Chapter Summaries

Yang Jian led the group up to the Ghost Post Office’s third floor and planned to wait for a messenger, while Sun Rui stayed in the lobby to stop new messengers from delivering letters. Sun Rui killed a newcomer, and the woman in a portrait was revealed to resemble the ghost Yang Jian had encountered on the second floor.

• Yang Jian and the others climbed the stairs to the third floor, where they found empty rooms and no messengers.
• Yang Jian refused to wait months for a routine delivery and said he would tear up any red letter he encountered, despite the danger to the group.
• Yang Jian ordered the others to stay with him in Room 31 while he waited for a messenger to arrive.
• Liu Mingxin, Cai Yu, Yang Xiaohua, and Wang Shan discussed whether following Yang Jian might offer a chance to escape the Ghost Post Office.
• Sun Rui stayed in the lobby to prevent new messengers from delivering letters and vowed to keep the lower floors from operating.
• Sun Rui killed a frightened newcomer who entered the post office, then sat by the counter beneath a portrait of a woman resembling the ghost from the second floor.

Yang Jian and his companions settled into Room 32 on the Ghost Post Office’s third floor, while Yang Jian continued investigating its strange rooms and rules. Elsewhere, Ye Zhen forged a ghost-infused sword to counter Yang Jian, and the night ended with a high-heeled ghost entering an unknown room on the third floor.

• Yang Jian observed that Room 31 expanded with extra bedrooms as people arrived, and he warned the group to follow his orders while they stayed in Room 32.
• A Wu and the manager discussed Ye Zhen’s humiliation by Yang Jian and learned that Yang Jian had assembled a seven-person team in Dachang City.
• Ye Zhen imprisoned a vicious ghost inside a longsword, intending to use the unseen weapon against Yang Jian’s Ghost Eye.
• Li Yang heard two sets of footsteps wandering the third floor at night and realized that a ghost in high heels had entered one of the rooms, though he could not tell which one.

Yang Jian investigated reports of footsteps on the third floor of Ghost Post Office, then learned from messenger Li Yi about Letter Paper and the freedom third-floor messengers had to enter and leave. Yang Jian offered Li Yi three million and requested twenty sheets of Letter Paper in exchange for information on reaching higher floors, but Li Yi had not yet answered.

• Li Yang reported hearing high heels moving outside the rooms at night, and Yang Jian searched Rooms 35, 36, and 37 but found them empty.
• Wang Shan spotted a yellow letter in a mailbox in the courtyard, and Yang Jian prepared to inspect it before Li Yi emerged from Room 34 and warned him not to accept a mission during his safe period.
• Li Yi introduced himself as a third-floor messenger and explained that burning Letter Paper let its owner enter or leave Ghost Post Office through a path that appeared.
• Yang Jian told Li Yi that he had torn up a red letter downstairs, and Yang Xiaohua confirmed that the resulting Fierce Ghost had killed nearly all the second-floor messengers.
• Li Yi explained that messengers gathered Letter Paper by venturing outside their rooms at night and offered to sell his supply to Yang Jian.
• Yang Jian asked how to reach the fourth or fifth floor quickly and offered Li Yi three million plus a request for twenty sheets of Letter Paper in exchange for the information.

Yang Jian traded a golden handgun to Li Yi for black Letter Paper and learned how third-floor messengers could advance by intercepting a third letter. When he took the letter intended for Room 34, the Ghost Post Office assigned Rooms 31 and 34 a joint delivery to the same address as the second-floor red letter, and Yang Jian decided to investigate it with outside support.

• Yang Jian exchanged a golden handgun with Li Yi for Letter Paper, then had Li Yang distribute sheets among Yang Xiaohua, Cai Yu, Wang Shan, and Liu Mingxin.
• Li Yi explained ways messengers could reach higher floors and revealed that he, Guo You, and Liu Qingqing had a third letter intended for Room 34.
• Yang Jian took the yellow letter from the mailbox, triggering a joint mission for Rooms 31 and 34 to deliver it to Room 301, Building 7, Mingyue Residential Area, Dachuan City.
• Yang Jian recognized the address as the destination from the second-floor red letter and decided to investigate rather than tear up the new letter.
• Yang Jian told Li Yang to isolate the letter in a box and planned to call Feng Quan, Tong Qian, and others for support.

Yang Jian took the third-floor letter and decided to investigate its repeated address in Dachuan City, while Sun Rui revealed a plan to disrupt the Ghost Post Office and an oil lamp that kept ghosts from noticing him. The chapter ended with Yang Jian leaving for Dachuan City as Sun Rui remained in the lobby, and Yang Jian connected a portrait there to the ghost released by the torn red letter.

• Yang Jian took the letter, explained that he intended to investigate its address, and warned the third-floor messengers that he would deliver it himself.
• Yang Xiaohua, Wang Shan, Cai Yu, and Liu Mingxin left the post office while Li Yi and the other third-floor messengers discussed Yang Jian's past actions and decided to follow in case he failed.
• Yang Jian found Sun Rui in the lobby, where Sun Rui revealed his plan to stop the post office from recruiting messengers and showed him an oil lamp that had hidden him from ghosts overnight.
• Yang Jian recognized a portrait of the woman who had appeared as a ghost after the red letter was torn, then suspected the post office's portraits might be connected to other supernatural incidents.
• Sun Rui offered to kill Yang Xiaohua, but Yang Jian refused and cautioned Sun Rui about the risks of staying in the lobby.
• Yang Jian borrowed Sun Rui's private jet and left with Li Yang for Dachuan City to investigate the letter's address.

Yang Jian and Li Yang arrived in Dachuan City to investigate Mingyue Residential Area and discovered that the city’s airport was under an unexplained lockdown. Li Lepeng welcomed them and offered to cooperate, while a headless flight attendant revealed the airport’s hidden supernatural horror.

• Yang Jian and Li Yang flew from Dahan City to Dachuan City after Yang Jian left Sun Rui in the Ghost Post Office with Letter Paper to block newcomers from entering.
• Yang Jian explained that Sun Rui intended to die on the first floor so his revived ghost would seal the Ghost Post Office, then arranged for Tong Qian and Xiong Wenwen to prepare as possible support.
• Yang Jian and Li Yang arrived at a deserted, tightly controlled airport and met Li Lepeng, who said he was glad they had come and suggested cooperating.
• Yang Jian and Li Yang left with Li Lepeng after an assistant dismissed a suspicious thud in an emergency passageway as a staff member dropping luggage.
• After the group departed, an airport employee picked up a severed head and placed it back on a headless flight attendant, who resumed wandering through the airport.

Yang Jian and Li Yang investigated Dachuan City's incomplete supernatural incident records before a deliberate car crash and an eerie welcome from Li Lepeng deepened their suspicions. The chapter ended with Yang Jian revealing that Li Lepeng and his companions had no shadows.

• Yang Jian reviewed the incomplete files for The Forgotten and Fierce Ghost Zone and wondered what Li Lepeng was hiding.
• A small truck deliberately rammed Yang Jian and Li Yang's car, then fled; Yang Jian survived and asked Li Lepeng to investigate the driver.
• Li Lepeng arranged a replacement car and a stay at an empty hotel, while the crash's driver was found dead with his head missing.
• The small truck's driver sped through Dachuan City as traffic and signals seemed to clear its path.
• Yang Jian told Li Yang that Li Lepeng and his companions cast no shadows, revealing the supernatural threat surrounding them.

Yang Jian and Li Yang investigated the supernatural strangeness surrounding Li Lepeng and Dachuan City while three messengers arrived to observe the letter-delivery mission. A gas station ghost killed Liu Mingxin, and Cai Yu and Yang Xiaohua fled into a city that seemed to be closing in around them.

• Yang Jian warned Li Yang that Li Lepeng and his shadowless assistants were entangled in supernatural forces, then chose to remain at the hotel and investigate.
• Liu Mingxin, Cai Yu, and Yang Xiaohua entered Dachuan City to observe the mission without taking immediate risks.
• Cai Yu found a headless corpse in a dark convenience store and realized the gas station attendant was likely a ghost.
• The attendant drenched Liu Mingxin in gasoline and trapped him in the car, but Liu Mingxin escaped the station with Cai Yu and Yang Xiaohua.
• A bizarre person in a passing car flicked a cigarette butt onto gasoline-soaked Liu Mingxin, setting him on fire and killing him.
• Cai Yu and Yang Xiaohua decided to flee Dachuan City as traffic increased around them and they sensed unseen eyes watching.

Li Yi, Liu Qingqing, and Guo You arrived in Dachuan City and were quickly attacked by supernatural forces, while Yang Xiaohua and Cai Yu struggled to survive after becoming trapped there. Yang Jian and Li Yang discovered the city’s inhabitants were linked to a head-swapping ghost and set out to confront Li Lepeng.

• Li Yi received Yang Jian’s payment, and he, Liu Qingqing, and Guo You fled the airport after Li Yi’s murky water turned to blood and a plane threatened them.
• Cai Yu, injured by a car, told Yang Xiaohua that their Letter Paper could not help them escape during an active delivery mission and urged her to find Yang Jian.
• Yang Xiaohua left Cai Yu in an apartment stairwell and went to seek Yang Jian’s help while Cai Yu called an ambulance.
• Yang Jian and Li Yang learned that many residents had left Dachuan City months earlier, then discovered their hotel waitress had no shadow and the meal trays held human heads.
• An explosion demolished the hotel, but Yang Jian and Li Yang survived; Yang Jian found that the city’s apparently living pedestrians were decayed corpses and recognized signs of the Furen Mall headless ghost incident.
• After Jiang Yan told Yang Jian that Li Yi wanted to meet, Yang Jian identified the ghost’s missing head as the cause of the head replacements and ordered Li Yang to locate Li Lepeng.

Yang Jian and Li Yang fought through repeated attacks by ghost-eroded drivers to reach the supermarket where Li Lepeng’s signal was located. Inside, they found shelves packed with human heads and heard someone approaching with a shopping cart, leaving them hidden and ready to confront whoever—or whatever—was coming.

• Yang Jian drove through waves of ghost-eroded drivers, using his ghost hand to seize control of vehicles and kill attackers while avoiding the Ghost Eye’s power.
• A cargo truck overturned Yang Jian and Li Yang’s car, but they escaped and continued toward the location on Li Yang’s phone.
• Yang Jian and Li Yang reached a deserted supermarket, where the attacks stopped, and entered to search for Li Lepeng.
• Inside, they discovered shelves densely arranged with severed human heads, and Yang Jian wondered how far the ghost’s influence had spread through Dachuan City.
• Yang Jian spotted someone pushing a shopping cart toward them, so he and Li Yang hid and prepared to attack if the approaching figure was a ghost.

Yang Jian and Li Yang found Li Lepeng’s head in the supermarket, realizing the man they had met was a fake created through a ghost’s influence. After the fake returned and Yang Jian shot him, a crowd of strange people flooded into the supermarket, forcing Yang Jian and Li Yang upstairs to prepare for the ghost’s attack.

• Yang Jian and Li Yang watched two Ghost Slaves replace their heads while clearing rotting heads from the supermarket shelves.
• Yang Jian found Li Lepeng’s satellite phone and discovered Li Lepeng’s head on a shelf, confirming that the Li Lepeng they had met was an impostor.
• Yang Jian deduced that a ghost had stolen Li Lepeng’s memories and identity, and Li Yang suggested the letter’s address at Mingyue Residential Area might be connected to the real Li Lepeng.
• A new impostor claiming to be Li Lepeng approached, and Yang Jian had Li Yang shoot him after concluding that the ghost’s victims shared memories.
• Yang Jian chose to seek Mingyue Residential Area, but lights came on and a silent crowd surged into the supermarket, so he and Li Yang fled to the fifth-floor storage room.

Yang Jian and Li Yang confronted a ghost that moved among the people filling the supermarket and attacked through shadows, but they failed to contain it and retreated to the rooftop. Yang Jian chose to stay and deal with the incident, then received a call from someone claiming to be Li Lepeng.

• Yang Jian and Li Yang let the crowd surround them while they tracked a voice that moved from person to person and called Yang Jian's name.
• Yang Jian used the Coffin Nail on a speaking corpse, but the ghost continued speaking through the crowd and the nail did not contain it.
• When the lights revealed shadows, Yang Jian realized the ghost was linked to the Headless Ghost Shadow's missing head, while Li Yang used his ghost to disrupt its attempt to reunite with Yang Jian's shadow.
• The lights went out and the crowd surged, so Yang Jian used the Ghost Hand to knock down the Ghost Slaves and led Li Yang to the rooftop.
• Seeing the supermarket surrounded, Yang Jian refused to leave, told Li Yang to contact Headquarters and call Tong Qian and Xiong Wenwen, then answered a call from someone identifying himself as Li Lepeng.

Yang Jian received a call from Li Lepeng, who claimed to be alive and hiding in Mingyue Residential Area while containing another ghost, and Yang Jian remained unsure whether to trust him. As Yang Jian traveled toward the airport to meet his team and the letter carriers, he encountered the bloodied Yang Xiaohua being pursued by shadowless figures.

• Yang Jian spoke with Li Lepeng, who explained that he had tried to tame the Ghostly Shadow Head using his Forgetting Ghost, failed, and hidden in Mingyue Residential Area to contain another ghost.
• Yang Jian classified the threat as the Ghostly Shadow Head, secured Cao Yanhua's agreement to provide a ghost door, three Ghost Candles, and the promised Ghost Scissors, and planned to meet Tong Qian, Xiong Wenwen, and the letter carriers at the airport.
• Yang Jian escaped the rooftop with Li Yang, contacted Li Yi to arrange an airport rendezvous, and drove toward the airport while the trapped messengers considered how to reach him.
• Tong Qian and Xiong Wenwen flew from Dachang City toward Dachuan City, and Tong Qian gave Xiong Wenwen a Ghost Candle for protection.
• Yang Xiaohua intercepted Yang Jian's car, and he stopped after confirming she cast a shadow; several shadowless figures then emerged nearby, ready to attack her.

Yang Jian rescued the badly injured Yang Xiaohua and drove her to the airport, where the ghost that had been tracking them called his name. Yang Jian and Li Yang prepared to confront it while waiting for Tong Qian and Xiong Wenwen.

• Yang Xiaohua told Yang Jian that Liu Mingxin was dead and Cai Yu was badly injured and hiding somewhere in Dachuan City.
• Yang Jian used his ghost shadow to restore Yang Xiaohua's injuries, and she thanked him and promised to help him if he asked.
• Yang Jian, Li Yang, and Yang Xiaohua arrived outside the airport near seven o'clock and saw figures moving around it.
• A ghost called Yang Jian's name and repeated that its body was rotting, while Yang Jian challenged it to come closer.
• Yang Jian and Li Yang decided to deal with the ghost at the airport while awaiting Tong Qian and Xiong Wenwen.

Yang Jian and his companions entered Dachuan City Airport to confront the ghost controlling the dead, while Li Yi's group made their way to meet them. A corpse's incomplete shadow slipped away from its body as both groups gathered at the airfield, where Tong Qian's chartered plane approached.

• Yang Jian led Li Yang and Yang Xiaohua into the terminal, warning them that the ghost's sounds were meant to mislead them and that its attacks began with shadows.
• Li Yang contacted Li Yi, and Yang Jian told Li Yi's group to meet them at the airfield outside.
• Li Yi, Guo You, and Liu Qingqing left their hiding place and spotted a motionless security guard, who opened his eyes and followed them.
• The security guard stopped following the trio, but his incomplete ghost shadow disappeared from behind him.
• Yang Jian's group and Li Yi's group arrived at the airfield as a passenger plane carrying Tong Qian approached.

Yang Jian gathered his allies at Dachuan City Airport to draw out the vicious ghost controlling the city’s corpses. Tong Qian’s laughter and sobbing stopped the crowd, but a shadow behind the group began moving against the light, hinting that the ghost was among them.

• Tong Qian and Xiong Wenwen arrived by plane as vehicles surrounded Yang Jian’s group and cast shadows across the runway.
• Li Yang explained that the ghost used shadows as its medium, and Yang Jian revealed that he had gathered everyone to lure it out.
• Li Yi, Liu Qingqing, and Guo You joined the group as corpses converged on the airport, calling Yang Jian’s name.
• Yang Jian ordered Xiong Wenwen to foresee the next ten minutes and told Tong Qian to deal with the approaching crowd.
• Tong Qian used her laughing face to make the crowd collapse and her crying face to protect nearby allies from the laughter.
• As the crowd fell, the shadow behind Li Yi, Guo You, and Liu Qingqing began reversing direction despite the light behind them.

Yang Jian’s team exposed and contained the ghost hiding in Guo You’s shadow at the airport, though Guo You died when the ghost was separated from him. They decided to rest on the private plane before investigating Mingyue Residential Area the next morning.

• Tong Qian’s laughter wiped out the ghost slaves at the airport, but Yang Jian realized the real ghost had not been among them.
• Xiong Wenwen foresaw Guo You attacking Yang Jian, and Yang Jian spotted that Guo You’s shadow pointed the wrong way.
• Yang Jian drove a coffin nail through the shadow, separating the ghost from Guo You and causing Guo You to die.
• Yang Jian identified the captured entity as the Headless Ghost Shadow and told Tong Qian to secure it at the airport.
• Yang Jian postponed the mission at Mingyue Residential Area until morning, and Yang Xiaohua chose to stay aboard the private plane with the group.

Yang Jian considered how to complete the Ghost Shadow’s puzzle while keeping its head crashed, then agreed to bring Yang Xiaohua, Li Yi, and Liu Qingqing to the Fierce Ghost Zone in exchange for a chance to escape the Ghost Post Office. As dawn approached, Yang Jian formed a dangerous plan but postponed acting on it until necessary, while the three messengers agreed to join the next day’s expedition.

• Yang Jian told Tong Qian that the coffin nail would remain inside the box and planned to scout the Fierce Ghost Zone with Li Yang the next day.
• Yang Xiaohua asked Yang Jian to help her survive the Ghost Post Office, and he offered to take her into the Fierce Ghost Zone as cannon fodder in return for a promise to get her out if she survived.
• Yang Xiaohua accepted the risk and went to tell Li Yi and Liu Qingqing about the expedition.
• Yang Jian continued considering how to crash the Ghost Shadow’s head and developed a desperate plan whose failure could kill him.
• Li Yi and Liu Qingqing agreed with Yang Xiaohua to enter the Fierce Ghost Zone and fight for their survival.

Yang Jian and four other Ghost Post Office messengers entered Dachuan City’s sealed Fierce Ghost Zone to investigate Mingyue Residential Area and deliver a letter. They found a message from Li Lepeng warning that three ghosts were roaming the area, including the deadly Ghost Seeks People.

• Yang Jian rejected delivering the letter to Room 301 in Building 7 without first learning who would receive it, and the group agreed to follow him into the zone.
• Yang Jian led the others through the abandoned district to Mingyue Residential Area, where he called Li Lepeng’s number and followed the ringtone to a phone left in a red plastic bag.
• Yang Jian found Li Lepeng’s unread message, which warned that three ghosts were searching for him and described the Dreamwalking Ghost’s nighttime threat.
• Yang Jian read that Jiangcheng’s ghost became dangerous after Jiangcheng died, but it posed little threat during the day.
• Yang Jian learned that Zhang Xiaoxiao’s Ghost Seeks People was already roaming nearby and killed anyone it found by seeing them or approaching within several meters.

Yang Jian and his team entered Mingyue Residential Area, where Zhang Xiaoxiao’s smoke-filled Ghost Domain began eroding their bodies. They found a smoke-dried corpse wearing Li Lepeng’s badge, leaving Yang Jian unsure whether the corpse was Li Lepeng or who had contacted him by phone.

• Yang Jian read Li Lepeng’s warning about the Sleepwalking Ghost, the Ghost That Finds People, and an unknown ghost in the Fierce Ghost Zone, then led the group toward Building 7.
• Yang Jian and his companions entered Mingyue Residential Area and found it covered by a smoke-filled Ghost Domain that injured ordinary people with every breath.
• Yang Jian headed toward the third row of apartment buildings while the group searched for Building 7 and tried to avoid attracting the ghost.
• Yang Jian found a charred corpse wearing a Headquarters uniform and discovered the gold badge identified it as Li Lepeng.
• Yang Jian and Li Yang realized they could not identify Li Lepeng by appearance and wondered who had spoken to Yang Jian on the phone the previous day.