Chapter Summaries

Bo Yi and the players watched Miss Nina drain a patient during an execution, then followed the patients to a chapel for the scheduled Blessing Worship. As the prayer began, Bo Yi noticed that Shi Xinyi had become unexpectedly calm and devout.

• Miss Nina and the orderlies strapped a patient to an iron frame and drained his blood until he showed no signs of life.
• Miss Nina stopped the execution when it was time for the next group activity, and the players followed the patients out of the dining hall.
• The patients entered a chapel containing a faceless statue of a goddess and knelt for Blessing Worship.
• Bo Yi silently surveyed the hall while the players mimicked the prayer, then noticed Shi Xinyi reciting it with a calm, reverent expression.

Bo Yi witnessed strange effects during the worship ceremony, then returned to his room and woke in the night with intense hunger. He discovered his three roommates looming over him, hungry for a bite, and admitted that he was hungry too.

• Bo Yi saw a fleeting golden glow and drifting lights during the prayer, while the other players joined the NPCs in worship.
• Miss Nina ended the ceremony, and the players returned to their rooms relaxed, with Shi Xinyi humming a song praising Saint Mary.
• Bo Yi found his three roommates hidden beneath their blankets, then went to sleep without speaking to them.
• Hunger woke Bo Yi in the middle of the night, and he realized the saliva-filled faces above his bed belonged to his three roommates.
• The roommates asked to bite Bo Yi, and he sat up, planted a hand on one face, and said that he was hungry too.

Bo Yi’s three ravenous roommates attacked him, calling him the Holy Medicine, and he discovered his strength had diminished after becoming a patient. As they closed in, Miss Nina still had not appeared to intervene.

• Bo Yi examined his three roommates and saw that they carried a makeshift cleaver, a piece of rebar, and a crushed steel basin.
• The roommates attacked, and Bo Yi used his blanket to trap one before dodging the others’ strikes.
• Bo Yi expected Miss Nina to appear after the patients broke the rules, but she did not show up.
• Bo Yi struck the patient who had escaped the blanket and realized his strength was weaker than before.
• A roommate cut Bo Yi’s arm, and the three patients stopped to sniff his blood, calling him the Holy Medicine as they surrounded him.

Bo Yi escaped his ward by using his blood to distract three patient NPCs, then explored the dark stairwell. He realized the sticky footsteps following him came from his own growing shadow.

• Bo Yi discovered that his blood attracted the three patient NPCs and used it to escape through the ward door.
• Bo Yi found the corridor deserted and decided to explore during the rest period, heading for the stairs.
• Bo Yi heard three sets of footsteps in the stairwell, including a sticky sound, but saw nothing behind him when he looked.
• Bo Yi noticed his shadow stretching and growing on the wall, and realized it was the thing following him.

Bo Yi fled a grotesque flesh monster through the sanatorium stairwell and fourth-floor corridor, where locked consulting rooms left him trapped. As the monster cornered him, he spotted a white pigeon struggling at a ventilation duct.

• Bo Yi saw the flesh monster crawling across the stairwell ceiling and ran upstairs as it pursued him.
• The monster dropped onto the stairs and scattered into chunks, so Bo Yi turned back and ran down to the fourth floor.
• Bo Yi tried the consulting-room doors but found them locked, while the reassembled monster chased him down the corridor.
• The monster spat chunks of flesh at Bo Yi, driving him toward a dead end.
• Bo Yi heard flapping above him and saw a white pigeon squeezing through the ventilation duct's protective mesh.

Bo Yi rescued Mitian, who had entered the sanatorium Instance in the body of a fat pigeon, and followed him through a hidden door to escape the flesh monster. Safe for the moment, Bo Yi eyed the pigeon hungrily.

• Mitian revealed himself to Bo Yi as a fat pigeon after failing to enter an NPC's body.
• Bo Yi kicked chunks of flesh into the vent grille until it broke loose and Mitian escaped.
• Mitian led Bo Yi to a concealed door in the wall, and Bo Yi opened it to evade the pursuing flesh monster.
• Bo Yi rested with Mitian in his palm and stared at the plump pigeon as though he wanted to eat him.

Bo Yi and Mitian discovered a hidden laboratory filled with grotesque human-animal experiments. As they surveyed the enclosures, the sleeping creatures began to wake.

• Bo Yi kept the medicine bottle and followed Mitian through a narrow, bloodstained passage.
• Bo Yi entered a foul-smelling laboratory containing operating tables, equipment, and covered containers.
• Bo Yi uncovered a glass enclosure holding a spider-like monster made from human arms and implanted eyes.
• Bo Yi and Mitian uncovered the remaining enclosures and found many other modified creatures, recalling Bo Yi’s unpleasant memories.
• Mitian comforted Bo Yi, but a mournful whimper sounded as the creatures opened their eyes.

Bo Yi tried to escape the laboratory as the awakened monsters smashed their way out of their glass enclosures. He discovered the control panel opened a hidden elevator, then rushed inside as the glass shattered.

• The monsters awakened and began pounding on their enclosures until cracks spread through the glass.
• Bo Yi found a hidden door but could not open it, then discovered a control panel beneath the workstation where Mitian had perched.
• Bo Yi pressed the button labeled for sleep-inducing mist, but it released a drug that made the monsters more violent.
• Bo Yi guessed the control panel's buttons had opposite effects from their labels and pressed the green button labeled "Open cabinets."
• The hidden door slid open to reveal an elevator, and Bo Yi darted inside as the enclosures shattered.

Bo Yi rode an old elevator to a brightly lit upper laboratory, where he found glass cases containing sleeping women dressed in white. As he wondered why they had been hidden beneath cloths, he heard the elevator moving and realized someone was coming up.

• Bo Yi pressed the elevator’s up button and reached a bright laboratory upstairs.
• Bo Yi lifted the cloth from case 010 and found a peacefully sleeping woman inside.
• Bo Yi inspected more cases and discovered that they held other sleeping women, including one labeled 013.
• Bo Yi wondered why the women had been collected and concealed beneath cloths.
• Bo Yi heard the elevator running and realized someone was coming up.

Bo Yi found a hidden exit from the laboratory and returned to his ward before daybreak. Just as he settled onto his bed, he discovered his three roommates were awake and watching him with venomous eyes.

• Bo Yi realized the laboratory's owner might return and searched the room for a way out while the elevator approached.
• Bo Yi uncovered the glass cases and found a door behind the only empty case.
• Bo Yi escaped through the hidden door as the elevator arrived, then heard no sign of the laboratory's owner.
• Bo Yi headed back to his ward, where the stairs were clear and the lump-of-flesh monster had vanished.
• Bo Yi returned to his bed and saw his three roommates staring at him with venomous eyes.

Bo Yi woke to the sanatorium’s bell and found players gathered outside a ward after one of them failed to get a response from his teammate. When they broke down the door, they found a blood-soaked room and heard something chewing in the darkness.

• Mitian woke Bo Yi by flapping beneath his blanket when the eight o’clock bell rang.
• Bo Yi heard loud crashes from the corridor and went to investigate with the other players.
• A player battered down a ward door after his teammate inside failed to answer his knocks.
• The players saw blood and severed body parts covering the ward, including its only unoccupied bed.
• The players heard a wet crunching sound coming from the darkness inside the ward.

Bo Yi and the players discovered a patient eating the dead player's missing body parts, then realized Shi Xinyi was missing and found her remains in Room 309. As Ran Yan grieved beside the bed, a lively female voice asked why everyone was outside her room.

• Bo Yi pulled back a blanket and revealed a patient eating the dead player's flesh, prompting the players to retreat from the room.
• Bo Yi noticed that only fourteen players were present, and the group realized two were missing.
• Ran Yan discovered that Shi Xinyi was absent and went to Room 309 to look for her.
• The door to Room 309 opened, and Ran Yan found Shi Xinyi's remains and broke down in grief.
• A lively female voice asked the players why they were gathered outside her room.

Shi Xinyi returned unharmed, revealing that the bloodied bed belonged to someone else, and reunited with Ran Yan. Bo Yi questioned how she had survived the night alone, and Shi Xinyi claimed she slept through it and had a lovely dream.

• Shi Xinyi appeared alive at the ward entrance, confusing the players who had believed she was dead.
• Shi Xinyi showed the players her curtained bed, revealing that the bloodied bed Ran Yan had been grieving beside was not hers.
• Ran Yan recognized Shi Xinyi and rushed to embrace her.
• Bo Yi asked Shi Xinyi where she had been and how she had survived the night alone, noting that another veteran player had died.
• Shi Xinyi said she had slept from lights-out until morning and had a lovely dream, then burped contentedly.

Bo Yi exposed the suspicious bloodstains on Shi Xinyi’s gown and bedding, but Miss Nina interrupted before Shi Xinyi could explain. Back in his room, Bo Yi heard orders for terminal disinfection across several wards and realized many people may have died overnight.

• Bo Yi pointed out that the bloodstains inside Shi Xinyi’s blanket matched the stains on her gown, which resembled those on the patient NPC in the dead veteran player’s room.
• Ran Yan defended Shi Xinyi and tried to redirect suspicion toward Bo Yi, but Bo Yi showed that his bloodstain came from a wound on his palm.
• Shi Xinyi stepped forward as the players waited for her explanation, but Miss Nina ordered everyone back to their rooms before she could speak.
• Bo Yi returned to his room and heard Miss Nina order terminal disinfection for multiple beds, including beds in Shi Xinyi’s and the dead veteran player’s wards.
• Bo Yi wondered how many people had died in the sanatorium overnight as Miss Nina named still more beds for terminal disinfection.

Bo Yi discovered that the sanatorium’s blood test measured an unknown substance and that he had none, while Shi Xinyi ranked near the top. After noticing that Saint Mary’s prayer sent healing lights to worshippers, Bo Yi was unexpectedly chosen to receive Holy Medicine despite his zero score, and the chapter ended with two patients demanding his bottle.

• Miss Nina tested the patients’ blood, and Bo Yi received a reading of zero while Shi Xinyi ranked near the top among the players.
• Miss Nina ordered everyone to change into clean clothes and led them to the Prayer Room for the daily prayer.
• Bo Yi saw lights flowing from the saint’s statue, noticed none gathered around him, and caught a few in his palm to heal his wound.
• Miss Nina named Bo Yi and two patients as the three best performers and awarded them Holy Medicine.
• Bo Yi pocketed his bottle without drinking it, and the other two patients demanded that he give it to them.

Bo Yi received the Holy Medicine after being chosen as the best performer, then joined the other players for free time in the sanatorium’s enclosed courtyard. When they pressed him to reveal what he had done, he sensed an unseen watcher above them and asked whether anyone else felt watched.

• Miss Nina gave Bo Yi the Holy Medicine, then led the patients and players to the courtyard for free time.
• The players realized free time was an opportunity to search for clues, while the patients scattered around the empty courtyard.
• Veteran players approached Bo Yi and asked how he had been selected as the best performer.
• Bo Yi sensed an unnatural gaze but could not find its source, and Lu Wei grew angry when Bo Yi seemed distracted.
• When Lu Wei reached to shove him, Bo Yi stepped away and asked if someone upstairs was watching them, prompting Lu Wei to accuse him of changing the subject.

Lu Wei's group failed to get clues from the patients and decided to search Bo Yi's room for the Holy Medicine they thought he had hidden. Bo Yi discovered they had searched his bed and entrusted his medicine to Mitian, leaving it beneath the Evil God's wing.

• Lu Wei's group questioned the patient NPCs but got no useful clues, so Lu Wei proposed finding the Holy Medicine he believed Bo Yi had hidden.
• Lu Wei decided that the group would search Bo Yi's room during the next free period.
• After lunch, Bo Yi returned to his ward and noticed that someone had searched his bed and taken the tiny feather Mitian had shed.
• Bo Yi realized the players had delayed him while searching his room for the Holy Medicine.
• Bo Yi placed his bottle of Holy Medicine beneath Mitian's wing for safekeeping.

Bo Yi’s hunger worsened as he rested in Ward 310, where Miss Nina distributed unmarked tablets during rounds. After two players were killed for arriving late, Bo Yi realized the patients coveted their medicine much like the “Holy Medicine,” and he was left wondering what his tablet would do.

• Bo Yi stayed in bed because his hunger returned soon after lunch, distracting himself with Mitian and a pigeon.
• Miss Nina killed two players who arrived late for ward rounds, and orderlies dragged away their bodies.
• Miss Nina distributed different numbers of unmarked tablets to the patients in Ward 310, giving Bo Yi one.
• Bo Yi asked what the tablet treated, and Miss Nina replied that it treated whatever illness he had.
• The patient in Bed 3 eyed Bo Yi’s tablet hungrily, leading Bo Yi to suspect it was like the “Holy Medicine.”
• Miss Nina told the patient in Bed 2 to gather at the stairwell at one o’clock for follow-up examinations.

Bo Yi took the appetite-suppressing pill that Mitian brought him and realized the medicine forced patients to comply by easing their worsening illnesses. After Shi Xinyi was selected for a follow-up examination, Bo Yi recognized the selection criteria and found himself surrounded by patients.

• Mitian, in pigeon form, urged Bo Yi to take the pill, and Bo Yi swallowed it, suppressing some of his hunger.
• Bo Yi followed the other patients into the corridor and saw Shi Xinyi among those chosen for a follow-up examination.
• Shi Xinyi said she believed the Holy Maiden had selected her because she was close to recovering, startling the other players.
• Bo Yi deduced that Miss Nina had selected patients with the highest test results from the prayer session.
• Patient NPCs crept toward Bo Yi from the corridor and blocked his way back into his room.

Bo Yi escaped a group of patients by hiding in a restroom, where he discovered one eating a freshly severed limb. As the patient vanished, a drop of warm liquid fell onto Bo Yi’s neck.

• Bo Yi pretended to need the restroom and slipped past the patients, but their pursuit forced him into a public restroom.
• Ran Yan wanted to help Bo Yi, but Lu Wei and the other Veteran Players refused, saying Bo Yi had Holy Medicine and they had none.
• Bo Yi hid in a locked stall as the patients’ footsteps approached and heard crunching from the neighboring stall.
• Bo Yi looked over the partition and saw a patient eating a fresh severed limb, prompting him to wonder whether another player or an NPC had died.
• The patient disappeared, leaving blood on the floor, and a drop of warm, sticky liquid landed on Bo Yi’s neck.