Ghost

Biodata

Background / History

Ghost prowls an area roughly 1,300–1,400 meters from Xiao Hao’s Coral Shell Room. Her lair contains a Corpse Mountain supporting a small patch of cultivated Soul-Replenishing Grass, along with equipment and defensive cards accumulated through looting. Xiao Hao steals the grass and the lair’s other valuables while distracting her with his guardians 11 12 21.

After her destruction, viewer comments reveal that ghosts are formed from dead players. Her original identity and race are not disclosed. She had previously fought players carrying defensive cards and understood their limitations, as well as the significance of the player forum and game interface 13 14 25.

Appearance

• Face: A skeletal, hollow-featured face with scraps of seawater-whitened flesh, uneven yellow teeth, and parasites wriggling inside her empty eye sockets 3 13 23.
• Arms and hands: Withered, branchlike arms ending in sticky, corpse-spotted palms. Parasites also burrow beneath the skin of her hands 3 11 13.
• Scythe fingers: Ten sickle-shaped fingers, each initially over ten centimeters long, capable of extending into enormous black Reaper’s Scythes 13.
• Neck: Prominent bluish-purple veins; her head can rotate 180 degrees before her body follows 3 11.
• Clothing: Rags covering her body 11.
• Mouth: Her jaw can stretch into an opening large enough to accommodate a football 11.

Personality

Ghost is cruel and vindictive, imagining how she will disembowel Xiao Hao, eat his beating heart, or consume his flesh while he remains conscious. His repeated escapes turn her pursuit into a personal feud rather than an ordinary hunt 11 17 19.

She is intelligent enough to anticipate his destination, wait outside his shelter, recognize card effects, and switch from costly skills to steady attacks. However, humiliation repeatedly overrides her judgment. Xiao Hao exploits her anger, pride, and belief that his resources must be running out 11 13 14 19.

Her tactics change as she begins taking him seriously: she retreats rather than risk another apparent room upgrade, ambushes him during a hunt, and later drives other monsters against his base. Even so, she continues to underestimate his ability to kill her until his final counterattack 15 17 22 24.

Abilities & Skills

Reaper’s Scythe Fingers

• Her ten fingers serve as cutting weapons and can expand into scythes with blades at least two meters long 13.
• They slice through solid earth and stone and threaten to cut apart Xiao Hao’s shadow form 17.
• Even at 14% health, she knocks the Peacock Mantis Shrimp back with one blow, chipping its emerald scythes 24.
• Calm Card activation interrupts the enlarged scythes before they strike the Coral Shell Room 13.

Purple-Black Energy Claw

• Forms an enormous claw capable of enclosing the entire Coral Shell Room 13.
• A successful strike removes several hundred liters of the room’s magic, though the attack also takes a substantial toll on Ghost 23.
• Calm Cards interrupt it; Rebound and Payback Cards turn its destructive power against her 13 14 24.
• During the final battle, her reflected ultimate severs her arms, breaks ribs, damages her organs, and leaves her at 16% health 24.

Soul Poison

• Her initial attack inflicts soul poison that steadily lowers Xiao Hao’s maximum stamina 3.
• A Blood Potion heals his bleeding wounds but does not resolve the stamina loss 3.
• Soul-Replenishing Grass restores his maximum stamina after he steals it from her lair 11.

Pursuit and Tracking

• Moves fast enough that Xiao Hao estimates her pursuit speed at more than 13.3 meters per second during one chase 11.
• Tracks the detectable soul aura left by stolen Soul-Replenishing Grass, adjusting her route as Xiao Hao changes direction 11 12.
• Identifies Xiao Hao among fleeing shadows through his visible Exploration Bubble 17.
• Loses that distinction when he disables the bubble and separates from his guardians; she pursues a shadow decoy instead 17.
• Can approach stealthily enough to surprise both Xiao Hao and the viewers watching his hunt 17 18.

Durability and Endurance

• Survives five hours of rotating Shadow Seahorse attacks combined with the Coral Shell Room’s reflected damage 15.
• Swallows a crushed beer can despite its shards cutting through her mouth, throat, and stomach; the wounds produce no blood 23.
• Her spine withstands the Peacock Mantis Shrimp’s scythes during a three-second immobilization, producing sparks rather than breaking 24.

Monster Herding

• Drives a school of Primordial Snailfish against the Coral Shell Room and rotates fresh waves into the assault approximately once per minute 22.
• Can herd the snailfish, but cannot control every individual movement; some remain inside Darkness Domains long enough to die 22.

Weaknesses and Counters

• Daylight: Suppresses dark energy and reduces her strength; nighttime boosts her combat power 15 23.
• Coral Shell Room protection: Crossing its protected boundary burns her arms and clothing. Extended attacks also leave her fingers red-hot and worn down 11 15 19.
• Sleeping pills: Drugged beer leaves her dazed and easier to provoke, although she resumes attacking rather than falling asleep 23.
• Curse-Kill Card: Becomes usable below 30% health and removes 15% of total health. Xiao Hao waits until she reaches 14% before using it to kill her 23 24.

Equipment / Weapons / Items

• Soul-Replenishing Grass — Cultivated at her Corpse Mountain; stolen by Xiao Hao to cure his soul-poison-related stamina loss and obtain valuable trades 11 12.
• Shadow Mask — Looted from her lair; obscures the wearer’s face and grants immunity to detection skills 12 25.
• Retry Gloves — Looted from her lair; copy one guardian skill at a time, replacing the previous copied skill 12 25.
• Six defensive cards — Rebound, Shield, Double, Maintenance, Silence, and Calm Cards. Xiao Hao uses her stolen cards against her 13.
• Defeat rewards — Her destruction yields 6,000 Spirit Pearls and the Ghost Scythe Ring, which reproduces her ten size-adjustable Reaper’s Scythe fingers 25.

Relationships

• Xiao Hao — Prey turned mortal enemy. He survives her soul poison, raids her lair, repeatedly deceives her, and ultimately destroys her 3 11 15 24.
• Shadow Seahorses — Xiao Hao’s guardians repeatedly distract her and drain her vitality. She kills one during an ambush, prompting Xiao Hao to swear revenge 11 15 17.
• Peacock Mantis Shrimp — Assists Xiao Hao’s diversion and attacks her during the final battle; she survives its attempt to cut through her neck 11 24.
• Deep-Sea Ghost clan — She invokes the clan as a threat against Xiao Hao immediately before her destruction 24.

Story Role / Major Arcs

Initial Pursuit and Lair Raid

• Injures Xiao Hao’s back before he shuts her outside the Coral Shell Room; she then presses against its window and swallows a scrap of his bloodstained pajamas 3.
• Finds him hiding in a seabed trench, though he subsequently escapes by remaining underground until she leaves 7 8.
• Chases guardian decoys while Xiao Hao empties her lair. His escape ends when the room’s protected boundary burns her and forces her back 11.

Repeated Sieges

• Attacks the Coral Shell Room after the beginner protection period ends. Xiao Hao interrupts her strongest skills with her own stolen cards 12 13.
• Suffers reflected energy-claw attacks after Xiao Hao provokes her, but continues scratching the window until he restores the room through an upgrade 14.
• Withdraws after a five-hour nighttime assault when Xiao Hao bluffs that he can afford another upgrade 15.
• Ambushes him during monster hunting and kills a Shadow Seahorse, but loses him after chasing a decoy 17.
• Wears herself down attacking during daylight because Xiao Hao’s incremental repairs make the room appear close to collapse 18 19.

Final Battle

• Sends Primordial Snailfish against the room in an attempt to exhaust Xiao Hao’s defenses; their deaths instead supply him with Spirit Pearls 22.
• Accepts grilled shrimp meat and drugged beer, then continues attacking throughout the night 23.
• At dawn, falls into Xiao Hao’s final trap: Shield and Payback Cards counter her ultimate, and a Silence Card holds her for the mantis shrimp’s attack 24.
• Attempts to escape at 14% health. The Curse-Kill Card binds her in regenerating purple talismanic ribbons and reduces her to ash 24.

Legacy

• Her equipment strengthens Xiao Hao beyond the beginner village. The Ghost Scythe Ring later terrifies both the Flower Eagle and Qing Feng’s Ghost Infant before its blades fully form 25 38.
• His experience with her helps him explain to the police that intelligent ghosts may be deceased players, prompting an investigation into players killed during the Giant Tree battle 48.

Notable Quotes

“Found you...” 7

“The Deep-Sea Ghost clan will tear you... into ten thousand pieces—!” 24