Chapter Summaries

Lynn found Bai Yi hanging in the freezer with his organs removed and discovered he was still controlled by a curse or Evil Spirit. After suppressing the possession with holy gunfire, Lynn spoke Chinese to the recovering Bai Yi, who asked him, “Odd changes, even stays the same?”

• Lynn found Bai Yi’s body hanging from a hook in the freezer and saw that his organs had been removed.
• Bai Yi reanimated and attacked Lynn, who knocked him back and shot him repeatedly with his holy weapon to suppress the possession.
• Lynn bound Bai Yi and explained that the shots were meant to counter curses and Evil Spirits.
• Bai Yi regained some consciousness, and Lynn told him in Chinese that they were both human and from the same world.
• Bai Yi trembled at the familiar language and asked Lynn, “Odd changes, even stays the same?”

Lynn and Bai Yi celebrated meeting a fellow countryman, then discovered their homelands were similar but not the same world. Lynn received the “Home in Another World” achievement and ended the chapter wondering what had happened.

• Lynn and Bai Yi tearfully bonded over shared phrases and introduced themselves as fellow travelers from Earth.
• Lynn questioned Bai Yi about familiar people and poems, but Bai Yi recognized none of them.
• Lynn compared their histories and learned Bai Yi came from Jiuzhou, a similar world with a different country and capital.
• Lynn triggered the “Home in Another World” achievement, gaining attribute bonuses and losing happiness.
• Lynn explained the differences between their homelands, and Bai Yi realized they came from separate but historically similar worlds.

Lynn tried to treat Bai Yi, who had recently arrived in the world with his organs removed, but discovered he had no anesthetic and operated on him without it. Bai Yi passed out during the surgery while Lynn continued repairing him.

• Lynn warned Bai Yi that his body was hollowed out and that he could die without treatment, causing Bai Yi to faint at the sight of his wound.
• Bai Yi asked whether the operation would hurt, and Lynn assured him he had plenty of anesthetic.
• Lynn discovered that his remaining anesthetic bottles were filled with goji berry and rock sugar tea, so Bai Yi resolved to endure the operation without anesthesia.
• Lynn praised Bai Yi's resolve and began operating, but Bai Yi screamed and passed out.
• Lynn gained knife skills and sewing ability while he used an embroidery needle to reinstall Bai Yi's hardware.

Lynn reconstructed Bai Yi’s internal organs with surgery and a Flesh Regeneration Potion, then diagnosed an Evil Spirit and puppet control as the threats to his life. He woke Bai Yi with a gunshot and prepared him for a dangerous brain operation to remove the Evil Spirit.

• Lynn reassembled Bai Yi’s organs and used a Flesh Regeneration Potion to restore them, earning an achievement and permanent bonuses.
• Lynn diagnosed Bai Yi with Evil Spirit Infusion and puppet control, and learned that Alice controlled him through the implanted Evil Spirit.
• Lynn concluded that removing the Evil Spirit from Bai Yi’s frontal lobe would end both threats.
• Lynn shot Bai Yi in the thigh to wake him, then warned him that the brain surgery could provoke the Evil Spirit and told him to resist or shoot himself with the holy gun.

Lynn began a brain operation on Bai Yi by removing his eye with his fingers and preparing to reach into his skull. Bai Yi remained conscious but became increasingly terrified as Lynn revealed his monstrous abilities.

• Bai Yi panicked at Lynn's description of the operation, but agreed to undergo it after Lynn insisted he could save him.
• Lynn taped Bai Yi's eyelid open and removed his eye with his fingers, leaving Bai Yi screaming and dazed.
• Lynn told Bai Yi to stay awake before activating Flesh Cataclysm and growing an extra eye on his cheek.
• Lynn sprouted tentacles from two fingers and sent them into Bai Yi's eye socket as Bai Yi screamed in terror.

Lynn fought the evil spirit parasitizing Bai Yi’s brain while Bai Yi repeatedly shot himself to resist its attacks. Lynn removed the parasite, but Bai Yi revealed that he had missed his leg with one of the shots.

• Lynn located the evil spirit tumor on Bai Yi’s brain and sent tentacles armed with razor blades to attack it.
• The tumor resisted Lynn’s tentacles and invaded Bai Yi’s consciousness, so Lynn urged Bai Yi to use his gun to stay awake.
• Bai Yi repeatedly shot himself as Lynn fought through waves of black hands protecting the tumor.
• Lynn cut out the tumor and eliminated Bai Yi’s evil spirit parasitism.
• Bai Yi told Lynn that he did not feel well and revealed that he had missed when shooting.

After a shot shattered Bai Yi’s remaining testicle, Lynn gave him a powerful Flesh Regeneration Potion to heal him, despite warning about mutations. A tentacle grew from Bai Yi instead, and Lynn cut it off at the root, leaving Bai Yi conscious but devastated.

• Lynn diagnosed Bai Yi with shattered balls after the shot hit its target.
• Bai Yi begged Lynn for a potion that could restore him, and Lynn warned that a second dose of the Flesh Regeneration Potion might cause mutations.
• Bai Yi drank the potion, which rapidly healed his wounds and began growing a thick, black tentacle from the injury.
• Lynn drew the Night Demon Blade and cut off the tentacle before it could grow further.
• Lynn helped Bai Yi regain consciousness and told him he had chopped the tentacle off at the root.

Lynn and Bai Yi left the freezer to confront Alice, the vengeful spirit who had placed an Evil Spirit in Bai Yi. Alice revealed that she wanted Lynn to be her brother and stay with her, but Lynn refused to remain in the castle and offered to help her instead.

• Bai Yi recovered from the shock of losing his manhood and asked Lynn to give him a stainless steel replacement later.
• Lynn led Bai Yi out of the freezer, promising to treat Alice before killing her, while unseen eyes opened along the freezer walls.
• Alice appeared in the corridor and asked Lynn to become her family and keep her company.
• Alice explained that she had not interrupted Lynn's operation because he had been healing Bai Yi, whom she called his old brother.
• Lynn refused Alice's demand that he stay in the castle forever and offered to help cure her, promising to show her some love now and then.

Lynn and Bai Yi fought through the haunted corridor, where Lynn used his Chainsaw to destroy the spirits and protect Bai Yi. After reaching the living room, Lynn gave Bai Yi a glowing potion that revealed a monster on the ceiling, and it attacked Lynn.

• Lynn discovered the girl was an illusion and led Bai Yi toward her hiding place as ghostly hands filled the corridor.
• Lynn cut down the attacking spirits with his Chainsaw while Bai Yi followed, growing increasingly impressed by him.
• Lynn punched a head that lunged at Bai Yi, then sawed into the wall before leading him onward.
• Lynn and Bai Yi entered the decaying living room, and Lynn gave Bai Yi a green potion that made him glow.
• The green light revealed a flayed monster clinging to the ceiling, and it leaped down and pinned Lynn as Bai Yi cried out.

Lynn subdued the Female Host after she attacked him, then performed a chainsaw procedure while insisting he was treating her. The procedure earned him a successful craniotomy achievement, while Bai Yi watched in horror.

• The Female Host attacked Lynn, blaming him for making her daughter think she was useless, and pinned him to the floor.
• Lynn restrained the Female Host with his tentacles, and Zuo Zuo severed her arms and battered her into submission as Bai Yi watched in shock.
• Lynn told the injured Female Host that he was going to treat her, then used a chainsaw to perform a procedure while Bai Yi screamed in terror.
• Lynn unlocked the Perfect craniotomy, a resounding success! achievement and received experience and permanent bonuses.

Lynn severed the Female Host’s connection to Alice, questioned her about their past, and accepted a quest to kill Alice before stabbing the woman and having Zuo Zuo swallow her. He and Bai Yi then headed upstairs to continue treating Alice, while her shadow appeared in the bloodstained hall.

• Lynn used a mercury-based potion to free the Female Host from Alice’s influence, then removed her extra limbs and stitched her skin back on.
• Lynn frightened the Female Host into explaining that Alice had killed their family and tortured her, prompting a quest to kill Alice.
• The Female Host offered Lynn the Old Castle if he cured Alice and handed her over, but Lynn stabbed her and called her his medicinal primer.
• Lynn told Zuo Zuo to keep the Female Host alive, then set off upstairs with Bai Yi to treat Alice.
• After Lynn and Bai Yi left, Alice’s shadow appeared across the bloodstained wall.

Lynn and Bai Yi climbed toward Miss Alice, and Lynn revealed that he had lied to her after fulfilling his commission to cure her. When monsters attacked them in the castle corridor, Lynn implanted his Dragon Breath Arm and incinerated the horde.

• Lynn told Bai Yi that he had lied to Alice and explained that his commission was to cure her before treating her as an enemy.
• Lynn revealed that Bai Yi’s father had used the freezer as a storeroom for carcasses, horrifying Bai Yi with memories from his possession.
• Lynn scanned the second floor and led Bai Yi toward a tower to meet Alice, but flayed monsters and Gargoyles ambushed them in the corridor.
• Lynn handed Bai Yi the Chainsaw, implanted his Dragon Breath Arm, and unleashed dragon breath that burned the attacking monsters to ash.
• Bai Yi watched Lynn’s attack in awe and decided that fear came from insufficient firepower.

Lynn and Bai Yi continued through Count Carmel’s castle after Lynn exterminated the monsters outside. A knight captain challenged Lynn to a duel, but Lynn shot him dead and led Bai Yi onward.

• Lynn replenished his strength with a Mental Potion after burning the monsters and gargoyles to ash.
• Bai Yi eagerly asked to handle Lynn’s Dragon Breath Arm, but its weight pinned him to the floor.
• Lynn and Bai Yi encountered the undead Knight Captain’s Body guarding the passage to Lord Carmel.
• The knight challenged Lynn to a duel and boasted about his fighting record, but Lynn shot him once and killed him.
• Lynn slung his Chainsaw over his shoulder and continued onward while Bai Yi stared in shock at the fallen knight.

Lynn confronted Count Carmel, who transformed into a monstrous creature after accusing the doctor of harming his family. Lynn began fighting him, while Bai Yi was left clinging to a flagpole above the black fog.

• Bai Yi followed Lynn onto the castle terrace, where Count Carmel emerged from the black fog and accused Lynn of breaking his son and killing his wife.
• Carmel transformed into a hulking monster, and Lynn triggered the special quest to defeat Masked Carmel.
• Lynn shot Carmel in the eyes, then grabbed Bai Yi and used a tentacle to sling them across the gap to a flagpole.
• Lynn left Bai Yi clinging to the flagpole and returned to the terrace to fight Carmel.
• Lynn blocked Carmel's cleaver with his Chainsaw, surprising Carmel with his strength.

Lynn revealed the full range of his grafted abilities and overwhelmed the monster during their battle in the Old Castle. The monster was left restrained and badly wounded as Lynn prepared to finish him.

• Lynn fought the monster with his Chainsaw while Blood Saw and Madam Doll watched from outside the castle and discussed Blood Saw’s plan to test his apprentice.
• The monster knocked Lynn’s Chainsaw away and attacked, but Lynn caught and crushed the butcher’s blade with his left hand, then called on Zuo Zuo.
• Lynn used his tentacles to wield the Night Demon Blade and revealed grafts including the Dragon Breath Arm and Focusing Eye.
• Lynn scorched the monster with dragon fire, slashed his neck, and cut into his belly with the Chainsaw as Carmel’s Terror Level rose.
• Lynn’s dragon head and left hand seized the monster’s arms while his barbed tentacles bound his neck and legs.

Lynn defeated and melted Carmel but kept his head alive as a medicinal primer so he could treat Carmel’s daughter. He climbed the tower to meet Alice and triggered a special mission to heal and exterminate.

• Lynn used his cursed eye to melt Carmel and received the Witch’s Veil as a mission reward.
• Lynn kept Carmel’s head for treating his daughter and told Bai Yi to remain hanging from the flagpole while he went to Alice.
• Outside the castle, Madam Doll and Blood Saw discussed Lynn’s victory and his altered body.
• Lynn climbed the tower and found a filthy room with a cage and Alice waiting inside.
• Lynn introduced himself to Alice as her doctor, triggering the special mission Healing and Extermination.

Lynn discovered that Alice’s body contained both Alice and the Vengeful Ghost of her birth mother, Madam Mary, whose curse had twisted the Old Castle’s inhabitants and ruined Alice’s childhood. As the curse surged out of control, Lynn fled the tower and fought through the passage, still searching for a way to heal them.

• Alice told Lynn that she had abused her family, and the system revealed Madam Mary’s history as a witch who had possessed her daughter.
• Madam Mary described her jealousy of Alice’s new family and admitted that she had made the castle’s residents cruel and vicious.
• Alice and Madam Mary alternated control as Alice pleaded for Lynn to become her big brother, while the curse intensified and damaged her body.
• Lynn escaped the tower as blood-red flames and a torrent of blood swept through the castle, and Bai Yi called out to him from the flagpole.
• Lynn fled into the passage, cut through the hands blocking his way with the Chainsaw, and resolved to find a way to heal Alice and her mother.

Lynn used Remnants of the Past to uncover how the Vengeful Ghost’s curse drove the Female Host, Count Carmel, and their son to torment and dismember Alice. He gathered Alice’s scattered corpse fragments and ended the chapter finding her half-head beneath a floorboard.

• Lynn activated Remnants of the Past on the corridor and saw Carmel, the Female Host, and the boy carry baskets of Alice’s remains after killing her.
• Lynn broke through the floor and found a bleeding fragment of Alice’s corpse.
• Lynn used Remnants of the Past at other cursed spots and watched the curse gradually turn the Female Host, Count Carmel, and their son against Alice.
• Lynn searched the crumbling castle and collected more of Alice’s scattered corpse fragments.
• Lynn smashed a floorboard and found Alice’s half-head still shedding blood and tears.

Lynn fought Alice’s Vengeful Ghost in the cursed Old Castle while searching for her final body fragment. He found Alice’s heart in the Pighead Butcher’s failed soup and asked to trade for it so he could fulfill his client’s request.

• Lynn collected Alice’s fragment, then the Vengeful Ghost attacked him and lifted him by the throat.
• Lynn summoned Zuo Zuo, whose mental contamination briefly weakened the ghost, and raced toward the kitchen for Alice’s last fragment.
• The ghost chased Lynn through a flaming corridor, pierced his back, and seized his heart, but Lynn wounded her with the Night Demon Blade and held her off with the Focusing Eye.
• Lynn reached the kitchen and found the Pighead Butcher still preparing soup amid the flames.
• Lynn saw Alice’s heart in the soup and asked the Pighead Butcher to give it to him so he could dispel the girl’s hatred.

Lynn took the Heart of Extreme Evil from the Pighead Butcher and fled the Vengeful Ghost into Cold Storage, where he reassembled Alice's corpse while Zuo Zuo held the spirit back. As the Vengeful Ghost broke in, Lynn charged into the flames with Alice's restored body and activated curse removal, determined to reach the real Alice and tell her everything.

• Lynn drank the Pighead Butcher's soup, gained Mechanical Modification and the Weeping Clown curse, then snatched the heart and fled toward Cold Storage.
• Lynn vomited up the soup and used Evil Spirit Manifestation Potions to delay the Vengeful Ghost, while Zuo Zuo unleashed mental contamination to hold it back.
• Lynn sewed Alice's scattered corpse fragments together as memories revealed her loving family and hopes for the future.
• The Vengeful Ghost burst into Cold Storage after Zuo Zuo's mental contamination ended, and Zuo Zuo shouted that Lynn had finished.
• Lynn charged into the flames carrying Alice's restored body and activated curse removal, intending to reach the real Alice and tell her everything.