Chapter Summaries

Su Bai returned to the real world, resumed preparing for the college entrance exam, and sold the high heels made from the White Qipao Evil Ghost to help pay his debts. Meanwhile, three students sneaked into Rainbow Locust No. 1 High School at midnight to investigate the Seven Mysteries of the Campus, unaware that the moon had turned red and the library was glowing.

• Teacher Xu welcomed Su Bai back and began helping him apply for scholarships and subsidies.
• Su Bai extended his leave so he could catch up on his studies before entering the Nightmare Game again.
• Su Bai approved the sale of the high heels, which could cover most of his debts, and arranged for the Relevant Authorities to collect them.
• Su Bai began studying mathematics and reflected on how real-world concerns made him feel human and at home.
• Three students secretly entered Rainbow Locust No. 1 High School to visit the Seven Mysteries of the Campus for a promised thousand yuan.
• At midnight, the moon turned red and the distant library began to glow, though the students did not notice.

Zhang Pan, Zhou Qingshou, and Ai Xiaojia found themselves trapped on their high school grounds beneath a red moon, unable to escape over the wall. They encountered three armed strangers who mistook them for ghosts or players, and the chapter ended with both groups demanding to know who the others were.

• Zhang Pan, Zhou Qingshou, and Ai Xiaojia noticed the red moon and the unnerving silence at Rainbow Locust No. 1 High School.
• Zhang Pan led his friends toward the wall, but they found themselves back on campus after climbing over it.
• Ai Xiaojia tried climbing out again, and Zhang Pan concluded that a ghostly wall was trapping them.
• Zhou Qingshou suggested checking the school gate for the security guard.
• The trio encountered three armed strangers, who wondered whether the students were ghosts or players.
• Both groups asked who the others were as a faint light glowed from the library.

Zhang Pan, Ai Xiaojia, and Zhou Qingshou encountered three armed Nightmare Game players at Rainbow Locust No. 1 High School and learned that both groups had come to photograph the school’s seven mysteries. The students agreed to help identify them, beginning with the Midnight Library.

• Zhou Qingshou tried to convince the armed strangers that the trio were ordinary students from Rainbow Locust No. 1 High School.
• The flashlight-carrying player tested the students’ knowledge of recent Honghuai City events and proposed that they had been caught in an overlap between the real world and the Nightmare World.
• The three players offered to protect Zhang Pan, Ai Xiaojia, and Zhou Qingshou until sunrise, and the students explained that they had come to photograph the Seven Mysteries of the Campus.
• The flashlight-carrying player revealed that his group’s mission was also to photograph Honghuai Ghost School’s seven mysteries and asked the students to identify them.
• Zhou Qingshou named the Midnight Library as the first mystery and pointed toward the library beneath the red moon.

Zhou Qingshou, Zhang Pan, and Ai Xiaojia joined the three Nightmare World players as they investigated the library’s mysterious light. There they encountered Su Bai, the former top student whose face the students recognized from the honor roll.

• Flashlight explained that the players had to identify seven campus mysteries, reveal their true forms, and photograph them before time ran out.
• The students told the players about the Midnight Library, and Flashlight proposed investigating it while the group used code names and agreed to protect one another.
• The group entered the library and found a lone figure studying and writing rapidly in a corner of the first-floor study room.
• Zhang Pan, Zhou Qingshou, and Ai Xiaojia whispered in fear, drawing the figure’s attention.
• The figure looked up, and the students recognized him as Su Bai, the former top student from the class next door.

Su Bai recognized the three students who had wandered into the temporary nightmare space and realized that three Nightmare World players were with them. As Ai Xiaojia recalled rumors that Su Bai had died, the group began to suspect the smiling student beside the desk lamp might not be alive.

• Ai Xiaojia called out Su Bai's name, and Su Bai identified her, Zhang Pan, and Zhou Qingshou.
• Su Bai recalled overhearing that Zhang Pan and his friends had been tricked into photographing haunted places at school.
• Su Bai recognized the three strangers as likely Nightmare World players and understood that the campus had become a temporary nightmare space.
• Mr. Greatsword cautiously asked whether Su Bai was alive, and Ai Xiaojia froze before answering.
• Ai Xiaojia told Zhang Pan and Zhou Qingshou that Su Bai had been rumored to be seriously ill and possibly dead.

Su Bai encountered Ai Xiaojia, Zhang Pan, Zhou Qingshou, and three players in the school library, where they mistook him for a ghost. After learning the school was trapped beneath a red moon, the group prepared to investigate the campus’s second mysterious location.

• Ai Xiaojia told Zhang Pan and Zhou Qingshou that Su Bai had died, and they feared he was a ghost haunting the library.
• Su Bai explained that he had only taken sick leave and was alive, and Ai Xiaojia confirmed his body was warm.
• The players checked Su Bai and accepted that he was not a ghost.
• Zhang Pan, Zhou Qingshou, and Ai Xiaojia told Su Bai how they had entered the school, encountered a Ghostly Wall, and met the players.
• Su Bai saw the red moon and learned that they could not leave until sunrise.
• Ai Xiaojia suggested visiting the campus’s second mysterious location, and the group invited Su Bai to join them.

After leaving the library, Su Bai joined Ai Xiaojia, Zhang Pan, Zhou Qingshou, and the three Nightmare World players as they headed to investigate the campus mirror mystery. Su Bai saw that the overlapping ghost school resembled Rainbow Locust No. 1 High School from more than a decade earlier, and the group continued beneath the Red Moon with the night’s dangers still ahead.

• Ai Xiaojia described rumors that the first-floor girls’ washroom mirror caused strange behavior and delayed reflections.
• Flashlight and the other two players decided the mirror might offer useful photos and led the group out of the study room.
• Zhang Pan asked Su Bai about the books he had left behind, and Su Bai said he had already finished reading them.
• Su Bai reasoned that the players needed photographs of the Seven Mysteries’ true forms, while the students only had to document the locations.
• Su Bai observed that the overlapping campus had older facilities, sparse trees, and rougher sports grounds beneath the Red Moon.

Su Bai and the others entered the girls’ restroom at Honghuai Ghost School, where the uncovered mirror changed their reflections into a single black silhouette. The silhouette took Su Bai’s form, but a hand in a red sleeve suddenly seized it by the neck.

• Zhang Pan urged Ai Xiaojia and Zhou Qingshou to wait outside the restroom, but they went in with the players.
• Su Bai warned the students that the mirror was dangerous and led them to stay with the three players.
• The group crowded into the girls’ restroom and found its mirror covered by a thick cloth.
• The cloth fell, and the mirror turned the group’s reflections into seven featureless black figures that merged into one silhouette.
• The silhouette studied the group and transformed into Su Bai before a red-sleeved hand grabbed it by the neck.

Su Bai and the others discovered that the washroom mirror created doubles of people who looked into it, while A Xi returned to protect Su Bai from the mirror’s shadow. The chapter ended with two identical Zhang Pans standing together as everyone watched.

• The mirror’s black shadow transformed into Su Bai, but A Xi’s hand emerged from the darkness and forced it to change back.
• Su Bai recognized A Xi’s hand and silently welcomed the awakening Ghost Bride back.
• The shadow copied Zhang Pan, and Mr. Flashlight’s flashlight suddenly went out, plunging the washroom into darkness.
• In the dark, Zhou Qingshou, Ai Xiaojia, and Zhang Pan fell over and argued about who had knocked whom down.
• When the flashlight came back on, the group saw two identical Zhang Pans, and Ai Xiaojia realized the mirror created doubles that could be mistaken for the originals.

Su Bai used questions to distinguish the real Zhang Pan from the mirror copy, after his classmates failed to identify which one was genuine. He asked for the real name of Mr. Flashlight, and one Zhang Pan raised his hand first, leaving Su Bai confident he had found the real one.

• Ai Xiaojia asked Su Bai to film the two Zhang Pans while the group tried to identify the real one.
• Zhou Qingshou and Ai Xiaojia questioned the Zhang Pans about a crush and an exam score, but both copies gave matching answers.
• Su Bai asked the Zhang Pans to solve a difficult math problem, but neither could answer it.
• Su Bai asked for the real name of the man holding the flashlight, and one Zhang Pan immediately raised his hand.

Su Bai exposed the mirror entity hiding as Zhang Pan by realizing it knew Flashlight’s real name, which Zhang Pan could not have known. After Mr. Flashlight photographed its true form, the entity fled into the mirror, and Mr. Greatsword ended the chapter by asking Su Bai whether he had an older brother.

• A Zhang Pan revealed that Flashlight’s name was Zheng Mingliang, giving Su Bai reason to suspect the speaker was the mirror entity.
• Su Bai explained that the entity had read memories from everyone who looked into the mirror, and identified Zhang Pan Number One as the impostor.
• The impostor transformed into a shadow, and Mr. Flashlight photographed it before it retreated into the mirror.
• The group left the restroom, and the students teased Flashlight by calling him Zheng Mingliang.
• Mr. Greatsword said Su Bai’s face seemed familiar and asked whether he had an older brother.

Su Bai and the others left the Teaching Building and went to the basketball court to investigate the third campus mystery, the Ghost on the Basketball Court. To summon it, the students and players agreed to play a three-on-three game while Su Bai took on the roles of cameraman and referee.

• Su Bai told Mr. Greatsword that his older brother was dead after Mr. Greatsword asked whether he had an older brother who resembled him.
• Ai Xiaojia explained that the Ghost on the Basketball Court appeared during intense games and had injured many students.
• Su Bai saw black figures watching the group from the Teaching Building’s windows as they headed outside.
• The group found an old basketball on the court, and Ai Xiaojia said they would need to play a game to draw out the ghost.
• Zhang Pan and Zhou Qingshou challenged the three players to a three-on-three game, and the group agreed to play with Su Bai as cameraman and referee.

Su Bai and the others played an exhausting basketball game beneath the Red Moon while trying to draw out the ghost of the basketball court. Su Bai’s recording revealed the ghost, who dismissed their play and left, prompting Mr. Axe to chase after him.

• Mr. Axe, Zhou Qingshou, Zhang Pan, Mr. Greatsword, Mr. Flashlight, and Ai Xiaojia played an intense basketball game beneath the Red Moon while Su Bai filmed them.
• Zhang Pan’s side ran out of stamina, and the groups wondered why the ghost of the basketball court had not appeared.
• Su Bai replayed the footage and showed everyone the dark figure standing beside the court, which then became visible to them in person.
• Mr. Flashlight photographed the ghost, and the ghost sighed that basketball in this world had no future before turning to leave.
• Mr. Axe grabbed his axe and chased after the ghost while Mr. Flashlight and the others held back the students and discussed where to go next.

Ai Xiaojia filmed the group as she introduced their earlier encounters with campus mysteries and led them toward the fourth one, the Death Screening Room. The group reached the dark entrance of the Comprehensive Building, ready to investigate.

• Su Bai suspected Mr. Axe had gone to deal with the Ghost on the Basketball Court, and Mr. Axe later rejoined the group.
• Ai Xiaojia filmed a video introducing the strange campus, the group’s companions, and the three campus mysteries they had already encountered.
• Ai Xiaojia explained the Death Screening Room rumor: groups entering the theater at night would find an unidentifiable extra person and risk being trapped or swallowed by the screening room.
• Ai Xiaojia led the group to the Comprehensive Building and turned off her camera at its dark entrance.

Su Bai and the others reached the screening room after Mr. Axe confirmed that the shadow on the basketball court had been weak enough to destroy with one blow. At the entrance, Su Bai noticed a wall screen and strange cables, then realized how to clear the Death Screening Room phenomenon.

• As the group crossed the Comprehensive Building, Su Bai saw sparse shadows in its classrooms and laboratories watching them.
• Mr. Axe told Mr. Greatsword that his axe had easily disintegrated the shadow on the basketball court, though it had felt unlike other ghosts.
• Zhang Pan overheard the players talking about ghosts, but Mr. Axe pushed him onward before he could ask more.
• Ai Xiaojia asked Su Bai to keep filming, and Su Bai teased her by asking whether her promise included doing practice problems.
• The group entered the screening room, and Su Bai noticed a wall screen and cables that helped him understand how to clear the phenomenon.

Ai Xiaojia, her classmates, and the players entered the Death Screening Room, where they found eight people despite remembering only seven. The door resisted every attempt to escape, and Su Bai ended the chapter by questioning why both he and Jia Yan were filming.

• Ai Xiaojia, Zhang Pan, and Zhou Qingshou discussed the possibility that being mistakenly identified as the extra person might send them out of the school, while Mr. Flashlight warned them of worse dangers elsewhere.
• The screening room lights came on, and the group searched for an extra person but could not identify anyone unfamiliar.
• Mr. Flashlight counted eight people in the room, though Ai Xiaojia recalled only seven and recognized everyone present.
• Jia Yan suggested the room might have altered their memories, and Ai Xiaojia wondered whether refusing to choose someone would make them kill one another.
• Mr. Axe failed to break the soundproof door, confirming to the players that the screening room was a supernatural location.
• Su Bai noticed Jia Yan was filming too and asked whether their group had always needed two people recording.

Su Bai exposed the shadow impersonating Jia Yan by using Ai Xiaojia’s phone footage, freeing everyone from the screening room. He captured the shadow in a bead as the group left, with three of the Seven Mysteries of the Campus still remaining.

• Ai Xiaojia and Jia Yan questioned whether Su Bai was really their classmate after noticing inconsistencies in their memories and phones.
• Su Bai explained that he had connected Ai Xiaojia’s phone to the screening room’s on-demand machine, and footage of the group began playing on the screen.
• The recordings revealed that the supposed Jia Yan was not in the footage, and the shadow pretending to be her transformed into a black silhouette.
• The screening room’s door unlocked, and Su Bai captured the defeated shadow in a bead as everyone hurried outside.
• Su Bai noted that three locations among the Seven Mysteries of the Campus at Rainbow Locust No. 1 High School remained.

Su Bai and the others visited the final campus mysteries, encountering shadowy figures in the laboratory and cafeteria while Su Bai began piecing together what the figures meant. After they found all seven sites, the mission still had not responded, and dawn was approaching.

• Zhou Qingshou’s singing drove the shadowy figure out of the music classroom, and the group continued to the laboratory.
• The group found a crying shadowy figure in the laboratory, but it neither responded to them nor stopped them from leaving.
• Su Bai and the others entered the cafeteria and saw a shadowy figure working behind the serving window.
• Su Bai wondered whether the shadowy figures existed because the place was a school and pieced together clues about the Seven Mysteries of the Campus.
• Mr. Flashlight and Mr. Greatsword realized the mission had not responded despite their visiting all seven sites, while Mr. Axe noticed dawn approaching.

Mr. Flashlight’s group returned to the Midnight Library to search for the last campus mystery while Su Bai and the students waited outside. The shadows from the school buildings gathered inside a bead on Su Bai’s bracelet, and he realized they came from the students’ emotions.

• Zhang Pan reminded the group that they had not found the mystery of crying in the Midnight Library, so Mr. Flashlight decided they should search there again.
• Mr. Flashlight stayed outside with Zhang Pan, Ai Xiaojia, and Zhou Qingshou while Mr. Greatsword and Mr. Axe entered the library with the camera.
• When Mr. Axe called for him, Zheng Mingliang ran into the library after telling the students to stay in an open area until sunrise.
• Shadows from the Teaching Building and Comprehensive Building gathered into a thread and entered the bead containing the shadow Su Bai had subdued.
• Su Bai told the students the night might have been a dream and privately concluded that the shadows came from students’ emotions.

Su Bai explained that the Seven Mysteries of the Campus arose from students’ suppressed feelings and the shadows formed by those emotions in the space overlapping Honghuai City First Senior High School and the Red Moon. Zhang Pan, Ai Xiaojia, and Zhou Qingshou later woke outside the school with only hazy memories, while Su Bai entered a fog-shrouded city for his next nightmare game.

• Su Bai told Ai Xiaojia, Zhang Pan, and Zhou Qingshou that the campus mysteries reflected students’ pressure, hidden desires, and rumors rather than ordinary ghosts.
• Su Bai explained that the students’ intertwined emotions had created the shadows in the overlapping space between the school and the Red Moon.
• As dawn approached, Su Bai predicted the others would wake believing their experience was a dream and said they would have no recordings to prove otherwise.
• A security guard found Zhang Pan, Ai Xiaojia, and Zhou Qingshou outside the school wall, where they woke with vague memories of a shared dream.
• Ai Xiaojia suggested finding Su Bai, but the neighboring class’s teacher said Su Bai had returned from leave and then disappeared again.
• Su Bai entered a city shrouded in fog as he began his next nightmare game.