Recaps

Qin Manjiang entered the Ghost Story Game after Li Xijiu sacrificed himself to save him, then joined a multiplayer investigation in Xianyang Village. As villagers prepared the Sheep Transformation Festival, Qin uncovered a ghost that killed through darkness, blinking, and mirrors, and began investigating the wealthy families marked for death.

• Qin Manjiang entered the Ghost Story Game at Threshold Cinema, where Li Xijiu helped him survive the father-and-son ghosts and ultimately threw him through a restroom window before the cinema burned down.
• Qin Manjiang learned that Li Xijiu was missing and that Qin Manyi had confessed to a murder, then discovered she no longer recognized him.
• Xi Wutong told Qin Manjiang that his adoptive parents and other Lower River Village residents had died in suspicious drownings, and Qin agreed to help investigate.
• The Ghost Story Game summoned Qin Manjiang into the Sick Sheep multiplayer challenge, where Qin Manyi warned him not to trust the other players and asked him to visit on September third.
• Qin Manjiang met Shi Lianshan, Liu Jingqing, He Jian, and Chen Ping on the way to Xianyang Village, where a blood-red barrier sealed them in and a villager invited them to the Sheep Transformation Festival.
• Qin Manjiang and Liu Jingqing encountered a goat-headed Sheep Ghost that moved when Qin blinked, and Qin used a powerful flashlight to make it disappear.
• The village chief concealed the disappearance of the Immortal Sheep and the deaths of two guards, while Xiao Ran explained that the festival’s wishes had enriched the village’s six prominent families.
• Qin Manjiang investigated Zhang Yang’s death and saw a black sheep’s face in a reflection, then found Mr. Chen dead with his face scraped off and wounds resembling the character for Chen.

Qin Manjiang and the others survived the Xianyang Village ghost story, while Qin uncovered clues about his parents and pursued the mystery of Li Xijiu. A new challenge drew him and Doctor to Butterfly Island, where the boatman died before they reached shore.

• He Jian, Shi Lianshan, and Chen Ping entered the Ancestral Hall, where Chen Ping demanded wishes and killed Shi Lianshan after he wished to escape alive.
• Qin Manjiang and Liu Jingqing discovered that Li Rong and the Immortal Sheep were separate threats, while He Jian fled Chen Ping and Zhong Xueran rescued Qin and Liu from Li Rong.
• Liu Jingqing used the writing brush to break the Silent Domain and became the Immortal Sheep, then wished for Li Rong to have her wish.
• Qin Manjiang exposed the Immortal Sheep’s failure to grant a wish, and the Ghost Story Game destroyed it, clearing the Sick Sheep tale.
• Qin Manjiang received a case from his biological father containing a letter, a phone, and a longevity lock, then began investigating his parents’ deaths while working delivery jobs.
• Qin Manjiang joined Zhong Xueran and Chen Zhiyuan at Guanyin Lake, where they rescued Yang and Chen Zhiyuan from the water and learned that Yang’s ghost had something to tell Qin.
• A new challenge selected Qin Manjiang for Butterfly Island, and he boarded a boat with Doctor after learning that others had already gone there.
• The boatman rotted away as black insects poured from his face, and Qin Manjiang and Doctor arrived on Butterfly Island amid a cold wind and red flowers.

Qin Manjiang and his companions uncovered the dream and pig-farm tragedy behind the apparent Butterfly Island game, but Chen Yu vanished when the Vengeful Ghost was defeated. The story then shifted to Shen Hai and the players trapped in Twilight Apartment, where the woman’s care instructions proved lethal and Deep Valley Dusk died after rapidly aging.

• Qin Manjiang and Yan Xiao investigated Butterfly Island, where Liang Yue found a human hand in the chicken soup and Swimming Fish drew a butterfly emerging from Qin Manjiang’s mouth.
• Chen Yu appeared dead beside Liang Yue, but Qin Manjiang suspected the island was a ghost’s dream as the proprietress attacked Liang Yue and Wang Million with grotesque food.
• Qin Manjiang followed a figure into the fog and found a report about a girl devoured by pigs at White Dew Bay, while Liang Yue and Wang Million were killed by the town’s Pig People.
• Qin Manjiang exposed Swimming Fish as the living Chen Yu, and Yan Xiao helped reveal that Chen Yu had become the ghost’s eyes after seeing her reflection.
• Qin Manjiang and Yan Xiao confronted the Vengeful Ghost, which swallowed them and their companions before Qin Manjiang realized they were at White Dew Bay rather than Butterfly Island.
• Chen Yu used her phone camera to become the ghost’s substitute, clearing the game and revealing Butterfly Island as Qin Manjiang, Yan Xiao, and Yu Ruoli escaped with the Single Pure Bell.
• At Twilight Apartment, March entered the woman’s room, found human skins, and was dragged into the mosquito net after the woman stripped the skin from her arms.
• Deep Valley Dusk carried the woman to the bathroom, saw March and another woman emerge from her in the mirror, then rapidly aged and died as Shen Hai checked his body.

After the Ten Seats entered the Ultimate Game Yellow Springs Opera, Qin Manjiang and his companions were pulled into the Southern Branch Troupe’s past. The troupe was forced to perform for a ghost, and Qin Manjiang and Mei Sijun joined its procession to a deep well.

• Soup Dumpling discovered Anran trapped inside the Vengeful Ghost, but Xiaotian killed her and was devoured after her voice continued to call for help.
• Yang Liuye survived My Aging Self by caring for the ghost without touching it, while Qin Manjiang visited Qin Manyi and learned she was Evening Primrose.
• Qin Manjiang unlocked his keepsake phone, entered the Eye Realm, and summoned the Ten Seats, triggering the Ultimate Game Yellow Springs Opera.
• Mei Sijun told the Ten Seats about his dream of the Southern Branch Troupe, its Yin Opera traditions, and its old opera house in Fu City.
• Qin Manjiang, Nie Yunzhen, Mei Sijun, and Yang investigated the ghost opera by the river, where two rivers converged and pulled them underwater.
• Qin Manjiang awoke as Xiao Qi aboard the Southern Branch Troupe’s boat, while Mei Sijun possessed the lead performer Lin Yanqing.
• The troupe encountered a white paper boat carrying the ghost who was forcing them to perform Yellow Springs Opera, and the hidden Ten Seats sensed that she had thoughts.
• The Old Drummer had Qin Manjiang tied up for being tainted by a ghost, but Mei Sijun protected him, and they joined the troupe’s procession toward a deep well.