Chapter Summaries

Yang Jian completed the seventh-night delivery, but the recipient transformed into the corpse of the old man he had buried. As the old man’s power trapped the group inside the house, Liu Qingqing spoke in an unfamiliar voice and pointed to the courtyard as their way out.

• Yang Jian recognized the recipient as the man portrayed in Room 301 and forced the red letter into his hand, completing the delivery.
• The recipient aged into the corpse Yang Jian had buried the previous day, leaving the group shocked by the transformation.
• Yang Jian led the group outside and had Yang Xiaohua burn the Letter Paper to open a path back to the post office.
• The path began disappearing under the old man’s power, while the group found the gate jammed and learned that the house distorted anything thrown over its walls back inside.
• Liu Qingqing spoke in an unfamiliar voice and said they could leave through the courtyard, then seemed not to remember saying it.

Yang Jian and the others escaped the old house by using the red balloon to float through its courtyard, but the revived old man erased Yang Xiaohua and nearly erased the rest of them. The survivors drifted into a city outside the supernatural space, leaving Yang Jian, Li Yang, and Liu Qingqing alive.

• Yang Jian led the group back toward the courtyard after Li Yang recalled seeing a ghost leave the old house through it.
• Yang Xiaohua gave Zhou Deng the red balloon, which suppressed his ghost and lifted him and the others into the air.
• The group floated through the courtyard as the revived old man approached, then the old man waved at them and began erasing their supernatural defenses and bodies.
• Yang Xiaohua vanished, but Yang Jian covered the remaining group with his ghost shadow until the erasing power stopped.
• Yang Jian realized they had floated into a city outside the old house's supernatural space, and Liu Qingqing confirmed that Yang Xiaohua was gone.

Yang Jian and his surviving companions escaped the supernatural place and returned to reality, where they rescued Zhou Deng and arranged for an ordinary man to carry the red balloon to Dachang City. Yang Jian returned to Dachang City, confirmed it was safe, and brought Li Yang to Huang Ziya for repairs.

• The red balloon carried Yang Jian, Li Yang, Zhou Deng, and Liu Qingqing back to Dazhou City, and Liu Qingqing left after warning Yang Jian they would meet again on the fifth floor of the post office.
• Yang Jian brought a suited office worker into the sky to hold the balloon, then cut Zhou Deng free so he could move again.
• Zhou Deng learned that Yang Xiaohua and Fan Xing had died, agreed to report the mission while concealing Liu Qingqing's situation, and left with the office worker's coffee and fountain pen.
• Yang Jian offered the office worker a favor in exchange for delivering the balloon to Shangtong Building, and the man asked for help becoming a vice general manager.
• Yang Jian and Li Yang returned to Dachang City, where Yang Jian found no sign of the dangerous ghost with the Black Umbrella and then took Li Yang to Huang Ziya for repairs.

After returning to Dachang City, Yang Jian learned that Feng Quan had lured the dangerous Black Umbrella ghost into the suburbs and stored several supernatural items at Safe House Number One. He experimented with the Liar Ghost’s power and successfully resurrected Old Eagle, leaving him free of the post office’s curse.

• Yang Jian used the Liar Ghost’s power to restore Li Yang’s missing limbs and repair his own damaged body, then took back the crystal necklace from Huang Ziya.
• Huang Ziya told Yang Jian that Feng Quan had lured the Black Umbrella ghost out of Dachang City with a white ghost candle, and that Headquarters had rated the ghost A-class.
• Yang Jian told Li Yang and Huang Ziya to attend a company meeting the next day, then stored the dangerous doll and a severed ghost hand in Safe House Number One.
• Yang Jian used the Liar Ghost’s power to create a living body and implanted Old Eagle’s memories into it using his ghost shadow.
• Old Eagle awakened, recognized Yang Jian, and learned that he had died in the old residence but had been resurrected and freed from the post office’s curse.

Yang Jian successfully tested his new revival method by bringing Old Eagle back to life, then revived Yang Xiaohua after the old residence mission. Both survivors were free of the Ghost Post Office’s control, and Yang Xiaohua chose to join Yang Jian’s company.

• Yang Jian revived Old Eagle as an experiment and offered him work at Shangtong Building, but Old Eagle left to investigate his condition and contact Liu Qingqing.
• Old Eagle learned from Liu Qingqing that he had died on the sixth day at the old residence and that she, Yang Jian, Li Yang, and Zhou Deng had survived the mission while Yang Xiaohua had died.
• Liu Qingqing realized Yang Jian might be able to revive dead messengers, but regretted that their disagreement at the old residence made her unlikely to receive his help.
• Yang Jian revived Yang Xiaohua, explained that she had escaped the post office’s curse, and told her that he had altered her memories to show how she died.
• Yang Xiaohua thanked Yang Jian and asked to follow him; he agreed to let her report to his company, then stopped considering further revivals because he had no suitable candidates.

Yang Jian confirmed that the Liar Ghost had revived Old Eagle and Yang Xiaohua, though their bodies still depended on its supernatural power. After arranging for Yang Xiaohua to stay with Huang Ziya, he found that the Ghost Cabinet had reappeared in his bedroom and could not be moved away.

• Yang Jian decided to have company researcher Dr. Chen investigate the vicious ghost hand’s killing rule rather than use a living person as a test subject.
• Yang Xiaohua asked to join Yang Jian’s company and stay somewhere safe, and he warned her not to reveal his resurrection ability.
• Yang Jian left Yang Xiaohua with Huang Ziya, who recognized that the Liar Ghost’s power had created her body.
• Yang Jian found the restored Ghost Cabinet in his bedroom and sent it to the safe house, but it appeared beside him again.
• Yang Jian suspected the cabinet was a curse tied to a vicious ghost’s puzzle and went to sleep while watching for signs of it losing control.

Yang Jian discovered that the ghost cabinet had followed him and vanished from the safe house, then welcomed Old Eagle and Yang Xiaohua into his company. At the meeting, the team discussed urgent supernatural incidents and learned that a fifth-floor Ghost Post Office courier with a captain’s slot had been missing for over half a year.

• Yang Jian found the ghost cabinet had disappeared from the safe house and told Zhang Liqin that it had latched onto him, though it posed no immediate danger.
• Old Eagle joined Yang Jian’s team, and Yang Jian introduced him and Yang Xiaohua to the company staff.
• The team discussed the Black Umbrella and Ghost Lake incidents, while Yang Jian said they would investigate the bus ghost first after he handled personal matters in three days.
• Yang Jian asked Headquarters about the Ghost Post Office and learned that its fifth-floor captain had been missing for more than half a year.
• Old Eagle suggested the captain may have disappeared or died during a letter delivery, and Yang Jian reviewed her sparse file before dismissing the likelihood that she could help them.

Yang Jian learned that Zhang Wei believed a hard-to-notice presence was following him after he investigated a series of murders. Yang Jian agreed to watch Zhang Wei as bait and investigate whether the presence was real.

• Yang Jian planned to handle the Black Umbrella incident in three days with Feng Quan, Huang Ziya, and Xiong Wenwen, while Li Yang rested and Tong Qian stayed behind.
• Zhang Liqin told Yang Jian that Zhang Wei had been trying to contact him privately, and Yang Jian learned that Sun Ren was still missing.
• Yang Jian found Zhang Wei in his shooting range, where Zhang Wei described strange sightings and the disappearances of informants who had warned him about something following him.
• Zhang Wei said he suspected the presence was among five people in his photographs and agreed to use himself as bait.
• Yang Jian let Zhang Wei go ahead and tracked him with his Ghost Eye, intending to see whether anything abnormal appeared.

Yang Jian investigated the unseen presence following Zhang Wei while arranging for Dr. Chen to study a potentially lethal ghost hand. Zhang Wei left with A Fei for an internet café as the presence quietly followed, and Yang Jian continued watching over him.

• Yang Jian observed Zhang Wei at Shangtong Building and found no obvious abnormality among the employees, though he considered that a Ghost Tamer might be targeting him.
• Yang Jian gave Dr. Chen a ghost hand and asked him to identify its instant-death killing pattern within five days.
• Dr. Chen explained how incomplete ghosts could have incomplete killing patterns, then sealed the hand in a golden case for research.
• Zhang Wei met A Fei outside Shangtong Building and decided to go with him to find their friends at an internet café.
• An inconspicuous presence followed Zhang Wei, while Yang Jian watched it through his Ghost Eye and stayed ready to protect him.

Yang Jian used his Ghost Domain to expose and restrain the supernatural presence following Zhang Wei, then discovered it was a corpse assembled from stolen body parts with a living, severely disabled Ghost Tamer hidden inside. The chapter ended with Yang Jian preparing to use his shadow on the man, who could neither move nor speak.

• Yang Jian noticed an unnoticed figure enter the internet café and spread his Ghost Domain through the building to identify it.
• Yang Jian gradually removed the café’s patrons from his Ghost Domain until the hidden presence was exposed and Zhang Wei was left alone with it.
• The figure tried to escape, but Yang Jian restrained it with his ghost hands and questioned it.
• Yang Jian loosened his grip after the figure tried to speak, then recognized that its mismatched body was assembled from parts taken from victims.
• Yang Jian tore apart the corpse and found a living, skeletal Ghost Tamer hidden inside, whose malformed body left him unable to move or speak.
• Yang Jian sent the shadow beneath his feet toward the disabled man, intending to end his suffering.

Yang Jian uncovered the invisible Ghost Tamer behind Dachang City’s incomplete-corpse murders and erased his memories despite hearing his tragic past. He contained the ghost, closed the case, and left its unusual power under consideration as a Supernatural Item.

• Yang Jian used his ghostly shadow to invade the gaunt man’s memories and learned that a hidden ghost had made him a Ghost Tamer after years of paralysis and neglect.
• Yang Jian learned that the man had killed people to assemble a new body and had continued killing anyone who became suspicious of him.
• The man begged Yang Jian for a chance to start over, but Yang Jian erased his memories and rendered him vacant.
• Yang Jian removed the man, contained him in a Gold Box, and buried the remaining traces and incomplete corpses with his Ghost Domain.
• Yang Jian reported that the murder case was resolved, and Liu Xiaoyu closed it while Old Eagle suggested turning the ghost’s concealment power into a Supernatural Item.

Yang Jian learned that the eerie hand killed anything it touched when it lost balance, then fused it into his Supernatural Weapon to gain a new certain-death attack. After preparing for the Black Umbrella incident, he encountered Wang Shanshan and Ghost Child outside his safe house.

• Dr. Chen demonstrated that the eerie hand killed a white mouse when the glass box tilted, and Yang Jian identified its balance-triggered killing pattern.
• Yang Jian took the hand from the laboratory and praised Dr. Chen's team for discovering how it worked.
• Yang Jian used the fifth layer of the Ghost Domain to reshape the hand into a layer of dead man's skin over his cracked long spear.
• Yang Jian tested the upgraded Supernatural Weapon, confirmed it could still trigger the hatchet's medium, and prepared a ghost candle and ghost dice for the Black Umbrella incident.
• Yang Jian left his safe house and found Ghost Child with Wang Shanshan waiting outside.

Yang Jian prepared for a new operation by lending Wang Shanshan the ghost dice and arranging for Xiong Wenwen to join him. On the third day after returning to Dachang City, he gathered Feng Quan, Huang Ziya, and Xiong Wenwen to discuss dealing with the Black Umbrella incident.

• Wang Shanshan told Yang Jian she was going out with the Ghost Child, and he lent her the ghost dice as a precaution.
• Yang Jian visited Xiong Wenwen's home and informed Chen Shumei that he needed Xiong Wenwen for a supernatural operation the next morning.
• Yang Jian had Zhang Liqin record recent events in his notebook and warned her to keep him informed about anything unusual at Jiang Yan's hometown.
• Yang Jian worried that the vicious dog trapped in Ghost Dream might soon awaken and become difficult to control.
• On the third day after returning to Dachang City, Yang Jian gathered Feng Quan, Huang Ziya, and Xiong Wenwen to plan their operation against the Black Umbrella incident.

Yang Jian led Feng Quan, Huang Ziya, and Xiong Wenwen into a deserted village where supernatural rain returned after he temporarily dispersed it. The ghost remained hidden until the rain came back, when a figure carrying a Black Umbrella appeared and approached their Ghost Candle.

• Yang Jian dispersed the supernatural clouds with his fifth-layer Ghost Domain and waited to measure how long his suppression lasted.
• Yang Jian brought the group into the village during the rain-free window, and Feng Quan searched the area with his ghost fog but found no one.
• Feng Quan lit a white Ghost Candle to draw out the ghost, but it did not appear before the village's rain returned.
• Yang Jian led the group out of the village while leaving the Ghost Candle in sight, and they watched the rain intensify.
• A black figure carrying a Black Umbrella appeared in the rain and walked toward the burning Ghost Candle.

Yang Jian and his team investigated a ghost that appeared in supernatural rain and learned that pinning it down would not end the incident. Xiong Wenwen foresaw the group being trapped among many umbrella-holding ghosts, so Yang Jian began searching for a way to avoid the rain and its dangers.

• Yang Jian retreated with the team after Xiong Wenwen predicted that he could pin down the ghost but the supernatural phenomenon would continue.
• Yang Jian concluded that the ghost could not be contained through ordinary methods and warned that the Black Umbrella and rain might pose greater dangers.
• Xiong Wenwen agreed to make a longer prediction after Yang Jian promised to take his mother, Chen Shumei, on a date.
• Xiong Wenwen foresaw more umbrella-holding ghosts appearing after Yang Jian restrained the first one, with the team trapped in the rain and Huang Ziya dying from its corrosion.
• Yang Jian and Feng Quan identified avoiding the rain and watching reflections in pooled water as priorities while Yang Jian considered how to handle the additional ghosts.

Yang Jian discovered that the Black Umbrella sustained a rain-covered supernatural domain, then attacked the ghost holding it with the coffin nail and cleaver. The attack restrained and dismembered one ghost, but many identical figures appeared across the village and remained unaffected, leaving the anomaly unresolved.

• Yang Jian observed the rain cloud from above and concluded that the Black Umbrella created and protected the rainy Ghost Domain.
• Yang Jian made four golden umbrellas, and the group returned to the village and relit the ghost candle to lure out the ghost.
• Yang Jian impaled the approaching Black Umbrella ghost with the cracked spear, but numerous identical umbrella-bearing figures appeared throughout the village.
• Yang Jian used the cleaver to behead the pinned ghost, but the other figures were unaffected, revealing that the ghosts were independent or shielded by a stronger curse.

Yang Jian discovered that the Black Umbrella isolated its holder in deeper layers of the Ghost Domain, while Feng Quan uncovered that rainwater triggered the umbrella-holding ghosts’ attacks. Yang Jian realized he would have to progress through the layers by taking umbrellas from ghosts until he reached the source.

• Yang Jian raised a Black Umbrella and vanished from his companions’ sight as it isolated him inside a Ghost Domain.
• Feng Quan stepped in standing water, triggering the ghosts to approach, and realized that supernatural rainwater caused them to target anyone it touched.
• Feng Quan used Grave Soil to suppress one ghost, took its Black Umbrella, and stored it for his companions.
• Yang Jian found himself alone in a deeper layer of the Ghost Domain, where the rain was heavier and the ghosts were fewer but more dangerous.
• Yang Jian concluded that he had to take umbrellas from ghosts in each layer to reach the source Black Umbrella.

Yang Jian entered the Ghost Domain’s third layer, where its few remaining ghosts began assimilating him, and he used a restart to escape. He found himself back in the second layer with a Black Umbrella from the third, and began to grasp the umbrellas’ supernatural function.

• Yang Jian seized a Black Umbrella from a ghost in the second layer and used it to enter the third layer.
• He saw that the third layer held only a small number of ghosts and inferred that increasingly powerful Ghost Tamers had been assimilated in deeper layers.
• A ghost with Yang Jian’s appearance approached as black gauze covered him, leaving him nearly immobilized and at risk of becoming a ghost himself.
• Yang Jian restarted himself to escape the third layer, but returned to the second layer while bringing the third layer’s Black Umbrella with him.
• Despite his soaked feet, Yang Jian was not attacked by the second layer’s ghosts, and he began to understand the umbrellas’ function.

Yang Jian explored the Black Umbrella’s layered Ghost Domain, discovered how dangerous its deeper layers were, and returned before his team followed him in. He sealed off the rainy area and postponed the operation until after dealing with the Ghost Post Office, leaving his team to prepare for a safer attempt.

• Yang Jian used a restart to escape a fierce ghost and reach the second layer, where he concluded that the Black Umbrella could resist supernatural erosion and imprison ghosts.
• Feng Quan, Huang Ziya, and Xiong Wenwen decided to search for Yang Jian, and Feng Quan nearly triggered the cracked spear’s curse before Yang Jian appeared and steadied it.
• Yang Jian warned the team that the deeper Ghost Domain was too dangerous to explore without better preparation and postponed the operation until after his Ghost Post Office business.
• Yang Jian enclosed the abandoned village in raised terrain, then led the team back toward Dachang City while they planned to use gold shoes and white ghost candles next time.
• At Shangtong Building, Yang Jian’s return without casualties disappointed informants who had hoped to see him fail.

Yang Jian postponed the operation against the Ghost Domain, inspected the changing corpse in the coffin, and confirmed it was becoming a black wolfdog. He then set out with Li Yang for the post office’s fifth floor, hoping to finish before nightfall and rescue Sun Rui.

• Yang Jian told Tong Qian and Feng Quan that the Ghost Domain operation had been postponed, and he left Dachang City’s affairs in their hands.
• Zheng Yue delivered the red balloon to Yang Jian, who arranged a promotion and raise for him by manipulating memories at his company.
• Yang Jian inspected the coffin and found that the corpse inside had nearly transformed into a black wolfdog, while the dream wolfdogs continued hunting the ghost in the forest.
• Yang Jian visited Li Yang, learned that Li Yang’s family had moved to Dachang City, and discussed their next trip to the post office.
• Yang Jian and Li Yang left at five o’clock to reach the fifth floor before the post office turned off its lights.