Chapter Summaries

Yin Chao woke in a foggy village as a supernatural wedding procession passed and learned that he and the other modern-dressed strangers were players in a deadly game. After they gathered at the village chief’s location, Xu Zhou realized their group was missing a player.

• Yin Chao heard a system announce the start of the storyline "The Wedding" and left his room to watch a bridal procession pass through the village.
• Yang Fan stumbled into the procession in panic, and Xu Zhou warned him to stay quiet before restoring the villagers’ festive behavior by calling for the sedan chair to be lifted.
• The system declared the first storyline complete and directed the players to gather at the village chief’s location.
• Fang Tang introduced herself as Keeper, Xu Zhou as Mad Dog, and the frightened newcomer as Yang Fan; Mo Nan also introduced himself.
• Yin Chao introduced himself and watched a moss-covered door while Xu Zhou counted the group and noticed that only nine people were present, though the instance required at least ten.

Yin Chao learned the deadly game's rules while the group headed to the village chief's house to complete their task. He knocked on the gate and called out, and it burst open.

• Fang Tang warned Yang Fan that failing the task in time would result in erasure, and a map to the village chief's house appeared in the players' minds.
• Yin Chao pretended to be a harmless newcomer and listened as Fang Tang explained the game's rules, including its ranks, safe periods, and deadly stakes.
• Xu Zhou led the group to the village chief's house, where red lanterns hung over the closed gate.
• Yin Chao noticed the others seemed ready to make a newcomer knock, so he slapped the gate and called for the village chief.
• The courtyard gate burst open before Fang Tang could stop Yin Chao.

Yin Chao and the other players attended a monstrous village banquet where guests without seats were eaten, and Mo Nan revealed himself as the Smiling-Faced Thug. After the second scenario ended, a ghostly girl whispered “Kitchen” to Yin Chao, leaving the bride’s wish for the next morning.

• The village chief welcomed the nine players into a candlelit courtyard filled with silent, monstrous villagers and urged them to sit for the feast.
• Xu Zhou, Fang Tang, and Yang Fan claimed seats, while Yin Chao, Mo Nan, and Miss Bai remained standing as the villagers began to transform and drool.
• Mo Nan killed a seated player to claim a seat for Miss Bai, and another player recognized him as the Smiling-Faced Thug.
• Yin Chao insisted that the village chief give up his seat, and the chief yielded just before the candles went out and the monsters devoured two players.
• A thin girl in a red padded jacket grabbed Yin Chao’s ankle beneath the table, whispered “Kitchen,” and vanished when the candles relit.
• The system announced that the second scenario was complete and that the players had to fulfill the bride’s wish the next morning.

After surviving the village chief’s transformation, Yin Chao settled into the guesthouse and was visited by the ghost girl, who asked him to find and hide her in the kitchen. A mysterious hooded man entered Yin Chao’s room and asked him to take him there.

• The village chief led Yang Fan, Yin Chao, Fang Tang, Xu Zhou, and the others to the guest rooms after Yang Fan became sick from the blood and gore.
• Yin Chao chose a room beside the locked room, declined Yang Fan’s request to share, and struggled to sleep in the dark.
• Yin Chao heard a noise in the empty room next door, then found the red-jacketed ghost girl beneath his bed.
• The girl said Yin Rui had forbidden her from giving Yin Chao something yet, then asked him to find and hide her in the kitchen.
• After another noise, a hooded stranger opened Yin Chao’s door and told him to take him to the kitchen.

Yin Chao followed the Tenth Player to the kitchen, where a monster’s illusion forced him to experience the bloody death of a woman named Guixiang. After the hooded man awakened him, they hid from the village chief, who dug a corpse from the wall and began eating it.

• The hooded man told Yin Chao he was the Tenth Player and said the game was created specifically for Yin Chao, whom he called the Child of the Evil God.
• Yin Chao followed the hooded man into the kitchen and experienced an illusion in which Granny Wang helped Wencai’s mother deliver a girl, then died as blood consumed the courtyard.
• The hooded man explained that the illusion was Empathy, a method monsters used to kill people, and awakened Yin Chao.
• As Yin Chao searched the kitchen, the hooded man pulled him behind a woodpile when they heard the village chief approaching.
• The village chief searched the stove, dug a corpse out of the earthen wall, and tore flesh from its face to eat.

Yin Chao found the little girl’s corpse and received Yin Rui’s Myriad People Umbrella after helping her hide it, while Mo Nan fled and left another player to die. The hooded man woke and attacked Yin Chao after recognizing him as the Child of the Evil God, but stopped with his sword at Yin Chao’s neck.

• Yin Chao and the hooded man were discovered by the village chief, and the hooded man cut the Ghoul in two before collapsing at the sight of blood.
• The little girl’s corpse warned Yin Chao to hide her, then Mo Nan arrived with another player and escaped as the girl killed his companion.
• Yin Chao guessed that the locked room was the safest hiding place and received the Myriad People Umbrella from the little girl in return.
• Yin Chao bound the umbrella with a drop of blood, and the little girl’s corpse fell to the floor as the umbrella vanished.
• The hooded man woke and attacked Yin Chao, saying he was the Child of the Evil God, but stopped with his sword against Yin Chao’s neck.

Yin Chao stopped himself from killing the hooded man and carried the little girl into a bride’s room, where her sobbing began. He then relived Lotus Leaf’s memories of resisting marriage and seeking the help of a nun, but the nun’s advice remained unknown.

• Yin Chao smeared bloody flesh on the hooded man’s face, making him faint, then felt a painful force in his head when he considered killing him.
• Yin Chao carried the little girl into a red-decorated room and heard her sobbing after he returned to his room.
• Yin Chao relived Lotus Leaf striking Aunt Liu with a stone after the village women gossiped about her marriage.
• Lotus Leaf told Jin Mei she did not want to marry and slipped away from the village festivities to seek a nun’s help.
• Lotus Leaf asked the nun how she and Jin Mei could avoid their arranged marriages, but Yin Chao did not hear the nun’s answer.
• Yin Chao saw Lotus Leaf and Jin Mei running together across a purple grassland.

Yin Chao and the other players witnessed Lotus Leaf’s tragic wedding procession, fulfilling the bride’s wish and completing the instance. Back in his own world, Yin Chao found his parents gone and a letter from Yin Rui.

• Mo Nan and Xu Zhou confronted Yin Chao, and Xu Zhou tested him with a gun that harmed only ghosts and monsters.
• Mo Nan revealed that a teammate had been killed by a ghost above B-rank, prompting tension between Fang Tang and Miss Bai.
• The village chief led the players to Lotus Leaf’s wedding procession, where the bride appeared to hang herself and the scene transformed into a funeral procession.
• The system announced that the bride’s wish was fulfilled and the instance was complete, then showed Yin Chao his stats and the items he had obtained.
• Yin Chao woke in his own bed, found Yin Rui and Shang Yi absent and unreachable, and opened a pink envelope left on the desk.

After reading Yin Rui and Shang Yi’s farewell letter, Yin Chao discovered that Anna could leave the apartment by contracting with the Myriad People Umbrella. The contract made Anna his A-rank ghost servant, and Yin Chao gained the exclusive title Child of the Evil God.

• Yin Chao read Yin Rui and Shang Yi’s letter saying they had left and that their family would reunite someday.
• Anna hid in the wardrobe and helped Yin Chao drive off a group of thugs who broke into the apartment.
• Anna asked Yin Chao to take her outside and used his blood to complete a ghost contract.
• Anna explained that the Myriad People Umbrella let Yin Chao contract with ghosts and give them the strength to leave their home.
• Anna transformed into a golden-haired, green-eyed girl, and Yin Chao received the title Child of the Evil God.

Yin Chao learned that he had gained the title Child of the Evil God and met Bai Yu and Bai Xu, who told him that Yang Fan had died under suspicious circumstances. After shopping with Anna, Yin Chao was ambushed inside a barrier, and Anna fought the masked attacker to protect him and her chips.

• Yin Chao learned that the system could not detect the abilities of his Child of the Evil God title and decided to keep it hidden.
• Yin Chao met Bai Yu and Bai Xu outside the supermarket, where Bai Xu revealed that Yang Fan had died from apparent gas poisoning.
• Bai Xu offered to protect Yin Chao in his territory, but Yin Chao left with Anna to buy chips.
• Yin Chao suspected that powerful players had targeted the beginners from their unusual B-rank instance because they might possess a valuable treasure.
• A masked man trapped Yin Chao inside a barrier and attacked him with a blade, but Anna kicked the weapon away and fought the attacker.

Yin Chao recovered in the hospital after Zhao Guojun attacked him, while Bai Xu explained how the major guilds operated in the real world. The chapter left Yin Chao still wary of Bai Xu and uncertain about the people associated with his guild.

• Wu Shan and the long-haired man fought Anna while the man attacked Yin Chao and demanded to know what item he had obtained.
• Bai Xu kicked the man away, and Yin Chao passed out before waking in the hospital almost eight days later.
• Bai Yu told Yin Chao that the attacker was Zhao Guojun, one of the Ares Guild’s ten aces, who called himself Morika.
• Bai Xu explained that the Bai, Ares, Miracle, and Wanqi Guilds backed players in the real world and described the Ares Guild’s reputation.
• Yin Chao asked whether Mo Nan belonged to the Bai Guild, and Bai Xu said Mo Nan had recruited people elsewhere after investigating their past crimes.

Bai Xu explained to Yin Chao that the game world belonged to the Supreme God and invited him to join the Bai Guild. After recovering, Yin Chao went with Bai Xu to an underground plaza for an instance gathering, where he spotted the hooded man from his previous instance among the Miracle Squad.

• Bai Xu told Yin Chao about the Supreme God, explained that Zhao Guojun had escaped, and warned him to watch out for the Wanqi Guild.
• Yin Chao agreed to join the Bai Guild, and Bai Xu picked him up from the hospital several days later.
• Yin Chao hid Anna inside the Myriad People Umbrella and traveled with Bai Xu to a guarded sports center.
• Yin Chao reunited with Bai Yu and Mo Nan at the underground plaza, where Bai Yu said she had come to see the Miracle Guild.
• Yin Chao recognized the hooded man as Killer, the Miracle Squad's ace, and tried to avoid being noticed.

Yin Chao provoked Midnight while the guilds gathered, then deliberately chose an S-rank instance when the Bai Guild entered the lobby’s selection screen. He was sent into a rare purple S-rank instance, leaving Bai Yu grieving and Bai Xu trying to reassure her.

• Yin Chao read Midnight’s overwhelming stats, and Midnight noticed him watching and stared him down.
• Moon Shadow approached Bai Xu and tried to recruit Yin Chao, but Yin Chao announced that he only liked Midnight.
• Midnight confronted Yin Chao, but the lobby screen announced a purple S-rank instance at Linmu City No. 2 Middle School.
• Bai Yu explained how random S-rank instances were and how they could offer valuable items, while Mr. Yang prepared the Bai Guild to enter a B-rank instance.
• When Yin Chao reached the selection screen, he silently chose S-rank and entered the purple instance with the others.
• Bai Yu mourned Yin Chao’s apparent fate, while Bai Xu tried to comfort her despite doubting he would survive.

Yin Chao entered the S-rank Linmu No. 2 Middle School instance and learned he had the special role of idiot, then clashed with Midnight and discovered the class believed he was a girl. After provoking Zhao Guojun and witnessing the teacher enforce the ghosts’ will, Yin Chao saw the injured Linmu arrive and watched students volunteer to take punishment for laughing at him.

• Yin Chao received the idiot role card and learned the instance had fifteen players divided among werewolves, villagers, and special roles.
• Midnight dragged Yin Chao to the bathroom and warned him to keep their secret, but Yin Chao teased him until other boys interrupted them.
• Yin Chao asked his deskmate whether he was a boy or a girl and learned the class regarded him as a girl.
• Yin Chao tricked Zhao Guojun into angering the teacher, who forced Zhao Guojun to stand at the back after warning him not to defy her will.
• Linmu entered the classroom injured and fell; when the teacher threatened to make the whole class run ten laps, several students admitted they had laughed.

Yin Chao learned that Gao Chao and his friends had not injured Linmu, then met player Moqi Xinzhi and rejected his alliance’s request to inspect his card. After enduring the school day, Yin Chao clashed with Zhao Guojun again, while Midnight intervened.

• Yin Chao heard girls explain that Gao Chao and his friends had climbed over the wall to visit an internet cafe, and that they had not beaten Linmu.
• Moqi Xinzhi introduced himself to Yin Chao, who discovered that he was a level 20 player with the title Magician.
• Midnight mocked Yin Chao’s low stamina as they ran laps, and Yin Chao struggled to finish the run.
• Moqi Xinzhi introduced Yin Chao to the good-faction players he had allied with, but Yin Chao refused to show them his card or trust their claims.
• Zhao Guojun rushed at Yin Chao, but Midnight blocked him before Zhao Guojun collapsed into Midnight’s arms and demanded a kiss.

Yin Chao and Midnight watched a brutal classroom assault turn into a supernatural fire that transformed the students into charred corpses. The game then shifted to a werewolf-style judgment round, where Yin Chao discovered Liang Chen among the players.

• Yin Chao and Midnight concluded that Moqi Xinzhi was recruiting people he thought he could control.
• Di attacked a uniformed girl, and Midnight kicked him away; Di briefly revealed rotting flesh before leaving.
• The classroom darkened as “Für Elise” played, and the students became charred corpses that attacked the players.
• Midnight fought the corpses while they repeatedly regenerated, and Yin Chao remained untouched as the classroom burned away.
• The game moved to a dark table for a werewolf round, and Yin Chao spotted Liang Chen of the Miracle Squad when the day phase began.

Yin Chao learned that Linmu wanted help clearing the guilt of a killing, then returned to class amid the fallout from Xu Qianqian’s suicide. As Zhang Di’s thugs confronted the class, Gao Chao arrived and learned what had happened to Xu Qianqian.

• During Judgment, the witch revealed that she had saved Mr. Wanqi, and Yin Chao claimed only that he had a special role.
• After the others vanished, Yin Chao confronted Linmu, who admitted that he and others had killed someone and asked Yin Chao to clear their guilt.
• Back in the classroom, Yin Chao learned that Xu Qianqian had jumped off a building after a dispute involving Wang Li and Zhang Di.
• Yin Chao suspected Xu Qianqian was the person Linmu had mentioned, approached Linmu, and accused him of killing her.
• Zhang Di entered with a crowd of thugs, while Liang Chen excitedly greeted Midnight; Gao Chao then arrived and heard that Zhang Di had spat in Xu Qianqian’s face.

Gao Chao was expelled after attacking Zhang Di, then died after falling from the school building as the school lost phone signal and received a sinister announcement. The voice declared the start of a Battle Royale and ordered the students to choose a scapegoat every ten minutes or die.

• Gao Chao beat Zhang Di, but Zhang Di returned with the vice principal and accused him of starting a fight.
• The school announced that Gao Chao was expelled, and Teacher Li learned from the students that Zhang Di had driven Xu Qianqian to her death.
• Gao Chao fell from the building and died outside the classroom, while students discovered their phones had no signal.
• The loudspeakers announced that a Battle Royale had begun and required the students to choose one scapegoat every ten minutes or be killed.

At Linmu No. 2 Middle School, students were forced to choose scapegoats for judgment, and the masked adjudicators began executing those selected. As the slaughter continued, Yin Chao learned that Gao Louyu was Gao Chao’s sister and had died by jumping from a building.

• A boy who dismissed the school’s strange rules was killed by a shot to the forehead, and Liang Chen admired the wound.
• The students were ordered to gather in the assembly hall and anonymously name a scapegoat for each class.
• Director He threatened a student for writing his name, then was killed when a bloody hole appeared in his forehead.
• The adjudicators collected the slips and led the chosen scapegoats onto the stage, including Zhang Di.
• The goat-masked adjudicator strangled Yang Yu after the broadcast accused him of bullying classmates and spreading rumors about Gao Louyu.
• Yin Chao asked Linmu who Gao Louyu was, and Linmu explained that she was Gao Chao’s younger sister who had died by jumping from a building.

At Linmu No. 2 High School, the goat-headed man exposed Zhang Di’s crimes and killed him before the broadcast launched a schoolwide battle royale. Yin Chao watched the ghosts hunt through the campus from the rooftop, where a system notice eventually reported that Xu Huo had died and fourteen players remained.

• Zhang Di tore off the goat-headed man’s mask, revealing a rotting goat face sewn onto his head, and the goat-headed man strangled him after reciting his crimes.
• The broadcast announced a battle royale, and Moqi Xinzhi led his group out of the assembly hall before Lin Mu, Yin Chao, Midnight, and Liang Chen followed.
• Lin Mu told Yin Chao to stop following him, and Yin Chao left with Midnight and Liang Chen to seek safety on the classroom building’s roof.
• As the countdown ended, black-robed ghosts emerged across campus, and a tiger-headed ghost killed people gathered by the school gate.
• After the battle royale continued until sunset, a system notice reported that ghost had killed villager Xu Huo and that fourteen players remained.