Chapter Summaries

Lin Yang realized he had been transported with his classmates to a deadly world of false people and discovered that he was the only seer. After hiding in a storage closet, he suspected his classmate Li Wei and used his ability to check Li Wei’s identity, but the result was not yet revealed.

• An announcement declared that the survivors were trapped in level-Behind with false people among them, and Lin Yang saw a dried human head outside the classroom.
• A second announcement mentioned a seer, and Lin Yang received an interface identifying him as the only seer and giving him the power to check identities or obtain survival information.
• Lin Yang slipped into a storage closet to get away from the crowd, but his classmate Li Wei followed him inside and blocked his way out.
• Lin Yang noticed that Li Wei was acting unlike the quiet classmate he remembered and checked his identity, but the result had not appeared yet.

Lin Yang recognized that Li Wei was a Faceling and escaped into the locked storeroom, where he watched the trapped crowd grow hungry and panic. Outside, a suited man claimed he knew who the prophet was and declared himself the only prophet.

• Lin Yang tested Li Wei with questions about their school days, then noticed his unnatural smile and evasive attempts to lure him aside.
• Lin Yang pretended to agree to team up, let Li Wei leave the storeroom, then shut the door and latched himself inside.
• Lin Yang watched through a peephole as the crowd failed to break through the doors and windows and began to fear they would starve.
• A middle-aged man in glasses told the crowd that following the prophet was their way out, while a fat man dismissed the Faceling warning and threatened a young man.
• The middle-aged man announced that he was the only prophet, as several people in the crowd reacted with eager, narrowed eyes.

Zhang Lei claimed to be the Seer and accused a short man of being a Faceling, winning the frightened group’s trust. At midnight, Lin Yang’s prophecy refreshed, and he chose to receive survival information instead of checking someone’s identity.

• Zhang Lei claimed his check identified the short man as a Faceling, and the group tied the man up.
• The fat man and others rallied around Zhang Lei, who introduced himself and was called Brother Zhang.
• Lin Yang watched through the peephole and suspected Zhang Lei was a Faceling or an ordinary person lying about being the Seer.
• As darkness fell, the classroom lights failed and the group grew more afraid.
• When his prophecy refreshed at midnight, Lin Yang chose to receive a random piece of survival information.

Lin Yang found a hidden refrigerator stocked with food and ate while the people trapped in the classroom grew hungry. Watching through the peephole, he noticed a motionless figure whose arm was silently stretching toward the crowd.

• Lin Yang followed the intel, found a key beneath a loose brick, and unlocked a concealed door beside the storage room.
• Lin Yang discovered that the hidden room was a glowing refrigerator stocked with bread, milk, eggs, water, and ham sausages.
• Lin Yang ate some bread and milk, then put the remaining food away to ration it.
• Lin Yang watched the hungry people in the classroom, where Zhang Lei slept while others gathered around him.
• Lin Yang spotted a motionless figure in a dark corner whose arm was slowly extending toward the crowd.

Lin Yang and the others spent a fearful night after the loudspeaker warned that Facelings were more likely to attack at night. At dawn, Lin Yang woke to a scream and found two corpses in the classroom.

• The loudspeaker warned that Facelings were more likely to hurt people at night, throwing the classroom into panic.
• A young man urged everyone to stay together and wait for daybreak, while Zhang Lei told a frightened girl he had already used his Seer check for the day.
• Lin Yang noticed a figure approaching Zhang Lei, then barricaded himself in the storage room and fell asleep.
• A scream woke Lin Yang early the next morning, and he smelled blood as he looked through the peephole.
• Lin Yang saw two corpses on the classroom floor while the survivors huddled in despair.

After Zhang Lei, the Seer, and another person were found dead, the classroom panicked and argued over how to identify the Faceling. The fat man moved to kill a short man whom Zhang Lei had accused, but someone shouted for him to stop.

• Lin Yang and the others found Zhang Lei and another person dead in the classroom.
• The young man in the dark gray hoodie urged everyone to find the Faceling, while the fat man blamed him for the Seer's death.
• A ponytailed girl said Zhang Lei had identified the short man as a Faceling, and the short man denied it.
• The fat man armed himself with a knife and insisted the short man had to die, while the young man tried to shield him.
• The fat man shoved the young man aside and raised his knife over the short man, but a voice from the storage room shouted for him to stop.

Lin Yang revealed himself as the real seer and accused the fat man of being a Faceling, turning the classroom against him. As the crowd moved to kill the fat man, Lin Yang ordered everyone to stop and asked whether they saw things clearly now.

• Lin Yang emerged from the storage room and claimed he was the only real seer.
• Lin Yang explained that he had hidden because Zhang Lei might have been a Faceling impersonating the seer.
• Lin Yang said his first check showed Zhang Lei was an ordinary person, suggesting Zhang Lei had been a fake seer.
• Lin Yang revealed that his second check identified the fat man as a Faceling.
• The fat man denied the accusation, but Lin Yang challenged him with his own claim that it was better to kill the wrong person than let a Faceling go.
• The crowd advanced on the fat man, and Lin Yang stopped them and asked if they saw things clearly now.

Lin Yang stopped the survivors from killing Chen Yu on suspicion and kept his supposed seer identity hidden, but others took over his storage room. As hunger and despair mounted, a loudspeaker warned that the Facelings would enter a slaughter state if they outnumbered the survivors.

• Lin Yang slapped the fat man and stopped him from killing Chen Yu, explaining that reckless accusations would turn the survivors against one another.
• Lin Yang helped Chen Yu up and denied being a seer, while a watching figure's sharp gaze softened into regret.
• Lin Yang found that others had taken over the storage room and left rather than fight them, keeping the refrigerator key and his food hidden.
• As noon passed, the survivors grew increasingly hungry and distressed, and they turned to Lin Yang for help.
• The loudspeaker warned that the Facelings would stop disguising themselves and enter the slaughter state if they outnumbered the survivors.

After the announcement warned that more Facelings remained than survivors, Lin Yang decided he had to keep the remaining people alive and took charge of the classroom. Most agreed to follow him, and he ordered them to force the men occupying the storage room out.

• The survivors realized that twenty-two more people could die before they were all killed, and Lin Yang concluded that they needed to stay together to survive.
• Lin Yang promised to keep the group alive if everyone listened to him, and he said he would die too if he failed.
• The fat man backed Lin Yang and intimidated the tall, skinny man, while most of the survivors raised their hands to show they would follow him.
• The ponytailed girl asked whether Lin Yang would make the girls sleep with him, and he said no.
• Lin Yang pointed at the storage room and ordered the group to make its occupants leave.

Lin Yang fought off a group led by a muscular man, then revealed food from the storage-room refrigerator and distributed it to the starving people. After night approached, he pointed at Li Wei and declared him a Faceling, ordering the others to kill him.

• Lin Yang promised food to anyone who joined the fight, and his group defeated the muscular man and his followers.
• Lin Yang entered the storage room alone, took bread and drinks from a refrigerator, and showed the food to the crowd.
• The fat man protected Lin Yang and helped organize a line as Lin Yang distributed food to the group.
• The muscular man tried to take food but backed down when Lin Yang's people confronted him.
• As night approached, Lin Yang pointed at Li Wei and said he was a Faceling, ordering everyone to kill him.

Lin Yang accused Li Wei of being a Faceling and used the blood on Li Wei’s hand to persuade Jiang Yu'an to examine it. Her test dated the blood to about eighteen hours earlier, and Li Wei’s claim that Zhang Lei died at four in the morning left the room stunned.

• Lin Yang accused Li Wei of being a Faceling, but Li Wei argued that he had fought alongside the group and challenged Lin Yang to prove it.
• Lin Yang pointed out dried blood on Li Wei’s hand, while Li Wei claimed he had gotten it during the fight and others also had blood on them.
• Lin Yang asked his former classmate Jiang Yu'an, a forensic pathologist, to test the blood, and she agreed.
• Jiang Yu'an estimated that the blood had been on Li Wei’s hand for about eighteen hours, prompting the group to call him a Faceling.
• Li Wei protested that Zhang Lei had died at four in the morning, and Lin Yang repeated his claim with a sneer.

Li Wei was exposed as a Faceling and killed after attacking Jiang Yu'an. Lin Yang organized the survivors as they disposed of the bodies, leaving the group aware that Facelings could be killed but still posed a threat.

• Li Wei's grotesque transformation revealed him as a Faceling, and he lunged at Jiang Yu'an.
• Lin Yang restrained Li Wei, and the survivors beat and stabbed him until he stopped moving.
• The loudspeaker announced that 33 survivors and five Facelings remained, and Lin Yang explained that Facelings might be weaker in crowds.
• Lin Yang led several men in forcing Zhang Lei's body, the other victim's body, and Li Wei's corpse through a small vent into the alley.
• The survivors cleaned the classroom, while some regarded Lin Yang with fear and admiration.

Lin Yang organized the survivors into night-watch groups while keeping himself out of the rotation and securing the storage room. He ended the night alone with the food he had secretly reserved for himself.

• Jiang Yu'an asked Lin Yang why he had trusted her to examine the corpse, and he explained that he had considered the possibility that she was a Faceling.
• As darkness fell, Lin Yang counted twenty-four survivors in his group and noted that five Facelings were still hidden among them.
• Lin Yang assigned the survivors to six groups of four, with one person in each group staying awake at a time.
• Lin Yang refused to join a night-watch group and went into the storage room, where he barricaded the door.
• Lin Yang opened the hidden refrigerator and ate bread and milk from the supplies he had kept for himself.

Lin Yang watched the classroom as the others slept, noticing that one group was relying on Shen Cheng and the others to keep watch. Just as Lin Yang was about to sleep, a strange eye appeared at the peephole and stared directly at him.

• Lin Yang observed Shen Cheng, the fat man, and four others keeping watch while the muscular man's group slept without taking a turn.
• The muscular man told his skinny underling that they could rely on the other group to watch for them, and his group settled down.
• Lin Yang looked away from the group and prepared to sleep as moonlight filled the classroom.
• A strange eye with a vertical pupil appeared at the peephole and stared at Lin Yang.
• Lin Yang recoiled and shouted, asking who was there.

Lin Yang learned where to find a key that could open the classroom door, but two people from the muscular man's group were found dead in the morning. As Lin Yang questioned the night watchers, the fatty remembered seeing the crew-cut man move during the night.

• Lin Yang resisted the urge to open the classroom door at night and chose information from the Seer system, learning that a key was hidden beneath the third red brick under the podium.
• Lin Yang woke to a scream and found two men from the muscular man's group dead, with wounds like those inflicted by a Faceling.
• After the system announced that 31 people and five Facelings remained, the muscular man blamed Lin Yang's group for failing to keep watch.
• Lin Yang questioned the six people who had been on watch, and the crew-cut man reported seeing a figure appear and vanish in the muscular man's camp.
• The fatty recalled seeing the crew-cut man move around two in the morning.

Lin Yang calmed the group after the Faceling’s attack, then directed everyone to search for a way out. He found a hidden key beneath the lectern and opened the classroom door, leaving the group facing the unknown outside.

• Lin Yang stopped the argument over the flat-topped man and reminded everyone that the watch system had kept his side alive.
• Zhang Hao accused Lin Yang’s group of being unable to identify the Faceling, while Lin Yang redirected their attention to finding food and a way out.
• Lin Yang urged everyone to search for a key and eventually uncovered one beneath a loose tile under the lectern.
• Zhang Hao doubted the key would work, but Lin Yang inserted it into the classroom door and unlocked it.
• Lin Yang opened the door as the others watched with fear and anticipation.

Lin Yang and the others escaped the classroom into a ruined school, where he realized they were not in human society and warned everyone not to leave the grounds. Several people ignored him, and a monster dragged the tall, skinny man into the fog, leaving the others terrified.

• Lin Yang led the survivors out of the classroom and saw the ruined school, the fog, and the closed gate beyond the courtyard.
• Most of the survivors ignored Lin Yang's warnings and rushed downstairs to find a way out, while Jiang Yu'an and Shen Cheng stayed with him.
• The broadcast warned players not to leave the school grounds and reported 31 survivors and five Facelings.
• Zhang Hao sent the tall, skinny man over the gate to check what lay beyond it.
• A tentacle-like monster burst from the fog, seized the tall, skinny man, and dragged him away as the crowd shouted that there was a monster.

Lin Yang revealed that the school was outside human society and rallied the frightened survivors after a monster appeared outside. The chapter ended with most of the group choosing to follow him, including the elegantly dressed woman who had been with Zhang Hao.

• Zhang Hao fell from the ladder after seeing a monster outside, and the crowd panicked at the entrance.
• Lin Yang explained that the strange glass, empty grounds, oversized handprints, Facelings, broadcast, and fog showed they were no longer in human society, while Jiang Yu'an said the school was their only accessible area.
• A young man in a gray tank top blamed Lin Yang for leading them outside, and Lin Yang punched and kicked him before insisting that he had never promised they would be safe.
• The crew-cut man asked Lin Yang what to do, and Lin Yang said he could keep them alive if they followed his instructions.
• Jiang Yu'an defended Lin Yang's actions, and more than a dozen people pledged to follow him.
• The elegantly dressed woman left Zhang Hao's side and told Lin Yang, "I'll follow you too!"

Lin Yang took Liu Yan into his group and warned everyone not to obstruct him, but a gruesome murder in the corridor revealed that Facelings could kill during the day. The girl who found the body then identified the buzz-cut man as someone she had seen nearby.

• Liu Yan joined Lin Yang’s group after claiming Zhang Hao had forced her to follow him, and the fatty drove Zhang Hao away when he objected.
• Lin Yang warned the twenty-six people in his group not to get in his way or he would kill them.
• A girl screamed after finding a man’s head torn from his body near the equipment room, and Shen Cheng wondered how he had returned upstairs.
• Lin Yang inspected the corpse and ordered everyone to stay together, avoid corners, and keep their eyes on one another.
• Lin Yang concluded that Facelings could kill at any time, not only at night, and the girl who found the body pointed out the buzz-cut man as someone she had seen.

Lin Yang stopped the crowd from lynching Liu Jialiang, whom a witness had seen beside the latest victim, and ordered him to stay close. After the broadcast confirmed 29 survivors and five Facelings, Lin Yang organized the hungry survivors into groups to search for food.

• A girl accused Liu Jialiang of standing beside the body, and Fatty grabbed him and called him a Faceling.
• Lin Yang stopped Fatty from attacking Liu Jialiang and forbade accusations or killings without proof.
• Lin Yang questioned Liu Jialiang, then ordered him to stay by his side while they searched for the Facelings.
• The broadcast announced that 29 survivors and five Facelings remained, and Lin Yang noted that two people had died.
• Fatty asked to look for food, and Lin Yang told the survivors to split into five groups to search.