Chapter Summaries

Mu You commissioned a Mithril Bow and received the Star Spirit Dictionary, then spent ten hours learning enough of its script to read the Night Watchman’s Diary. The diary’s latest entry described a wizard’s familiar trapped in a human city, leaving Mu You to wonder whether it had crossed into his world.

• Mu You paid ten years of lifespan to have the dwarf blacksmith forge a Mithril Bow, which would take at least ten hours.
• An owl delivered the Star Spirit Dictionary, and Mu You studied its script until he could use its root index.
• Mu You began translating the Night Watchman’s Diary and found that its early entries recounted ordinary nighttime patrols.
• Mu You skipped to the diary’s June 17 entry, where the Night Watchman described hearing a wizard’s familiar calling for help from a strange place.
• The familiar described towering buildings, humans, and moving iron boxes, leading Mu You to suspect it was trapped in a city on Earth.

After decoding the Night Watchman’s diary, Mu You located the likely hiding place of an otherworldly creature at an abandoned lumber mill near an amusement park. He obtained his newly forged Mithril Bow and set out that night to find the creature, equipped to capture it.

• Mu You read that the creature had fled to an empty factory near timber, a huge wheel, and a flashing lighthouse, and he matched those clues to Mufeng Lumber Mill in the northern suburbs.
• Mu You collected the completed Mithril Bow and tested its self-forming energy arrows, which vanished when he released the string.
• Mu You decided to capture the creature as a possible pet and prepared supplies, including tranquilizer syringes, climbing rope, and throwing knives.
• Mu You told Xiao Ya that the shop would close for the weekend and promised her a cash bonus before leaving.
• Mu You bought outdoor gear and a stab-resistant suit, packed them into his backpack, and took a taxi toward the northern suburbs.

Rich streamer Lin Hai investigated a supposedly haunted lumber mill while waiting for his sister Lin Xue to join the livestream. A cloaked, teleporting figure appeared, drew a bow at Lin Hai and his cameraman, then vanished and reappeared beside them, leaving Lin Hai asking whether it was human or a ghost.

• Lin Hai began a ghost-hunting livestream at the abandoned Mufeng Lumber Mill and told viewers his sister Lin Xue was on her way.
• Lin Hai and his cameraman entered the mill and approached the dormitory where eerie lights had appeared in a photograph.
• The cameraman spotted a cloaked figure carrying a lantern that seemed to teleport through the shadows.
• The figure drew a longbow and fired a streak of light at Lin Hai and the cameraman, then disappeared without hitting them.
• The cloaked figure reappeared a few meters away and bounded toward them, frightening the cameraman into a fall and prompting Lin Hai to ask if it was human or a ghost.

Mu You tracked an otherworldly creature to an abandoned lumber mill, where he encountered Lin Hai and a cameraman investigating supposed paranormal activity. After a scream drew him upstairs, Mu You found an unconscious man and came face-to-face with a gigantic monster that attacked him, leaving his fate uncertain.

• Mu You warned Lin Hai and his cameraman to leave the lumber mill after learning they had come to investigate ghostly flames.
• Lin Hai revealed that Xiao Liu had gone upstairs, and a scream sounded from the building moments later.
• Mu You climbed to the second floor by leaping up the building’s exterior as Lin Hai discovered his camera stream had stopped because an arrow had pierced the lens.
• Mu You found Xiao Liu unconscious but alive at the third-floor stairwell and continued tracking the creature.
• A huge blue-green monster sprang at Mu You, cornered him against the corridor railing, and bit his head.

Mu You outsmarted and captured the cat that had lured him into an ambush, then tried to reassure it by speaking Star Spirit Language. The cat recognized him as a Fool and revealed that it could communicate through mental speech.

• Mu You used the Pocket Watch to reverse time after the cat knocked him off the third floor, then inferred that the monster’s frightening form was an illusion.
• Mu You circled around the building, spotted the cat waiting in ambush, and fired a tranquilizer dart that it dodged.
• Mu You jumped down to confront the cat, let its illusion pass through him, and chased it down the corridor toward a Trap Spell.
• The trap caught the cat, which Mu You recognized as a purebred American Shorthair.
• Mu You spoke to the cat in Star Spirit Language, and it called him a Fool and explained that domestic familiars learned mental communication.

Mu You persuaded the American Shorthair Familiar to stay with him until he could contact its master, then left the factory with the cat hidden in his backpack. After slipping away from Lin Hai and the cameraman, he left them to explain the night’s events to the police and others.

• Mu You explained that he had inherited the Night Watchman’s legacy and offered the American Shorthair food and shelter in exchange for help, and the cat reluctantly agreed to stay with him.
• Mu You opened the cage, and the hungry American Shorthair climbed into his backpack to sleep on the way home.
• Lin Hai and the young cameraman reached the third floor, found their unconscious companion, and learned from Mu You that he had subdued the ghost.
• After viewers called the police when the livestream cut out, Mu You asked Lin Hai to keep his identity secret and left by leaping over the railing.
• Lin Hai praised Mu You to the cameraman, then answered his sister’s call and excitedly told her about the superhuman he had met.

Lin Xue explained away the apparent teleportation and wall-climbing as tricks of light and ordinary athletic ability, but she remained suspicious of the hooded archer and searched the abandoned building. She found evidence that an arrow carrying anesthetic had missed its target, leaving her wondering what he had been hunting.

• Lin Xue used the amusement park wall’s alternating light and shadows to explain why she had seemed to teleport toward Lin Hai and the cameraman.
• Lin Xue explained that the hooded man’s shot and climb could be accomplished with archery skill and parkour, and pointed out that nobody had actually seen him catch a ghost.
• Lin Xue told Lin Hai and his companions that she had settled things with the police and ordered them to go home.
• After they left, Lin Xue entered the abandoned building and searched its third floor for clues about the hooded man and the supposed ghost.
• Lin Xue found an arrow hole and drops of injectable anesthetic, realized the shot from the fourth-floor railing had missed, and wondered what the hooded man had been hunting.

Lin Xue found clues linking the hooded figure to a cat and ordered an investigation of every pet shop in K City. Unaware that she was closing in, Mu You brought the American Shorthair home, named her Cola, and watched her eagerly devour cat food after insisting it was beneath her.

• Lin Xue found a cat-teaser price tag with American Shorthair fur and inferred that the hooded figure had ties to a pet shop.
• Lin Xue asked her driver to investigate every pet shop in K City.
• Mu You returned to his pet shop with the American Shorthair and introduced himself.
• Mu You named the cat Cola and offered her ordinary cat food after she demanded slime worms.
• Cola refused the food at first, then tasted it and began eating eagerly.

Mu You used the Time Pocket Watch to keep spinning the Owl Shop’s Heartbeat Roulette until he won its grand prize, the Heartlock Unseal Scroll. He ended the chapter with the scroll in hand, while Scarecrow remained sulking and refused to speak to him.

• Mu You woke late, fed the animals, and found Cola still asleep after its long time on the run.
• Mu You opened the game and discovered that Scarecrow was sulking and would not respond to him.
• Mu You entered the Owl Shop and saw that its special promotion offered one Heartbeat Roulette spin for ten years of lifespan.
• Mu You repeatedly rewound time after winning consolation prizes, eventually winning a Doppelganger Wand.
• Mu You rewound again and won the Heartlock Unseal Scroll, the roulette’s ultimate grand prize.

Mu You learned the high-level Heartlock Unseal spell, which opened ordinary and electronic locks, then escaped a Werewolf by playing dead. In the village plaza, he spotted a seemingly injured wizard apprentice whose forged wound and hidden dagger suggested a trap, possibly set by the Werewolf in disguise.

• Mu You claimed the Heartlock Unseal Scroll, learned the spell, and tested it on door locks and his phone’s lock screen.
• Mu You encountered a Werewolf outside the Night Watchman’s Cabin and survived by lying down and playing dead.
• Mu You traveled to the village plaza and learned that only the village chief could ring its bell to summon the villagers.
• Mu You approached an injured wizard apprentice, but his Pumpkin Lantern revealed that her wound was fake and she was hiding a dagger.

Mu You encountered a powerful little girl who tested him for being the Werewolf, then survived her attack when she decided he was too weak to be the Werewolf. He searched the village for the Witch without success, and on Monday found Cola watching Naruto after staying up all night.

• Mu You tried attacking the little girl and then ignoring her, but she killed him with a Fireball Spell both times.
• When Mu You approached to help the wounded girl, she stabbed him, then healed him and said he was too weak to be the Werewolf.
• Mu You wondered whether the little girl was a powerful villager player or the Werewolf in disguise, then decided to keep improving and search for the Witch.
• Mu You spent all his remaining stamina exploring the village, discovered more than twenty locations, and failed to find the Witch's home.
• Mu You woke on Monday and found Cola still watching Naruto on his phone, already at episode 21.

Mu You struggled to manage the pet shop’s crowds and put up a help-wanted notice. Lin Xue, who had been searching K City for the hooded figure, applied for the job after visiting his shop.

• Cola begged Mu You to let him keep watching Naruto, so Mu You gave him an old phone to use.
• Mu You and Xiao Ya worked through a busy morning at the reopened pet shop, leaving Mu You resolved to hire more staff.
• Lin Xue visited the shop while searching for the hooded figure, but decided Mu You did not match the appearance she had reconstructed.
• Cola came downstairs for food and charmed Xiao Ya while Mu You printed and posted a help-wanted notice.
• Lin Xue asked whether Mu You was hiring and said she wanted to apply.

Mu You hired Lin Xue, a qualified veterinarian recommended by Zhao Qian, and had her examine the shop’s animals, especially Cola. Later, he found the Witch’s House in Fool but discovered the Witch was not home, leaving him to consider using a new spell.

• Lin Xue showed Mu You her veterinary qualification, and he hired her to work at the pet shop.
• Mu You assigned Lin Xue to examine the animals, and she found Cola healthy but in need of vaccinations.
• Cola panicked at the prospect of Lin Xue’s monthly checkups, while Mu You insisted they would happen.
• After closing the shop, Mu You launched Fool and found the Witch’s House at the western end of the village.
• Mu You knocked repeatedly, received no answer, and then remembered a new spell that suggested a daring idea.

Mu You forced his way into the Witch's abandoned house and found poison, an Invisibility Cloak, and an empty box disguised as a black magic research journal. A hidden message sent him to a cabin in the Dark Forest, where the Witch had buried her research.

• Mu You used the Time Pocket Watch to repeat the Witch's nearly impossible unlocking spell until he finally opened the door.
• Mu You entered the dusty, long-abandoned Witch's House and found five bottles of poison made to target the Werewolf.
• Mu You searched the basement and discovered an Invisibility Cloak hiding an empty box labeled as Anthony Vivian's Black Magic Research Journal.
• Mu You translated a message on the box that directed him to a cabin north of the Dark Forest beyond Peaceful Village, where the Witch had buried everything.

Mu You learned that the Wizards' Association had outlawed black magic and decided he would consider learning it after gaining more strength. Back at his cabin, the Werewolf tricked him into standing up after he played dead, then killed him.

• Mu You questioned Cola about black magic, and Cola said the Wizards' Association had banned it and warned that it turned practitioners into the Fallen.
• Mu You suspected the Wizards' Association feared black magic and decided to postpone visiting the Dark Forest until he had explored the village and grown stronger.
• Mu You searched the game map for the Werewolf and eventually returned to the Night Watchman's cabin.
• When the Werewolf attacked, Mu You's character played dead, and the Werewolf withdrew without approaching him.
• The Werewolf hid nearby, lunged again when Mu You's character stood up, and bit him to death, costing him one year of lifespan.

Mu You used poison and the Time Pocket Watch to kill the Werewolf twice, then spent five days leveling up and mapping Peaceful Village while the Werewolf avoided him. His map and investigations left him with five suspects, including the village chief, whose broken Crystal Ball made Mu You wonder if he was the Werewolf pretending to be the Seer.

• Mu You rewound time and poisoned himself so the level 7 Werewolf, Deer Eater, died after eating him, earning Mu You experience, lifespan, and a completed bounty.
• Mu You taunted the Werewolf around the village, but after two poison deaths the Werewolf began fleeing whenever he saw him.
• Over five days, Mu You studied magic and texts, patrolled with his Invisibility Cloak, and killed minor monsters, reaching level four and gaining fifteen unassigned attribute points.
• Mu You completed a map of Peaceful Village showing its thirty-four buildings and forty-two residents, then identified the little girl, drunkard, playboy, young carpenter, and village chief as suspects.
• Mu You became especially suspicious of the village chief after learning his Crystal Ball had broken three months earlier, just as the Werewolf began killing players.

Mu You asked Lin Xue how the good team could find werewolves without a witch or seer, but her proposed solutions offered him no practical help. After hearing of a woman’s murder in Rainbow Bay, he suspected the Werewolf might be involved and hurried to investigate, while Lin Xue wondered whether he had been acting strangely.

• Mu You asked Lin Xue how the good team could identify werewolves without a witch or seer, and she explained that the game lacked a logical starting point.
• Lin Xue suggested coordinated debate or peeking during the werewolves’ turn, but Mu You dismissed both ideas as impractical or cheating.
• Xiao Ya returned with drinks and told Mu You that a woman living alone had been murdered in Building 39 of Rainbow Bay Residential Area.
• Mu You read the homeowners’ chat and suspected the victim might have been the little girl player killed by the Werewolf.
• Mu You packed investigation gear and left the shop, telling Xiao Ya and Lin Xue they could close early.
• Lin Xue asked Xiao Ya whether Mu You had been acting strangely lately.

Mu You investigated the Werewolf’s crime scene at Rainbow Bay and uncovered clues leading to the rooftop, where he unexpectedly encountered the wounded Werewolf. The Werewolf hooked Mu You’s shoulder with a Chain Claw and raised a Bone-Cleaver to strike.

• Lin Xue told Xiao Ya that Mu You had been acting strangely, and Xiao Ya described seeing him read a guide to Harry Potter’s magic spells.
• Lin Xue left work in a Maserati driven by a short-haired woman in a butler’s uniform, leaving Xiao Ya stunned by her wealth.
• Mu You disguised himself, entered the sealed Building 39, and used the Pumpkin Lantern to find a claw mark that confirmed the Werewolf had attacked the victim.
• Mu You followed small footprints from the apartment window to the rooftop, where he found a separate trail of larger footprints.
• Mu You rounded a stone platform and came face-to-face with the wounded Werewolf, which struck his shoulder with a Chain Claw and raised a Bone-Cleaver.

Mu You narrowly escaped the Werewolf by using his Pocket Watch after an unknown player’s magic interrupted the attack. He hid and watched the Werewolf confront a little girl in a Wizard Apprentice skin, learning that she had stolen from the Werewolf’s organization and fled.

• The Werewolf nearly killed Mu You, but a pillar of flame forced him to retreat, giving Mu You time to rewind five seconds with the Pocket Watch.
• Mu You withdrew into hiding and realized another player was on the rooftop, likely the one who had burned the Werewolf.
• After nearly ten minutes, the Werewolf attacked a pile of discarded furniture, and a little girl in a wizard’s hat emerged and fled.
• The Werewolf chased the girl, preventing her from drawing her Magic Wand as she dodged his attacks across the rooftop.
• The Werewolf taunted the girl for stealing from the organization and fleeing, and Mu You realized the two knew each other.

Mu You watched the little girl unleash a devastating barrage of magic against the Werewolf, but the badly burned Werewolf survived and caught her with his Chain Claw as she tried to escape. The fight left the girl wounded and exhausted, while police sirens closed in below.

• Mu You realized the Werewolf belonged to an organization that had sent him to hunt the little girl, and that he had treated Mu You as an insignificant rookie.
• The little girl used purple smoke and an explosive rag doll to escape the Werewolf’s Chain Claw, but his thrown concrete forced her to cast Magic Shield and fall from the rooftop.
• The little girl floated above the rooftop and bombarded the Werewolf with spells, then added a potion and grenades to the attack.
• After a half-minute barrage, the exhausted little girl began to fly away as police sirens sounded, without checking whether the Werewolf had survived.
• The Werewolf emerged from the smoke, severely burned but alive, and struck the little girl’s shoulder with his Chain Claw, dragging her down.