Recaps

Xia Shou examined Liu Guangyao, whose nightmares featured the Blood Demon and whose right arm had rotted while remaining connected to his circulation. Liu Guangyao began drawing the person who hunted him in his dreams, leaving Xia Shou waiting to see whom he would depict.

• Liu Guangyao woke screaming from a dream of a black-clad man and a maid carving meat from the Blood Demon.
• Xia Shou entered Liu Guangyao's hospital ward and noticed the faint smell of decay.
• Liu Guangyao unwrapped his right arm, revealing blue-black skin, while Wang Long explained that its nerves and cells were dead even though blood still circulated through it.
• Xia Shou examined Liu Guangyao's drawings and recognized the Blood Demon, wondering why the anomaly continued after he had killed and eaten it.
• Liu Guangyao described a recurring dream in which an unknown intruder tied him down, cut off his right hand, and eventually killed him.
• Liu Guangyao began drawing the intruder and asked Xia Shou whether they had met before.

Xia Shou questioned Liu Guangyao about his dreams, learning that Edward had protected him from dream-killers and may have tried to send a message. As the group recognized Edward in Liu Guangyao’s drawing, the hospital room began to deteriorate around them.

• Liu Guangyao described a dream in which someone wearing black clothes and a pirate-style hat ate the blood god, making Xia Shou worry about the shadow’s true nature.
• Liu Guangyao explained that he had seen the blood god in a distorted dream-space and panicked that he was still dreaming, but Wang Long convinced him he was awake.
• Liu Guangyao drew a foreigner in a straw-like outfit made of blue-green gemstones, and Su Weiyu identified him as Edward, the Investigator who entered the Blood Demon House.
• Liu Guangyao recalled that Edward had protected him from killers in his dreams and might have asked him to pass on a message.
• A piece of plaster fell onto Liu Guangyao’s bed, and Xia Shou noticed that the hospital room had suddenly become cracked and worn.

A hospital ward was pulled into a closed domain, trapping Xia Shou, Su Weiyu, Wang Long, and the others in a warped space. As the hospital descended into chaos, Alice spotted a yellow-faced patient climbing through a corridor window.

• The daylight vanished beyond the ward window, then returned to reveal another hospital ward outside.
• Liu Guangyao panicked, threatened Xia Shou with a fruit knife, and was disarmed by Su Weiyu before Xia Shou returned the knife to him.
• Su Weiyu explained that the group had entered a closed domain, which Xia Shou identified as a dangerous hunting ground.
• The ward aged rapidly, and Wang Long learned that the hospital's wardens had been caring for benign earthbound spirits that should not have caused the domain.
• Xia Shou opened the ward door and saw patients and visitors panicking or exploring the strange surroundings.
• Alice took the Little Mirror from Xia Shou's pocket, revealing a yellow-faced patient climbing through a window at the end of the corridor.

Xia Shou and Su Weiyu confronted a Yellow-Skinned Patient whose touch spread a deadly illness, while learning the hospital’s power failure had caused many deaths. A call from another ward revealed that killing one of the patients could trigger a worse infection, leaving the danger unresolved.

• The Yellow-Skinned Patient infected a burly man by touching him, and the man passed the illness to an elderly patient before recovering.
• Xia Shou warned everyone to retreat into the wards and lock their doors, then found that Alice’s ability could not affect the patient.
• Wang Long joined Xia Shou and Su Weiyu, and they discussed restraining or containing the patient rather than killing him.
• Wang Long explained that the domain had delayed the backup power and that the hospital had only twenty-four hours of emergency electricity remaining.
• A caller told Wang Long that another Yellow-Skinned Patient had appeared elsewhere and that someone had already killed one; Wang Long hung up pale-faced.

Xia Shou and Wang Long learned that anomalous patients spread diseases that could worsen and transfer to others when a carrier died, while the Yellow-Skinned Patient grew faster and more dangerous. The chapter ended as it charged at Xia Shou, who pushed Su Weiyu away and raised his hand to meet it.

• Wang Long told Xia Shou that killing a disease-carrying patient had transferred and amplified the illness, eventually causing the carrier to cough up his lungs and die.
• Xia Shou learned that the disease could reappear in recovered people even after a carrier died, making the outbreak difficult to stop.
• Su Weiyu noticed that the Yellow-Skinned Patient had started moving faster and trying to open ward doors, and it began coughing with signs of serious lung disease.
• Xia Shou told Wang Long to warn the other wardens not to kill anomalous patients, but the patient grew to normal walking speed and headed toward him.
• Wang Long's colleague warned him that patients arriving from another space were anomalous and urged him to kill them, just as the Yellow-Skinned Patient began running at Xia Shou.
• Xia Shou pushed Su Weiyu away and raised his hand as the patient reached him.

Xia Shou used [Blood Rampage] to cripple the anomalous patient, then refused to transfer his infection to an ICU patient and instead prepared to replace his diseased organs with help from Alice. As the ICU was stormed, Xia Shou began an improvised surgery in the corridor, hoping his blood-powered regeneration would work.

• Xia Shou activated [Blood Rampage] and ruptured the anomalous patient's limbs, leaving him unable to move quickly.
• Wang Long urged Xia Shou to go to the ICU and transfer his disease, but Xia Shou refused and asked for matching blood so he could replace his liver, lungs, and kidneys.
• Xia Shou told Wang Long that his ability could regenerate organs and ordered him to guide the surgery while he supplied the blood.
• Wang Long learned that people had stormed the ICU and suspected that many patients there might already be dead.
• Xia Shou summoned Alice's translucent hands to hold him and wield scalpels, then asked Wang Long where to make the first incision.

Xia Shou removed his anomalously altered organs and regenerated them, curing the symptoms caused by the Anomalous Entity. As he explained his theory to Wang Long, a doctor carrying a chainsaw appeared behind them.

• Xia Shou used Alice and the nurses' fields of vision to guide an operation removing his diseased liver while controlling his blood loss with Blood Rampage.
• Xia Shou activated Heal Wounds with Blood to regenerate his liver, and Wang Long saw his yellowed skin return to normal.
• Xia Shou and Alice removed his diseased lungs, liver, and kidneys, after which Xia Shou felt much better and lost a deep-dive level.
• Xia Shou explained that the Anomalous Entity transformed organs through contact and that removing those organs could stop its effects.
• A doctor carrying a chainsaw appeared behind Xia Shou and Wang Long and asked whether Director Wang had done it.

Wang Long and Xia Shou confronted Liu Dong, who had become a murderous doctor driven by a ticking clock to kill one more person. Before crumbling into fragments, Liu Dong revealed that the exit was on the other side and warned them not to become doctors.

• Liu Dong accused Wang Long of overshadowing him and resented Wang Long for giving gifts to their advisor on his behalf.
• Su Weiyu tripped Liu Dong and stabbed his knees, while Xia Shou seized his chainsaw.
• Liu Dong begged Wang Long to help him kill one more person before the clock on his palm ran out, then tried to attack him with a hidden scalpel.
• When the clock reached twelve, Liu Dong regained his senses and apologized to Wang Long.
• Liu Dong told Wang Long the exit was on the other side and warned him not to become a doctor before his body broke into fragments.
• Xia Shou urged Wang Long to leave so Liu Dong's final effort would not be wasted.

Xia Shou led Wang Long and Liu Guangyao into the other side of the closed domain, where ritual patterns and a ghostly guide suggested a connection to the Blood Demon. They reached a hospital garden and found a guarded, fortress-like building at its center.

• Xia Shou told Wang Long to warn the other wardens and hide the hospital survivors, then chose Wang Long and Liu Guangyao to accompany him into the other side.
• Xia Shou devoured the dead anomalous patient and acquired the incomplete skill [Shared Misery].
• Wang Long returned with Liu Guangyao, and the group crossed through the window into a strange corridor covered in ritual-like patterns.
• Liu Guangyao recognized the patterns vaguely, strengthening Xia Shou's suspicion that the domain was connected to the Blood Demon.
• A misty little girl appeared and guided the group through the building and outside into a hospital garden.
• Xia Shou and the others saw a fortress-like octagonal building guarded by armed doctors in white coats.

Su Weiyu entered the guarded fortress and discovered a library and documents left by the person who built the hospital. She found records about Idrisu and began reading them aloud to Xia Shou, who stayed outside with her.

• Su Weiyu tested her ability by throwing a stone at a doctor, then walked past the patrolling doctors unseen.
• Su Weiyu forced open the fortress door and searched its library, finding books about magic and rituals written in unfamiliar scripts.
• Su Weiyu found a mummified corpse and a notebook in English on the second floor.
• Su Weiyu read that the writer had built the hospital to perform a ritual invoking Idrisu and hoped to save his sick daughter, Enya.
• Su Weiyu carried the English documents outside and began reading them aloud to Xia Shou.

Su Weiyu translated the sanatorium director’s notes, revealing how he summoned Idrisu and used human beings as treatment materials to halt Enya’s supernatural illness. Xia Shou suspected Enya was the ghost girl who had guided them, while the notes hinted that a dangerous organization had noticed the director.

• Su Weiyu explained that occultists kept diaries to ease evil gods’ memetic influence and their urge to spread forbidden knowledge.
• Wang Long reported that the 2000 private sanatorium treated elderly American dignitaries and tycoons using human organs as raw materials.
• Xia Shou suspected the director used ritual surgery to transfer patients’ ailments to others and wondered whether he had prepared an escape from the closed domain.
• Su Weiyu read that Idrisu could only halt Enya’s supernatural disease by using a constant supply of healthy recipients.
• The director’s notes said he had sourced homeless people and undocumented immigrants, and feared a dangerous organization was watching him.

Su Weiyu and Xia Shou searched the archive for a way out of the sanatorium and found the director’s diary describing how he turned it into a Closed Domain. The diary suggested they had to stop Idrisu’s treatments to escape, but a voice then offered Xia Shou a cure for Abyssal Diving Syndrome.

• Su Weiyu and Xia Shou realized the archive contained too many diaries to search without help.
• The ghost girl guided Xia Shou and Su Weiyu to a diary revealing that a stranger had taught the director how to create a Closed Domain to evade the Containment Bureau.
• Su Weiyu read the director’s account of building the domain and making its patients raw material for Idrisu’s treatments.
• Wang Long concluded that they would have to stop Idrisu from treating patients to leave the sanatorium.
• A voice in Xia Shou’s mind offered to cure his Abyssal Diving Syndrome.

An entity called Idrisu tempted Xia Shou and his companions with cures for their supernatural afflictions in exchange for becoming doctors. Xia Shou resisted after a child's voice broke through the entity's influence, then warned the others not to accept and asked Su Weiyu to refuse.

• Idrisu offered to cure Xia Shou's Abyssal Diving Syndrome and Su Weiyu's transparency syndrome if they became its assistants.
• Xia Shou warned Wang Long, Su Weiyu, and Liu Guangyao not to become doctors, but Liu Guangyao was tempted by the promise of a cure.
• Idrisu gave Xia Shou rules for leaving the sanatorium and living in the mortal world, revealing that doctors could connect real-world hospitals to the Closed Domain.
• Xia Shou's thoughts were blocked as he tried to recall The Monkey's Paw, but a child's voice urged him to refuse, clearing his mind.
• Xia Shou rejected Idrisu's offer, threatened to kill anyone who accepted, and asked Su Weiyu if she would refuse too.

Xia Shou and his companions followed the ghost girl through the building, where Liu Guangyao recalled hearing invisible footsteps in his dreams. After an unseen attacker killed Liu Guangyao, Xia Shou and Su Weiyu defeated it and found a key, but Xia Shou and Wang Long suddenly went blind.

• Su Weiyu refused Idrisu’s offer, and Wang Long persuaded Liu Guangyao not to accept it.
• The ghost girl guided Xia Shou, Su Weiyu, Wang Long, and Liu Guangyao safely into a building where Liu Guangyao recalled a dark room and strange footsteps.
• Xia Shou noticed a door with five keyholes and guessed that five doctors held the keys, but an invisible attacker cut Liu Guangyao’s throat before he could finish explaining what he knew about the top floor.
• Xia Shou used Blood Rampage to control Liu Guangyao’s bleeding, but the attacker killed Liu Guangyao with a wound to his temple.
• Xia Shou spread Liu Guangyao’s blood across the floor to reveal the invisible attacker’s footprints, and Su Weiyu struck it down with [Boy Cutter].
• The attacker dissolved into black ash and dropped a key, but Xia Shou and Wang Long suddenly lost their sight.

After the Eye Doctor’s death left everyone blind, Xia Shou used the key to see and planned how he and Su Weiyu would face the remaining doctors. They reached the second-floor door and prepared to enter with Xia Shou carrying Su Weiyu on his back to fool the suspected silent Ear Doctor.

• Xia Shou discovered that whoever held the key could see, while Su Weiyu and Wang Long were blind without it.
• Xia Shou carved information about the invisible Eye Doctor into the floor, then explained his theories about the remaining doctors and his plan for surviving the Heart Doctor.
• Xia Shou and Su Weiyu went to the second-floor door, where Xia Shou proposed carrying her so the suspected Ear Doctor would hear only one set of footsteps.
• Su Weiyu climbed onto Xia Shou’s back after moving the Boy Cutter so it would not dig into him.

Xia Shou and Su Weiyu entered the pitch-black second floor to fight the Ear Doctor, coordinating their attacks while Xia Shou carried her on his back. After a failed counter to a distant throwing knife, Xia Shou used Blood Rampage to spread blood threads through the room and deliberately deafened himself, hoping to sense and touch his opponent.

• Xia Shou and Su Weiyu settled on a system of leg pinches to signal attacks while she rode on his back.
• Xia Shou entered the dark room and cautiously moved along the wall, waiting for the Ear Doctor to attack.
• The Ear Doctor struck Xia Shou in the throat with a throwing knife, and Su Weiyu's counterattack hit nothing.
• Xia Shou realized the Ear Doctor had known about both of them and was attacking from a distance.
• Xia Shou spread blood threads through the room with Blood Rampage and punctured his eardrums so he could rely on his other senses.

Xia Shou and Su Weiyu defeated the Ear Doctor, but Shared Misery left Su Weiyu deaf and mute while Xia Shou recovered his sight and hearing. They gained the Ear Department Key and began planning for the next doctor, though they still needed three more keys to escape the domain.

• Xia Shou used [Shared Misery] and [Everlasting Wound] after the Ear Doctor kicked him, transferring his injuries and deafness to the enemy.
• Su Weiyu killed the Ear Doctor while Xia Shou was incapacitated by pain, and Xia Shou healed his eye and ears afterward.
• Su Weiyu passed Xia Shou two keys, then became deaf and mute as his sight and hearing returned.
• Xia Shou returned the Ophthalmology Key to Su Weiyu and used Alice to see through her eyes.
• Xia Shou wrote his guesses about the next doctor on the floor, and Su Weiyu asked whether he remembered what Liu Guangyao had said.

Xia Shou discovered that his shadow could seal the keys left by the Doctors, suppressing their sensory curses but accelerating his descent into the sea. After sealing the Auditory Key and the Eye Key, he and Su Weiyu opened the door to the third-floor corridor, where they found it strewn with corpses.

• Xia Shou tested the Hearing Key with his shadow and found that it could interact with the key.
• Xia Shou used the Vision Key in the first-floor lock and learned that each key unlocked its section permanently.
• Xia Shou attempted to devour the Auditory Key, but his shadow sealed it instead, restoring hearing while increasing his sinking speed.
• Xia Shou saw that his depth gauge had passed 1,200 meters and warned that sealing more keys would make him sink faster.
• Xia Shou and Su Weiyu returned to the second floor, sealed the Eye Key, and opened the third-floor door onto a corridor full of corpses.

Su Weiyu and Xia Shou encountered a doctor who offered them two vacant chief physician positions and claimed they could not defeat him. Su Weiyu attacked, but her weapons and limbs passed through him, and he wounded her with a scalpel.

• The doctor offered Su Weiyu and Xia Shou keys and positions as chief physicians at the sanatorium.
• Su Weiyu identified the doctor as a nonhuman part of the sanatorium’s rules and attacked him with the Boy Cutter.
• The doctor remained unharmed by Su Weiyu’s rapid sword strike and countered with a scalpel.
• Su Weiyu’s sword, hands, and kick all passed through the doctor, while his scalpel cut her calf.
• Xia Shou realized the doctor controlled both the hand and foot keys, leaving them unable to attack him by ordinary means.

Xia Shou and Su Weiyu discovered that the Hand Doctor could not be harmed by attacks made with hands or feet, so Xia Shou sacrificed his limbs to make the doctor lose control of his own. As Su Weiyu fought the fallen doctor, Xia Shou realized the Heart Doctor was hidden among the corpses—and it rose behind her to attack.

• Xia Shou and Su Weiyu found that weapons and limbs passed harmlessly through the Hand Doctor, leaving them trapped in the narrow corridor.
• Xia Shou asked Su Weiyu to cut off his hands and feet and throw him at the Hand Doctor, causing the doctor's limbs to lose their strength.
• Su Weiyu used Boy Cutter in her mouth to stab the fallen Hand Doctor while Xia Shou endured excruciating pain.
• Xia Shou pieced together that there was no top floor and that the Heart Doctor had been concealed among the corpses.
• The Heart Doctor rose behind Su Weiyu and thrust a scalpel toward her neck.

Xia Shou and Su Weiyu collected the remaining keys, opened the iron doors, and found Idrisu treating a little girl in the ward beyond. Idrisu silently demanded that they leave, leaving them to face the creature and decide how to stop the treatment.

• Xia Shou’s blood attack accidentally helped Su Weiyu dodge the disguised Heart Doctor, and she cut down the corpses and collected the last three keys.
• Su Weiyu retrieved Xia Shou’s severed limbs, and he sealed the Heart Key in his shadow to keep Wang Long alive.
• Su Weiyu used the Hand, Foot, and Heart Keys to open the iron doors after the Eye and Ear locks had already been opened.
• Xia Shou and Su Weiyu entered a ward filled with floating organs and found Idrisu cutting a tumor from a little girl.
• Idrisu silently conveyed that Xia Shou and Su Weiyu should leave while it treated the patient.

Xia Shou attacked Idrisu while it treated Su Weiyu, and his shadow subdued and imprisoned the creature behind a white bone door. With Idrisu sealed and the keys under his control, Xia Shou and Su Weiyu waited as the ward's domain collapsed.

• Su Weiyu asked Xia Shou to stop Idrisu's treatment, and Xia Shou took the Limb Key and tried to pull the creature away from her.
• A surge of guilt stopped Xia Shou from dragging Idrisu away, so he repeatedly slashed it with the Boy Cutter.
• Xia Shou's shadow bound Idrisu, which transformed into a powerful birdlike creature before the shadow swamp subdued it.
• A white bone door rose from Xia Shou's shadow and imprisoned Idrisu, and the keys' effects on Su Weiyu ended.
• Xia Shou learned that Idrisu could cure illnesses at the cost of making another living being of the same species endure the illness, and he gained control of the five keys.
• The ward began to distort as its domain collapsed, and Su Weiyu told Xia Shou to wait for them to return to the original hospital.

Xia Shou returned from the closed domain and learned that the Containment Bureau planned to cover up the hospital disaster. Back at his dorm, he discovered that Su Weiyu had moved into his room, only to realize she had misread his reaction and become mortified.

• Xia Shou woke after escaping the closed domain, and Dr. Modis questioned him until Shangguan Yan took him away.
• Shangguan Yan told Xia Shou that more than fifty people had survived the hospital incident and that the Containment Bureau would alter their memories and demolish the building.
• Shangguan Yan ordered Xia Shou to report for overtime that evening, gave him a gym key card, and sent him back to his dorm.
• Xia Shou found Su Weiyu's pink-sheeted bed in the formerly empty half of his room and learned that she planned to live there.
• Su Weiyu recalled how online answers had convinced her Xia Shou would welcome her move, then panicked when his shock showed she had miscalculated.

Su Weiyu asked to stay with Xia Shou, but Alice’s warning forced him to offer her the empty room next door instead. Later, Xia Shou entered the Deep Sea Dreamscape and spotted a dark outline in the distance.

• Su Weiyu claimed she needed to stay near 678 so she could read to it and keep her belongings from being discarded.
• Xia Shou nearly lost consciousness when Alice tightened her grip around his neck, so he told Su Weiyu to stay next door and offered to watch her things.
• Alice helped Xia Shou undress, washed his clothes, and gave Su Weiyu the bedding before locking her out of the dormitory.
• After locking Idrisu behind the door, Xia Shou stored the five keys in his shadow and swam horizontally through the Deep Sea Dreamscape.
• Xia Shou noticed an even darker outline emerging from the surrounding darkness.

Xia Shou read the Death Record Notebook to learn about the root sea, its rulers, and the dangers of touching its manifestations. He also learned how to weaken Idrisu and potentially devour its power, but the notebook refused to reveal its own goal.

• Xia Shou woke from an ordinary dream and found that the Death Record Notebook’s writing had become clear.
• Xia Shou asked the notebook about the root sea, and it warned him against touching its manifestations and explained that the Blood God ruled the Sea of Unceasing Blood below 1,300 meters.
• The notebook explained that Xia Shou could survive the root sea by rising, preventing himself from sinking, or safely sinking, and warned him to conceal his shadow-devouring ability.
• Xia Shou asked the notebook about its goal, but it refused to answer and told him to ask more worthwhile questions.
• The notebook explained that Alice would open the doors when the time was right and that touching the White Bone Door would reveal Idrisu’s craving and information about maintaining its seal.
• The notebook advised Xia Shou to use the Blood Demon’s desire to slaughter against Idrisu’s desire to heal, weakening both powers so he could potentially devour Idrisu.