Chapter Summaries

Yang Jian and the messengers crossed Mingyue Residential Area after finding a corpse that was likely Li Lepeng, but a ghost hidden in the thick smoke discovered them. They sheltered in an apartment, where the ghost searched for them and began breaking through the bedroom door.

• Yang Jian concluded that the smoke-blackened corpse was probably Li Lepeng's and carried it along as evidence.
• Yang Jian led the group away from their route after detecting that the smoke-hidden ghost was nearby, and Li Yi confirmed its presence with blood from a Glass Bottle.
• Yang Jian brought everyone into an apartment and explained that the ghost's Ghost Domain could deceive their senses.
• The ghost entered the living room, searched for the group, and then approached the bedroom where Li Yang was holding the door.
• The ghost's charred hand scraped the door as thick smoke began seeping inside.

Yang Jian and the others escaped the smoke-filled room where Li Yang held back Ghost Seeking, then found Room 301 and entered its strangely clean, illuminated interior. Li Yang survived the confrontation, but Li Lepeng suddenly spoke to him from the room beside a mummified corpse bearing his name.

• Li Yang struggled to hold Ghost Seeking outside the door, and Yang Jian gave him a Substitute Doll before leading the others out through a window.
• Yang Jian and his companions reached the suspected Building Seven and identified Room 301 on the third floor.
• Yang Jian kicked open Room 301 and found an old, clean room lit by dim yellow light despite the surrounding smoke and darkness.
• Yang Jian entered the room, and Li Yi, Yang Xiaohua, and Liu Qingqing followed him inside.
• Li Yang used the Substitute Doll to escape, then heard someone claiming to be Li Lepeng ask whether he was Yang Jian or Li Yang.

Yang Jian searched Room 301 and found signs that its absent owner may have made Substitute Death Dolls and survived from the Republican Era. After he discovered that the strange infant doll had vanished from its basket, he searched for it and feared it might be among his companions.

• Yang Jian found a strange infant doll in a vegetable basket and judged it to be a Supernatural Item, but covered it again without touching it.
• Yang Jian explored a bedroom and saw materials and an unfinished doll resembling the Substitute Death Dolls, along with a faceless female mannequin, an empty Divine Seat, and a disturbing portrait sketch.
• Yang Jian suspected Room 301 belonged to a woman from the Republican Era and wondered whether the Ghost Post Office's delivery letter was meant for her.
• Yang Jian returned to the living room and asked whether Li Yi, Yang Xiaohua, or Liu Qingqing had touched the basket; they said they had stayed still.
• Yang Jian saw that the basket's cloth had been lifted and the infant doll was gone, so he searched the room and approached his companions to check whether it was with them.

Yang Jian discovered that an upside-down view revealed a fierce ghost beneath the desk in Room 301, holding the missing doll. After the ghost targeted him, he fled with it in pursuit, while Liu Qingqing stayed behind, drawn toward another room by unfamiliar memories.

• Liu Qingqing guessed that the doll was beneath the desk and explained that it could only be seen by looking upside down.
• Yang Jian inverted his view and saw a bruised, pale ghost holding the doll; its backward-installed eyes turned toward him, and the desk began shaking.
• The ghost stood up and advanced on Yang Jian, who warned the others, delivered the letter, and ran from Room 301 with the ghost following him.
• Li Yi and Yang Xiaohua left Room 301, but Liu Qingqing stayed behind, torn between investigating another room and escaping.

Yang Jian was pursued by the invisible ghost from Room 301 and cornered by other ghosts in Mingyue Residential Area. As the ghosts attacked, he unleashed the music box’s curse, expanded his Ghost Domain, and used his hatchet and Ghost Eye to stop their first attacks, though the ghosts remained active.

• Yang Jian fled Room 301 but discovered that the ghost holding the doll was following him, while the smoke-bound ghost that searched for people also closed in.
• Yang Jian found a burned substitute doll and realized the seeker ghost had located him inside its Ghost Domain.
• Li Yang arrived while fleeing Li Lepeng, whom he identified as the third ghost; Yang Jian realized the smoke-darkened area had enabled the sleepwalking ghost to appear during the day.
• Li Yi and Yang Xiaohua burned the Letter Paper to open a path to the Ghost Post Office as the ghosts surrounded Yang Jian and Li Yang.
• The Room 301 ghost paralyzed Yang Jian and reached for him, so he released the music box’s curse and spread his Ghost Domain across Mingyue Residential Area and beyond.
• Yang Jian used the rusty hatchet to sever the Room 301 ghost’s arm and stopped the seeker ghost with his Ghost Eye, but both ghosts remained active.

Yang Jian used the Music Box Curse and his sixth-layer Ghost Domain to suppress the Human-Seeking Ghost, then dismembered the ghost from Room 301. As the Sleepwalking Ghost appeared in Li Lepeng’s form, Yang Jian recognized him as an aberration with a living human’s consciousness, while the hatchet’s curses began to erupt.

• Yang Jian activated the Music Box Curse and used his sixth-layer Ghost Domain to stop the approaching ghosts, astonishing Li Yi, Yang Xiaohua, and Li Yang.
• Yang Jian seized the Human-Seeking Ghost’s true source, a smoke-blackened mummified corpse, and suppressed it with his ghost hand.
• Yang Jian used the hatchet to sever the Room 301 ghost’s limbs and neck, scattering its body and the eerie doll that held its source.
• The Sleepwalking Ghost appeared at a residential building, and Yang Jian identified it as Li Lepeng, an aberration with a living human’s consciousness.
• The Music Box and hatchet curses began erupting within Yang Jian.

Yang Jian endured the ghost chopping knife’s curse after dismantling the evil ghost from Room 301, then used his Ghost Domain and recovering ghost shadow to reassemble himself. He learned that Li Lepeng had controlled several ghosts and was attempting to become an evil ghost while retaining his consciousness, leaving Yang Jian wary as he prepared to strike.

• Yang Jian’s second use of the ghost chopping knife’s curse dismembered his body and ghost shadow, but the Music Box Curse kept his consciousness alive.
• Yang Jian watched his ghost shadow gradually reunite, then used the Ghost Domain to piece his body back together.
• Yang Jian realized that completing the ghost shadow with its missing head could make the chopping knife’s curse easier to endure, and wondered what the rotting corpse at Caesar Hotel had suffered.
• Yang Jian confronted Li Lepeng, who admitted he had succeeded only halfway in controlling the sleepwalking ghost while retaining his consciousness.
• Li Lepeng revealed that the identities of Zhang Xiaoxiao and Jiangcheng were fake and that the searching ghost, ghost smoke, and sleepwalking ghost were all within him.
• Li Lepeng explained that he had pursued the ghost shadow head to replace an evil ghost’s consciousness, while Yang Jian held the chopping knife ready and questioned his motives.

Yang Jian negotiated with Li Lepeng, who explained how he had contained Dachuan City's crisis while trying to become a conscious ghost. After Yang Jian chose not to fight him, the lights in the building containing Room 301 came on, and Yang Jian realized Liu Qingqing might still be inside.

• Li Lepeng explained that he had trapped himself in Mingyue Residential Area and arranged safeguards before attempting to control the ghost.
• Yang Jian considered killing Li Lepeng but decided against fighting him, and Li Lepeng agreed not to cause further trouble.
• Yang Jian and Li Yang secured the doll's limbs and the dried corpse after resolving the immediate danger in Mingyue Residential Area.
• The building containing Room 301 lit up, and Yang Jian spotted a woman in a red qipao who resembled Liu Qingqing.
• Yang Jian realized Liu Qingqing was missing and returned toward Room 301 to investigate.

After delivering the Ghost Post Office letter, Yang Jian returned to Room 301 when the building unexpectedly lit up and changed. He entered alone, where strange music played and his Ghost Domain was suppressed, leaving him to investigate the room on the right.

• The lights came on throughout Building 7 after the letter was delivered, and Yang Jian and Li Yang realized Room 301 had become abnormal again.
• Yang Jian entered the building alone while Li Yang stayed outside to watch for danger.
• On his way upstairs, Yang Jian suspected Liu Qingqing might be connected to the haunting and considered killing her if he confirmed it.
• Yang Jian found Room 301 open and brightly lit, with movement sounds coming from inside.
• When Yang Jian crossed the doorway, an old record player began playing music and his Ghost Domain was disrupted.
• Yang Jian noticed the basket and strange doll were gone, then traced the music to the room where Liu Qingqing had stayed.

Yang Jian used the firewood axe to witness Room 301’s past and discovered that its owner, an elderly woman he might have seen on the supernatural bus, had connections to Old Qin, Liu Qingqing, and the Faceless Puppet. The puppet began moving after the woman drew the face of the woman sought by the Ghost Cabinet, leaving Yang Jian facing an increasingly dangerous mystery.

• Yang Jian found Liu Qingqing and the Faceless Puppet missing from Room 301, along with the source of the strange gramophone-like sound.
• Yang Jian spread his ghost shadow and triggered the firewood axe’s medium to see figures from the room’s past.
• Yang Jian saw an elderly woman—possibly the Room 301 owner and a passenger from the supernatural bus—draw a portrait of a younger Old Qin.
• The elderly woman sensed Yang Jian through the medium and stared at him, but he held back from striking her with the firewood axe.
• Yang Jian saw the woman leave a red cheongsam matching Liu Qingqing’s, then watched her draw a beautiful face on the Faceless Puppet.
• The Faceless Puppet began moving after the woman finished drawing the face of the woman sought by the Ghost Cabinet.

Yang Jian explored the medium in Room 301, linking its owner and supernatural artifacts to Old Qin and the supernatural bus. He then entered the bedroom, where the corpse stench led him to a body lying behind the curtains of an old red bed.

• Yang Jian saw the Faceless Puppet awaken after the old woman drew a face on it, then lose its connection to the medium and disappear from view.
• Yang Jian found a sketch of his father and reasoned that the supernatural bus connected Room 301 to events across three eras and might have a final stop where evil ghosts got off.
• Yang Jian left the room without taking the sketch, briefly suspected it had moved, and shut the door before entering the room opposite.
• Yang Jian recognized the bedroom's sandalwood scent and detected the smell of a corpse beneath it.
• Yang Jian saw an old red-lacquered canopy bed with curtains concealing a corpse lying on it.

Yang Jian discovered that the corpse in Room 301 was the dead owner of the room and that its ghost had begun invading reality, while Li Yi died outside and appeared to be controlled by supernatural power. After sending Li Lepeng away and completing the ghost shadow’s puzzle, Yang Jian began risking its invasion of his consciousness as Room 301 lost control.

• Yang Jian triggered the hatchet’s medium in Room 301 and saw the dead old woman from the bed invade reality, then escaped when the ghost remained after he cut off the medium.
• Yang Jian found Li Yi dead and learned the messengers might have delivered the letter to the wrong building; a ghost-controlled Li Yi appeared, and Yang Jian destroyed him with his ghost hand.
• Yang Jian summoned Li Lepeng, assigned him to handle the Room 301 incident, and sent him away from Mingyue Residential Area.
• Yang Jian took the coffin nail and completed the ghost shadow, gambling that the Music Box Curse would protect his consciousness from its invasion.
• Room 301 lost control as the building’s lights went out, and Yang Jian sent Li Yang to wait across the way while he faced the ghost shadow’s attempt to take over his body.

Yang Jian endured the ghost shadow’s invasion as the music-box curse shielded his consciousness from being consumed, though the fusion with countless memories left him in agony. As he finally began to recover, Liu Qingqing and a black-and-white old man left the building, while the corpse from Room 301 vanished from its bed and began wandering toward the open door.

• Yang Jian’s consciousness was nearly swallowed by the ghost shadow, but the music-box curse kept him from falling asleep and disappearing.
• Countless memories of people from Dachuan City flooded Yang Jian’s mind, causing him to scream and writhe as the ghost shadow repaired his twisted body.
• Li Yang told Yang Xiaohua to wait, arguing that Yang Jian had likely anticipated the danger; Yang Xiaohua realized she did not want him to die.
• After ten minutes, Yang Jian’s struggling eased as the curse’s ringing became clear again, though a cold presence remained in his mind.
• Liu Qingqing and a black-and-white old man left the building as the fierce ghost from Room 301 was released.
• The corpse disappeared from the wooden bed in Room 301 and began wandering through the room toward its open door.

Yang Jian remained conscious but lost control of his body as the ghost shadow invaded him, eventually managing to move one hand. A black-and-white ghost from the past approached and began erasing Yang Jian from reality, seemingly using his death to enter the present.

• Li Yang and Yang Xiaohua watched from a distance as a black-and-white old man wandered near the residential building, unaffected by Yang Jian's Ghost Domain.
• Yang Jian's body became corpse-like while the Music Box Curse kept him conscious, and he realized he had merged with the ghost shadow but could not control his body.
• Yang Jian struggled against the ghost shadow and managed to move one hand, though he could not yet control it smoothly.
• Yang Jian noticed the black-and-white ghost was circling closer to him and realized it had been approaching him all along.
• The ghost stopped beside Yang Jian and began turning him black and white until he vanished, while it gained color and entered reality.

Yang Jian was being erased by the ghost from Room 301 while the shadow ghost controlled his body, leaving him desperate to reach the coffin nail. Liu Qingqing appeared and used her supernatural cheongsam to approach, giving Yang Jian the chance to suppress the shadow ghost.

• The ghost from Room 301 erased Yang Jian's body as it became increasingly real.
• Li Yang saw Yang Jian reaching for the coffin nail and rushed to help, while Yang Xiaohua warned him to be careful.
• Liu Qingqing appeared in a red cheongsam and stopped Li Yang from approaching the ghost.
• Liu Qingqing endured the ghost's erasure with the protection of her cheongsam, picked up the coffin nail, and placed it in Yang Jian's hand.
• Yang Jian drove the coffin nail into the shadow ghost, temporarily suppressing it and ending its control over his body.

Yang Jian opened the seventh layer of the Ghost Domain while a terrifying ghost erased his body. He discovered that the seventh layer reset himself to an earlier point in time, restoring the body the ghost had erased.

• Yang Jian pinned down the Ghost Shadow with the coffin nail and used the fifth- and sixth-layer Ghost Domains to slow his erasure and freeze the ghost.
• Yang Jian kept the sixth-layer Ghost Domain active for nearly two minutes, but the ghost's attack resumed as the domain began to fail.
• Yang Jian chose to open the seventh-layer Ghost Domain, causing the residential building and the ghost to disappear from his surroundings.
• Yang Jian realized the Music Box Curse's chime was playing in reverse and that his body was returning to its previous state.
• Yang Jian understood that the seventh-layer Ghost Domain reset only himself, with the amount of time reversed depending on how long he maintained it.

Yang Jian restarted himself to recover from the old man’s erasure, then sought a way to stop the ghost from targeting him. He used the broken doll from Room 301 to redirect the attack, forcing the old man’s invasion to fade, though the doll began suffering the supernatural effects.

• Yang Jian maintained the seventh layer of the Ghost Domain long enough to restore his body, but the Ghost Eye’s revival began suppressing the Music Box Curse, so he exited the restart.
• Li Yang saw Yang Jian reappear fully restored after only a few seconds had passed outside the Ghost Domain.
• Yang Jian realized the black-and-white old man was still targeting him and that his Ghost Domain, hatchet, and coffin nail could not safely stop it.
• Yang Jian teleported elsewhere in Mingyue Residential Area, but the old man followed, so he reassembled the broken doll from Room 301.
• Yang Jian turned the doll toward the old man, redirecting the attack onto it and interrupting the old man’s invasion as the doll began to fade and struggle.

Yang Jian used the old doll to stop a ghost from invading reality, recovered the misleading letter, and sealed off Mingyue Residential Area before leaving to seek a way to deal with the Music Box Curse and ghost shadow invasion. Yang Xiaohua returned to the Ghost Post Office, where Sun Rui demanded to know what had happened.

• Yang Jian used the old doll to redirect a ghost's supernatural attack and learned that the doll moved when it saw someone and attacked when someone met its gaze.
• Yang Jian decided not to confront the remaining ghost in Building Nine, then froze the building with his Ghost Domain and retrieved the letter from Room 301.
• Liu Qingqing revealed that the faceless wooden puppet was inside her body and explained that she had survived as a layer of human skin sustained by supernatural power.
• Yang Jian completed the delivery by sending the letter to a dark house, then told Yang Xiaohua to return to the Ghost Post Office, where Sun Rui confronted her about the third-floor events.
• Yang Jian recovered the Music Box Curse and the doll, sent the Seeking Ghost to Li Lepeng, and used his Ghost Domain to wall off Mingyue Residential Area.
• Yang Jian left with Li Yang, postponing the Ghost Post Office while he sought a way to survive the Music Box Curse and ghost shadow invasion.

Yang Jian returned to Dachang City while grappling with the Music Box Curse and the out-of-control ghost shadow, and he decided to seek help from the human skin paper. He left Wang Shanshan’s mansion with the ghost child as his next step, while his survival remained uncertain.

• Li Yang reported the unresolved Room 301 incident to Headquarters as an A-class event, and Yang Jian sketched the room for his own file.
• Yang Jian considered ways to survive the Music Box Curse, including merging with the ghost shadow and consulting the human skin paper.
• Yang Jian and Li Yang arrived in Dachang City, where Yang Jian told Li Yang to rest while he dealt with his condition.
• Yang Jian used the Ghost Domain to reach Wang Shanshan’s mansion and told her he would be gone for several days to address his problem.
• Wang Shanshan revealed that a Ghost Eye was forming on her arm, and Yang Jian went to retrieve the human skin paper guarded by the ghost child.

Yang Jian tested the human skin paper for a way to survive the music box’s curse, but its advice remained suspect and pointed toward a mystery about human consciousness. With two and a half days left, he began preparing a weapon that ghosts could not use in case his powers revived after his death.

• Yang Jian opened the human skin paper and rejected its apparent wish to explore the third door in the Republican-era mansion as a deadly trap.
• Yang Jian ordered Ghost Child to eat the paper, forcing it to reveal a plan involving the music box’s curse, the ghost shadow, and the question of human consciousness.
• Yang Jian stopped Ghost Child and read the paper’s proposed solution: let the curse erupt, release the coffin nail’s suppression, cover his face with the paper, and sleep.
• Yang Jian distrusted the proposed solution and focused on the question of human consciousness as a possible clue to surviving the curse.
• Yang Jian put the paper back in the golden ball around Ghost Child’s neck and entered the workshop to make a Supernatural Weapon that ghosts could not control.