal meal, where Wolf Vanguard and the others reject and threaten them. Er Lang bravely offers his own leg to protect Chen Feng.
• Wolf Vanguard attacks with Wind Blade Sorcery. Chen Feng dodges, then overwhelms him with a single powerful punch. Rather than fight back, Wolf Vanguard immediately submits. Chen Feng demands a copy of his wind-blade technique.

Character developments

• Chen Feng/Da Lang shifts from confusion to alert, strategic resolve. He recognizes the danger of the fake rules, assesses the yokai hierarchy, and discovers his new body’s strength in combat.
• Er Lang is revealed to be a husky rather than a wolf. Though naïve and comically food-motivated, he is deeply loyal and willing to sacrifice himself for his brother.
• Wolf Vanguard is established as a cruel rival who exploits Da Lang’s injury and low status, but his sudden surrender exposes a self-preserving, cowardly side.

Significant themes

• Deception and manipulation: The zoo’s rules are a trap that weaponizes human agents’ trust in supernatural survival protocols.
• Hierarchy and exploitation: The Great Yokai monopolizes human prey, leaving lesser yokai to compete over limited rewards.
• Loyalty and chosen family: Er Lang’s instinct to protect Chen Feng contrasts with the surrounding cruelty.
• Power and adaptation: Chen Feng uses his unexpected strength to reverse a humiliating power imbalance and seeks to learn yokai magic.

Character interactions

• Er Lang welcomes and cares for Chen Feng, then follows him on patrol and stands by him despite the danger.
• Wolf Vanguard repeatedly belittles and provokes the brothers, using his authority to deny them food and threaten them.
• When the wolves turn against Chen Feng and Er Lang, Er Lang offers himself as a sacrifice; Chen Feng instead confronts Wolf Vanguard.
• After defeating him, Chen Feng turns the encounter to his advantage by demanding the technique that made the attack possible.

Key plot points and events

• Chen Feng coerces Wolf Vanguard into giving him a Wolf Yokai cultivation manual, then secretly frees the humans captured that day and takes their snacks and cola.
• He makes Er Lang bathe in a river before returning to their cave. While Er Lang sleeps, Chen Feng uses his yokai body to study the manual.
• The Proficiency System deciphers and upgrades the illustrated technique into the Wind-Riding Art (Modified), offering four abilities: Wind Prison, Windwalking, Wind Blade, and Dust Veil. Chen Feng uses a temporary cheat to accelerate his cultivation and learns all four at beginner level.
• Progress through ordinary meditation proves painfully slow. The system punishes him for wanting to quit, but reveals that mastering the four abilities will unlock the powerful Threefold Divine Wind.
• Wolf Vanguard returns with the invisible Leopard Chief, intending to assassinate Chen Feng. Chen Feng has anticipated the trap: he uses Windwalking to evade attacks, overwhelms the Leopard Chief with a barrage of Wind Blades, then traps and kills Wolf Vanguard.
• The kills earn Chen Feng nearly 300 Proficiency. He realizes that yokai cultivation years translate into experience, and considers using his experience-multiplying cheat against stronger yokai. He invests his gains in Wind Blade and Windwalking, increasing the former’s output from 32 blades to 64.
• Er Lang recognizes the corpses by scent and warns that the wolf and leopard kings will seek revenge. Chen Feng dismisses the danger and reassures his little brother—though with a crude joke.

Character developments

• Chen Feng grows more capable and confident as he exploits the system to overcome his lack of cultivation talent. He remains calculating and vigilant, using Wolf Vanguard as bait rather than trusting his apparent surrender.
• Er Lang is affectionate, trusting, and loyal. Though frightened by the deaths and their likely consequences, he accepts Chen Feng’s reassurance without question.
• Wolf Vanguard shifts from coerced informant to conspirator, joining Leopard Chief in an attempted ambush, but is killed.
• Leopard Chief relies on stealth and familiarity with wolf techniques, underestimating Chen Feng’s modified Wind Blade before being defeated.

Significant themes

• Power through ingenuity: Chen Feng compensates for limited natural talent by using systems, cheats, and tactical thinking.
• Trust and loyalty: Chen Feng stays wary of enemies, while Er Lang places uncomplicated faith in him.
• Survival in a hostile world: Deception, vigilance, and overwhelming force are necessary in Cihang City.
• Humor amid danger: Bathing Er Lang, Chen Feng’s impatience with slow cultivation, and his final crude joke lighten the chapter’s violence.

Character interactions

Chen Feng bullies Wolf Vanguard into surrendering the manual, then later outmaneuvers and kills him. He imposes a daily bath on Er Lang, whose loyalty and trust are reinforced after the ambush. Wolf Vanguard and Leopard Chief coordinate their assassination attempt, but Chen Feng turns their cooperation into a trap and kills them both.