Chapter Summaries

Yang Jian and Li Yang entered the Ghost Post Office to take control of or destroy it, but found Sun Rui missing and discovered signs of trouble on the fifth floor. They climbed its shattered, supernatural staircase carrying pieces of a dismembered corpse, and reached an invisible path where the corpse began to move.

• Yang Jian and Li Yang entered the Ghost Post Office and found Sun Rui absent, though a little red Ghost Candle remained behind the counter.
• After their phone signal failed, Yang Jian left a golden bullet for Sun Rui and led Li Yang toward the fifth floor after a Glass Bottle containing a dead head rolled downstairs.
• Yang Jian and Li Yang found another Glass Bottle containing a pale arm and carried both corpse fragments upstairs.
• Yang Jian crossed the destroyed staircase on invisible steps and led Li Yang toward an ajar wooden door at the end of the path.
• The head opened its eyes and the fingers in the arm bottle twitched, prompting Yang Jian to tell Li Yang to stay alert.

Yang Jian and Li Yang explored the fifth floor of the post office, where portraits included images of Yang Jian’s father and his father’s cousin. As night approached, they encountered conflicting warnings about Rooms 501 and 502 and left both rooms to search for another place to stay.

• Yang Jian and Li Yang entered the fifth-floor hall and found its walls covered with eerie portraits resembling paintings from the ghost painting.
• Yang Jian recognized portraits of his father and his father’s cousin, then decided to investigate the floor further after resting.
• The rooms they tried were locked, so Yang Jian cut open Room 501 and heard a voice warning him not to enter.
• An elderly messenger emerged from Room 502 and warned that Room 501 was deadly, then invited Yang Jian and Li Yang into his room.
• The voice from Room 501 claimed the messenger in Room 502 was a ghost, while the messenger blamed Room 501’s voice for being a supernatural threat.
• Yang Jian refused to enter either room and led Li Yang to try the remaining doors.

Yang Jian and Li Yang entered the fifth floor of the post office and discovered that its rooms could contain supernatural traps and illusions. As the lights went out at six, Yang Jian prepared to explore the floor at night while Li Yang guarded Room 507.

• Yang Jian rejected Rooms 501 and 502 after the man in Room 502 warned that other rooms could be dangerous or sealed by messengers.
• Yang Jian forced open Room 507, removed rotten black hair jamming its door, and used his Ghost Eye to see through the room’s supernatural illusion.
• Yang Jian found a fierce ghost disguised as a corpse beneath the bedroom bed and dragged it outside, then temporarily claimed Room 507 with Li Yang.
• Yang Jian dismissed Li Yang’s suggestion to first identify the fifth-floor messengers and decided to explore outside at night while Li Yang guarded the room.
• Yang Jian and Li Yang finished checking Room 507, and the post office lights went out at six in the evening.

At six o’clock, Yang Jian left Room 507 to investigate the fifth-floor hall while Li Yang guarded their escape route. The paintings began watching Yang Jian, and a whisper from a personless landscape painting drew his attention as he investigated the hall’s nighttime changes.

• Yang Jian gave Li Yang a worn doll to guard Room 507 and told him to keep the room clear as an escape route.
• After the lights went out, Yang Jian found the corpse outside Room 501 had disappeared and stepped into the dark hall.
• The people in the hall’s oil paintings turned their gazes toward Yang Jian, including the figure in his father’s portrait and a particularly malicious middle-aged man.
• Yang Jian saw that the hall’s main doors had opened onto an intact staircase, and he suspected Room 501 was a deadly room because its lights remained off.
• A whisper began calling to Yang Jian from a person-sized landscape painting with no people in it.

Yang Jian investigated the fifth-floor lobby and learned that many rooms contained ghosts confined by past messengers. After he confronted the sickly messenger in Room 502 and broke down the door, he found the room empty and dark, leaving the man’s whereabouts and the room’s danger uncertain.

• Yang Jian resisted the oil painting’s supernatural lure by using Ghost Shadow to regain control of his body.
• Yang Jian heard opera music coming from Room 505 and suspected it was linked to a song he had heard outside the post office.
• The sickly middle-aged man warned Yang Jian that ghosts had been confined in fifth-floor rooms, making the floor increasingly unsafe.
• Yang Jian realized that messengers targeted by ghosts might have to live in the post office to escape continued pursuit.
• Yang Jian accused the man in Room 502 of being attacked by Sun Rui and threatened to take his memories.
• The man vanished into Room 502, and Yang Jian broke down the door to find the room dark, empty, and foul-smelling.

Yang Jian entered Room 502, found the corpse of a former messenger clutching a black letter, and learned from the spirit Old Li that carrying it out could restart the post office. When taking the letter triggered the room’s ghost and erased the exit, Yang Jian faced a wall of corpses as the room’s reality warped around him.

• Yang Jian chopped open Room 502 and discovered its damp, unlit interior, where the man who had lived there appeared to be dead.
• Yang Jian found the man’s corpse in the bathtub, clutching an unusual black letter, and saw the dead man reappear as the spirit Old Li.
• Old Li explained that he was trapped in the room and urged Yang Jian to take the black letter out, warning that the post office would otherwise lose control.
• Yang Jian took the black letter, causing blood to seep from the walls and the exit to disappear as the room’s ghost altered reality.
• Yang Jian recognized that he had to confront the ghost, then watched a wall collapse and reveal the bodies of messengers who had died in the room.

Yang Jian suppressed the corpses in Room 502 and searched for the source of the disturbance, while Li Yang fought off a ghost that imitated Yang Jian’s voice. As Yang Jian remained trapped, fifth-floor messengers learned that the balance at the post office was breaking and planned to kill the newcomer and seize the black letter.

• Yang Jian dismembered the corpses in Room 502, using the cleaver’s curse and scarlet light to prevent the fierce ghosts inside them from reviving.
• Yang Jian concluded that the supernatural disturbance likely came from the bedroom and went to search for its source before the corpses could revive again.
• A ghost imitated Yang Jian’s voice to lure Li Yang into opening Room 507, but Li Yang used the bloodstained little wooden hammer to drive it away and shut the door.
• Li Yang waited for Yang Jian, but the real Yang Jian remained trapped in Room 502 as the situation reached a stalemate.
• A fifth-floor messenger saw signs that the post office’s balance was breaking, and another messenger said they would kill the newcomer and seize the black letter at six in the morning.
• Liu Qingqing saw an unstable road to the post office appear outside her hotel window and feared that the post office’s mission was about to begin.

Yang Jian broke the supernatural arrangement in Room 502 and learned from Old Li why the black letter had been trapped there. As the room’s ghost began to revive, Yang Jian left with the letter and new questions about the post office’s choices, oil paintings, and Glass Bottles.

• Yang Jian used his ghostly shadow to disrupt Room 502, pulled the photograph from beneath the kneeling corpse, and broke the room’s supernatural arrangement.
• Old Li explained that former messengers had trapped the black letter in Room 502 by turning him into a messenger, dead man, and vicious ghost, but now wanted the fifth-floor messengers to resume delivering it.
• Yang Jian learned that fifth-floor messengers who delivered three letters could leave, return to revive someone from an oil painting, or choose an unknown path, and that the black letter’s mission might allow only one survivor.
• Old Li warned Yang Jian that the fifth-floor messengers would gather at six the next morning and said the room next door and one oil painting were linked to the Glass Bottles.
• As blood, corpses, and supernatural activity returned in Room 502, Yang Jian continued questioning Old Li while the exit remained open.

Yang Jian learned that the black letter had kept the fifth-floor messengers from delivering letters, then found a dangerous ghost inside an oil painting while searching for a Glass Bottle. Once he removed the letter from Room 502, the post office resumed operating and its former fifth-floor messengers began returning, determined to kill him and restore their peaceful lives.

• Old Li told Yang Jian that Yin Zi had survived Room 502 but disappeared, and Yang Jian left after promising to deal with the black letter.
• Yang Jian found an oil painting containing a Glass Bottle, but a ghost inside grabbed his arm, forcing him to abandon it and grow a replacement.
• Yang Jian gave Li Yang the painting and some information about the fifth floor, then continued investigating alone.
• After the black letter left Room 502, the post office's curse reemerged and strange roads began summoning former fifth-floor messengers from cities across the country.
• Former messengers decided to kill Yang Jian and return the black letter, and Zhao Feng arrived at the post office carrying an iron hook.

Yang Jian explored the Ghost Post Office after lights-out and encountered Zhao Feng on the stairs, realizing the fifth-floor messenger had come because of the black letter. Zhao Feng revealed himself with a bone that produced ghostly fire, and the two faced each other as he introduced himself.

• Yang Jian descended the dark staircase from the fifth floor and heard footsteps climbing toward him.
• Zhao Feng climbed from below, mistook Yang Jian's footsteps for a ghost, and decided to prepare for a confrontation.
• Yang Jian spotted Zhao Feng and reasoned that he had come to investigate the black letter and the renewed fifth-floor mission.
• Zhao Feng scraped a human rib against the railing, creating blue ghostly fire that illuminated Yang Jian above him.
• Zhao Feng introduced himself as a fifth-floor messenger and warned Yang Jian about wandering at night.

Yang Jian confronted fifth-floor messenger Zhao Feng on the stairs and used his Ghost Domain and ghost shadow to defeat him and steal his memories. He learned that fifth-floor messengers planned to target him for the black letter, then left with Zhao Feng’s body, intending to gather more information when the post office grew busy the next morning.

• Yang Jian met Zhao Feng on the stairs and demanded to steal the old messenger’s memories.
• Yang Jian froze Zhao Feng with his sixth-level Ghost Domain and pierced him with his spear before Zhao Feng could use his iron hook.
• Yang Jian stopped outside Zhao Feng’s reach and used his ghost shadow to steal his memories, learning that Zhao Feng was known as Soul Reaper and had come to take the black letter.
• Yang Jian learned that fifth-floor messengers planned to act against him, then erased Zhao Feng’s memories and left him alive but vacant.
• Yang Jian found no information about Captain Yinzi in Zhao Feng’s memories, pulled out his spear, and dragged Zhao Feng toward the fifth floor.

Wang Yong led a group of fifth-floor messengers to confront Yang Jian and reclaim the black letter so they could avoid being forced back into delivery missions. Yang Jian offered them a chance to join him in taking control of the Ghost Post Office, but warned that refusing would lead to deaths.

• Wang Yong and three other fifth-floor messengers gathered in the Ghost Post Office lobby, then waited until six messengers were ready to go upstairs.
• The messengers found the door to Room 502 smashed and discovered Zhao Feng alive but incapacitated outside Room 507.
• Yang Jian emerged from Room 507 with a strange spear and revealed that he had the black letter.
• Wang Yong and Liu Ziwen urged Yang Jian to return the letter, explaining that its removal would restore the post office's delivery missions.
• Yang Jian refused to give up the letter and offered to help the messengers take control of the Ghost Post Office if they cooperated.
• Yang Jian opened the Ghost Eye on his forehead and warned the messengers that refusing his offer would lead to deaths.

Yang Jian offered the fifth-floor messengers a chance to join him in resolving the Ghost Post Office, but they rejected him and attacked. He turned their ambush into a devastating counterattack, killing four of the six messengers, while Wang Yong insisted that the survivors had not yet fought with everything they had.

• Yang Jian offered the fifth-floor messengers freedom from the post office's curse and one hundred million each if they followed his arrangements, but they refused to commit and demanded that he return the black letter.
• When the messengers rejected his ultimatum, Wang Xiuying covered Yang Jian's eyes with a ghost and used her Ghost Domain to bring the designated driver close enough to stab him with a bloodstained fruit knife.
• The apparent corpse of Yang Jian changed into Zhao Feng, revealing that the messengers had been tricked; Yang Jian then appeared behind them and strangled one messenger while killing Wang Xiuying.
• A stranger controlling Zhao Feng's body used a rusty iron hook to pull the designated driver's living portion from him, while Yang Jian speared another messenger to the wall.
• With four messengers dead, Liu Ziwen and Wang Yong remained; Yang Jian said he had prevailed because he knew their abilities, while Wang Yong declared that the survivors had not yet used all their strength.

Yang Jian faced the surviving messengers while Liu Qingqing arrived and revealed that another presence had been replacing her and eroding her mind. She chose to confront Yang Jian, leaving the fifth-floor messengers trapped in a sealed hall as the fight began.

• Yang Jian explained that Wang Yong's hesitation had allowed him to kill the other messengers, but Wang Yong resolved to fight him anyway.
• Zhao Feng collapsed and died, prompting Liu Ziwen to believe Yang Jian's advantage had weakened.
• Liu Qingqing arrived and warned Liu Ziwen and Wang Yong that Yang Jian could restart himself and reverse an outcome.
• Yang Jian and Li Yang revealed they had prepared for Liu Qingqing, with Li Yang sealing the hall doors.
• Liu Qingqing explained that another presence had been replacing her and said she would drag Yang Jian down with her before she died.

Yang Jian and Li Yang fought Liu Qingqing, Liu Ziwen, and Wang Yong in the fifth-floor hall as the messengers’ alliance tried to suppress Yang Jian’s Ghost Eyes and kill his ally. Yang Jian broke through Liu Qingqing’s assault and reached Liu Ziwen, but Liu Qingqing intercepted his attacks with supernatural defenses and golden gloves.

• Liu Qingqing spread blood-red footprints across the hall and vanished among them, while Liu Ziwen used his ghost’s power to cover Yang Jian’s Ghost Eyes and restrict his Ghost Domain.
• Yang Jian vanished to attack Liu Ziwen as Li Yang opened the ghost door in his chest and dragged Wang Yong toward it, but Wang Yong escaped using his Ghost Domain and struck Li Yang with a supernatural shovel.
• Wang Yong shattered Li Yang’s bloodstained wooden mallet with the shovel, but Li Yang survived the blow with help from his puppet doll and prepared to resist another attack.
• Liu Qingqing surrounded Yang Jian with faceless corpses in red qipaos, but Yang Jian spread his ghost shadow to halt the red footprints and used the curse of losing balance to erase the corpses.
• Yang Jian reached the blinded Liu Ziwen and thrust at him with the coffin nail, but Liu Qingqing stepped in and blocked it with her red qipao and puppet body.
• Liu Qingqing stopped Yang Jian’s firewood chopper with golden gloves that prevented it from contacting her body.

Yang Jian defeated Liu Qingqing after revealing that his true form was a ghost that could not be killed. Liu Qingqing surrendered and died as another memory replaced her, while Wang Yong also abandoned his fight against Li Yang.

• Liu Qingqing stabbed Yang Jian in the chest with a supernatural dagger, believing she had killed him.
• Yang Jian's corpse produced a ghostly shadow bearing his face, and Liu Qingqing realized she could not defeat him.
• Liu Qingqing admitted defeat, closed her eyes, and died as the red shoeprints and corpses vanished.
• Yang Jian returned to consciousness in his dead body, while Liu Ziwen collapsed after losing the Ghost Eye battle.
• Wang Yong discarded his shovel and spared Li Yang, deciding he could not risk Yang Jian's retaliation.

Yang Jian defeated the fifth-floor messengers, killed Liu Ziwen, and uncovered the location of a shop whose owner had been suppressing the messengers’ ghost resurgence. He recruited Wang Yong and ordered Li Yang to dispose of the corpses and recover useful Supernatural Items.

• Yang Jian stole Liu Ziwen’s memories, learned about the shop that suppressed ghost resurgence, and obtained a special seven-yuan banknote that could stop a ghost from attacking its holder.
• Yang Jian found that Wang Yong had spared Li Yang and offered him the choice to join them or die; Wang Yong agreed to join in exchange for the promised money.
• Yang Jian told Wang Yong that his trust would have to be earned and said his secretary would transfer the money after they left the post office.
• Yang Jian ordered Li Yang to open the ghost door and throw in the corpses while keeping any useful Supernatural Items.

After defeating the fifth-floor messengers, Yang Jian learned from Sister Hong that the Ghost Post Office could be taken over and its rules changed, but its controller would be trapped inside. He rejected her proposal as presented and resolved to find a way to control the Post Office on his own terms.

• Wang Yong cleared the fifth-floor corpses, and Yang Jian gave Li Yang Zhao Feng's iron hook while taking Wang Yong's supernatural shovel in exchange for a bloodstained pointed knife.
• Yang Jian and Wang Yong discussed the black letter, the deadly delivery mission, and the possibility of tearing it up, but Yang Jian postponed his decision.
• Liu Qingqing awakened under the identity of Sister Hong, who explained that the Post Office's controller could change its rules and offered to let Yang Jian take control if someone agreed to remain there.
• Sister Hong entered Room 504 and advised Yang Jian to leave the black letter in the Post Office because it could help choose a controller.
• Yang Jian rejected Wang Yong's offer to stay, doubted that the Post Office's proposed new missions would help its remaining messengers, and declared that he would fight Sister Hong if she opposed his plans.

Yang Jian gathered fifth-floor couriers to take control of the Ghost Post Office and end its delivery missions, recruiting those who would cooperate and killing Lu Sheng when he refused. As the group waited for more couriers, Wang Yong said several important veterans had yet to appear.

• Yang Jian decided to seek someone to administer the post office after taking control, while Li Yang and Wang Yong settled their past conflict and discussed the worsening supernatural crisis.
• Wang Yong explained Yang Jian's plan to Zhou Ze, who agreed to join the group and accept Yang Jian as captain.
• Zhong Yan and Brother Long arrived, but Lu Sheng refused to join and Yang Jian killed him with a spear.
• Yang Jian ordered the group to wait an hour for more couriers before beginning the next stage of the operation.
• After no couriers arrived for half an hour, Li Yang asked whether everyone on the fifth floor had gathered, and Wang Yong said several veteran couriers were still missing.

Yang Jian investigated Sun Rui’s disappearance and found that it was connected to an oil painting in the first-floor lobby. He entered the painting to confront the old man inside, and the chapter ended with Yang Jian and Wang Yong forcing the old man to flee through a black door.

• Yang Jian asked the fifth-floor messengers for information about Sun Rui, and Zhong Yan recalled seeing him study an oil painting three days earlier.
• Yang Jian identified the painting Zhong Yan had seen, and the figure of an old man inside it moved until the painting fell from the wall.
• Yang Jian reached into the painting, grappled with the old man, and then entered the painting after the old man produced an axe.
• Wang Yong followed Yang Jian into the painting and helped him fight the old man, while a fierce ghost blocked the old man’s axe strike.
• Yang Jian removed one of the old man’s arms, and the old man fled through a black door; Yang Jian concluded that the strange being was neither a ghost nor a human.