Chapter Summaries

Lin Luo convinced the Wedding-Dress Female Ghost that he was a doctor and offered to treat her depleted blood and vital energy. She remained wary but agreed to test his skills on an important patient the next day, while Lin Luo later made peace with the Hanged Ghost in the cafeteria.

• The Wedding-Dress Female Ghost questioned why Lin Luo had come to the Green Mountain Clinic, and he said he wanted to practice medicine wherever he was needed.
• The Wedding-Dress Female Ghost required Lin Luo to pass an assessment before treating patients, but he pointed out that her blood and vital energy were severely depleted.
• The Wedding-Dress Female Ghost threatened Lin Luo, then restrained herself when he claimed he could cure her condition.
• The Wedding-Dress Female Ghost assigned Lin Luo an important patient for the next day as a test of his medical skills.
• Lin Luo returned to the cafeteria, where the Hanged Ghost tried to leave, but Lin Luo invited him to share a meal and make peace.

Lin Luo paid for a lavish meal at the Green Mountain Clinic and used his wealth to win over the greedy Hanged Ghost, the Wedding-Dress Female Ghost’s nephew. After the Hanged Ghost attacked Wang Tao for begging for money, Lin Luo and the Hanged Ghost drank together, leaving the ghost eager to help him.

• Lin Luo ordered every signature dish and paid the Butcher Ghost with a large stack of Ghost Coins.
• Wang Tao begged Lin Luo for Ghost Coins, but Lin Luo refused and said the money was a reward for the Hanged Ghost.
• The Hanged Ghost attacked Wang Tao when he asked for a share, then released him after the Butcher Ghost demanded silence in the Cafeteria.
• Lin Luo insisted the Hanged Ghost keep the remaining Ghost Coins, winning his gratitude and allegiance.
• Lin Luo shared Monkey Wine with the Hanged Ghost while the other Ghost Creatures watched enviously.

Lin Luo spent Ghost Coins on Monkey Wine and food to win over the Green Mountain Clinic’s Ghost Creatures, then got the Hanged Ghost to guide him around the Clinic. He learned about several dangerous areas and discovered a secret room called the Black Hole in his aunt’s office, though the Hanged Ghost’s answer about why it remained surprised him.

• Lin Luo shared Monkey Wine and food with the Hanged Ghost, the Butcher Ghost, and other Ghost Creatures, earning their favor while Yang Yong watched jealously.
• After paying the bill, Lin Luo left the Cafeteria with the Hanged Ghost and asked him to show him around the Clinic.
• Lin Luo learned that the Midnight Security Guard Room and the Cerebral Hemorrhage Bathhouse were forbidden and dangerous areas.
• When Lin Luo asked about a place more dangerous, the Hanged Ghost revealed that a Black Hole Secret Room was hidden in his aunt’s office and that anyone who entered vanished without a trace.
• Lin Luo asked why they did not get rid of the Black Hole Secret Room, and the Hanged Ghost gave him an answer that surprised him.

After learning more about the forbidden chamber at Green Mountain Clinic, Lin Luo’s group returned to the unsafe communal dormitory, where Chen Yuling stood up to Wang Yao and took her Ghost Artifact. The chapter left Chen Yuling holding the utility knife as Li Yong begged her to return it.

• Hanged Ghost told Lin Luo that the black-hole chamber had belonged to the previous owner of Green Mountain Clinic and that its forbidden methods had injured his aunt, then asked Lin Luo to keep it secret.
• The exhausted players returned to the foul-smelling communal dormitory as night approached.
• Wang Yao threatened Chen Yuling with a Ghost Artifact utility knife over a bed, then turned on Little Green Snake when she intervened.
• Chen Yuling knocked Wang Yao down with a pillow, took the utility knife, and offered it to Little Green Snake, who told her to keep it for protection.
• Li Yong demanded the utility knife back, denied ordering Wang Yao to hurt Chen Yuling, and finally knelt to beg for it.

Lin Luo confronted Li Yong in the Safe House, then teamed up with Little Green Snake to sneak into the Midnight Security Guard Room. Li Yong sabotaged the Safe House by leaving its door open, while Lin Luo and Little Green Snake encountered Scruffy Ghost on the way.

• Chen Yuling returned the utility knife to Li Yong, who thanked her while considering taking her hostage, then abandoned the idea when Lin Luo entered.
• Lin Luo helped Li Yong up and publicly called out his schemes with Wang Tao, leaving Li Yong humiliated and silent.
• Lin Luo told Little Green Snake they would visit the Midnight Security Guard Room that night to obtain the Clinic’s entry and exit records, and they agreed to deal with its guard if necessary.
• At midnight, Lin Luo and Little Green Snake left the Safe House, and Li Yong followed after leaving its door open to expose the sleeping players to Ghost Creatures.
• On their way to the Midnight Security Guard Room, Scruffy Ghost leered at Little Green Snake and reached for her, so she pierced his belly with a Spear-Shaped Ghost Artifact.

Lin Luo and Little Green Snake reached the Midnight Security Guard Room and used paper doubles to lure out its guard. Their trap made the Gatekeeping Old Ghost mistake Li Yong for their accomplice, leaving him in danger as Lin Luo and Little Green Snake escaped.

• Little Green Snake killed the Scruffy Ghost who had ambushed her, while Li Yong later found the corpse and remained intent on taking revenge against Lin Luo.
• Lin Luo and Little Green Snake avoided the Ghost Creatures and reached the security room, where Lin Luo warned that destroying its Ghost Power-filled cameras would cause explosions.
• Lin Luo used the Paper-Binding Technique to create doubles of himself and Little Green Snake, then controlled them to destroy the cameras and draw out the Gatekeeping Old Ghost.
• The Gatekeeping Old Ghost chased the paper doubles, and they led him toward Li Yong while pretending he was their ally.
• The Gatekeeping Old Ghost accused Li Yong of destroying the cameras and refused to believe his protests, threatening to kill him.

Lin Luo and Little Green Snake reached the Midnight Security Guard Room, where Lin Luo burned away its curse and confronted the chained Nether Hound. As Little Green Snake searched for files in a cabinet, Lin Luo fought the Nether Hound and left it wary of his strength.

• The old gatekeeper ghost knocked Li Yong critically to the ground, then chased Lin Luo’s two paper figures while Lin Luo and Little Green Snake reached the Midnight Security Guard Room.
• Little Green Snake warned Lin Luo that the door was cursed, but Lin Luo kicked it open and burned away the curse with Nine Netherworld Netherfire.
• A Nether Hound ambushed Little Green Snake inside the dark security guard room, and Lin Luo drove it back with his flames.
• Lin Luo told Little Green Snake to gather information from the cabinet while he handled the Nether Hound, and she agreed to trust him and circle around it.
• The Nether Hound attacked Little Green Snake, but Lin Luo struck one of its heads with the Hell Torch and burned another with Nine Netherworld Netherfire.
• The Nether Hound spat icy flames at Lin Luo, who dodged with Phantom Shadow Unfettered.

Lin Luo defeated and killed the Nether Hound in the Midnight Security Guard Room while Little Green Snake looted its documents. After learning the Wedding-Dress Female Ghost was only a maid to an Unspeakable, Lin Luo and Little Green Snake fled as she arrived and pursued them.

• The Nether Hound charged Lin Luo, but Lin Luo unleashed his Nine Netherworld Netherfire and burned through two of its heads while Little Green Snake collected documents from the room.
• Lin Luo taunted the Nether Hound into revealing that its master was an Unspeakable and that the Wedding-Dress Female Ghost ranked below it as a maid.
• The Wedding-Dress Female Ghost approached after hearing the fight, and Little Green Snake urged Lin Luo to retreat.
• Lin Luo killed the injured Nether Hound with his Nine Netherworld Netherfire, then took Little Green Snake and escaped using Phantom Shadow Unfettered.
• The Wedding-Dress Female Ghost reached the security room, saw the wreckage, and chased after Lin Luo and Little Green Snake.

Lin Luo escaped the Wedding-Dress Female Ghost and returned to the Safe House, where he found it wrecked and learned that eight players had died. After a One-Eyed Ghost ambushed him, Lin Luo accused Li Yong of causing the disaster and offered the survivors a choice to stay or leave.

• Lin Luo used Phantom Shadow Unfettered to outrun the Wedding-Dress Female Ghost and returned to the Safe House with Little Green Snake.
• Lin Luo and Little Green Snake found the Safe House door open, the interior wrecked, and the nearby bed covered in blood.
• Chen Yuling told Lin Luo that a swarm of Ghost Creatures had attacked an hour earlier and killed eight players, while a One-Eyed Ghost ambushed him from behind the door.
• Wang Yao accused Lin Luo of causing the deaths, but Lin Luo blamed Li Yong and challenged her to explain how she knew Li Yong had disappeared.
• Chen Yuling told Lin Luo that the One-Eyed Ghost seemed to have waited for him, and Lin Luo offered the surviving players the choice to stay in the Safe House or leave.

Lin Luo drove Wang Yao out of the Safe House and secretly sent a paper hummingbird after her, intending to uncover who had instructed her to provoke him. After reading stolen security-room documents with Little Green Snake, he met the Gatekeeping Old Ghost at the clinic entrance, where the ghost appeared badly punished and missing a hand.

• Lin Luo threatened Wang Yao until she left the Safe House, then secretly used the Paper-Binding Technique to make a hummingbird follow her.
• Lin Luo warned the other players not to provoke him, and they responded by flattering him; Qian Gui thanked him for driving Wang Yao away.
• Little Green Snake brought Lin Luo documents stolen from the Midnight Security Guard Room, and they read them together through the night.
• At six in the morning, Lin Luo and the other players arrived at the Clinic entrance and found the Gatekeeping Old Ghost looking dark and missing one ghostly hand.

The Gatekeeping Old Ghost interrogated Lin Luo and Little Green Snake about the stolen files, but they denied involvement and he could not prove their guilt. He offered a reward for information, assigned the players their work, and sent Lin Luo to meet the furious Wedding-Dress Female Ghost for his duties.

• The Gatekeeping Old Ghost learned from Wang Yao that Lin Luo and Little Green Snake had gone out the previous night and accused them of stealing files from the security guard room.
• Lin Luo resisted the Gatekeeping Old Ghost's attempt to attack him and warned him that he was an Official Employee appointed by the Clinic Owner.
• Little Green Snake claimed she and Lin Luo had only gone on a date near the Safe House, and the Gatekeeping Old Ghost let them go while keeping them under suspicion.
• The Gatekeeping Old Ghost offered 1,000 Ghost Coins and his protection to anyone who provided useful information about the theft, then assigned work to the other players.
• The Gatekeeping Old Ghost told Lin Luo that the Wedding-Dress Female Ghost would arrange his work, and Lin Luo entered her freezing office.

Lin Luo was questioned by the Wedding-Dress Female Ghost about the security office theft, then ordered to treat a powerful Blood Ghost. He followed her to the Cerebral Hemorrhage Bathhouse, where the Blood Ghost inspected him.

• The Wedding-Dress Female Ghost confronted Lin Luo about where he had gone and how he knew about the security office theft, but Lin Luo blamed the Gatekeeping Old Ghost.
• The Wedding-Dress Female Ghost warned Lin Luo to keep the theft secret and offered him the Outpatient Room Attending Physician position if he cured an important patient.
• Lin Luo accepted the treatment task and received a hidden task to treat the Blood Ghost's head ailment for a Cerebral Hemorrhage Bathhouse entry pass.
• The Wedding-Dress Female Ghost led Lin Luo to the bathhouse, where he saw that blood pouring from the Blood Ghost's head filled the pool.
• A Drowned Ghost insulted the Wedding-Dress Female Ghost, but the Blood Ghost intervened and then examined Lin Luo.

Lin Luo examined the Blood Ghost’s cursed cerebral hemorrhage and promised he could treat it, while a provoked Drowned Ghost was killed by the Wedding-Dress Female Ghost. The Blood Ghost offered Lin Luo a favor if he cured him, and Lin Luo secretly used Emotion Stitching as treatment began.

• The Blood Ghost ordered the Drowned Ghost to test Lin Luo, and Lin Luo punched the Drowned Ghost through the abdomen.
• The Blood Ghost invited Lin Luo to treat him, and Lin Luo examined his pulse and learned through his memories how fresh blood had cursed him with a cerebral hemorrhage.
• Lin Luo used Paladin’s Provocation on the Drowned Ghost, who insulted the Wedding-Dress Female Ghost and demanded she give up her position.
• The Wedding-Dress Female Ghost killed the Drowned Ghost with her hair, and the Blood Ghost said he did not blame her while hiding his resentment.
• Lin Luo told the Blood Ghost his cerebral hemorrhage was treatable, and the Blood Ghost promised him a favor if he cured it.
• Lin Luo discreetly used Thumb, Emotion Stitching on the Blood Ghost.

Lin Luo cured the Blood Ghost’s cerebral hemorrhage by forcibly performing a craniotomy, earning a bathhouse pass and the Blood Ghost’s favor. The Blood Ghost then tried to keep Lin Luo as his private caregiver, but the Wedding-Dress Female Ghost objected, leaving them in conflict.

• Lin Luo smashed open the Blood Ghost’s skull and used Thumb Emotion Stitching to suppress his rage before beginning the operation.
• Lin Luo reconnected the ruptured blood vessels, curing the Blood Ghost’s cerebral hemorrhage and earning a Horror Game entry pass to the Cerebral Hemorrhage Bathhouse.
• Lin Luo declined a reward and asked the Blood Ghost to forget the unauthorized operation, impressing him and earning his praise.
• The Blood Ghost promised to report the Wedding-Dress Female Ghost’s help to the young master, bolstering her standing as Clinic Owner.
• Lin Luo prescribed recuperation medicine and said he would need to examine the Blood Ghost every few days, prompting the Blood Ghost to offer him food and lodging in exchange for staying nearby.
• The Wedding-Dress Female Ghost insisted Lin Luo had to return to his Clinic duties, and the Blood Ghost’s expression turned grim.

After Blood Ghost threatened Wedding-Dress Female Ghost over Lin Luo, Lin Luo reassured him but chose to remain loyal to his boss, deepening her trust and furthering his plan to reach the Cerebral Hemorrhage Bathhouse’s treasure vault. As Wedding-Dress Female Ghost prepared to receive treatment, a Nurse Ghost entered to report a troublemaking player and found Lin Luo in the office.

• Blood Ghost threatened Wedding-Dress Female Ghost until Lin Luo promised to keep treating him, and Blood Ghost guaranteed Lin Luo's safety at Green Mountain Clinic.
• Lin Luo followed Wedding-Dress Female Ghost back to her office instead of seeking Blood Ghost's protection, explaining that Blood Ghost would betray him once he was no longer useful.
• Wedding-Dress Female Ghost confided her resentment and ambition to replace Blood Ghost, and Lin Luo pledged his support, earning her initial trust.
• Wedding-Dress Female Ghost agreed to let Lin Luo treat her and promised him a promotion and a raise.
• A Nurse Ghost barged into the office to report a troublemaking player, then recognized Lin Luo and remarked that they had met again soon.

The Wedding-Dress Female Ghost made Lin Luo the Green Mountain Clinic’s chief physician, putting him above the Nurse Ghost. Lin Luo then examined the Wedding-Dress Female Ghost’s past and began treating her lingering qi and blood deficiency with his blood.

• The Wedding-Dress Female Ghost told the Nurse Ghost that Lin Luo was now the clinic’s chief physician, and the Nurse Ghost swallowed her resentment and offered to help him.
• The Nurse Ghost tried to curry favor with Lin Luo, but the Wedding-Dress Female Ghost ordered her to leave and warned her to remember her place.
• After the Nurse Ghost left, Lin Luo used his Crimson Demon Finger to look through the Wedding-Dress Female Ghost’s memories and learned how her husband had imprisoned her on their wedding night.
• Lin Luo explained that his pure yang blood could treat her deficiency of qi and blood, then offered his blood to her.
• The Wedding-Dress Female Ghost drank Lin Luo’s blood, and her qi and blood deficiency began to improve.

Lin Luo replenished the Wedding-Dress Female Ghost's blood and vital energy with his blood, weakening her curse and earning her trust and a Netherworld Tier pendant. After leaving her office, he ate in the Cafeteria, where the Hanged Ghost confronted him about the robbery at the Midnight Security Guard Room.

• Lin Luo fed the Wedding-Dress Female Ghost his blood, restoring her blood and vital energy.
• The Wedding-Dress Female Ghost discovered that Lin Luo's blood had weakened her curse and promised to protect him.
• The Wedding-Dress Female Ghost lent Lin Luo her Blood Agate Jade Pendant to replenish his lost blood and vital energy.
• Lin Luo left the office and went to the Cafeteria for a lavish meal.
• The Hanged Ghost told Lin Luo that a thief had broken into the Midnight Security Guard Room, then grew suspicious of him.
• Lin Luo pointed out the pendant and said it was a gift from the Hanged Ghost's aunt, stunning him.

Lin Luo used the Blood Agate Jade Pendant and Wedding-Dress Female Ghost’s favor to defuse Gatekeeping Old Ghost’s accusations that he had stolen from the Midnight Security Guard Room. He then drew Gatekeeping Old Ghost and Butcher Ghost into a feast with his Netherworld Wine.

• Hanged Ghost regretted suspecting Lin Luo and tried to dissuade him from reporting the accusation to Wedding-Dress Female Ghost.
• Gatekeeping Old Ghost confronted Lin Luo, but Lin Luo calmly offered to cooperate with a reasonable investigation.
• Hanged Ghost revealed that Wedding-Dress Female Ghost had given Lin Luo the Blood Agate Jade Pendant, shocking Gatekeeping Old Ghost.
• Lin Luo argued that stealing the pendant and wearing it would have been suicidal, and Gatekeeping Old Ghost backed down and asked him not to tell Wedding-Dress Female Ghost.
• Lin Luo brought out several bottles of Netherworld Wine, tempted Gatekeeping Old Ghost to stay, and invited Butcher Ghost to join the feast.

Lin Luo used Netherworld Wine to stop the Butcher Ghost and the Gatekeeping Old Ghost from fighting, then got the drunken Gatekeeping Old Ghost to reveal that Li Yong had been imprisoned. When they reached the Midnight Security Guard Room, Li Yong was gone, and the Gatekeeping Old Ghost checked the surveillance footage to find out what had happened.

• The Butcher Ghost and the Gatekeeping Old Ghost fought over whether the Butcher Ghost could drink, shaking the Cafeteria with their Ghost Artifacts.
• Lin Luo released his Ghost King aura and shared Netherworld Wine, forcing the two ghosts to stop fighting and drink together.
• Lin Luo got the drunken Gatekeeping Old Ghost to admit that he had imprisoned and tortured Li Yong as an accomplice in the security-room theft.
• Lin Luo, the Gatekeeping Old Ghost, the Hanged Ghost, and the Butcher Ghost went to the Midnight Security Guard Room, where they discovered Li Yong had disappeared.
• The panicked Gatekeeping Old Ghost brought up the surveillance footage to find out who had taken Li Yong.

Lin Luo investigated the theft of Li Yong after surveillance footage revealed a black-robed figure had taken him and tried to frame him. He persuaded the Gatekeeping Old Ghost to investigate rather than kill three players, then announced that Wang Yao was not who she claimed to be.

• Lin Luo found footage of a black-robed figure carrying Li Yong away, and he and the Gatekeeping Old Ghost gathered the players to investigate.
• The players gave their accounts, leaving Chen Yuling, Wang Yao, and Wang Tao without alibis.
• Lin Luo kicked Wang Yao and Wang Tao after they tried to claim his support, then urged the Gatekeeping Old Ghost to confine the three and continue investigating.
• When Wang Yao protested, Lin Luo told the Gatekeeping Old Ghost he already knew the culprit and declared that she was not the real Wang Yao.