Chapter Summaries

After surviving the Ghost Infant, Yang Jian escorted Wang Shanshan home and answered a call from Zhou Zheng’s operator, Liu Xiaoyu, who demanded to know what had happened. The call ended with Yang Jian giving a false name and Liu Xiaoyu furiously threatening him.

• Zhang Wei urged the others to stay close to Yang Jian, saying he might be able to save them from future supernatural incidents.
• On the bus, Yang Jian reassured Wang Shanshan that another ghost encounter was unlikely, though he noticed the dark handprints on her neck remained.
• Yang Jian warned Wang Shanshan to call him if she ran into trouble, then answered Zhou Zheng’s satellite phone when it rang.
• Liu Xiaoyu asked Yang Jian to report Zhou Zheng’s situation, and he told her Zhou Zheng had died giving birth to the Ghost Infant.
• Yang Jian mocked Liu Xiaoyu’s questions and claimed his name was Zhang Wei, prompting her to lose her temper and threaten him.

Yang Jian told Zhao Jianguo about Zhou Zheng’s death and the ghost that killed people through knocking, while negotiating for information about ghosts. After learning Yang Jian had become a Ghost Tamer, Zhao Jianguo assigned Liu Xiaoyu to stay close to him and classified the new threat as a disaster-level incident.

• Zhao Jianguo took over the call from Liu Xiaoyu, and Yang Jian agreed to recount Zhou Zheng’s situation in exchange for information.
• Yang Jian described the Ghost Domain, the deadly knocking, and the ghost in the stairwell restroom, then asked Zhao Jianguo what ghosts were.
• Zhao Jianguo explained that science could not analyze ghosts, and Yang Jian revealed that he had escaped the Ghost Domain because he had become a Ghost Tamer.
• Yang Jian warned Zhao Jianguo that the old man tracked and killed anyone who heard its knocking, and he provided the forum address connected to the ghost.
• Zhao Jianguo let Yang Jian keep Zhou Zheng’s phone and assigned Liu Xiaoyu to stay close to him as his dedicated operator.
• Zhao Jianguo ordered the case filed under the codename Ghost Knocking with an A-level, disaster-level threat classification.

After returning home from the haunted school, Yang Jian was insulted by Wang Shanshan’s mother but stayed calm, while Zhang Wei refused to return to Seventh High School. The chapter ended with special personnel taking Zhang Wei away to assist with an investigation.

• Wang Haiyan questioned Yang Jian about bringing Wang Shanshan home, then gave him two hundred yuan in a condescending attempt to make him stay away from her daughter.
• Wang Shanshan defended Yang Jian and told her mother that he had saved her life, then burst into tears.
• Yang Jian pocketed the money, returned home, and fell asleep from exhaustion.
• Zhang Wei refused to go back to Seventh High School, but his father threatened to cut off his allowance, so he pretended to leave for school with books.
• Zhang Wei went to an internet café instead, where special personnel identified him and took him away to assist with an investigation.

After enduring hours of agony as the ghost inside him revived, Yang Jian learned from the Human-Skin Parchment that he might have only three months to live. He logged into a covert website to investigate vicious ghosts and found a video suggesting that a supposedly C-class ghost could withstand a missile strike.

• Yang Jian regained control of his body after hours of paralysis and pain, then asked the Human-Skin Parchment what had happened.
• The Human-Skin Parchment said the vicious ghost inside Yang Jian was reviving and estimated he would not survive three months without another solution.
• Yang Jian rejected the parchment’s prediction as uncertain and questioned what the strange object was, but it remained silent.
• Yang Jian used Zhou Zheng’s satellite phone identification code to access the special website Zhao Jianguo had given him.
• Yang Jian watched footage of a ghost called Ghost Church surviving a missile strike and read comments arguing that its C-class rating was misleading.

Yang Jian researched malicious-ghost classifications and global threat rankings while searching for a way to survive as a Ghost Tamer. When Liu Xiaoyu warned him that his father had died years ago, Yang Jian saw a memorial portrait of the man sitting beside him and was told to flee his home.

• Yang Jian read about ghost threat classifications and learned that global rankings included ghosts capable of killing people indiscriminately.
• Yang Jian resumed searching for a way to survive ghost resurgence and read a thesis claiming that only gold could resist the power of ghosts.
• Liu Xiaoyu called Yang Jian after discovering he had lied about his identity, and Yang Jian defended his choice to give false information.
• Yang Jian told Liu Xiaoyu that his father was sitting beside him, but she said his father had died in a car accident when he was young.
• Yang Jian saw a memorial portrait of the man beside him, and Liu Xiaoyu urgently told him to get out of his home.

Yang Jian discovered that the man he remembered as his father was a ghost and fought off its bloodstained newspaper attack using the ghostly eyes in his body. He escaped the apartment, but the ghost reassembled the newspaper with Yang Jian’s face and later took on a damaged version of his appearance.

• Liu Xiaoyu told Yang Jian that his father had died when Yang Jian was a child, leading him to realize the newspaper-reading man in his room was a ghost.
• The faceless ghost attacked Yang Jian by sticking a bloodstained newspaper to his face and pulling it tight.
• Yang Jian used the eyes in his hand, face, forehead, and neck to tear the newspaper apart and weaken the ghost’s attack.
• Yang Jian fled his home, leaving the ghost and shredded newspaper behind.
• The ghost reassembled the newspaper, which now bore Yang Jian’s face, and later appeared with a damaged version of that face.

Yang Jian escaped the memory-altering ghost and discovered that the red newspaper could suppress the eyes growing on his body. After a confrontation with street punks, he tested his Ghost Domain and set out to master its power before returning home for the newspaper.

• Yang Jian told Liu Xiaoyu that the ghost had altered his memories and asked her to investigate his parents and the ghost’s history.
• When Yang Jian removed the red paper from his hand, an eye emerged; covering it again suppressed the eye and calmed the strange movement in his body.
• Yang Jian decided he needed to return home to retrieve the red newspaper, but A Fei and several punks confronted him outside the restroom.
• A knife-wielding punk pulled a red eye from Yang Jian’s pocket, and Yang Jian used his Ghost Domain to frighten the group into fleeing.
• Yang Jian found he could use the Ghost Domain with five uncovered eyes and decided to practice controlling it.

Yang Jian tested the Ghost Domain on A Fei and his thugs, learning how it distorted space and reality while discovering that using it strained his body. After borrowing money from the terrified thugs, he returned home to find the red newspaper and the ghost gone, and resolved to find it.

• A Fei and his companions fled from Yang Jian but looped back to the restroom, where Yang Jian appeared before them again.
• Yang Jian experimented with the Ghost Domain, moving through it instantly and forcing a thug’s head through a restroom wall vent.
• Yang Jian narrowed the Ghost Domain around himself, passed through a wall, and realized the power could last only five minutes before his body reached its limit.
• Yang Jian borrowed money from A Fei and the other thugs and warned them to stop extorting people.
• Yang Jian returned home, found the red newspaper and the ghost missing, and decided to search for the ghost.

Yang Jian chose to wait at home for the ghost, while Wang Shanshan’s family discovered signs that a supernatural presence had followed her home. The chapter ended with Wang Bin finding child-sized handprints throughout the bathroom and Zhang Wei staying awake after his father beat him.

• Yang Jian decided to remain at home and wait for the ghost to return so he could obtain the red newspaper.
• Wang Shanshan frantically scrubbed the handprints beside her neck, but they remained as her skin bled.
• Wang Bin and Wang Haiyan discussed the disappearances at Shanshan’s school and considered asking Yang Jian what had happened.
• Wang Shanshan screamed that a ghost was outside the bathroom window, begged to go to Yang Jian’s home, and named Su Lei, Zhao Yan, and Liu Jiayi as dead.
• Wang Bin found tiny handprints covering the bathroom window, walls, and ceiling, and Wang Shanshan’s family spent the night awake.
• Zhang Wei returned home, was beaten by Zhang Xiangui, and spent the night on the balcony wondering who had set him up.

Yang Jian tried to sell his classmates’ phones and learned that Wang Shanshan might be pursued by the Ghost Infant, so he demanded a large payment from her father to help. After a phone dealer tried to cheat him, Yang Jian threatened him with his eerie, bloodshot eyes.

• Yang Jian left home to sell the phones his classmates had left behind, wary that ghosts could appear even in daylight.
• Wang Bin called on Wang Shanshan’s phone and told Yang Jian that his daughter felt something was following her; Yang Jian suspected the Ghost Infant.
• Yang Jian offered to resolve Wang Shanshan’s problem for five hundred thousand and warned Wang Bin that waiting could be fatal.
• The phone shop owner offered Yang Jian only five thousand for the phones, claiming one was fake after taking it apart.
• Yang Jian accused the owner of switching the phone and grabbed him by the collar, threatening him with his unnatural eyes.

Yang Jian punished a crooked phone shop owner who had tried to cheat him by using a supernatural ringtone to torment him until he paid. Yang Jian continued demanding money and left the owner facing another payment deadline.

• The shop owner accused Yang Jian of selling stolen phones and threatened to call the police, so Yang Jian used the eye on his hand to make a phone disappear and planted its ringtone inside the owner's head.
• Yang Jian demanded ten thousand yuan, and when the owner hesitated to transfer it, Yang Jian called and made the ringtone cause him severe pain.
• The owner transferred ten thousand yuan, but Yang Jian lied that it had not arrived and demanded twenty thousand more; the owner paid again and then sent further payments to stop the calls.
• Yang Jian told the owner he would call again after ten minutes and suggested borrowing money when the owner said his account was empty.

Yang Jian followed a flyer offering a large reward to a closed shopping mall, suspecting it was connected to a supernatural incident. He applied for a security job and learned that the mall had hired a master to drive away evil spirits, but Sister Li avoided explaining further.

• Yang Jian intimidated a crooked phone merchant into paying compensation and then searched for ways to earn money for his mother.
• Yang Jian found a torn flyer offering more than a million yuan and took a taxi to the shopping mall listed on it.
• Yang Jian entered the cordoned-off mall, smelled a decomposing corpse, and encountered a young security guard in the darkness.
• Yang Jian told the guard he wanted to apply for a job, and the guard introduced him to Sister Li.
• Yang Jian accepted a security position and asked about the mall's hired master, but Sister Li avoided the subject.

Yang Jian began patrolling the mall with fellow guard Liu Qiang, investigating its strange odors and history of disappearances. After a mannequin reappeared in the walkway, Yang Jian returned to the security room and received a call from Wang Bin.

• Yang Jian warned Zhang Wei that the mall might be haunted and told him to alert their friends because the Ghost Infant might target Wang Shanshan.
• Yang Jian and Liu Qiang began their patrol and discussed the mall's missing people and the boss's attempts to hire a master.
• Yang Jian spotted a mannequin in the walkway, and Liu Qiang moved it into a shop full of broken mannequins.
• After the guards left, the mannequin stood in the shop entrance again, facing the direction they had gone.
• Yang Jian decided to finish his three-day probation before quitting if the job proved fruitless, then received a call from Wang Bin.

After a Ghost Infant appeared in Wang Shanshan’s home, Wang Bin called Yang Jian for help and tried to get his family out. Yang Jian rushed to them, but the infant entered the apartment, leaving Wang Bin, Wang Haiyan, and Shanshan trapped in the bedroom.

• Wang Bin and Wang Haiyan dismissed Yang Jian’s warning until a bluish-black child appeared in Shanshan’s room, where Wang Bin touched its icy hand and found dirty footprints on the walls and ceiling.
• Wang Bin called Yang Jian, agreed to negotiate the price, and said he would go to Furen Mall, but the Ghost Infant blocked the front door.
• Wang Bin saw the child through the peephole and begged Yang Jian to save his family, so Yang Jian immediately set off for their home.
• Wang Bin bolted and locked the door, then took Wang Haiyan and Shanshan into the master bedroom as the front door opened from the living room.
• Wang Bin realized his family had no safe escape from the sixteenth-floor apartment and feared they could only wait for the Ghost Infant.

Yang Jian used the Ghost Domain to drive a taxi at impossible speed to Wang Shanshan’s neighborhood, risking further revival of the ghost inside him. He called Wang Bin for the family’s location and hurried to reach them before it was too late.

• Yang Jian decided to spend another use of the Ghost Domain rather than arrive too late to save Wang Bin’s family.
• Yang Jian covered the taxi with the Ghost Domain, took the driver’s seat, and drove through traffic and obstacles at extreme speed.
• A rich sports-car driver challenged Yang Jian, crashed while trying to keep up, and mistook Yang Jian’s reckless driving for extraordinary skill.
• Yang Jian reached the neighborhood entrance within a minute, while the taxi driver escaped and vomited in terror.
• Yang Jian called Wang Bin to ask which building and floor the family was in, hoping they were still alive.

Yang Jian arrived at Wang Shanshan’s home and drove the growing Ghost Infant out of the bedroom, then dropped it from the sixteenth floor to buy time. He left to evacuate Wang Shanshan’s family, while the Ghost Infant survived and stood back up.

• The Ghost Infant entered Wang Shanshan’s bedroom and lunged at her as Wang Bin tried to attack it.
• Yang Jian appeared, knocked the Ghost Infant away, and agreed to protect the family after Wang Bin raised his payment to one million.
• The Ghost Infant revealed a spreading bluish-black aura that Yang Jian recognized as a Ghost Domain.
• Yang Jian followed the Ghost Infant through the building and dropped it from the sixteenth floor to the ground floor.
• Yang Jian left to get Wang Shanshan’s family out, and the Ghost Infant recovered and stood up.

Yang Jian rescued Wang Shanshan and her family from the Ghost Infant, then demanded and received one million yuan before helping them flee. As they drove away, he called his operator, Liu Xiaoyu, to ask for advice about the handprints marking Wang Shanshan.

• Yang Jian warned Wang Bin and Wang Haiyan that the growing Ghost Infant could return and urged them to leave.
• Yang Jian confronted Wang Haiyan over payment, explained that the Ghost Infant had targeted Wang Shanshan, and received one million yuan from Wang Bin.
• Yang Jian led Wang Bin, Wang Haiyan, and Wang Shanshan out of the residential complex while his Ghost Domain kept the Ghost Infant from finding them.
• Yang Jian told the family to get farther away and said he would ask for advice about the handprints on Wang Shanshan's neck.
• Yang Jian called Liu Xiaoyu and began describing the situation to seek her advice.

Yang Jian learned that Wang Shanshan had been marked by the Ghost Infant and that a Ghost Tamer’s mark might counter a powerful ghost’s mark. He discovered his own Ghost Slave Mark on Wang Shanshan’s wrist and realized it had protected her, while Headquarters opened a file on him as an unrecruited Ghost Tamer.

• Liu Xiaoyu explained that the Ghost Infant’s trigger was contact, its method of killing was eating, and Wang Shanshan’s palm prints were likely Ghost Slave Marks.
• Liu Xiaoyu described a theory that a Ghost Tamer with a Ghost Domain could overwrite a powerful ghost’s mark, though no one had tested it.
• Yang Jian told Liu Xiaoyu about the eye inside his body, and she realized his memories of his father had been altered again.
• Yang Jian found a faint eye-shaped mark on Wang Shanshan’s wrist and learned it had appeared after he grabbed her while saving her.
• Yang Jian realized his mark had protected Wang Shanshan from the Ghost Infant, though the Infant’s growing power was making the mark fade.
• Ghost Tamer Headquarters created a file for Ghost Eye Yang Jian and labeled him not recruited.

Yang Jian replaced the mark on Wang Shanshan with a Ghost Eye mark, temporarily saving her from the Ghost Infant's immediate pursuit. The Ghost Infant lost her as its target and began following a young man instead.

• Wang Bin agreed to let Yang Jian place a new mark on Wang Shanshan, accepting that it might only delay her death.
• Yang Jian used the eye in his palm to make the dark handprints on Wang Shanshan's neck disappear and left a Ghost Eye mark on her wrist.
• Wang Shanshan said she felt better, while Yang Jian sensed that part of his ghostly power had remained inside her.
• The Ghost Infant lost its clear target when Wang Shanshan's mark disappeared and began choosing pedestrians at random.
• The Ghost Infant followed a young man who had accidentally bumped into it in the shopping district.

After resolving the Wang family incident, Yang Jian returned to his night shift at the mall and patrolled with Liu Qiang. He noticed signs of something strange on the upper floors, and after they left, the mall’s escalators began moving one by one from the fifth floor down to the first.

• Yang Jian declined Wang Shanshan’s offer to follow him, then left the Wang family and returned to the mall.
• Yang Jian and Liu Qiang began their midnight patrol, checking the underground parking lot and the lower floors.
• Yang Jian heard an escalator running between the fourth and fifth floors, but Liu Qiang switched it off and they continued their patrol.
• On the fifth floor, Yang Jian smelled decay but found no obvious disturbance among the closed shops and damaged mannequins.
• After returning to the dormitory, Yang Jian questioned why the sensor-activated escalator had run when nobody else was in the mall.
• Once Yang Jian and Liu Qiang had left, the escalators activated in sequence from the fifth floor down to the first, then the mall fell silent.