Chapter Summaries

Jiang Cong took Che Quan into his care while five other players recognized the pair and went to breakfast. When the hospital announced a deadly game of hide-and-seek, Quan Qin led the players toward Jiang Cong and Che Quan’s treatment room, where she froze at what she saw.

• Jiang Cong took Che Quan away from Yue Li and claimed responsibility for treating Patient 002.
• The five players recognized Jiang Cong and suspected Che Quan was the legendary Vampire, while the livestream viewers excitedly shipped them.
• The five players reached the dining hall, where an announcement offered fresh meat to ten patients and declared that hide-and-seek was about to begin.
• The announcement made patients with odd-numbered IDs 'it' and ordered everyone else to hide, leaving all five players with even-numbered IDs.
• Quan Qin persuaded the others to hide near Jiang Cong and Che Quan, led them to a treatment room, and froze when she opened the door.

Che Quan let Jiang Cong change him into a Patient Gown in exchange for a promise of blood and the truth about his past. Quan Qin and the other players hid in the Treatment Room just as a horde of patients surrounded the door, leaving them trapped inside.

• Che Quan agreed to lie on the operating table after Jiang Cong promised to tell him some truth about what happened before his slumber.
• Jiang Cong restrained Che Quan, cut away his clothes, and dressed him in a Patient Gown while privately recognizing him as his prince from a hundred years ago.
• Quan Qin arrived with four other players seeking shelter from creatures playing hide-and-seek, and Che Quan let them enter the Treatment Room.
• A patient charged at the group as they shut the door, and the slam drew more patients who began pounding on it.
• The four players besides Quan Qin panicked as the patients tried to force their way inside.

Che Quan restarted the hide-and-seek game with fairer rules, then led the players through the dark hospital while they searched for the patients. With the timer nearly over, they returned to the treatment room and found a huge crowd of spectral patients gathered there.

• Che Quan opened the treatment room door, drove back the patients outside, and persuaded the broadcast to restart the game with even-numbered patients as seekers.
• The patients vanished during the countdown, and Che Quan led Quan Qin and the four other players out to search while Jiang Cong disappeared.
• Che Quan switched off the power, plunged the hospital into unnatural darkness, and guided the group with a crackling electrical device.
• With one minute remaining, the group returned to the treatment room and found a huge crowd of spectral patients gathered there.

Che Quan and Quan Qin helped the players catch the hidden patients, then Che Quan turned the hospital’s grotesque extra meal against its own worker. Head Nurse Yue Li tried to stop him, but a refined voice intervened, claiming Che Quan as their patient.

• Che Quan used a stun gun to reveal the hidden patient ghosts, and Quan Qin realized objects the ghosts had touched could also strike them.
• The players caught the hidden patients and were served a platter of human brains as their extra meal.
• Che Quan made the worker drop the platter and argued that the worker should be punished for wasting food.
• Quan Qin backed Che Quan’s demand, and Che Quan shocked the worker as Head Nurse Yue Li arrived to stop him.
• Yue Li rushed at Che Quan, but a refined voice declared that Che Quan was their patient and ordered her not to touch him.

Jiang Cong took Che Quan to a private examination room, where his invasive examination provoked Che Quan to wreck much of the room. After an explosion triggered an emergency return to patients’ rooms, Che Quan stopped himself from killing Jiang Cong and resolved to escape the instance as soon as possible.

• Jiang Cong excused Che Quan from the next challenge and led him to an examination room, where the livestream was blocked for privacy.
• Jiang Cong restrained Che Quan and examined him, then said he needed to check whether Che Quan was functioning normally.
• Jiang Cong’s next move enraged Che Quan, who destroyed most of the examination room.
• The five players in the recreation room heard an explosion and hurried back to their rooms after an urgent announcement.
• Che Quan glared at Jiang Cong but held back from killing him and decided to leave the instance as quickly as possible.

Che Quan avoided forced restraint after Jiang Cong intervened, then used his freedom to investigate the hospital and found a doctor whose profile might connect to the brain-harvesting physician. A loudspeaker announcement warned patients to return to their wards before nightfall.

• Dean Kang arrived with security guards and ordered Che Quan restrained and punished for damaging hospital equipment.
• Jiang Cong stopped the guards, claimed Che Quan as his patient, and dismissed Dean Kang’s threat of sending him to the Little Black Room.
• Che Quan rejected Jiang Cong’s invitation to cooperate but accepted his permission to go wherever he liked.
• Che Quan explored the hospital display corridor and noticed that Doctor Kang Jin resembled Dean Kang Cheng and specialized in human body research.
• Che Quan suspected Kang Jin might be the doctor who harvested brains, then heard an announcement warning patients to return to their wards before nightfall.

Che Quan searched the hospital directory for the records room and headed toward the fifth floor. When the elevator arrived empty but warned that it was overloaded, he realized invisible things might be inside and unleashed a frightening display of power.

• Che Quan ignored the broadcast warning and found the records room listed at 5F, Room 506.
• Che Quan pressed the elevator’s up button as it descended from the fifth floor.
• The elevator arrived with no visible passengers, and Che Quan stepped inside.
• The elevator turned red and repeatedly announced that it was overloaded despite appearing empty.
• Che Quan grew impatient, turned his eyes blood-red, and radiated an intimidation that silenced the livestream comments.

Che Quan explored the hospital’s fifth-floor records room and found patient files sorted into unexplained alphabetical sections. After hearing a player in danger, he rescued Cheng Kong from a blade machine and asked how he had ended up in the operating room.

• Che Quan used his vampire aura to drive away the ghosts and reached the fifth floor safely.
• Che Quan broke into Room 506 and searched the medical records, finding files sorted into lettered sections with no clear connection to the patients’ details.
• Che Quan heard a player screaming and followed the sounds to an operating room.
• Che Quan snapped apart the blade machine just before it could kill the bound player.
• The rescued boy identified himself as Cheng Kong, and Che Quan asked how he had ended up in the operating room.

Che Quan exposed a ghost possessing Cheng Kong and learned that she was killing people in hopes of easing her mother’s suffering. After discovering the patients’ records were organized by home district, he entered the records room and encountered Jiang Cong, who suddenly wrapped an arm around his waist.

• Che Quan recognized that the person in Cheng Kong’s body was a ghost because his tone and manner had changed, and the ghost left Cheng Kong’s body.
• The ghost identified herself as Chen Mengxue and explained that she killed people because she believed it stopped her mother, Meng Ting, from suffering.
• Chen Mengxue said that Uncle Kang had taken her mother away for treatment after praising her skull, and Che Quan suggested that her mother might avoid her because she thought Chen Mengxue was bad.
• Che Quan realized that the district labels on the medical record boxes referred to patients’ home districts and went to search the C District records.
• Che Quan followed Jiang Cong’s familiar scent into the records room, where Jiang Cong shone a flashlight at him and then suddenly wrapped an arm around his waist.

Che Quan investigated Meng Ting and Chen Mengxue’s medical records, while Jiang Cong offered clues in exchange for a date and hinted at the hospital’s dark past. Che Quan left for Jiang Cong’s office, and Jiang Cong followed, declaring that he would sleep with him that night.

• Quan Qin slept through the viewers’ speculation while Che Quan stopped himself from striking Jiang Cong to hear his offer of a clue in exchange for a date.
• Che Quan found records showing Meng Ting had been subjected to brutal treatments and Chen Mengxue had received nightly therapy from Kang Cheng, who later rose quickly through the hospital ranks.
• Jiang Cong told Che Quan that the patients would meet their families the next day, and Che Quan asked him to later explain the truth about his slumber and exile in the ancient castle.
• Jiang Cong pulled Che Quan close and sought confirmation of their deal, but Che Quan said the date would depend on his mood.
• Che Quan headed to Jiang Cong’s office, and Jiang Cong caught up with him and declared that he was sleeping with him that night.

Che Quan and Jiang Cong spent the night in the doctor's office, and Che Quan dreamed of his earlier life in the castle, where a masked young Jiang Cong offered him his blood. After waking in his hospital room, Che Quan went to the visiting room for visiting day and found that his table was marked C District.

• Jiang Cong agreed to sleep on the floor, but watched Che Quan from the doctor's chair throughout the night.
• Che Quan dreamed of the old castle, where a masked young attendant who looked like Jiang Cong served him dinner and offered his neck for Che Quan to drink from.
• Che Quan woke in his hospital room after the dream ended and found that Jiang Cong was gone.
• Head Nurse Yue Li told the patients to go to the visiting room, and Che Quan learned his seat was table 93.
• Che Quan noticed the tiny C District label beneath the number on table 93.

At the family meeting, Che Quan examined the assigned tables and their A–Z zone labels, suspecting they concealed a clue. He recognized the doctor Liu Fangling and watched her open the door to bring in the supposed family members.

• Quan Qin told Che Quan that players were speculating about his relationship with Jiang Cong, then claimed that “top” and “bottom” meant strength rankings when he asked what the terms meant.
• Che Quan said Jiang Cong was nowhere near his level, and Quan Qin accepted his explanation with relief.
• Cheng Kong thanked Che Quan for saving him and said his assigned table was 90, a table for five.
• Che Quan noticed that Quan Qin’s table 92 was marked Zone A and Cheng Kong’s table 90 was marked Zone D, and suspected the zones held a clue.
• Liu Fangling warned the players to control their emotions and ordered Head Nurse Yue Li to maintain discipline.
• Che Quan recognized Liu Fangling from the hospital’s display wall and watched her fawn over someone as she opened the door to the family members.

Che Quan met Rong Yuanyuan and Feng Sheng, who explained how they had framed the original Che Quan and sent him to Shanbei Psychiatric Hospital. After recovering the original’s memories, Che Quan dismissed them and stood to leave, leaving the pair stunned by his indifference.

• Rong Yuanyuan and Feng Sheng accused Che Quan of pursuing her and trying to assault her, then claimed he had faked a psychiatric assessment to avoid punishment.
• Che Quan recovered the original Che Quan’s memories and learned that Feng Sheng and Rong Yuanyuan had conspired to have him committed so they could remove him and pursue his inheritance.
• Che Quan decided he had no reason to keep speaking with them and stood up to leave.
• Feng Sheng and Rong Yuanyuan stared in shock because Che Quan was not begging them for help as they had expected.

Che Quan exposed Shanbei Psychiatric Hospital as a prison for people who had been forcibly committed and turned its electroshock treatment against Liu Fangling. He confronted Deputy Director Li Wenping, while Quan Qin defended him, and he revealed that he already knew how to clear the Instance.

• Rong Yuanyuan and Feng Sheng demanded that the staff treat Che Quan, and Liu Fangling ordered Yue Li to bring the Electroshock Device.
• As the bodyguards moved to restrain Che Quan, he swiftly seized the device and shocked Liu Fangling, leaving her unconscious.
• The patients laughed as Yue Li tried to restore order, and Deputy Director Li Wenping arrived and ordered Liu Fangling carried out.
• Che Quan told Li Wenping that she knew he was not mentally ill and that the patients were normal people who had been forcibly committed.
• Quan Qin slapped Li Wenping after she dismissed Che Quan, who said he already knew how to clear the Instance.

Che Quan and Jiang Cong turned the electroshock treatment on Feng Sheng and Rong Yuanyuan, while Che Quan recalled a fragment of Jiang Cong protecting him in the past. After both patients passed out, Che Quan told the players it was their turn to act.

• Che Quan ordered the players to shut the meeting room doors and approached Feng Sheng and Rong Yuanyuan with the Electroshock Device.
• Jiang Cong stopped Che Quan and offered to handle the punishment, prompting Che Quan to hand him the device.
• Che Quan recalled a possible memory of Jiang Cong telling him, “Your Highness, please leave those matters to me. Don't dirty your hands.”
• Jiang Cong shocked Feng Sheng until he collapsed, then frightened Rong Yuanyuan into shocking herself until she passed out.
• Che Quan watched Jiang Cong with growing curiosity, then told Quan Qin, Cheng Kong, and the other players it was time for them to get to work.

Che Quan realized the players and patients could take revenge on the family members and medical staff who had wrongfully imprisoned and abused them. The players began acting against the visitors, while the patients transformed and celebrated.

• Che Quan asked the players why they had been sent to Shanbei Psychiatric Hospital, and they revealed they had all been forcibly committed despite being healthy.
• Che Quan proposed that the players and patients make the family members and medical staff experience the suffering they had inflicted.
• Quan Qin explained Che Quan's plan, and Cheng Kong chose syringes from a trolley and approached his family members.
• Cheng Kong injected his father, mother, older brother, and older sister, and the patients cheered as they shed tears of blood.
• Jiang Cong moved beside Che Quan after noticing Cheng Kong's admiring glance.

After the players took revenge on the visiting-room staff and patients, Che Quan led them to the Director's Office to uncover the truth about Dr. Kang. There he found the skull of Meng Ting, the little ghost girl's mother, and the girl appeared to him.

• The patients swarmed the treatment cart and attacked the family members after the players finished taking revenge, but no game-clear notification appeared.
• Che Quan called Yue Li out of the visiting room and bargained with her to lead them to Dr. Kang's office.
• Yue Li led Che Quan and the others to the Director's Office, where Che Quan opened the door despite her attempt to turn them away.
• Che Quan opened the curtains and revealed shelves of brain and skull specimens, while Yue Li defended Dean Kang's experiments.
• Che Quan found a specimen labeled Meng Ting, took down her skull, and called the others over as the little ghost girl appeared on Cheng Kong's back.

Che Quan found the director, Kang Cheng, hiding in a secret room filled with corpses and uncovered his crimes against Chen Mengxue and her mother, Meng Ting. As Chen Mengxue’s ghost prepared to take revenge, Che Quan shielded her from what he was about to do to Kang Cheng.

• Chen Mengxue’s ghost recognized her mother’s skull and broke down, so Che Quan used his vampire abilities to let her hold it.
• Che Quan found a hidden door in the office and entered a dark room filled with corpses, where he discovered a dried girl’s body on an operating table.
• Quan Qin asked what they should do, and Che Quan questioned the cowering director, Kang Cheng, about his alias and the murders of Chen Mengxue and Meng Ting.
• Kang Cheng recognized Chen Mengxue’s ghost as she became a vengeful spirit and lunged at him.
• Che Quan stopped Chen Mengxue, covered her eyes with gray mist, and let her hear Kang Cheng’s screams and pleas for mercy.

After Che Quan avenged Chen Mengxue’s mother, he led Yue Li and the other players to the hospital’s hidden room for burning patients and told Yue Li to set it alight. The Death Hospital instance began its one-minute shutdown countdown before she acted.

• Chen Mengxue regained her sight and saw that Che Quan had killed the murderer who had harmed her mother.
• Che Quan asked Yue Li about the fire used to treat patients, and she led him to a hidden room containing a cross-shaped burning frame.
• Che Quan challenged Yue Li’s belief that the patients deserved their punishment, asking whether the hospital itself should face judgment for tormenting innocent people.
• Yue Li admitted she could not destroy the hospital herself, but Che Quan insisted that she burn it down.
• The Instance System announced that the Death Hospital instance would close in one minute, warning players that anyone who remained would have their soul trapped.

Che Quan exposed the head nurse as the monster that had stolen Yue Li’s identity and revealed that the real Yue Li was dead. As the impostor transformed and attacked, Jiang Cong appeared, and the monster cowered at the sight of him.

• With the Death Hospital countdown ending, Quan Qin reasoned that the players had to act as medical staff judging guilty patients, while Cheng Kong considered a different interpretation.
• Che Quan told Yue Li that she had secretly been the doctor who made Brain Specimens and challenged her to explain why her photo was on the hospital’s photo wall.
• Che Quan declared that the real Yue Li was dead and that the brain inside the head nurse’s body belonged to someone else.
• The impostor’s skin blistered and split, revealing a hideous monster that lunged toward Che Quan.
• Jiang Cong arrived in the corridor, and the monster recoiled in fear at the sight of him.