Chapter Summaries

Yang Jian removed the Ghost Infant from Zhang Liqin and sealed it in a gold box, then learned of another possible pregnancy linked to the supernatural threat spreading through Dachang City. The city’s darkening sky and a second infant’s cry suggested that the larger incident was beginning to unfold.

• Yang Jian restored control over his arm and used his Ghost Domain to reach into Zhang Liqin and pull out the Ghost Infant.
• The Ghost Infant tried to escape, so Yang Jian pinned it with a dried finger and sealed both in a gold box wrapped in gold foil.
• Yang Jian questioned Zhang Liqin about how the Ghost Infant entered her body, and she recalled that an infertile neighbor had recently become pregnant.
• Yang Jian warned Zhang Liqin to keep the incident secret and said he would investigate the neighbor, fearing the city could be in danger.
• Yang Jian noticed the sky over Dachang City turning an eerie blue-black, while an infant cried out in a dark residential complex.

Liu Xiaoyu documented Zhang Liqin’s Ghost Infant possession and listened to Yang Jian’s communications as he stayed with Zhang Liqin. At seven in the morning, Yang Jian noticed that Dachang City remained dark, suggesting the supernatural incident was about to erupt.

• Liu Xiaoyu recorded Zhang Liqin’s possession by the Ghost Infant and filed the report for the captain, noting that Yang Jian was investigating a suspected second case.
• Liu Xiaoyu overheard Yang Jian and Zhang Liqin being intimate, then continued monitoring after a colleague explained the psychological strain Ghost Tamers endured.
• At 7:20 a.m., gunshots woke Yang Jian and Zhang Liqin in a villa in Guangjiang Residential Area.
• Yang Jian saw that the sun had not risen and Dachang City remained shrouded in darkness, and he feared the supernatural incident was beginning.

With Dachang City plunged into unnatural darkness, Yang Jian warned Zhang Xiangui that the paranormal crisis could kill most or all of the city’s residents. After threatening Zhang Xiangui’s insulting sister and agreeing to shelter the family, Yang Jian left with Zhang Wei to practice shooting while the city’s fate remained uncertain.

• Yang Jian saw that Dachang City was still dark after sunrise and told Jiang Yan and Zhang Xiangui that a large-scale paranormal incident was likely underway.
• Zhang Xiangui brought his relatives to Yang Jian’s residence and asked him to protect them, but his sister insulted Yang Jian and questioned Zhang Xiangui’s investment in him.
• Yang Jian lifted Zhang Xiangui’s sister by the throat, released her, and allowed the family to stay in the residential area while warning that no more than thirty percent of Dachang City might survive.
• Yang Jian told Zhang Xiangui that the worst outcome was the city’s complete destruction and that he was among its strongest Ghost Tamers.
• Zhang Wei showed Yang Jian a pistol he had found, and Yang Jian brought out weapons before leaving with him to practice shooting.

Yang Jian practiced shooting with Zhang Wei, then learned that 120 people in Dachang City were carrying Ghost Infants and was summoned to an emergency meeting. He headed to Dachang City Stadium with the human-skin paper, while Zhang Wei prepared to livestream.

• Yang Jian practiced shooting, but Zhang Wei demonstrated uncanny accuracy and teased him about his poor marksmanship.
• Liu Xiaoyu summoned Yang Jian to Professor Wang’s emergency meeting at Dachang City Stadium and said the Ghost Infant cases were widespread.
• Liu Xiaoyu reported 120 known Ghost Infant victims, including 40 men, and warned that the true number could be higher.
• Yang Jian told Zhang Wei and his family to stay in their residential complex, then encouraged Zhang Wei to livestream the situation.
• Yang Jian gathered his supplies, took the human-skin paper, and left for the meeting.

Yang Jian joined Dachang City's Ghost Tamers for a meeting where Wang Xiaoming explained that Zhou Zheng's Ghost Infant had grown and multiplied. The confirmed count reached 138, and Wang Xiaoming sent the group to capture one for research.

• Yang Jian arrived at the stadium meeting and warned Ye Feng and He Chuan to set aside their disputes while they dealt with the crisis.
• Zhang Han greeted Yang Jian, while He Chuan threatened him over Wang Xiaoqiang's death before Ye Feng and the others stopped him from starting a fight.
• Wang Xiaoming linked the incident to Zhou Zheng's death and showed how the Ghost Infant had changed from an infant into a child and then an adult.
• Wang Xiaoming presented evidence that the Ghost Infant ate people and had appeared inside pregnant women as well.
• Wang Xiaoming reported 138 confirmed Ghost Infants and ordered the group to capture one for his research.

Wang Xiaoming recruited the Ghost Tamers to capture growing Ghost Infants for research into the Starvation Ghost Incident, while Yang Jian offered a specimen he had already captured. The group prepared to split into teams, and Yang Jian secured Dachang City’s remaining gold reserves as payment for his supplies.

• Wang Xiaoming explained that Ghost Infants could not be surgically removed and offered rewards to those who captured one.
• He Chuan, Ye Feng, and Zhang Han named their requested rewards, and Wang Xiaoming agreed to their terms with conditions.
• Yang Jian produced a Ghost Infant he had captured and explained that he had pinned it down, but Wang Xiaoming said it was too small for the research he needed.
• Wang Xiaoming sought a third-stage or fourth-form Ghost Infant, warned that Zhou Zheng’s Ghost Infant was especially dangerous, and proposed three teams hunting in separate areas.
• Wang Xiaoming named the case the Starvation Ghost Incident, and Yang Jian negotiated for Dachang City’s remaining gold reserves in exchange for his captured specimen and related items.

Yang Jian's team patrolled Dachang City's eastern district while discussing ghost control and their mission to capture a third-stage Ghost Infant. In the western district, Ye Feng's team encountered an unexplained supernatural disturbance, and the road behind them disappeared into blue-black gloom.

• Yang Jian, Zhang Han, and Sun Yi patrolled the eastern district, and Sun Yi admitted he would mostly scout because he lacked useful abilities.
• Zhang Han explained that delaying a vicious ghost's revival restricted its power, which differed from the human skin paper's method and left Yang Jian uncertain which approach was better.
• Zhao Kaiming urged Ye Feng and He Chuan to consider escaping Dachang City, but Ye Feng refused to flee or help kill Yang Jian unless the situation became irreversible.
• Ye Feng, Zhao Kaiming, and He Chuan entered a silent area, where He Chuan spotted a fleeting human-shaped shadow in an alley.
• Ye Feng turned to leave and found that the road behind them had vanished into blue-black gloom.

Yang Jian dealt with a violent shopkeeper while patrolling, as Ye Feng became trapped on a street where the road had vanished. After an eerie encounter and hearing a Ghost Infant cry, Ye Feng entered an alley that had appeared out of nowhere.

• Yang Jian refused to pay the convenience store owner’s exorbitant price for water, and the owner attacked him with a knife.
• The owner stumbled and dropped his knife; Yang Jian picked it up, and the confrontation fell silent before Yang Jian returned to the car.
• Yang Jian told Sun Yi and Zhang Han that they would keep patrolling their district, while Ye Feng realized he was lost on a street he knew.
• Zhao Kaiming and He Chuan vanished, leaving Ye Feng alone, and an unseen figure left a handprint on his body despite his burial garment.
• Ye Feng heard a Ghost Infant crying and followed the sound into an alley that had not been there before.

Ye Feng became trapped in a dark alley crowded with Ghost Infants and was overwhelmed despite the protection of his funeral shroud. Before the ghosts swallowed him, he spotted something in the haze and sent a text, leaving his fate unknown.

• Ye Feng realized the alley was an inescapable supernatural place, but his ability to bite through a Ghost Domain failed because it was not one.
• Ye Feng found He Chuan's mangled head, and a second-stage Ghost Infant took it from him.
• Ghost Infants poured out of the shops, surrounding Ye Feng as his funeral shroud blocked their grasping hands.
• Ye Feng noticed something in the haze and sent a text before the Ghost Infants submerged him.
• The Ghost Infants disappeared, while Ye Feng was gone and his crushed phone showed that the message had been sent.

After finding no Ghost Infant in the East District, Yang Jian returned home and arranged with Zhang Xiangui to build a gold-plated safe house inside a shelter. A report then came in that Ye Feng and He Chuan had disappeared during a supernatural incident, and Yang Jian was told to attend Professor Wang’s meeting the next morning.

• Yang Jian called off the East District search for the night and agreed to meet Zhang Han and Sun Yi at the stadium the next day.
• Yang Jian showed Zhang Xiangui more than two tons of gold and agreed to build a safe house inside Zhang Xiangui’s shelter, with ownership split seventy-thirty.
• Yang Jian asked Zhang Xiangui to begin construction promptly and arrange daily medical checks for residents, especially for signs of unusual pregnancies.
• Yang Jian told Jiang Yan to account for the gold and supervise construction instead of playing role-playing games with him.
• Liu Xiaoyu informed Yang Jian that Ye Feng and He Chuan had disappeared after encountering a supernatural incident and that Professor Wang would hold a meeting the next morning.

Wang Xiaoming briefed the Ghost Tamers on Ye Feng and He Chuan’s disappearance and the mysterious text message containing only the number 7. He set a seven-day deadline to make progress capturing the third-stage Ghost Infant before everyone investigated the dangerous site where the two had vanished.

• Zhao Kaiming taunted Yang Jian about Ye Feng’s disappearance, and Yang Jian threw a pork bun at him before warning him not to break their agreement.
• Wang Xiaoming showed the group a map of the likely disappearance site and Ye Feng’s final message: 7.
• Sun Yi, Zhang Han, and Zhao Kaiming offered different guesses about the number, while Yang Jian said they should record it but avoid baseless speculation.
• Yang Jian warned that Ye Feng and He Chuan’s deaths could release the ghosts inside them and make the site even more dangerous.
• Wang Xiaoming declared that if the group made no progress capturing the third-stage Ghost Infant within seven days, everyone, including him, would investigate the site.

As Ghost Infant cases multiplied and Dachang City deteriorated, Wang Xiaoming called Yang Jian to a hospital to help investigate the mysterious place he named Seventh Street. The chapter ended as Yang Jian prepared to remove a nearly born Ghost Infant during Wang Xiaoming’s experiment.

• Yang Jian, Zhang Han, and Sun Yi patrolled Dachang City but found no Ghost Infants, and Yang Jian suspected they were hiding.
• Yang Jian agreed with Zhao Jianguo that he could pursue his own plan if Wang Xiaoming made no progress by the seven-day deadline.
• Wang Xiaoming told Yang Jian that Ye Feng’s last known location might be a hidden world called Seventh Street, which he wanted Yang Jian to help locate.
• Wang Xiaoming asked Yang Jian to use his ability to remove a Ghost Infant while mapping Dachang City with his Ghost Domain.
• Yang Jian agreed to try once as a patient with a nearly born Ghost Infant was brought into the operating room.

Yang Jian removed the Ghost Infant from a patient and trapped it in his Ghost Domain after it attacked Wang Xiaoming. Wang Xiaoming explained the known rules of the first two stages and hinted that the third stage’s pattern remained uncertain.

• Yang Jian prepared to extract the Ghost Infant while Wang Xiaoming and his staff watched from the observation room and readied emergency precautions.
• Yang Jian reached into the patient’s abdomen with his ghostly arm and pulled out the struggling Ghost Infant.
• Yang Jian had the patient removed, then released the Ghost Infant as Wang Xiaoming explained that first-stage infants attacked whoever they could see.
• The Ghost Infant shattered the observation-room glass and lunged at Wang Xiaoming, but Yang Jian’s red Ghost Domain trapped it before it could reach him.
• Yang Jian asked Wang Xiaoming what rule governed a third-stage Ghost Infant, and Wang Xiaoming asked whether he wanted to know.

Yang Jian and Wang Xiaoming discussed the Ghost Infant’s stages and Wang Xiaoming’s theory that its third stage killed anyone who heard it. Wang Xiaoming planned to create an opportunity for Yang Jian to imprison it, while Yang Jian tracked its movement toward the northern district.

• Wang Xiaoming explained that the Ghost Infant’s first two stages were triggered by seeing and touching, and conjectured that hearing triggered its third stage.
• Yang Jian compared Wang Xiaoming’s theory with the Ghost Infant’s attacks on him and Wang Shanshan, and judged the third-stage condition likely to be correct.
• Wang Xiaoming identified Yang Jian’s Ghost Domain and second ghost as key to avoiding the Ghost Infant’s conditions and capturing it, and offered to share his research with him.
• Yang Jian used the map in his Ghost Domain to locate the Ghost Infant, which was heading toward the northern district where Ye Feng and He Chuan had disappeared.
• Wang Xiaoming said they would wait longer while the Ghost Infant continued toward its destination.

Yang Jian discovered that a mysterious Seventh Street had invaded his Ghost Domain and that a figure was approaching from within it. He and Wang Xiaoming fled the hospital as the street’s darkness spread, leaving the Ghost Infant incident more dangerous than they had expected.

• Yang Jian located the Ghost Infant near a pharmacy, and Wang Xiaoming prepared to begin first contact and containment.
• Yang Jian sensed a road appear where the Ghost Infant had been wandering and showed Wang Xiaoming the impossible street inside his Ghost Domain.
• Wang Xiaoming warned that the street contained a taboo, but withdrawing Yang Jian’s Ghost Domain did not stop the street or the blue-black aura from filling the hospital.
• Yang Jian spotted the Ghost Infant near the street and saw a humanoid figure approach from deep within it, so he and Wang Xiaoming decided to retreat.
• Wang Xiaoming ordered a hospital evacuation as the figure pushed open the operating room door and the blue-black aura rapidly eroded the hospital.

Zhao Kaiming cared for the bodies of his dead family in a warehouse and vowed to kill Yang Jian, believing he could still reunite them. After his operator reported a supernatural incident at a Dachang City hospital involving Yang Jian and Professor Wang, Zhao Kaiming left to provide support.

• Zhao Kaiming prepared meals for his dead relatives and placed them beside their ice coffins.
• Zhao Kaiming confessed to his mother that he had caused his family’s deaths, then shot a rat that had stolen her dinner.
• Zhao Kaiming burned offerings before twelve memorial tablets and vowed to kill Yang Jian.
• A chilling presence seemed to enter the memorial room, and Zhao Kaiming fired at the wall until bullet holes outlined a human figure.
• Zhao Kaiming’s operator reported that Yang Jian and Professor Wang were caught in a hospital incident and that Sun Yi was already on the way.
• Zhao Kaiming threatened the operator and set out for the hospital.

Wang Xiaoming led Yang Jian and the remaining Ghost Tamers into the ghost-infested hospital to investigate the supernatural incident and search for a way into Seventh Street. The group discovered that the ghost had distorted the hospital’s layout, leaving them trapped in an apparently endless lobby.

• The remaining Ghost Tamers gathered outside the hospital, and Wang Xiaoming confirmed that a ghost had invaded it but said he had no information about its identity.
• Yang Jian prepared the human skin paper, ghost candle, and ghost rope before joining Wang Xiaoming and six other Ghost Tamers in entering the hospital.
• Wang Xiaoming explained that they would retrieve something from his office and rescue patients who might be carrying unborn Ghost Infants.
• The group entered the dark hospital, where screams came from patients left behind during the evacuation.
• Wang Xiaoming counted 176 steps and realized the group was still in the lobby, concluding that the ghost had altered the hospital’s space and route.

Yang Jian and the other Ghost Tamers searched a hospital that Wang Xiaoming suspected was under the Ghost Infant’s influence. When one man kicked open a dark outpatient room, blackish-green arms killed and dragged him inside, leaving the group facing an unknown threat.

• Wang Xiaoming warned that the hospital might have become the Ghost Infant’s Ghost Domain, and the group continued down a corridor with no visible way back.
• Wang Xiaoming reasoned that the hospital’s patients and alarm had gone silent because the ghost had taken over the building and might come looking for them.
• The group found an open orthopedic outpatient room with a motionless shadow at its entrance, but the door shut as they approached.
• A Ghost Tamer kicked open the outpatient room door and saw only darkness before blackish-green arms snapped his neck and dragged him inside.
• Yang Jian barely managed to open his Ghost Eye as the door slammed shut and the others froze.

After a Ghost Tamer died, Yang Jian used the Ghost Candle to reveal that the hospital corridor was lined with dormant Ghost Infants. Someone or something extinguished the candle, and Wang Xiaoming rushed ahead along the route he had seen.

• Zhao Kaiming said the dead Ghost Tamer and Ye Feng had been doomed by the fully revived ghost, while Wang Xiaoming ordered the group to keep moving and avoid the doors.
• Yang Jian told Zhang Han that Wang Xiaoming had used the dead man to test the ghost’s behavior and suspected the bluish-black darkness came from Ghost Infants.
• As Yang Jian’s Ghost Eye succumbed to the darkness, he stopped the group and decided to use the Ghost Candle to find their way.
• The Ghost Candle revealed dormant Ghost Infants standing where the group had thought they saw outpatient clinic doors, but it burned rapidly as the bluish-black aura receded.
• A cold presence blew out the Ghost Candle, and Yang Jian saw Zhao Kaiming’s gloomy face before Wang Xiaoming ran ahead along the route he had identified.

After escaping the hospital’s ghost-filled corridor, Yang Jian suspected an unseen ghost was following Zhao Kaiming and chose to separate from the group. He continued toward the top floor alone as the dormant ghosts in the corridor awakened and scattered.

• Wang Xiaoming warned that ghosts had been released in the hospital and might be trying to conceal the source of the incident.
• Yang Jian reasoned that an unseen ghost was following Zhao Kaiming and insisted on splitting from the group despite their objections.
• Yang Jian left through another stairwell and found that his ghost candle burned slowly, suggesting no ghost was nearby.
• Yang Jian extinguished the candle and hurried toward the top floor while keeping his Ghost Eye suppressed.
• The ghosts in the corridor opened their eyes, began moving, and vanished into the darkness.