Chapter Summaries

Wei Yanchi captured the Wei Family ghosts and placed them in the Ancestral Hall, while Xie De learned that Wei Yanchi was actually Wei Jianye’s great-grandson. The chapter left Wei Yanchi seeking a reward from Xie De as Wei Jianye watched their closeness with surprise.

• Xie De asked Wei Yanchi to handle the Wei Family ghosts, and Wei Yanchi used his bloodline and ghost-catching ability to capture them.
• Emma offered to help, but Xie De declined; Wei Jianye appeared and wondered why Wei Yanchi listened to Xie De so readily.
• Wei Jianye explained that Wei Yanchi was his great-grandson, adopted into the Second Branch as Wei Jianjun’s grandson and sent away to escape the Wei Family’s old path.
• Wei Yanchi returned after putting the ghosts in the Ancestral Hall and asked Xie De for a reward.
• Xie De promised Wei Yanchi an item of his choice after the instance ended, while Wei Jianye silently considered how close Wei Yanchi was to him and the Instance Faction.

Xie De accepted Wei Jianye’s invitation to hear the Wei Family’s history while Emma stayed behind with Wei Yanchi. As Wei Yanchi and Emma headed toward the Ancestral Hall, they encountered fleeing new Players, including Wang Chen, who recognized Wei Yanchi from a sports meet.

• Wei Jianye invited Xie De to walk with him and explain the Wei Family’s history, and Xie De accepted while leaving Emma to watch Wei Yanchi.
• Wei Jianye told Xie De that the Wei Family had three Ghost Brides, including his father’s cousin, who had almost become his wife.
• Wei Yanchi brutally subdued a ghost and asked Emma to help carry the ghost-containing item toward the Ancestral Hall.
• Emma told Wei Yanchi that Wei Jianye was his great-grandfather, and Wei Yanchi realized he had been adopted into the Second Branch.
• Wei Yanchi and Emma encountered fleeing new Players, and Wang Chen recognized Wei Yanchi from a provincial sports meet.

Wei Yanchi offered to help Wang Chen search for his missing club members while leading him to the Ancestral Hall and claiming the estate was a test for Taoists. Meanwhile, Liu Jiarui joined Zhang Mingqi and the others as they searched for Mr. Xie De, and they spotted him near Wei Jianye.

• Wei Yanchi remembered Wang Chen from the G City University Games and agreed to help him look for his companions, despite Emma's objection.
• Wei Yanchi led Wang Chen to the Ancestral Hall, put captured ghosts inside, and told him that exorcising ghosts was a Taoist specialty.
• Liu Jiarui hid from the water ghosts at the estate gate, where Zhang Mingqi found her and learned she was a new player.
• Lü Yating invited Liu Jiarui to join the group searching for Mr. Xie De, and Liu Jiarui warned them that the other new players had run off.
• The group followed Xu Gong's mark and saw Mr. Xie De seated near Wei Jianye, whose presence terrified Liu Jiarui.

Xie De learned more about the Wei Family’s resentful ghosts and watched Wei Yanchi demolish a historic courtyard while fighting one. The chapter ended with Wang Chen challenging Wei Jianye over mathematics, drawing the old ghost’s eager attention.

• Wei Jianye explained that his granddaughter became the Ghost Bride after her mother and the Wei Family persuaded her to undergo a bloodline-awakening experiment.
• Liu Jiarui told Xie De that her companions had fled a haunted room and been wandering the residence for an hour or two, so he prepared to collect their bodies.
• Xie De urged Wei Jianye to use the troublesome ghosts to make Wei Yanchi subdue them, then sent Juelu to find Xu Gong and Zuo Shenghang so the Players could clean up.
• Wei Yanchi emerged from an exploded courtyard and explained that he had made a working bomb from gunpowder he found in the residence.
• Wang Chen challenged Wei Jianye’s mathematics paper, and Wei Jianye eagerly asked whether he was a mathematics student.

Xie De struggled to rebuff Wei Yanchi’s intense advances while they stood near Wei Jianye, who was preparing to end the Wei Family estate’s haunting. The chapter ended with Wei Jianye agreeing to set fire to the Ancestral Hall where Wei Yanchi had gathered the ghosts.

• Wei Yanchi told Xie De that the entire Wei Family estate should be burned and leveled, not just the Ancestral Hall.
• Wei Yanchi clung to Xie De and confessed that he could not bear being pushed away, while Xie De tried to keep their interaction hidden from Wei Jianye.
• 455 offered to zap Wei Yanchi, but Wei Yanchi let go before Xie De could respond.
• Wei Jianye turned back to Xie De, and Xie De confirmed that Wei Yanchi had gathered all the ghosts in the Ancestral Hall.
• Wei Jianye said he would light the fire himself and end it all.

The Wei Family instance was consumed by fire, and Wei Jianye became an S Rank NPC with control over its ghosts. After the instance was established, Wei Yanchi flirted with Xie De, who returned to his domain and left him behind as Zhang Mingqi arrived.

• Lü Yating and the others set fires throughout the Wei Family Old Residence, while Liu Jiarui and Wang Chen fled toward its outskirts.
• Wei Jianye lamented that he would never return to school, asked Xie De to find Wei Yanchi a suitable match, and walked into the burning Ancestral Hall.
• The Instance System established the Wei Family instance, upgraded Wei Jianye to an S Rank NPC, and corrected the space-time as the fire vanished.
• Wei Yanchi led Xie De toward a small gate, then teased him and took his hand; Xie De rebuffed him and returned to his domain.
• Zhang Mingqi found Wei Yanchi alone in the courtyard and asked why he was standing there spacing out.

Xie De learned that Huang Zhuowang had been kidnapped and that a supposedly virus-infected human had escaped from the Laboratory’s Arctic Base. As Xie De and 455 suspected 730 might be involved, 730 arrived with news that Wei Yanchi was missing.

• Beiwei told Xie De that Huang Zhuowang had disappeared and left behind signs of a struggle and an SOS note on his rooster.
• Lin Darong told Xie De that the Laboratory had secretly experimented on humans at the Arctic Base and that one of its subjects had escaped.
• Xie De suspected 730 was involved in Huang Zhuowang’s disappearance and blamed 455 for teaching him about computer viruses.
• 730 arrived, denied involvement in the other incidents, and announced that Wei Yanchi had been missing for one minute and thirty seconds.

Xie De questioned 730 about Wei Yanchi’s disappearance and challenged its insistence on controlling the world for stability. After 730 investigated Huang Zhuowang’s disappearance, Xie De wondered whether the Laboratory, the Illuminati, and other forces were trying to break free of 730’s restraints.

• 730 admitted it had monitored Wei Yanchi and reported that he vanished after saying he would return to the Wei Family for something.
• Xie De questioned 730 about a missing programmer and the Laboratory’s lost test subject, but 730 denied plotting against him and defended its actions as necessary for balance.
• Xie De argued that 730’s surveillance and restrictions oppressed the world, while 455 complained about being dragged into their exchange.
• Xie De suggested Wei Yanchi might have noticed the surveillance and evaded it, then asked whether Huang Zhuowang’s disappearance was connected to the Laboratory.
• 730 said it could not determine Huang Zhuowang’s whereabouts or whether the Laboratory was involved, and left to investigate.
• Xie De told 455 he suspected that current events might be attempts to break through the restrictions 730 had imposed on the world.

Beiwei, Xu Gong, and Zuo Shenghang investigated Huang Zhuowang’s disappearance and found clues pointing to kidnappers with sophisticated technology but unprofessional methods. Wei Yanchi arrived seeking to join the Instance, then told Xie De that he had escaped an attack and found Huang Zhuowang’s name in his pursuer’s documents.

• Xu Gong examined Huang Zhuowang’s room and concluded that two likely male kidnappers had struggled with him before taking him.
• 455 reported that the kidnappers had erased the surveillance footage and that its search had failed to locate Huang Zhuowang.
• Wei Yanchi arrived at the Bamboo Grove, said he wanted to see Mr. 39, and asked to join the Instance for his own safety.
• Xie De called Beiwei and asked her to put Wei Yanchi on the phone.
• Wei Yanchi told Xie De that someone had hacked his phone and tried to trap or kill him, but he had escaped and broken his attacker’s left wrist.
• Wei Yanchi said he had found Huang Zhuowang’s name in the attacker’s documents and asked whether the programmer could crack the Instance System.

Xie De entered Jialike’s dangerous instance with Anbers and Wei Yunmo to investigate the clues connected to Huang Zhuowang and Wei Yanchi. After Jialike attacked them and fled upstairs, Xie De told Wei Yunmo that she was his work.

• Xie De learned that Huang Zhuowang’s clues pointed to Jialike’s Love Triangle instance, an S-Rank NPC’s residence, and went to find help.
• Xie De brought Anbers and Wei Yunmo into Jialike’s building, where she screamed at them to leave and attacked Wei Yunmo with a knife.
• Xie De stopped Jialike’s knife, while Anbers tried to examine her and she shoved him away before fleeing upstairs.
• Anbers decided they would need to stay for several days, and Wei Yunmo encountered a skull that vanished beneath a table.
• Wei Yunmo asked whether Jialike was Xie De’s friend, and Xie De replied that she was his work.

Xie De and his companions settled into Jialike’s filthy home while the Butler prepared rooms and supplies. When Xie De tried to speak with Jialike, her argument with Anbers escalated into a fight, leaving him to flee the music room.

• The Butler prepared a few rooms and gave Xie De a bottle of perfume while Emma brought in a long list of supplies.
• Xie De noticed Jialike watching the move-in, then followed her into the music room as she played piano.
• Jialike complained that the newcomers had disturbed her home and denounced the doctors who had treated her.
• Anbers confronted Jialike over her insults, and she threw a vase at him.
• Anbers and Jialike fought with their fists and hurled a piano at each other, so Xie De hurried out.

Wei Yunmo and Dunpli settled Teacher’s belongings into the instance while its owner, Jialike, asked Dunpli about doctors and the outside world. Players from the world’s major organizations soon arrived, leaving Wei Yunmo facing a crowded, tense gathering.

• Dunpli tried to persuade Wei Yunmo to trade places with him, then helped move Teacher’s belongings into Jialike’s building.
• Jialike told Dunpli she had a mysterious illness, asked to see his face, and was directed to seek help from Teacher.
• Wei Yunmo and Dunpli opened the door to find Wei Yanchi, Beiwei, Lü Yating, Zuo Shenghang, and Juelu arriving with 730’s help.
• Wei Yanchi slipped past Wei Yunmo after provoking him, and Ying Lin and Xi Yijiu entered soon afterward.
• Orion, Silas, and Mena arrived and clashed verbally with Ying Lin over the Laboratory and Illuminati.
• Su Fangmu and Haxibo entered, bringing together the major organizations in the instance.

Xie De encountered two identical women, Jialike and Jialina, and narrowly avoided Jialina’s attack before Orion arrived. He returned upstairs to find Anbers stuck in a wall and demanding help.

• Xie De heard a girl crying downstairs and met a woman who claimed to be Jialike, explaining that the woman upstairs was her mentally ill twin sister, Jialina.
• Jialike fled after warning Xie De to keep their meeting secret, and Jialina appeared behind him, demanding to know whether he had seen her sister.
• Xie De sprayed perfume at Jialina when she sniffed him, but she attacked him and accused him of taking Jialike away.
• Orion arrived and mistook Xie De’s encounter with Jialina for a lovers’ quarrel, while a terrifying wail sounded from upstairs.
• Xie De went back to the music room and found that Anbers had been making the wailing sounds while stuck in a wall.

Xie De learned that the Love Triangle instance had opened to humans and that 730 suspected an outside faction was interfering. Downstairs, Ying Lin and Xi Yijiu found themselves trapped and encountered Jialike, while the Plague Doctor’s arrival suggested the Instance Faction—and 39—were present too.

• Anbers insisted he could treat Jialina after Xie De pulled him from the wall, then left to check on the room preparations.
• 455 told Xie De and 730 that the Love Triangle instance had opened itself to anyone, and 730 revealed that it could not enter.
• 730 learned that 455 had found Xie De through the Book of Creation and suspected an outside faction had entered the instance.
• Ying Lin and Xi Yijiu failed to escape the building and met Jialike, who mistook them for doctors.
• The Plague Doctor appeared in the lobby, prompting Ying Lin to suspect that 39 and the Instance Faction were there.

Emma prepared rooms in the dilapidated building for Beiwei and Lü Yating, while Lü Yating investigated the instance’s love-triangle clues in the portraits. Orion’s cryptic remarks about Silas’s relationship problems and 39’s recruits left Lü Yating confused.

• Emma told Beiwei and Lü Yating that she had cleaned more than ten rooms for them and explained she was the Viscount’s assistant, not a player.
• Beiwei told Emma that Mr. 39 had reclaimed an ancient deserted city in Desert, and Emma excitedly asked about His Lordship the Viscount.
• Lü Yating noticed a changing pattern of love and murder in the portraits, and Emma said the instance involved a love triangle and a bad-tempered girl.
• Lü Yating asked Emma about Mr. Xie De and Huang Zhuowang, then left after hearing Silas and Juelu arguing downstairs.
• Orion introduced himself to Lü Yating, made cryptic remarks about ordinary players and Silas’s relationship problems, and Wei Yanchi angrily dismissed him as he went upstairs.

Xie De encountered Wei Yanchi waiting for him, and Wei Yanchi openly declared his interest in him in front of Wei Yunmo. Xie De then found Anbers debating religion and science with two Illuminati members, who had become his unpaid assistants.

• Wei Yanchi told Xie De he had waited twenty-seven hours and offered to become his assistant, then tried to kiss him.
• Wei Yunmo saw Wei Yanchi with Xie De, and Wei Yanchi bluntly told him they were dating; Xie De neither confirmed nor denied it.
• Xie De found Ying Lin and Xi Yijiu serving as Anbers's assistants after losing a debate about science and God.
• Wei Yunmo erupted at Wei Yanchi, who admitted he had no shame, while Ying Lin and Xi Yijiu prayed.

Xie De questioned Anbers about 730 and the S-rank NPCs, then followed him to a meal in the sanatorium’s central area. The gathered players sat divided into factions as Anbers and Xie De arrived, and Su Fangmu remarked that the Illuminati had already approached the powerful figures.

• Xie De asked Anbers whether the S-rank NPCs were planning to rebel and what 730 meant to them, and Anbers dismissed 730 as a tool and denied that the NPCs were behind the Instance opening.
• Anbers dissected a gecko and gave Xie De a jar of its tail before an announcement summoned all patients to the central area for a meal.
• Xie De and Anbers found Wei Yanchi holding Wei Yunmo, and Xie De introduced Wei Yanchi as his new assistant.
• Xie De suspected that the building was once Jialina and her sister’s residence and wondered where the other main character in the Love Triangle Instance was.
• The group reached the central area, where the players sat in separate factions, and Su Fangmu whispered that the Illuminati had hurried to cozy up to the powerful figures.

Xie De questioned the factions about their aims in the Love Triangle Instance as the Illuminati revealed they were searching for a demon they believed was hidden there. The nurse puppets then forced everyone to eat moldy steak, leaving Xie De and Jialike eating while the other Players watched.

• Xie De asked Ying Lin and the Illuminati why they had entered the Instance, and Ying Lin said they sought the demon based on their elder’s prophecy.
• Xi Yijiu revealed that the Laboratory had secretly sent people into the Instance despite refusing the Illuminati’s request to enter.
• Ying Lin insisted that the demon was real and said she would spread the word that Instances should return their duties to God, prompting Anbers to declare that God was dead.
• Nurse puppets brought moldy food into the room and dragged Jialike before the factions while Anbers complained about the meal.
• The puppets seated Jialike, Ying Lin, and Xi Yijiu and pressured everyone to eat; Xie De began eating the moldy steak alongside Jialike.

After the players endured a disgusting meal in the instance, Juelu revealed that the Laboratory had sent Silas to gather clues and pursue another agenda. Xie De agreed that the Club should cooperate with his group and blocked Su Fangmu and Haxibo from leaving.

• Xie De and the others forced themselves to eat the revolting food while the Nurse Marionettes watched, and the puppets left after collecting the dishes.
• Anbers led the Illuminati members away, while Orion, Mena, and Silas also departed the dining room.
• Juelu asked Su Fangmu and Haxibo why the Club had entered the instance, and they said they had come to watch the Laboratory make a spectacle of itself.
• Juelu told Xie De that Silas had warned her the Laboratory had sent him to extract clues and had another undisclosed agenda.
• Xie De supported Juelu's proposal to work with the Club and showed interest in its items, while Little House Centipede blocked the exit as Su Fangmu and Haxibo tried to leave.

Ying Lin searched the underground levels for a demon while Wei Yunmo followed, and Mena warned her away from a chamber containing the instance’s super Boss. Xie De’s group continued searching for Huang Zhuowang, while Lü Yating told Wei Yanchi that she had returned to the instances after a Door-Knocking Ghost threatened her young daughter, Spring Roll.

• Anbers sent Ying Lin, Xi Yijiu, and Wei Yunmo to search the building for a girl in a white dress, then told them to keep improving Wei Yunmo’s experiment success rate.
• Ying Lin followed her Compass underground and explained to Wei Yunmo that the Illuminati believed the instances disrupted the balance between the living world and Hell.
• Mena stopped Ying Lin at the underground palace entrance, warned her that entering could trigger the instance’s super Boss, and took back the Compass.
• Jialike ran underground while Jialina searched frantically for her younger sister; Wei Yanchi suggested the sisters might represent two extremes of one person, and Xie De paired off with Beiwei to search for clues.
• Lü Yating told Wei Yanchi that she had returned to the instances to gather resources and information after a Door-Knocking Ghost killed people in her apartment building, so she could better protect Spring Roll.