Chapter Summaries

Yang Jian used the Ghost Lake to prepare a trap for the Wishing Ghost while Zhang Wei, Wang Shanshan, and Old Eagle fought the hotel’s supernatural game. Zhang Wei struck down a ghost and Old Eagle seized its red wooden weapon, but the hotel’s remaining safe zones began to vanish.

• Yang Jian told Liu Qi that the Ghost Lake would be ready in ten minutes, while Zhang Wei, Wang Shanshan, and Old Eagle continued holding out inside the Peace Hotel.
• Old Eagle explained the ghost’s attack patterns and warned that safe zones would disappear as midnight approached.
• After the light above them dimmed, the three moved through the darkness, and Old Eagle and Wang Shanshan reached another safe zone while Zhang Wei remained exposed.
• Zhang Wei listened for the ghost and struck it with his axe when it attacked, giving Old Eagle a chance to seize the ghost’s red wooden weapon.
• Old Eagle, Zhang Wei, and Wang Shanshan regrouped, but the light at every hotel window began fading, threatening to eliminate all their safe zones.

Yang Jian flooded Peace Hotel with Ghost Lake and trapped the Wishing Ghost, then used an eight-layer Ghost Domain restart to interfere with its forty-minute restart. Their powers collided, and five of Yang Jian’s Ghost Eyes crashed as the confrontation continued.

• Yang Jian sank Peace Hotel into a pit with Ghost Lake while Liu Qi led Miao Xiaoshan to higher ground.
• Inside the hotel, Old Eagle, Zhang Wei, and Wang Shanshan fought off the game’s ghosts, and lighting the Corpse Oil Lamp revealed the Wishing Ghost lurking nearby.
• Ghost Lake water flooded Peace Hotel and broke the game’s rules, so Yang Jian pulled the three players out with his Ghost Domain and submerged the building.
• The Wishing Ghost began restarting, and Yang Jian answered with an eight-layer Ghost Domain restart that collided with it.
• Four of Yang Jian’s Ghost Eyes crashed during the sustained collision, and a fifth later entered a crashed state while the Wishing Ghost’s restart continued.

Yang Jian defeated the Wishing Ghost by forcing six of his Ghost Eyes into a crashed state, ending the supernatural incident at the Peace Hotel. The Wishing Ghost remained crashed inside the Ghost Cabinet, which Yang Jian stored away before staying to inspect the aftermath.

• Miao Xiaoshan, Liu Qi, Wang Shanshan, Zhang Wei, and Old Eagle watched reality return to normal and gathered around Yang Jian.
• Yang Jian recovered consciousness, realized six Ghost Eyes had crashed, and confirmed the Wishing Ghost was no longer a threat after the deadline passed.
• Yang Jian told Liu Qi that the Wishing Ghost remained inside the Peace Hotel and explained that he could have revived everyone if they had died.
• Zhang Wei struck the red wooden figure in the hotel lobby, and Yang Jian recognized it as the Wishing Ghost fused with the Ghost Cabinet.
• Yang Jian sent the crashed wooden figure into pooled water to store it, while Old Eagle left and the others prepared to rest.
• Yang Jian stayed behind to inspect the Peace Hotel and Dachang City and handle the aftermath.

After resolving the class reunion’s supernatural incident, Yang Jian returned to the First Safe House and learned how to use the Wishing Ghost’s power from the human skin paper. He turned the Wishing Ghost into a red spear, tested its ability to strike a distant target, and left the thief alive but injured.

• Yang Jian returned to the First Safe House, reassured Jiang Yan, Zhang Liqin, and Zhang Fen, and sent them home to rest.
• Yang Jian summoned the Wishing Ghost and asked the human skin paper how to use its power while it was in a deadlock.
• The human skin paper revealed that touching the Wishing Ghost’s blood granted access to its power, but wishes caused supernatural erosion that could turn Yang Jian into a new Wishing Ghost.
• Yang Jian used a minor wish to reshape the Wishing Ghost into a red spear shaft, restarted himself to erase the resulting erosion, and assembled the spear with a hatchet and coffin nail.
• Yang Jian wished for the spear to pierce a thief’s palm and threw it in the opposite direction, but it flew across the city and struck the thief.
• Yang Jian pulled the spear from the wall, warned the thief to stop stealing, and disappeared from the hallway.

After resolving the Wishing Ghost incident, Yang Jian returned to work and planned to rest before investigating the Black Umbrella incident. Overseas, the King Organization ambushed and killed Zhang Sun, a captain from Headquarters, escalating the conflict between them.

• Yang Jian returned to Shangtong Building, while Miao Xiaoshan and Liu Qi prepared to leave Dachang City.
• Yang Jian told Liu Xiaoyu that his mother was urging him to go on blind dates, then decided to rest for a few days before checking the Black Umbrella incident.
• Overseas, Zhang Sun tried to escape after confronting members of the King Organization, who had learned he was investigating them and their Ark Plan.
• The King Organization surrounded Zhang Sun with supernatural forces and trapped him inside an alley that a painter had confined to an oil painting.
• After about half an hour, the King Organization recovered Zhang Sun's corpse, with a coffin nail driven into his chest, and discussed the consequences of killing a Headquarters captain.

Wang Chaling discovered that the Starving Ghost had escaped its confinement inside his gold-lined safe house and was battering its way out. With Dadong City at risk, he prepared to confront it as four deceased members of his family appeared behind him.

• Wang Chaling worked in Ning'an Building and resolved to carry out the Infinite Restart plan before Yang Jian came to Dadong City for the pendulum clock.
• A Zhen asked Wang Chaling for two days off, and he drove to his concealed safe house to inspect the Starving Ghost.
• Wang Chaling found the containment room apparently empty, but the intact door and normal surveillance footage suggested the ghost was still inside its Ghost Domain.
• Wang Chaling spotted rust from the coffin nail on the floor and realized the Starving Ghost had broken free and was hidden within the room.
• The Starving Ghost began pounding on the safe house door, shattering its glass as Wang Chaling prepared to stop it from escaping.
• Wang Chaling's deceased grandfather, grandmother, father, and mother appeared behind him.

Wang Chaling tried to contain the escaped Starvation Ghost with his family’s ghosts, but the confrontation failed as its blue-black Ghost Domain spread through Dadong City. After Wang Shanshan warned Yang Jian that Ghost Child had begun showing the same supernatural signs, Yang Jian alerted Headquarters and ordered an investigation into which city was affected.

• Wang Chaling sent his grandfather and grandmother into the Starvation Ghost’s Ghost Domain, but the Starvation Ghost grabbed his grandmother and its gloom surged back through the basement.
• The Starvation Ghost’s blue-black Ghost Domain spread out of the basement and began engulfing Dadong City as Wang Chaling’s attempt to contain it faltered.
• Wang Shanshan called Yang Jian to report that Ghost Child had developed a blue-black Ghost Domain, which she connected to the Starvation Ghost Incident.
• Yang Jian recognized the signs and told Wang Shanshan to monitor Ghost Child while he investigated the possible return of the incident.
• Yang Jian ordered Liu Xiaoyu to contact Cao Yanhua and have Headquarters investigate which city was experiencing a supernatural crisis.

Cao Yanhua learned that the Starvation Ghost Incident had likely begun again in Dadong City, where Wang Chaling was suspected of keeping the Starvation Ghost. As its Ghost Domain expanded, Cao sent Lin Bei to support Wang Chaling and resolved to send Yang Jian if they could not stop it within an hour.

• Yang Jian warned Headquarters that the Starvation Ghost Incident was likely happening again, prompting Cao Yanhua to order checks on Liu San, Wang Chaling, and Zhou Deng.
• Headquarters reported that blue-black smog had appeared in Dadong City, and Cao Yanhua suspected Wang Chaling had stolen the Starvation Ghost.
• Cao Yanhua saw that the Ghost Domain was expanding and considered sending Wei Jing or Li Jun, but neither could provide support.
• Cao Yanhua rejected sending Yang Jian immediately because he feared Yang Jian would kill Wang Chaling, and ordered Lin Bei to rush to Dadong City instead.
• Cao Yanhua learned that Lin Bei had set off and decided that Yang Jian must be sent if Lin Bei and Wang Chaling could not contain the incident within an hour.

Yang Jian criticized Headquarters for hiding the Starvation Ghost Incident and arranged a distribution of Supernatural Items among his team. After learning the incident was in Dadong City and involved Wang Chaling, he chose to let Headquarters handle it for now and planned to settle accounts afterward.

• Yang Jian and Li Yang concluded that Cao Yanhua was concealing the Starvation Ghost’s location to protect a captain, and Yang Jian said Cao should resign after the incident was resolved.
• Yang Jian told Li Yang to gather the team for a meeting and assigned Feng Quan to remain at the Ghost Post Office.
• Yang Jian distributed Supernatural Items, replacement dolls, and ghost candles among the team, while reserving a share for Feng Quan.
• Yang Jian discussed the upcoming Black Umbrella incident with the team before Liu Xiaoyu reported that the Starvation Ghost Incident was in Dadong City and involved Wang Chaling.
• Yang Jian decided to let Cao Yanhua and the other captains handle the Starvation Ghost Incident while his team pretended not to know, then settle accounts afterward.

Yang Jian ignored Sister Hong’s repeated appearance on the road and let her into his car after she revealed herself inside it. Sister Hong said she had come to speak with him, and Yang Jian invited her to his home to discuss the matter.

• Yang Jian drove toward Guangjiang Residential Area with Jiang Yan and Zhang Liqin while choosing not to intervene in the Starvation Ghost Incident yet.
• Jiang Yan repeatedly saw a woman in a red qipao beneath roadside trees, and Zhang Liqin recognized her as Sister Hong from Yang Jian’s records.
• The car kept circling the same road until Sister Hong appeared in its path, then vanished when Yang Jian drove into her.
• Sister Hong suddenly appeared beside Zhang Liqin in the car and explained that losing the Ghost Post Office had left her without a place to stay.
• Yang Jian warned Sister Hong not to threaten his companions, and she insisted she had come without hostile intentions.
• Sister Hong asked Yang Jian to host her, and he invited her to his home so they could talk.

Sister Hong visited Yang Jian and asked him to help control the supernatural bus, offering to teach him how to drive it and remove the curse on his Ghost Scissors. Their negotiation was interrupted by news that overseas captain Zhang Sun had been killed, and Yang Jian remained undecided as the chapter ended.

• Sister Hong explained that she had awakened in Liu Qingqing's body as a new identity and asked Yang Jian for help with a dangerous task.
• Jiang Yan told Yang Jian that Headquarters had reported the death of overseas captain Zhang Sun.
• Sister Hong revealed that she needed help controlling the supernatural bus and offered to teach Yang Jian to drive it and cleanse the curse on his Ghost Scissors.
• Yang Jian asked Sister Hong to prove her sincerity, and she said he could remove the scissors' curse by washing them in a blood pool outside the city.

Yang Jian visited the blood pool formed after Yan Li’s death and used it to wash the curse from the Ghost Scissors. After Sister Hong confirmed she had used the scissors before, Yang Jian agreed to drive her on the supernatural bus around ten o’clock, though she kept the destination secret.

• Yang Jian found that ghost blood had transformed nearby corpses into blood corpses that resisted both ghost fire and the Ghost Hands.
• Yang Jian soaked the Ghost Scissors in the blood pool, removing their curses and leaving them stained crimson.
• The blood pool churned after Yang Jian washed the scissors, so he retreated, watched it, and asked Liu Xiaoyu to arrange remote monitoring.
• Yang Jian returned home and confirmed to Sister Hong that the blood pool had cleansed the Ghost Scissors.
• Sister Hong admitted she had used the scissors before and hinted at a connection between the red blood pool, the scissors, and the Ghost Cupboard.
• Yang Jian agreed to drive Sister Hong on the supernatural bus around ten o’clock, and she left without revealing their destination.

Yang Jian met Sister Hong and agreed to drive the supernatural bus while she pursued her destination, negotiating a fifteen-minute wait in exchange for a copper coin. After boarding, he learned from Sister Hong that the bus was controlled by a ghost hidden in the driver's seat, and asked how to connect with it.

• Sister Hong waited at an intersection and refused offers from passing drivers until Yang Jian arrived.
• Yang Jian negotiated with Sister Hong, accepted her old copper coin, and agreed to wait fifteen minutes for her at their destination.
• Sister Hong and Yang Jian boarded the supernatural bus, whose ghost count rose from seven to nine as they got on.
• Yang Jian took the driver's seat while the bus carried them out of Dachang City, and he asked Sister Hong how to drive it.
• Sister Hong told Yang Jian to tear open the driver's seat, revealing a ghost hidden inside it that controlled the bus.
• Yang Jian asked Sister Hong how to establish a connection with the ghost.

Yang Jian learned how to connect with the supernatural bus and took control of it when ghosts threatened to overrun the vehicle at the fifth stop. He left the old forest behind and decided he would take the bus with him.

• Sister Hong explained that Yang Jian could establish a connection by letting the corpse bite his hand, and Yang Jian planned to act after the third stop.
• At a real-world stop, several Ghost Tamers tried to escape, but Yang Jian shut the doors and forced them back to their seats.
• Yang Jian refused to let a ghost board at the deserted village stop, keeping the number of ghosts on the bus unchanged.
• At the old forest stop, dozens of ghosts surrounded the bus, so Yang Jian let the corpse bite his hand and established a connection.
• Yang Jian used his Ghost Lake power to drive through the forest, ramming the ghosts aside, and decided to take the supernatural bus with him.

Yang Jian stalled the supernatural bus in an empty county town so Sister Hong could get off and have fifteen minutes to return. As ghosts began leaving the bus, Yang Jian and the other Ghost Tamers waited outside, uncertain which of them would be targeted.

• Yang Jian let the bus drive itself and agreed to wait while Sister Hong got off at the next stop.
• Sister Hong warned Yang Jian to stall the bus and wait fifteen minutes, and Yang Jian agreed to leave without her if she did not return in time.
• The bus stopped in an abandoned county town, and Sister Hong stepped off before the other Ghost Tamers disembarked.
• Yang Jian stalled the engine and got off as darkness swallowed the bus interior.
• The Ghost Tamers gathered nearby while Yang Jian watched a ghost slowly descend from the bus, hoping to avoid a confrontation.

Yang Jian waited by the supernatural bus as a ghost unleashed deadly human-skin balls that killed most of the Ghost Tamers who had gotten off. While the survivors found ways to avoid the balls, Zhang Qi fled into the county town and discovered a room full of people with yellow paper covering their faces.

• Yang Jian watched the first two ghosts leave the bus as the second ghost’s Ghost Domain spread through the county town.
• Human-skin balls rolled toward the Ghost Tamers, and anyone who touched a ball that burst died immediately.
• Yang Jian stood on his spear and realized the balls did not burst when they touched dead objects, allowing the remaining Ghost Tamers to find ways to stay above the ground.
• Zhang Qi ran into a building to escape the balls and found a room packed with figures whose faces were covered in yellow paper.
• The figures turned together to look at Zhang Qi through the open door, and he prepared to flee.

Yang Jian faced a mass of yellow-paper-faced ghosts closing in on the stalled bus while Sister Hong tried to awaken people from a century-long slumber in a county-town building. Two people woke when she removed the paper covering their faces, but both immediately disintegrated and died.

• Zhang Qi fled a building, touched an exploding ball, and died as yellow-paper-faced ghosts emerged from inside.
• The ghosts gathered in the street, drained the supernatural power from the rolling balls, and began advancing toward the bus.
• The surviving Ghost Tamers urged Yang Jian to restart the bus, but he refused and warned that boarding it while stalled would mean death.
• Sister Hong entered a building with rows of sleeping people whose faces were covered in yellow paper and removed the paper from a young woman's face.
• The young woman and then a young man awoke, but both rapidly disintegrated after Sister Hong removed their coverings.

Yang Jian used the Wishing Ghost to protect himself from the yellow-paper ghosts while the stalled supernatural bus remained the only possible escape. The ghosts surrounded the bus, and one of the Ghost Tamers suddenly died as the others waited for the bus to restart.

• Yellow-paper ghosts flooded the county town, forcing four Ghost Tamers to flee toward the stalled supernatural bus and wait beside its open doors.
• Yang Jian entered the county town as his rolling ball deflated and used ghost fire to hold back the approaching ghosts, but they kept advancing.
• Yang Jian wished to avoid attacks from malicious ghosts for five minutes, then restarted himself to erase the wish’s supernatural corrosion.
• The wish protected Yang Jian as he moved among the ghosts unharmed, leaving the Ghost Tamers by the bus astonished.
• The ghosts surrounded the bus, and one Ghost Tamer suddenly suffocated, shriveled, and died.

Yang Jian boarded the supernatural bus after the rotting-faced Ghost Tamer died trying to control it and shut its doors. He drove through the ghosts while waiting for Sister Hong, unaware that two ghosts had boarded with him.

• Two Ghost Tamers rushed onto the supernatural bus as it restarted, and the rotting-faced man connected himself to it as its new driver.
• The rotting-faced man used his supernatural power to close the doors, but ghostly revival killed him just as Yang Jian forced his way aboard.
• Yang Jian told the surviving Ghost Tamer that he had spared them a chance to live, then took the driver's seat and closed the doors.
• Yang Jian drove the bus into the crowd of ghosts, moving slowly through the blocked road while waiting for Sister Hong to return.
• Two figures with yellow paper covering their faces sat motionless in the back row, and Yang Jian had not noticed them boarding.

Yang Jian confronted Sister Hong after she boarded the supernatural bus with five people from the Republican Era, fearing they might become dangerous ghosts. He delayed fighting her until the next stop, as the bus left the silent county town and approached a vast cemetery.

• Yang Jian noticed that two ghosts on the bus had changed seats while Sister Hong led five Republican Era survivors through the ghost-filled streets toward the bus.
• Sister Hong boarded with the five survivors and explained that she had brought them out before their final deadline, but Yang Jian distrusted them and threatened to leave them behind.
• Two of the newly boarded men suggested killing Yang Jian and taking the bus, prompting Yang Jian to attack Sister Hong with his red spear.
• Sister Hong escaped to the rear of the bus and promised to take responsibility for the five, while Yang Jian declared that they would settle matters at the next stop.
• Yang Jian closed the door and drove out of the county town as ghosts filled the carriage, and the bus approached its next stop, a cemetery stretching beyond sight.