Chapter Summaries

Yuan Ci and Ji Xun escaped the stairway illusion, and Ji Xun explained that the school’s missing Class Twelve may be connected to a student who attacked them with a string. The group found a bloodied student in their assigned classroom, leaving them facing another ghost story.

• Su Rang charged up the stairs and collided with Ji Xun, finding him seated on Yuan Ci’s lap.
• Yuan Ci, Ji Xun, Su Rang, Hao Wei, and Si Qi cleared the stairway and received mission progress for verifying one of four campus ghost stories.
• Yuan Ci revealed that third-year Class Twelve had been replaced by a storage room, and Ji Xun said the class’s students had disappeared after a fire two years earlier.
• Ji Xun identified Peng Di, a Class Twelve student skilled with stringed instruments, as a possible stairway ghost, and Yuan Ci warned the group to avoid the Small Auditorium.
• Si Qi spotted a bloodied student clawing at his hair in the supposedly empty first-year Class Seven classroom.

Ji Xun, Yuan Ci, and Su Rang found more dead players and encountered a classroom full of ghosts on the sixth floor. Meanwhile, Wei Lin’s team searched the East Building, where Qian Fang entered a restroom and vanished.

• Ji Xun, Yuan Ci, and Su Rang passed ghosts on the third and fourth floors and realized a student ghost was mopping with a dead player’s body.
• Ji Xun looked into Class Twelve on the sixth floor and saw a mutilated teacher and a room full of ghosts turn toward the door.
• Wei Lin’s team entered the School Infirmary, where Lin Lin spotted jars of human body parts, then left without investigating further.
• Li Anmeng found an alarm on the principal’s office door, so Wei Lin’s team abandoned their search there.
• Qian Fang ignored Wei Lin’s warning and entered the women’s restroom, where he used a spirit-detecting compass to follow a noise.
• Wei Lin, Li Anmeng, and Lin Lin found the restroom empty when they went in to look for Qian Fang.

Ji Xun, Yuan Ci, and Su Rang survived the dorm supervisor’s second inspection, while nine players died overnight. At the morning exercise break, Wei Lin told Yuan Ci that a traitor was among the players.

• Yuan Ci explained that the Class Twelve classroom was likely the instance’s “eye,” linking its missing students to the school’s mysterious accidents.
• The dorm supervisor hunted players returning late and killed them, then entered room 204 during his inspection.
• Su Rang and Ji Xun pretended to be corpses, but Ji Xun struck the supervisor with his fist and drove him out of the room.
• The system announced that only eleven players remained, and Ji Xun discovered that Qian Fang had died.
• Ji Xun and Yuan Ci met Wei Lin and the other players during exercise break, where Wei Lin announced that there was a traitor among them.

The players investigated Qian Fang’s bloody message and discovered a mirror could affect Hao Wei, while Ji Xun noticed Su Rang was compelled to eat the cafeteria’s meatball noodles. The chapter ended with a boy eating a human eyeball from Chen He’s bowl as though it were a delicacy.

• Wei Lin revealed that Qian Fang had died in the third-floor girls’ restroom and left the bloody words “Wang Qi,” while the players learned Wang Kaile had already died on the stairs.
• Ji Xun stopped Hao Wei from staring into a mirror, and Yuan Ci warned her not to go anywhere alone.
• Ji Xun prevented Su Rang from eating meatball noodles and helped him realize the bowl was compelling him to eat it.
• Chen He found a human eyeball in his noodles, but the boy with glasses took the bowl and ate the eyeball.

Ji Xun and the others encountered Wang Kaile in the cafeteria and learned that the Mirror may have affected students who met their reflections. Later, they investigated screams from another classroom and found a red-dressed ghost beside a fallen ceiling fan that had killed several students.

• Ji Xun explained that the bodies had disappeared from the Storage Room, while Su Rang and Chen He recoiled from human remains hidden beneath the cafeteria noodles.
• Wang Kaile appeared alive in the cafeteria, denied killing Qian Fang, and described a bloody child haunting the girls' bathroom.
• Ji Xun asked whether Wang Kaile wanted help escaping, and Yuan Ci agreed to help if Wang Kaile kept his friends from harming the players.
• Yuan Ci suspected Wang Kaile was connected to the Mirror and warned everyone who had met their reflections to avoid mirrors.
• Ji Xun, Yuan Ci, and Su Rang went to Grade Two Class Three after hearing screams and saw a red-dressed ghost beside a spinning ceiling fan that had shredded students.

Ji Xun, Su Rang, and Li Anmeng investigated the Small Auditorium, where they uncovered the preserved ruins of the fire and became trapped inside as a ghost story began. Meanwhile, Yuan Ci and Wei Lin led the others to the Principal’s Office.

• Ji Xun realized the Red-Dress Ghost had become a Proxy Ghost and warned that the school’s growing number of ghosts could threaten the players.
• Ji Xun, Yuan Ci, and Su Rang decided to investigate the Small Auditorium because it was tied to Class Twelve and the school’s supernatural incidents.
• Yuan Ci split the group, sending Ji Xun, Su Rang, and Li Anmeng to the Small Auditorium while he and Wei Lin took the others to the Principal’s Office.
• Ji Xun, Su Rang, and Li Anmeng found a Bagua Mirror above the Small Auditorium and discovered that its reconstructed interior preserved the burned ruins of the original building.
• Talisman-covered cords stirred as a ghost song began, smoke filled the auditorium, and a talisman sealed the entrance, trapping Ji Xun, Su Rang, and Li Anmeng inside.

Ji Xun witnessed how the principal and the dormitory supervisor caused Class Twelve to disappear, then escaped the burning Small Auditorium with Su Rang and Li Anmeng after defeating a special BOSS. Yuan Ci explained how the principal’s office and the auditorium were connected, but the fate of Class Twelve and discrepancies surrounding the school renovations remained unresolved.

• Ji Xun followed ghostly singing to the stage and saw the principal order the dormitory supervisor and two thugs to remove the injured students and burn the Small Auditorium.
• Ji Xun found unconscious Su Rang and Li Anmeng, shielded them from a falling chandelier, and escaped when defeating the special BOSS shattered the door talisman.
• Su Rang woke outside and apologized to Ji Xun, while Yuan Ci and the others arrived bloodied with the principal’s severed head.
• Ji Xun refused Yuan Ci’s medicine and questioned him about the special BOSS; Yuan Ci explained that killing the principal sealed the Small Auditorium instance and that the true ending required entering it.
• Yuan Ci said he did not know where the principal took Class Twelve and revealed that the fire happened during summer vacation, after a student’s parents donated money for school renovations.

Ji Xun fought the students trapped in the mirror and learned that Class Twelve had not been killing anyone at the school. After realizing the school’s ghosts might now be free to roam, he waited until dawn and discovered the Administrator and a chef were slaughtering students for meat; Jiang Yao appeared behind him.

• Yuan Ci tried to contact Ji Xun after Ji Xun left and blocked him, while Ji Xun refused to return to the dorm or speak to Yuan Ci.
• Ji Xun confronted seven mirror doubles, defeated them, and learned from Wu Xiran and Deng Wen that Class Twelve students needed a medium to escape and that Jiang Yao had left with Wang Kaile.
• Ji Xun agreed to help the trapped students in exchange for their help, then discovered their claims meant they were not the ones killing students at the school.
• Ji Xun found the sixth-floor classroom empty and suspected the principal’s death had freed the school’s ghosts and monsters to move around.
• At dawn, Ji Xun watched the Administrator and a chef unload bodies and butchered meat from a truck, and Jiang Yao appeared behind him, grieving.

Jiang Yao told Ji Xun how the Principal and Administrator drugged and exploited students, then arranged the deaths of Class Twelve and covered them up. Ji Xun went to the School Infirmary to investigate Doctor Zhai, who had tested the tainted food, and noticed the anatomical model was missing.

• Jiang Yao said Deng Wen discovered that someone had drugged Class Twelve's meals and that Doctor Zhai confirmed they were addicted.
• Jiang Yao explained that the Principal and Administrator targeted students for profit and that a victim lured Class Twelve to the Small Auditorium, where the students were attacked.
• Jiang Yao recalled waking trapped beneath sandbags and steel reinforcing bars, then later appearing in a mirror and learning that he and Deng Wen were dead.
• Ji Xun wrote a note and went to the School Infirmary, where he pretended his burned hand needed treatment to speak with Doctor Zhai.
• Doctor Zhai became agitated over Ji Xun's burn, and Ji Xun noticed that the infirmary's anatomical model was gone.

Ji Xun helped Jiang Yao and Deng Wen leave the mirrors, then searched the Principal’s Office for evidence of the principal’s crimes. They uncovered drugs and money in a safe, while Doctor Zhai gave Ji Xun a test report and asked him to help him leave the school.

• Doctor Zhai treated Ji Xun’s burned hand, and Ji Xun noticed a metallic glint beneath Doctor Zhai’s collar.
• Ji Xun removed yellow talismans from the mirrors, allowing Jiang Yao and Deng Wen to emerge safely.
• Ji Xun took Jiang Yao and Deng Wen to the Principal’s Office, where they searched for evidence against the principal.
• Deng Wen found a list of students the principal had victimized, while Doctor Zhai offered Ji Xun a drug test report and asked him to help leave the school.
• Jiang Yao opened a safe and found banknotes and bags of drugs inside.

Ji Xun found Chen He overcome by hunger and knocked him unconscious, then met Jiang Yao and Deng Wen in the girls’ restroom to help a ghost baby find its mother. When the madwoman arrived and claimed the child, the baby rejected her and clung to Ji Xun.

• Chen He begged Ji Xun to let him bite him, then lunged at him, so Ji Xun knocked him unconscious and left a note about locations with Ghost Stories.
• Ji Xun considered how the missing students’ bodies might have been mixed into concrete and scattered across the school.
• On the third night, Ji Xun evaded the Administrator and the madwoman and joined Jiang Yao and Deng Wen in the girls’ restroom.
• A blue-gray baby crawled out of the drain, called Ji Xun “Mama,” and pointed toward where its mother was.
• The madwoman threw her axe at Ji Xun and called for the baby, but the baby spat at her and clung to Ji Xun.

Ji Xun defeated the madwoman and helped the ghost infant reunite with his mother, uncovering the principal’s role in her death. The side quest was completed, while the main quest to verify four campus ghost stories remained at three of four.

• Ji Xun trapped the madwoman and her ghost infants inside the restroom after defeating them.
• Ji Xun brought the baby to Grade Two Class Three, where he freed the Red-Dress Ghost from the rope around her neck.
• The Red-Dress Ghost revealed that the principal had drugged and deceived her, then ordered the Administrator to kill her and dispose of her baby.
• Ji Xun completed the quest to help the lost child find his mother, and the baby offered him his mouse friend Hei Hei.

Ji Xun and Jiang Yao helped Deng Wen calm the struggling student ghost and solve his math problem, completing the side quest. The ghost mentioned a skeleton haunting the corridor, and Ji Xun spotted it watching them through the classroom window.

• Ji Xun and Deng Wen went to Grade One Class Seven, where the struggling student ghost attacked them with flying books and paper.
• Hei Hei rushed at the ghost and startled him out of his obsession, allowing Ji Xun to approach safely.
• The struggling student ghost recognized Deng Wen from junior high, and Deng Wen taught him how to solve the problem.
• Ji Xun completed the side quest and received the struggling student's skullcap as a reward.
• The struggling student ghost said a skeleton had been pacing in the corridor, then pointed out its skull watching through the classroom window.

Ji Xun learned from Doctor Zhai how the Principal had disposed of the students’ bodies, then left Deng Wen and Jiang Yao in the doctor’s care and jumped down to face the Administrator. Yuan Ci and Su Rang joined him as the Administrator revealed his ability to regrow severed limbs.

• Ji Xun caught Doctor Zhai outside the infirmary, where the skeleton retrieved his eyeballs and explained that he was neither human nor a Ghost Story monster.
• Doctor Zhai showed Ji Xun, Deng Wen, and Jiang Yao the Administrator leading a crowd of the Principal’s victims across the sports field, and described how the Principal had destroyed or hidden the students’ bodies.
• Doctor Zhai explained that restoring the other Class Twelve students would be nearly impossible because their bodies had been crushed and scattered throughout the school building.
• Ji Xun left Deng Wen and Jiang Yao with Doctor Zhai in exchange for the evidence, then jumped from the third-floor infirmary window.
• Ji Xun met Yuan Ci and Su Rang on the sports field while the Proxy Ghosts hunted through the dormitory building, and the Administrator thanked him for killing the Principal.
• Yuan Ci cut off the Administrator’s arm, but it regrew within seconds, prompting Ji Xun to mock his ability to regenerate.

Ji Xun and Su Rang set fire to the classroom building to free the trapped students of Class Twelve, while Yuan Ci fought the Administrator. The students emerged restored to their youthful bodies, and the chapter ended with Jiang Yao thanking Ji Xun as the burning building vanished.

• Yuan Ci held off the Administrator while Ji Xun ran to the Small Auditorium, and the Administrator summoned the Proxy Ghosts to the sports field.
• Ji Xun led Su Rang to the East Building and explained that the students of Class Twelve were trapped inside it.
• Ji Xun used Su Rang’s gasoline and called on the ghosts to spread it through the classroom building before smashing the Mirror in Straighten Your Clothes.
• The classroom building burned, revealing the six students’ bodies and allowing the ghosts of Class Twelve to emerge.
• Deng Wen and Jiang Yao led the students onto the sports field in their restored bodies, and Jiang Yao thanked Ji Xun as the building’s fire consumed it.

Ji Xun and the others completed the Experimental Middle School instance, but Yuan Ci killed Chen He after revealing that he and his companions had been corrupted. After the survivors left, Doctor Zhai joined Ji Xun, and the school’s crimes were exposed as its wronged souls found rest.

• Jiang Yao, Deng Wen, the Red-Dress Ghost, Baby, Hei Hei, and the Failing Student Ghost said goodbye to Ji Xun as the campus spirits faded and the main quest was completed.
• Chen He asked Ji Xun to rescue Wang Peng and Zhang Haoran, but Yuan Ci killed Chen He with a thrown sword before he could attack Ji Xun.
• Yuan Ci explained that Chen He, Wang Peng, and Zhang Haoran had been corrupted, and that Article seven of the Humanity Covenant required players to eliminate the corrupted.
• Yuan Ci told Ji Xun that his next instance was an abandoned factory where the Principal had manufactured drugs, then left for the Headquarters Base.
• Doctor Zhai insisted on joining Ji Xun, who reluctantly agreed to take him along like Hei Hei.
• Doctor Zhai reported the school’s crimes to the police, who recovered the missing students’ remains and evidence against the Principal; Experimental Middle School was permanently shut down, and the wronged souls found rest.

After escaping Experimental Middle School, Ji Xun received a large reward and prepared to enter another instance with Tang Cha, Lu Jiancheng, and Fang Rui. Yuan Ci offered him points and invited him to join Dawn, while Tang Cha later told him the guilds had cleared and permanently closed the school instance and that Abyss was seeking the black-trench-coated player who unlocked its true ending.

• Ji Xun delivered a message to a grieving woman, returned to the Headquarters Base, and found 1,799 points and a Barrier-Breaking Mouse named Hei Hei among his rewards.
• Ji Xun agreed to join Tang Cha, Lu Jiancheng, and Fang Rui in an instance scheduled for three days later.
• Yuan Ci gave Ji Xun five thousand points and invited him to join Dawn, but Ji Xun declined, though he reconsidered after hearing about double points in hundred-player instances.
• Little Skeleton warned Ji Xun that Yuan Ci had entered Experimental Middle School ten times and each visit ended with the school becoming a Sea of Corpses.
• Tang Cha told Ji Xun that Abyss and Dawn had cleared the Experimental Middle School instance and that Abyss was offering a bounty for the black-trench-coated player who had unlocked its true ending.

Ji Xun rescued Lu Jiancheng from the Temple, a guild devoted to the self-proclaimed God Lord, and destroyed the guild’s statue on their way out. With Lu Jiancheng safe, they boarded the instance bus together, which announced Witch Forest as its next stop.

• Tang Cha told Ji Xun that Lu Jiancheng had gone missing, and they found blood and a note at Lu Jiancheng’s home pointing to A District 004.
• Ji Xun learned that A District 004 was the Temple’s headquarters and went there alone to find Lu Jiancheng tied up.
• The God Lord invited Ji Xun to join the Temple, but Ji Xun refused, freed Lu Jiancheng, and led him out.
• Ji Xun threw his blade at the Temple’s statue and warned its followers not to capture his friends again.
• Ji Xun told Tang Cha that Lu Jiancheng was safe, then boarded the instance bus with Lu Jiancheng, bound for Witch Forest.

Ji Xun, Tang Cha, Fang Rui, and Lu Jiancheng arrived at Thinking Forest Mansion, where the butler introduced the mystery of the murdered mistress and her household. As the players began investigating, the cook’s warning about outside food and a request for help in the kitchen hinted at dangers and possible opportunities.

• Tang Cha, Fang Rui, Ji Xun, and Lu Jiancheng reached the mansion with the other players, and the butler welcomed them to the five-day instance.
• The system announced the main quest: identify who killed the mistress, with only one chance to submit an answer.
• The butler explained that the mistress had been hacked to death, the master had died without external injuries, and the maid had fallen onto a spear; he said he and the cook had been away when it happened.
• Fang Rui, Tang Cha, and Lu Jiancheng examined the couple’s photograph and noted that the mistress’s clothing looked funeral-like beside the master’s newlywed attire.
• The butler warned the players that the cook disliked guests eating food he had not prepared, and the players recognized the rule as a possible death condition.
• The butler asked the players to help the overworked cook prepare food, prompting them to suspect a side quest.

Wan Mingfei accepted the cook’s side quest and lost a hand when the cook used a cleaver to punish his failure. As the players prepared for lunch, Ji Xun questioned the butler’s behavior, and the group considered how the maid’s death might connect to the mansion’s murders.

• Wan Mingfei volunteered to help the cook, but the cook severed his hand and kept it because he needed more hands.
• The players realized the butler had shown no surprise at Wan Mingfei’s injury, while Ji Xun noticed that the cook had left the severed hand in a draining basket.
• Ji Xun, Tang Cha, Lu Jiancheng, and Fang Rui chose to share a room and discussed their suspicions about the cook and the butler.
• Fang Rui reasoned that the maid’s death on the iron soldier’s spear might have been part of the murder plan, rather than an accident.
• The butler announced that lunch was ready and summoned the guests to the first-floor dining room.