Chapter Summaries

Li Wei investigated the disappearance of the wolf's head from the church, where Mick accused him of stealing it and an old villager blamed the wolf cub. After receiving a quest to uncover Wolfhead Village's secrets, Li Wei spent the night at the tavern, only to wake to news that Roger and Darby had been brutally murdered.

• Villagers accused Li Wei of stealing the wolf's head, but he turned suspicion toward Mick before the priest calmed the crowd.
• An old man claimed the wolf cub had returned for revenge, while the priest said the wolf's head's resentment was suppressed by the church's holy ground.
• The priest explained that Mick had accused Li Wei and had opportunities to take the head, though Li Wei noted that he was also an unusual outsider.
• Li Wei received a quest to uncover Wolfhead Village's secrets, then returned to his guest room and spent the night there.
• Little Red Riding Hood woke Li Wei and told him that Roger and Darby had been found dead, their bodies torn to shreds.

Li Wei investigated the murders of Roger and his sister-in-law, uncovered signs of a possible affair and an old connection to the Wolf God hunt, and questioned Little Red Riding Hood’s grandmother about the village’s curse. The villagers returned from a Wolf Hunt claiming they had killed the wolf, while Li Wei was left with the grandmother’s warning that an evil presence haunted the village.

• Li Wei examined Roger and his sister-in-law’s bodies, found that the woman was pregnant, and noted differences between their claw wounds and Fraser’s.
• Li Wei questioned the Village Chief and the Priest about how a beast could have entered the locked house, then suspected Fraser’s death might be connected to his wife’s relationship with Roger.
• Little Red Riding Hood warned Li Wei that the villagers had organized a Wolf Hunt, and Li Wei went with her to ask her grandmother about the earlier hunt for the Wolf God.
• Little Red Riding Hood’s grandmother said Roger, Cohen, Mick, and Connis had taken part in the old hunt and that the surviving hunters’ wives later died or disappeared.
• Little Red Riding Hood’s grandmother told Li Wei she believed the village was cursed and asked him to keep Little Red Riding Hood safe.
• Little Red Riding Hood returned and announced that the hunting party had killed the ravenous wolf and brought back its body.

Li Wei examined the monster killed by the Charlie brothers and offered to buy its corpse while promising rewards for reports or captures of others. During the village festival, a second monster attacked him, and Li Wei escaped by swapping places with a Doll before preparing to fight it.

• The Charlie brothers returned with a giant black wolf-like monster, and Li Wei confirmed its claws matched the victims’ wounds.
• Li Wei offered the brothers ten pounds in gold for the corpse and promised rewards for information, corpses, or a live monster.
• The villagers celebrated the hunt, while Li Wei watched from the tavern balcony and learned how the hunting party had killed the beast.
• Little Red Riding Hood invited Li Wei to the feast, and they noticed that Mick was missing.
• A second monster ambushed Li Wei, but he used [Shifting Positions] to swap places with a black cat Doll, which trapped the creature in its blades.
• The monster broke free and charged at Li Wei, who loaded his Persuader and prepared to confront it.

Li Wei drove off a second giant wolf, then used the villagers’ absences and his bullets’ effects to expose Charlie and Tommy’s crimes. Charlie confessed to a series of murders and the brothers’ werewolf curse before transforming and attacking Li Wei, who pulled the trigger.

• Li Wei shot the charging giant wolf with incendiary ammunition, setting it on fire and sending it fleeing.
• Li Wei had the villagers gather and discovered that Mick, Charlie, and Tommy were missing.
• Li Wei confronted Charlie at home and revealed that his mercury bullet had poisoned Tommy.
• Charlie confessed that Roger had killed Fraser over Fraser’s pregnant wife, and that Charlie had killed Roger and the woman, his father, and Mick.
• Charlie explained that he and others had been cursed into becoming werewolves, and admitted that he had killed Mick to cover up the scheme.
• Charlie transformed and hurled a chair at Li Wei, who pulled the trigger.

Li Wei killed Charlie and the transformed priest, but Little Red Riding Hood revealed she was the wolf cub who had returned to avenge her father. She transformed into a giant black wolf and attacked Li Wei, who killed her with the Phantom and his Cane Gun, leaving the village chief to deal with the bodies.

• Li Wei shot Charlie during his transformation, and the priest revealed that he had also become a werewolf and believed his transformation was a divine blessing.
• As the priest threatened Li Wei and the village chief, a wolf-covered arm burst through his chest and crushed his heart.
• Little Red Riding Hood confessed that she had eaten the real girl, taken her identity, and returned to avenge her father by killing the villagers.
• Little Red Riding Hood transformed into a giant black wolf and attacked Li Wei, who used the Phantom and his Cane Gun to kill her.
• The village chief asked how he could explain the aftermath to the villagers, and Li Wei told him to burn the bodies.

Li Wei investigated the Wolf God’s cave after the werewolf attacks in Wolfhead Village and discovered a badge linking the events to the Baskerville Family. With the investigation complete, he gained a new disguise skill and decided to investigate the family next.

• Li Wei burned the werewolf bodies and helped the village chief test the villagers with a silver bullet, confirming that no one else had mutated.
• Li Wei entered the Wolf God’s cave using [Shifting Positions] and followed Little Red Riding Hood’s footprints to its inner cavern.
• Li Wei found a badge bearing the Baskerville Family crest among the ruined belongings in the cavern.
• Li Wei completed the investigation quest, received a reward, and chose [Disguise and Transformation] as his special skill.
• Li Wei put away the badge and set out to investigate the Baskerville Family in the Delicat District.

Li Wei arrived at the Delicat Police Station to investigate Sir Baskerville’s disappearance and the deaths of two officers, presenting the case as a new, obscure criminal method. After examining the victims’ wounds, he confirmed that the Delicat case was connected to the events in Wolfhead Village.

• Chief Macmillan learned that Li Wei had arrived and went to meet him as his unusual Steam Car entered the station courtyard.
• Li Wei introduced himself as a special investigative consultant and privately explained that criminals could use mysterious legends and unusual methods to hide their crimes.
• Li Wei asked why Sir Baskerville had gone to the study and learned that the police had not been allowed inside the house.
• Li Wei examined the two dead officers in the Morgue and found enormous claw wounds resembling injuries he had seen in Wolfhead Village.
• Li Wei concluded that the Baskerville case was connected in some way to Wolfhead Village.

Li Wei heard the legend behind the Baskerville Hound Curse and investigated possible motives for the family’s disappearances as he traveled to the Baskerville Estate. There, he met Ovelia Baskerville, who hoped he could solve Sir Baskerville’s disappearance.

• Chief Macmillan told Li Wei the legend of the Wolf King, whose white wolf wife was killed by a Baskerville baronet before the baronet vanished.
• Li Wei examined the records of Young Sir Baskerville’s case and questioned why the supposed wolf-related curse was called the Baskerville Hound Curse.
• Li Wei asked Chief Macmillan to find the officers who investigated Young Sir Baskerville’s disappearance and traveled with him to the Baskerville Estate.
• Chief Macmillan revealed that some locals suspected Luddites opposed to the Baskervilles’ plans for steam-powered farm machinery.
• Ovelia Baskerville confronted the police officers guarding the Manor, then welcomed Li Wei after Chief Macmillan introduced him as a Fog City investigative expert.

Li Wei investigated Sir Baskerville’s disappearance at the mansion, finding supernatural claw marks that suggested the attacker escaped by leaping from the second-floor window. After dinner, he privately showed Ovelia a badge, and she identified it as her grandfather’s.

• Chief Macmillan asked Li Wei to watch over Ovelia, explaining that she was the Baskerville heir and might pursue the Wolf King recklessly.
• Li Wei examined the study and used [Soul Sight] to follow the attacker’s claw marks out the window and across the roof.
• Ovelia insisted that the Wolf King had taken her father and vowed to catch and kill him.
• Li Wei shared dinner with Ovelia and Chief Macmillan, then asked Ovelia to speak with him privately.
• Li Wei showed Ovelia a badge, and she identified it as her grandfather’s.

Li Wei returned Ovelia’s grandfather’s crest and questioned Mrs. Gladys about the Baskerville family’s past before examining its historical records. He discovered that nearly every Baskerville family head had been a woman, while the curse appeared around the three male heads who disappeared.

• Ovelia identified the corroded crest as her grandfather’s and learned from Li Wei that he was dead.
• Li Wei asked Ovelia to see the family records, then questioned Mrs. Gladys about the past disappearances and the bloody wolf-like footprints found at Young Sir Baskerville’s home.
• Li Wei read the Chronicle of the First Baskerville Knight and learned that the first knight was a woman known as Arthur’s Hound.
• Li Wei examined the family genealogy and found that every family head except the three recently vanished men had been female, and that the curse had emerged around those men.

Li Wei investigated the Baskerville Family’s history and suspected that the family’s unusual succession pattern and missing heirs were connected to a hidden crime. While examining the ancestor’s tomb, he discovered a small skull buried beneath a moved stone slab and sent for Lady Baskerville.

• Li Wei found that Baskerville family heads had traditionally been women and that the pattern had changed across the generations when several male heirs disappeared.
• Li Wei suspected the elder Sir Baskerville had arranged his twin sister’s death to become family head, and wondered whether girls had been killed in later generations.
• Li Wei asked Ovelia to visit the ancestor’s tomb, hoping to uncover why family leadership had to pass to a woman.
• Li Wei examined the tomb and noticed that the slab beneath the wolf statue had been moved.
• Li Wei and the caretaker dug beneath the slab and uncovered a small skull, after which Li Wei told him to notify Lady Baskerville.

Li Wei investigated the Baskerville family’s buried history, identifying two young female skeletons and finding suspicious gaps in Old Sir Baskerville’s past. After ordering the police to search for records of his teenage criminal case, Li Wei led Ovelia to inspect a storeroom in the manor.

• Li Wei told Ovelia that the skeletons were likely her grandfather’s sister and her father’s sister, and suggested their deaths might be connected to the family’s troubles.
• Li Wei and Ovelia examined Old Sir Baskerville’s biography and account books, where Li Wei found evidence of a police case and a large compensation payment from when he was sixteen.
• Li Wei called Chief Macmillan and asked him to locate the police records, and Ovelia ordered the chief to begin searching immediately.
• Li Wei took Ovelia on a walk through the manor and asked to inspect a storeroom after learning Old Sir Baskerville had renovated the house.

Li Wei and Ovelia investigated a supposedly cursed storeroom in the Baskerville manor and discovered that a section of it had been sealed behind a false wall. They entered the hidden study and began searching for the secret old Sir Baskerville had concealed there.

• Mrs. Gladys warned Ovelia and Li Wei that servants believed everyone who entered the storeroom died, but Ovelia ordered her to fetch the key.
• Li Wei searched the ordinary-looking, dusty storeroom and noticed that its exterior dimensions did not match the space inside.
• Ovelia ordered two servants to move the furniture and break through the storeroom wall.
• Li Wei passed through the hole and found a hidden study containing the Baskerville crest, hunting trophies, and weapons.
• Li Wei began searching the study, suspecting old Sir Baskerville had sealed it to keep something inside from being discovered.

Li Wei and Ovelia discovered a hidden Baskerville treasure: a necklace with a red, liquid-like gemstone resembling Li Wei’s ring. Chief Macmillan called with evidence that old Sir Baskerville’s youthful scandal may have concealed a Luddite plot, but the call abruptly cut off, leaving Li Wei worried about the police station.

• Li Wei used his glowing ring to locate a hidden floor panel, and Ovelia recognized the carving beneath it as a legend about the Baskerville ancestor.
• Ovelia used her blood to open the stone panel and found a necklace with a red gemstone that resembled Li Wei’s ring.
• Li Wei told Ovelia to keep the necklace safe, and they left the room to continue their investigation after bathing and eating.
• Chief Macmillan told Li Wei that old Sir Baskerville and his friends had been arrested after a girl reported they had dragged her into a villa.
• Chief Macmillan revealed that many of the men later took part in Luddite terrorism, but the call cut off before he could explain further.
• Li Wei tried to call the Delicate Police Station again and worried that something had happened there.

After discovering that the Baskerville estate’s telephone lines had been cut, Li Wei warned Ovelia that the grounds were under attack and organized the household’s defenses. As night fell, more than a hundred wolves surrounded the manor and charged, leaving everyone braced for battle.

• Li Wei used Soul Sight to scout the area, realized the estate was under attack, and summoned Ovelia after finding the telephone line cut.
• Ovelia ordered Gladys to gather everyone, and Li Wei told the assembled servants and police officers to fortify the manor and prepare to fight.
• The household armed itself and lit the grounds while Li Wei monitored the approaching threat from the roof with his Minimap and Doll bird.
• Over a hundred wolves emerged from the darkness and charged the manor as Ovelia ordered everyone not to fire until she gave the signal.

Li Wei and the Manor’s defenders fought off a wolf pack that seemed to be acting under someone’s control. After the battle, Ovelia encountered her missing father, who had become a giant wolf and abducted her, and Li Wei pursued them into the night.

• Li Wei shot wolves attacking the Manor’s fence and used the Doll Bird to discover the pack was digging beneath the fence on all sides.
• The wolves burst through the grounds, and Li Wei, Ovelia, the guards, and the maids fought them off without any deaths.
• Ovelia went to her room and found her missing father waiting there, bedraggled and bearing golden, wolf-like eyes.
• Ovelia’s father transformed into a giant wolf, shattered the window, and carried her away over the Manor wall.
• Li Wei shot the giant wolf several times but let it escape to avoid injuring Ovelia, then vanished into the night to pursue them.

Li Wei tracked the werewolf carrying Ovelia while she learned how her great-grandfather had seized the Baskerville leadership, become a wolf, and sought to destroy the Emerald Heart to end the family curse. After Ovelia escaped her bonds and attacked him, her father appeared as a wolf and lunged at her, just as a gunshot rang out.

• Li Wei used his Doll Birds, [Soul Sight], and [Shifting Positions] to keep up with the werewolf carrying Ovelia while withholding his attack.
• Ovelia woke bound in the forest and recognized her captor as her great-grandfather, who admitted killing his sister and mother to take the Baskerville leadership.
• Her great-grandfather recounted the family curse, his transformation into a wolf, and his son’s similar transformation after killing his wife.
• The old man took Ovelia’s Emerald Heart and declared that he would devour her and destroy the necklace in a Profane Ritual.
• Ovelia freed herself and stabbed him, but he transformed into a black wolf and revealed that he had enslaved her father.
• Ovelia’s father lunged at her, and a gunshot rang out.

Li Wei and Ovelia confronted Old Sir Baskerville, and Li Wei uncovered how the Luddites had manipulated him into causing the family curse. Li Wei helped Ovelia reclaim the Emerald Heart, and her blood activated it as mysterious barking sounded.

• Li Wei shot the two giant wolves, killing the smaller Black Wolf while Old Sir Baskerville survived and healed.
• Li Wei questioned Old Sir Baskerville about the murdered babies and learned that he had buried them in the graveyard, while the old wolf denied knowing their remains were beneath the mausoleum statue.
• Li Wei accused the Luddites of manipulating Old Sir Baskerville into seizing the family and committing murders, but the old wolf rejected his claims and vowed to eat Ovelia and destroy the Emerald Heart.
• Li Wei attacked Old Sir Baskerville with incendiary, armor-piercing, and silver bullets, then used Shifting Positions to escape being crushed and recover the Emerald Heart.
• Li Wei tossed the Emerald Heart to Ovelia, who cut her palm and clasped the bloodied gemstone as barking sounded from nowhere.

Li Wei and Ovelia survived the werewolf attack when Ovelia’s necklace summoned a Three-Headed Hound that killed Old Sir Baskerville and then became a puppy. With the Baskerville curse explained and the investigation apparently complete, Li Wei prepared to leave while Ovelia resolved to modernize the Delicat District.

• Ovelia’s necklace summoned a Three-Headed Hound, which chased down and devoured Old Sir Baskerville as he tried to flee.
• The Three-Headed Hound approached Ovelia and transformed into a small puppy, which she took into her arms.
• Li Wei and Ovelia burned the werewolves’ bodies to destroy evidence and signal the Manor to send help.
• Li Wei and Ovelia found Old Sir Baskerville’s diary, which explained that he had spread the curse story and turned family members into werewolves when they reached thirty-eight.
• Li Wei confirmed that the system quest was complete and told Ovelia he would leave to report back.
• Ovelia vowed to pursue steam-powered agricultural mechanization, and Li Wei suggested she begin with the Baskerville Family’s own fields.

Li Wei reviewed his rewards for resolving Ovelia’s curse and spent his special attribute increase on Intelligence, gaining the Library skill and photographic memory. After Ovelia investigated the Luddites and paid him ten thousand pounds, Li Wei left for Fog City eager to test his new ability.

• Li Wei checked his system rewards and raised his Intelligence by ten, gaining the Library skill and photographic memory.
• Ovelia investigated the cemetery’s former gravekeeper and uncovered several die-hard Luddites.
• Li Wei said goodbye to Ovelia after she thanked him for resolving the curse and uncovering the Baskerville Family’s secrets.
• Ovelia paid Li Wei ten thousand pounds, and he drove back to Fog City.