Recaps

Yang Jian entered the Caesar Hotel to prepare for its dangers and broadcast the Door-Knocking Ghost’s recording to draw it inside. He left the hotel and waited outside the ghostly fog, which muffled the knocking and contained its spread.

• Yang Jian crossed the ghostly fog, sensing a presence following him, and reached the Caesar Hotel after nearly ten minutes.
• Yang Jian inspected the lobby and concluded that the first floor was relatively safe, while the second and fourth floors posed greater dangers.
• Yang Jian used his Ghost Domain to reach the surveillance room and uploaded the Door-Knocking Ghost’s recording to the hotel broadcast system.
• Yang Jian started the broadcast and quickly evacuated the hotel, letting the knocking curse spread inside while he abandoned plans to rescue Feng Quan and Guo Fan himself.
• Yang Jian confirmed that the ghostly fog blocked the broadcast’s sound, avoided a human-shaped figure approaching through the mist, and left the fog using his Ghost Domain.

Yang Jian returned from the ghostly fog after making preparations and told the others to wait for a signal before acting. His broadcast of the Door-Knocking Ghost’s curse began changing the hotel, but the effects on its deeper dangers remained uncertain.

• Luo Suyī and Xiong Wenwen argued while waiting outside the ghostly fog for Yang Jian to return.
• Yang Jian emerged from the fog and said he had made preparations that might produce results before noon, then led the group to a nearby rooftop to observe.
• The prerecorded knocking played through the hotel’s broadcast system and caused the dead people in the second-floor restaurant to collapse, apparently freeing them from other curses.
• A tall figure carrying a rusty butcher knife walked out of the second-floor kitchen after the knocking began.
• On the nonexistent fourth-floor corridor, the knocking toppled Guo Fan’s memorial tablet and briefly opened the doors to Rooms 13 and 31.

Yang Jian waited outside Caesar Hotel for the Door-Knocking Ghost to sweep away the ghost fog and reduce the hotel’s danger, then led the group inside to search for Zhao Lei. Lin Luomei’s supernatural voice found no sign of Zhao Lei on the first or second floor, leaving the group to continue their search upward.

• Yang Jian explained that the Door-Knocking Ghost’s arrival could carry the hotel’s dangers into its Ghost Domain, and he ordered the group to prepare to enter.
• Yang Jian and the others returned to Caesar Hotel after the ghost fog disappeared, though Yang Jian warned that powerful threats might remain inside.
• Yang Jian ordered Lin Luomei to use her voice to locate Zhao Lei, and she searched the first floor without finding him.
• Lin Luomei searched the second floor and found no Zhao Lei, while Yang Jian questioned where the dangerous ghost he had previously encountered had gone.
• Luo Suyī recalled that Xiong Wenwen had foreseen Yang Jian’s and his own deaths in the hotel, and Yang Jian reassured Xiong Wenwen that his foresight could help them avoid danger.

Yang Jian followed Lin Luomei's voice to the fourth floor, where it found Zhao Lei in a strange Room 13 and encountered another ghost. When Yang Jian's Ghost Domain concealed the route Lin Luomei remembered, he withdrew it, revealing a corridor that had not existed in the hotel.

• Lin Luomei's voice searched the fourth floor and received a reply from Zhao Lei inside a strange Room 13, but a tall black figure blocked its retreat.
• Lin Luomei reported that her voice had encountered another ghost, so Yang Jian led the group up to the fourth floor.
• Yang Jian used his Ghost Domain to guide the group through rooms with unfamiliar numbers as Lin Luomei directed them toward Zhao Lei.
• The path Lin Luomei described ended at a window, and Yang Jian concluded the route was hidden by his Ghost Domain.
• Yang Jian withdrew his Ghost Domain and shone his flashlight ahead, revealing a deep corridor where the window had been.

Yang Jian and the others searched the corridor for Room 13, where they hoped to find Zhao Lei, while a ghost wandered nearby. After Yang Jian opened the room with his Ghost Shadow, another ghost stopped at the intersection behind them, trapping the group in danger.

• Yang Jian led Luo Suyī, Lin Luomei, and Xiong Wenwen through the corridor, where they found that the guest-room doors could not be opened by force.
• At the first intersection, they saw fresh, disorderly black footprints, and Yang Jian hurried on toward Room 13.
• Yang Jian matched the brass number plate to the unmarked door and used his Ghost Shadow to open it.
• Luo Suyī spotted a rotting, stiff figure walking toward the intersection, where it stopped motionless as he shouted Yang Jian's name.

Yang Jian led the group into Room 13 to avoid a ghost in the corridor, then asked Xiong Wenwen to use his precognition to check the room and their danger. Xiong Wenwen foresaw faceless people in the bedroom and his own unexplained death, leaving Yang Jian uncertain what caused it.

• Luo Suyī spotted a decaying ghost at the corridor crossroads, and Yang Jian judged that it had not yet targeted them.
• Yang Jian opened Room 13 and led Xiong Wenwen, Lin Luomei, and Luo Suyī inside to escape the ghost.
• Yang Jian asked Xiong Wenwen to predict what would happen in the room, while reprimanding Luo Suyī for worsening the group's fear.
• Xiong Wenwen foresaw an empty bathroom and faceless people in the bedroom, then saw his own head fall from his neck and cried for Yang Jian to save him.
• Xiong Wenwen described his vision, and Yang Jian questioned why he had died when no other ghost appeared.

Xiong Wenwen foresaw that he, Luo Suyī, and Lin Luomei would die in the hotel room within minutes, while Yang Jian would survive. Yang Jian rejected the prediction as unreliable and began investigating the room and the ghost outside before their predicted deaths.

• Xiong Wenwen predicted that he would die at 2:10, then saw Luo Suyī die at 2:15 and Lin Luomei die soon after, all without seeing a ghost enter the room.
• Xiong Wenwen foresaw Yang Jian escaping alive, but Yang Jian said the prediction had gone wrong and ordered him to stop using his ability.
• Yang Jian gave Lin Luomei the ghost candle and lighter, then told Luo Suyī to watch the ghost outside while he investigated the bedroom.
• Luo Suyī reluctantly opened the guest room door to monitor the ghost as Yang Jian headed into the bedroom to find and restrain the source ghost.

Yang Jian searched the bedroom for the ghost that had taken the victims’ faces and found Zhao Lei alive but faceless, while suspecting the missing faces were in Room 31. As time ran short, Luo Suyī spotted the corridor ghost turn back toward them and warned Yang Jian to decide whether to retreat.

• Yang Jian entered the bedroom and found many people without facial features, but no sign of the ghost carrying Tong Qian’s smiling face.
• Yang Jian recognized Zhao Lei by his build and clothes, found him alive with a mismatched human face, and tore the face away with the ghost shadow.
• Yang Jian failed to find Zhao Lei’s original face and considered whether the ghost had taken the faces to Room 31, despite the danger and dwindling time.
• Luo Suyī looked into the corridor and saw the tall ghost walking away, then watched it stop, turn around, and approach them.
• Luo Suyī warned Yang Jian that the ghost was likely connected to Xiong Wenwen’s predicted death and urged him to decide whether they should leave.

Yang Jian led the group away from the approaching corpse ghost while analyzing its killing pattern and the rusty machete it carried. When Xiong Wenwen’s predicted time of death arrived, the ghost swung the machete, and the Ghost Candle nearly burned away instantly, though Xiong Wenwen survived.

• Yang Jian told Luo Suyī that the ghost outside might be connected to the Head Balloon Incident and led the group out with Zhao Lei’s corpse.
• Yang Jian identified the approaching figure as the corpse ghost he had encountered earlier and noticed it carried a rusty woodcutter’s machete.
• Yang Jian concluded that the ghost killed according to a specific condition and likely targeted one person at a time as the group retreated.
• At 2:10, Xiong Wenwen’s predicted time of death arrived, and the corpse ghost stopped and raised its machete to his neck level.
• The corpse ghost swung its machete through the air, causing the Ghost Candle to flare and burn down to less than one-tenth of its length, while Xiong Wenwen remained alive.

After the Ghost Candle nearly burned out blocking the ghost’s attack, Yang Jian led the group toward Room 31 while trying to discover the ghost’s killing pattern. Xiong Wenwen foresaw that Luo Suyī would still die at 2:15, even inside Yang Jian’s Ghost Domain, leaving them with little time and no clear protection.

• The Ghost Candle’s flame extinguished, and Yang Jian led everyone deeper into the hotel as the motionless ghost remained behind them.
• Yang Jian told the group the candle could not protect them again and urged them to find the ghost’s killing pattern before the next attack.
• Yang Jian reached Room 31 and asked Xiong Wenwen to use his precognition to test what would happen next.
• Xiong Wenwen foresaw that the ghost would skip him after its failed attack and kill Luo Suyī at 2:15.
• Yang Jian covered Luo Suyī with his Ghost Domain, but Xiong Wenwen foresaw that Luo Suyī would die inside it.

Yang Jian tried to identify the tall corpse’s killing pattern before Luo Suyī’s predicted death, while Xiong Wenwen’s visions warned that directly restraining the ghost would kill Yang Jian. Yang Jian’s attempt to trip the corpse with the corridor carpet unexpectedly changed its actions and saved Luo Suyī.

• Yang Jian deduced that the corpse’s sudden stops marked its attacks, but he could not identify what caused it to target someone.
• Xiong Wenwen predicted that Yang Jian would die and the Ghost Rope would break if he tried to bind the corpse.
• As Luo Suyī’s time ran out, Yang Jian watched the corpse approach and rejected Luo Suyī’s plan to attack it and risk a ghost revival.
• Yang Jian yanked the corridor carpet to trip the corpse, but its heavy body kept walking.
• Xiong Wenwen announced that Luo Suyī had survived because the corpse did not stop to kill him.

Yang Jian discovered that the ghost killed by completely covering a person's footprints with its own. After he flipped the carpet to hide their prints, Xiong Wenwen survived the next predicted attack, though the ghost continued wandering the corridor.

• Yang Jian suspected the carpet's footprints were connected to the ghost's killing pattern after Luo Suyī survived when the carpet was moved.
• Xiong Wenwen foresaw that he would die again within two minutes, and Yang Jian used his Ghost Domain to recreate their earlier passage through the corridor.
• Yang Jian showed that the ghost's footprint had completely covered Xiong Wenwen's earlier footprint before it attacked him, striking the spot where he had left the print.
• Yang Jian explained that merely stepping on a footprint was not enough; the ghost's footprint had to cover it completely.
• Yang Jian flipped the carpet so their footprints were on its reverse side, and Xiong Wenwen remained unharmed as the ghost continued wandering.

Yang Jian and the others entered Room 31 to escape the footprint-stepping ghost and found the victims’ faces displayed on the walls. Seeing Tong Qian’s face among them, Yang Jian realized the Tong Qian he had sent to the hospital was actually the ghost, while the real Tong Qian had been reduced to a face on the wall.

• Yang Jian ordered Luo Suyī and Lin Luomei to cover their footprints, then led the group into Room 30 to escape the approaching ghost.
• Yang Jian found Room 31 brightly lit, with hundreds of faces attached to bloodstained newspapers, and concluded the hotel was a trap that used footprints to kill anyone searching for the ghost.
• Xiong Wenwen spotted Tong Qian’s face on the wall, leaving Yang Jian to question the identity of the Tong Qian he had sent to the hospital.
• Yang Jian recalled Tong Qian’s constant smile and realized the ghost had taken Tong Qian’s identity, while the real Tong Qian’s face remained on the wall.

Yang Jian found that the hotel room contained no ghost and suspected the ghost had taken Tong Qian’s identity. After Luo Suyī triggered an attack from a supernatural newspaper, Yang Jian restrained it and recovered the Ghost Newspaper, but realized the human skin paper may have led him toward a fatal trap involving the Ghost Faces.

• Yang Jian ordered Luo Suyī to remove the faces and red newspapers from the walls while Lin Luomei and Xiong Wenwen rested.
• Yang Jian failed to contact Headquarters and concluded that the hotel was inside a supernatural space and Guo Fan’s distress message had been bait.
• Luo Suyī found a newspaper covered in Zhao Lei’s handwriting, and it attacked him when he approached.
• Yang Jian caught the attacking newspaper and used the Ghost Shadow to suppress it, causing the other faces and newspapers to lose their supernatural power.
• Yang Jian wrapped the Ghost Newspaper and stored it in a golden container, then suspected the human skin paper had misled him into giving the ghost both Ghost Faces.

Yang Jian led the survivors out of Room 31 using his Ghost Domain, removed the hotel’s carpets and floor tiles to prevent the footprint-killing ghost from finding targets, and prepared to seal the hotel. Feng Quan then called from the fourth floor, revealing that he was still alive and asking Yang Jian to take him along.

• Yang Jian decided to leave Room 31 and postponed dealing with the ghost outside, though he planned to trap it in the hotel and keep the matter confidential.
• Yang Jian used his Ghost Domain to take the group out without leaving footprints and removed the human faces from Room 31.
• Yang Jian spread his Ghost Domain across the hotel and took away its carpets and first-floor lobby tiles to deny the ghost any footprints.
• Feng Quan called Yang Jian and said his condition was poor, asking to be taken along.
• Yang Jian checked the locator, found Feng Quan on the fourth floor, and realized he had wrongly assumed Feng Quan was dead.

Yang Jian received Feng Quan’s call from inside the Caesar Hotel and learned that a hatchet-wielding ghost had nearly killed him. After sending Xiong Wenwen, Lin Luomei, and Luo Suyī to safety, Yang Jian returned into the ghost fog to rescue Feng Quan while planning to test a bloodstained newspaper on him.

• Feng Quan told Yang Jian that the tall corpse with a hatchet had attacked him and that the hotel seemed to lure Ghost Tamers to their deaths.
• Zhao Jianguo said the Head Balloon Incident in Z City had stopped causing deaths and asked Yang Jian to rescue Feng Quan.
• Yang Jian agreed to rescue Feng Quan after first sending Xiong Wenwen, Lin Luomei, and Luo Suyī out of the ghost fog.
• Yang Jian promised Lin Luomei his slot for controlling a second ghost and persuaded Luo Suyī to help with his next operation.
• Yang Jian left Zhao Lei’s body with the others, warned them that the ghost might be Tong Qian, and reentered the ghost fog with the bloodstained newspaper.

Yang Jian found Feng Quan injured in the haunted hotel and learned that Grave Soil was consuming him. While testing a method to control two ghost faces, Yang Jian was buried when Feng Quan's altered memories triggered an attack, but he revealed he had escaped through his Ghost Domain.

• Yang Jian located Feng Quan in Room Five on the fourth floor, where Feng Quan lay severed in half and explained that Grave Soil was eroding him.
• Yang Jian cut off their phone connections and said he planned to conduct an experiment on Feng Quan as insurance for saving him.
• Yang Jian sent the Headless Ghost Shadow into Feng Quan to suppress the ghost inside him, but Feng Quan accused him of betrayal and attacked.
• Feng Quan's Grave Soil rapidly spread, buried Yang Jian, and formed a burial mound with Feng Quan's head exposed.
• Yang Jian's voice revealed that he had survived in his Ghost Domain, and he concluded that Feng Quan's memories had been altered by a ghost after Feng Quan mentioned Zhao Lei.

Yang Jian rescued Feng Quan from the Grave Soil and used the Ghost Newspaper to remove his face and inspect his altered memories. The chapter ended with Yang Jian discovering that Feng Quan’s memory changes were incomplete.

• Feng Quan’s Grave Soil attack failed, and he began undergoing ghost revival as Yang Jian prepared to restrain him.
• Yang Jian looped Wang Yue’s Ghost Rope around Feng Quan and used the last of his Ghost Candle to suppress the grave mound long enough to pull him free.
• Yang Jian used his Ghost Shadow to temporarily suppress Feng Quan’s revival and covered Feng Quan’s face with the Ghost Newspaper.
• Yang Jian tore the newspaper away with Feng Quan’s face attached, then found Zhao Lei’s incomplete instructions written beside it.

Yang Jian altered Feng Quan’s memories with the ghost newspaper and used his Headless Ghost Shadow to reattach Feng Quan’s face. Feng Quan woke and called him “Brother Leg,” confirming the alteration worked, and Yang Jian prepared to deal with Tong Qian next.

• Yang Jian erased the ghost newspaper’s previous writing and implanted memories that made Feng Quan grateful and loyal to him, adding “Brother Leg” as a test.
• Yang Jian discovered the ghost newspaper could remove Feng Quan’s face but could not put it back, so he used the Headless Ghost Shadow to reattach it.
• Feng Quan woke after about two minutes and called Yang Jian “Brother Leg,” confirming the memory alteration had succeeded.
• Yang Jian left with Feng Quan and decided to deal with Tong Qian, the ghost in Z City.

Yang Jian restrained the ghost in the fog and reassembled Feng Quan’s body, then prepared to see whether Feng Quan could survive without the ghost shadow suppressing his revival. The chapter left Feng Quan facing a dangerous test as Yang Jian withdrew the shadow.

• Yang Jian learned that Guo Fan was still missing and chose to leave him to fend for himself.
• Feng Quan explained that movement attracted the fog ghost, so Yang Jian walked through the mist to lure it out.
• Yang Jian spotted the fog ghost approaching and used the ghost shadow to seize it, dispersing the surrounding ghost fog.
• Yang Jian reassembled Feng Quan’s body and warned that the Grave Soil and fog ghost could still revive.
• Yang Jian retrieved the ghost shadow so Feng Quan could try to survive on his own.

Yang Jian tried to restore balance between the Grave Soil and ghost fog inside Feng Quan before the two ghosts could kill him. Feng Quan survived after Yang Jian used a white ghost candle to draw out part of the Grave Soil, and Yang Jian imprisoned the separated portion in a gold body bag.

• Yang Jian watched Feng Quan struggle as the Grave Soil overwhelmed the ghost fog and prepared to imprison him if the balance failed.
• Feng Quan urged Yang Jian to restrain him as the Grave Soil buried his body and filled his eyes.
• Yang Jian lit a white ghost candle, drawing the Grave Soil out of Feng Quan and giving the two ghosts a brief chance to reach equilibrium.
• Feng Quan regained balance and movement, and Yang Jian extinguished the candle before the Grave Soil could return to him.
• Yang Jian blocked the separated Grave Soil with his ghost shadow and sealed it in a gold body bag.

Yang Jian led a team toward Third Central Hospital to contain the ghost disguised as Tong Qian, while keeping Caesar Hotel sealed. The ghost’s laughter reached Headquarters through a phone call, confirming that the threat had spread beyond Z City.

• Yang Jian emerged from Caesar Hotel with Feng Quan and said the team would head to Third Central Hospital to contain the ghost.
• Yang Jian explained that the ghost could alter memories and had obtained Tong Qian’s ghost face, then warned the team to avoid its laughter.
• Feng Quan reported Yang Jian’s suspicion that Tong Qian was a ghost to Zhao Jianguo, while Yang Jian insisted they act before the ghost changed identities.
• Zhao Jianguo asked a liaison officer to contact Third Central Hospital, but a strange laugh came through the call and killed her.
• Zhao Jianguo ordered everyone to leave the communications room and realized that the paranormal threat had reached Headquarters.

After a supernatural phone call killed communications staff at Headquarters, Liu Xiaoyu was shaken but regained contact with Yang Jian. Yang Jian led a team into Z City's Third Central Hospital to confront Tong Qian, whose laughter filled the building as his Ghost Domain spread.

• A strange phone call triggered a supernatural invasion in Headquarters' communications room, killing several operators and leaving Liu Xiaoyu horrified.
• Liu Xiaoyu rushed to reconnect with Yang Jian, who restored communications as he prepared to confront Tong Qian.
• Yang Jian told Feng Quan, Luo Suyī, and Lin Luomei that they would enter the hospital together and use his Ghost Domain to reach Tong Qian.
• A smiling security guard revealed that the ghost knew they had arrived, so Yang Jian enveloped the hospital in his Ghost Domain.
• Tong Qian watched Yang Jian from a ward window and laughed throughout the hospital as Yang Jian prepared for their final confrontation.

Yang Jian and his companions subdued Tong Qian, removed and sealed her ghost face, and confined her body in a body bag. They reported the Z City incident as over, though Yang Jian still did not know what had stopped the Head Balloon Incident.

• Feng Quan heard Tong Qian's ghost face laughing, and Yang Jian tracked the sound to a ward on the top floor.
• Yang Jian, Feng Quan, and Luo Suyī attacked Tong Qian with three supernatural forces and stopped her laughter and movement.
• Yang Jian tried to remove Tong Qian's smiling face with the red newspaper, but it failed.
• Yang Jian used his ghost shadow to remove the ghost face and sealed it in a gold box.
• Feng Quan put Tong Qian's still-active body into a body bag, and Yang Jian asked him to contact Zhao Jianguo.
• Yang Jian considered the smiling face, crying face, and red newspaper he had gathered, but decided to think later about using them to create a Ghost Tamer.

After Tong Qian’s ghost was restrained, Yang Jian took refuge outside Z City and considered using her preserved face to bring her back in Zhao Lei’s body. He was left questioning whether to carry out the taboo rebirth.

• Cao Yanhua reprimanded Zhao Jianguo for overlooking Yang Jian’s warning, which led to thirty-two operators being killed, and arranged for Shen Liang to take custody of the restrained ghost.
• Yang Jian left Xiong Wenwen to be picked up by Headquarters and went to Luo Suyī’s villa outside Z City to stay while he dealt with the ghost face.
• Lin Luomei considered calling Wang Xiaoming about the chance to control a second ghost while Luo Suyī and Huang Fei celebrated their survival.
• Yang Jian studied the faces taken by the ghost and wondered whether attaching a human face to a ghost’s body could let someone control it.
• Yang Jian decided that Tong Qian’s face could be attached to Zhao Lei’s still-living, faceless body, but he hesitated over whether Tong Qian would accept the taboo rebirth.