Recaps

Su Cheng helped the island’s survivors prepare for rescue and chose to remain there until she could leave the instance. When Wang Yang arrived with two other survivors, she killed him to prevent him from becoming a future threat, then Hao Ruoxue returned with the two survivors he had brought.

• Su Cheng shared food with the owner's family, explored the island with them, found an official airdrop crate, and arranged distress signals.
• An official helicopter evacuated the owner's family, but Su Cheng and Hao Ruoxue stayed behind to await their instance exits and assist other survivors.
• Wang Yang arrived with a young man and woman, who accused him of pushing their companion Xiao He to the monsters so he could escape.
• Su Cheng shot Wang Yang with a hallucinogen-coated arrow, stabbed him in the heart, and disposed of his body in the lake.
• Hao Ruoxue returned from patrolling with the two survivors Wang Yang had arrived with.

Su Cheng completed the island instance, warned Hao Ruoxue to become more self-reliant, and returned home with 1,100 points. After organizing her supplies and preparing to enter a special instance, she encountered the red-haired woman from apartment 1215 in the elevator, who noticed that Su Cheng’s aura had changed.

• Liu Ye and Liu Hong warned Su Cheng’s group that Wang Yang had sacrificed their companion Xiao He to save himself.
• Su Cheng told the tearful Hao Ruoxue not to rely too heavily on teammates and urged her to grow stronger so she could return home.
• Su Cheng left the instance and received 1,100 points for completing its basic and advanced missions.
• Su Cheng sorted her supplies, bought fried rice and two discounted items, and decided to enter a special instance the next morning.
• Su Cheng met the red-haired woman from apartment 1215 in the special-instance elevator, where the woman remarked that Su Cheng’s aura had changed.

Su Cheng entered the special instance Coffin Keeper and got a ride to Lin Family Village with a group of online creators who planned to film there. At the village entrance, she used Mu Ling’s Shared Senses and saw something in the village that made it look as if rain were about to fall.

• Su Cheng met Yan Xing in the elevator, declined her offer of friendship, and heard Yan Xing wish her luck.
• Su Cheng arrived in the snowy wilderness, received the Coffin Keeper missions, and sent Mu Ling back into her bracelet to absorb qi.
• Su Cheng flagged down a car carrying Keke, Su Xiaoxiao, Su Zhou, and Zhou Yang, and joined them on their drive to Lin Family Village.
• Keke explained that Lin Family Village was known for its mysterious coffin-making, while Su Xiaoxiao and Zhou Yang prepared to film the village.
• Su Cheng used Mu Ling’s Shared Senses at the village entrance and saw the village through a ghostly perspective.

Su Cheng entered Lin Family Village with Su Xiaoxiao’s group and discovered that the village’s friendly residents were hiding dead children. At the inn, she exposed herself as a stranded, helpless visitor while Xu Rong followed the village’s plan, and Su Cheng began inspecting her room.

• Uncle Liu welcomed Su Xiaoxiao, Su Zhou, Keke, Zhou Yang, and Su Cheng into the village, where Su Cheng noticed dead children watching from the houses.
• Xu Rong checked in Su Xiaoxiao’s group and questioned Su Cheng about her missing identification and her supposed aunt, Liu Cuicui.
• Xu Rong used a landline to connect Su Cheng to a fake police service, then gave her room 205 and reassured her.
• Xu Rong called an accomplice, confirmed that the visitors had not suspected anything, and agreed to keep following the plan after being threatened with losing her family’s share.
• Su Cheng searched room 205 for hidden cameras but found none.

Su Cheng investigated Lin Family Village while accompanying Su Xiaoxiao's filming team and began helping at the guesthouse, where she suspected the owners might be hiding something. The team secured permission to film coffin-making, but Su Cheng discovered that Chief An Jing carried an object that repelled ghosts.

• Mu Ling found that the guesthouse bed's wooden boards were rich in yin energy and comfortable for ghosts to cultivate beneath.
• Su Cheng joined Su Xiaoxiao's team as they filmed at the village entrance, but she found no signs of coffin-making or timber transport.
• Su Cheng offered to help Xu Rong in the kitchen and met her husband Zhang Cheng, who privately called Su Cheng dimwitted.
• Su Cheng ate little at dinner while Su Xiaoxiao arranged through Xu Rong to discuss filming with the village chief.
• An Jing arrived, and Su Cheng used Mu Ling's perspective to see that a golden light around An Jing repelled ghosts.
• Su Xiaoxiao reached an agreement with An Jing to film the village's coffin-making process after paying her.

Su Cheng investigated the inn’s hidden rooms and discovered that the villagers were raising ghost children. In the storage room, she found an infant’s remains and a frightened little ghost, but learned that the child could not speak or understand her.

• Su Cheng sent Mu Ling to search the village houses and inn, where Mu Ling found talismans guarding small rooms and identified a hidden storage room in the kitchen.
• At three in the morning, Su Cheng searched the kitchen and found a used packet of powder concealed in the stove, suspecting it had been mixed into the rice.
• Su Cheng unlocked the hidden storage room with her Omnipotent Key and entered with Mu Ling.
• They found a ghost child hiding in a coffin-shaped wall niche, with infant bones inside its small coffin.
• Mu Ling stopped the child from crying, and Su Cheng and Mu Ling concluded that the child could neither speak nor understand human speech.

Su Cheng investigated the villagers’ ghost children and suspected An Jing was behind their practices. While Su Xiaoxiao’s group toured the coffin factory, Su Cheng saw a ghost child clinging to every worker and began to suspect the pagoda tree wood was connected to them.

• Su Cheng returned from the storeroom and considered where the village’s ghost children and ghost-raising methods came from, suspecting An Jing.
• The next morning, Su Xiaoxiao’s group met Zhuangzi, who explained that An Jing had brought prosperity to Lin Family Village by developing coffin-making after her husband died.
• After the group left, Xu Rong and Zhang Cheng discovered that the little ghost had refused its offerings and suspected Zhou Yang had entered the back kitchen.
• Zhuangzi led the group to the factory and mentioned that chickens and ducks had recently been found dead with their blood drained.
• Inside the factory, Su Cheng saw ghost children clinging to every worker, while Old Zhao explained that the coffins were made from pagoda tree wood from the back mountain.

Su Cheng investigated An Jing's house and discovered a hidden chamber containing a coffin fed with human and livestock blood. She escaped before An Jing could catch her and encountered Keke and Su Zhou while returning to the inn.

• Old Zhao refused Su Xiaoxiao access to the back mountain without the village chief's permission and showed the group the finished coffins.
• Zhou Yang explained the dangers of pagoda tree wood to Su Cheng, and she warned him that the inn's beds were strange.
• Su Cheng used the Omnipotent Key to enter An Jing's empty house while Mu Ling helped her search and keep watch.
• Su Cheng set the bedroom clock to 5:20 and opened a hidden passage beneath the bed.
• Su Cheng discovered a coffin surrounded by talismans, syringes, and blood bowls, revealing that An Jing had drained the livestock to feed the thing inside.
• Su Cheng escaped through the bedroom window when An Jing returned, waited out her attempts to spot the intruder, and met Keke and Su Zhou on the way back to the inn.

Su Cheng discovered that villagers were keeping a pregnant woman captive and heard her warn the group to run from the mountain behind the village. The group failed to escape after their tires were punctured, and Xu Rong brought suspicious soup to their shared room that evening.

• Keke and Su Zhou told Su Cheng they had heard a woman crying for help in an isolated house, and Mu Ling confirmed that someone was tied up inside.
• Su Cheng entered the house while Keke and Su Zhou distracted its owners, found a pregnant woman tied to a bed, and sedated her after she bit her hand.
• The woman warned Su Cheng to run from the mountain behind the village before collapsing unconscious, and Su Cheng escaped the house with Keke and Su Zhou.
• Su Xiaoxiao decided the group should leave and contact the police, but they returned after finding their tires punctured in the snow.
• Su Cheng urged the group to avoid provoking the villagers and pretend to cooperate, and Xu Rong later brought them dinner and offered Su Xiaoxiao a bowl of her specialty soup.

Su Cheng and the others were drugged and taken into the mountain, where the villagers planned to feed them to man-eating trees for coffin wood. Separated from her companions by a strange illusion, Su Cheng found them hanging dead from a tree and then saw her own corpse, as her lost memories began to return.

• Su Cheng drank the drugged soup with the others, then warned them that the villagers would make their move that night.
• After the soup knocked them out, villagers carried Su Cheng and the others up the mountain and discussed using them to nourish the trees and produce coffin wood.
• Su Cheng pieced together that the villagers used little ghosts to withstand the trees' yin energy and fed human flesh and blood to the locust trees.
• The villagers threw the unconscious group past two trees tied with red cords and fled; Su Cheng woke the others with silver needles and sent them to hide while she investigated.
• Su Cheng discovered that her companions had vanished and that she could no longer sense Mu Ling, then followed a familiar voice through the forest.
• Su Cheng found Su Xiaoxiao, Keke, Su Zhou, and Zhou Yang hanging dead from a tree, then saw her own corpse and began recovering hazy memories.

Su Cheng broke free of the locust tree’s deathly illusion and reunited with Mu Ling, but the tree attacked them while the illusion continued to make Su Cheng doubt whether she was alive. She fought to rescue the others as a branch pierced her chest.

• Su Cheng believed she had died and used the Twin Fish Jade Pendant to break through the illusion, waking to find herself and the others suspended from an enormous locust tree.
• Mu Ling freed herself from the bracelet as Su Cheng cut loose and joined her in fighting the locust tree.
• Su Cheng discovered the tree’s branches split when cut by her chainsaw, so she used her boning knife while trying to reach Su Xiaoxiao and the others.
• The illusion returned, showing Su Cheng her ghostly self and warning that refusing to accept death would make her soul scatter; Mu Ling’s voice and the pendant pulled her back to the battle.
• A locust branch pierced Su Cheng’s chest, and she focused on the pain as proof that she was alive.

Su Cheng destroyed the locust tree spirit by stabbing its underground taproot with the boning knife, then rescued Su Xiaoxiao, Su Zhou, Keke, and the unconscious Zhou Yang. She led the group toward the village as Mu Ling set the mountain ablaze, drawing the villagers away.

• Su Cheng used an explosive to expose the locust tree spirit’s red taproot and stabbed it with the boning knife, which devoured the taproot and completed the basic quest.
• Su Cheng found Su Xiaoxiao, Su Zhou, Keke, and Zhou Yang alive beneath the fallen branches, but Zhou Yang remained unconscious.
• Su Xiaoxiao explained that Zhou Yang had given her his protective talisman, and Su Cheng decided to get the group down the mountain and contact his third aunt.
• Su Cheng gathered supplies, had Mu Ling burn the withered tree, and led the group toward the village entrance.
• Mu Ling’s fire spread across the mountain, prompting the villagers to rush out and fight it while Su Cheng led the group back into the village.

Su Cheng and her companions were pursued by the hopping vampire An Jing had raised, and Su Cheng discovered An Jing had set a trap for them. An Jing restrained the vampire and offered to let them leave, but Su Cheng demanded that she kill her husband, the vampire.

• Su Cheng sensed danger in the deserted village and saw a hopping vampire approaching.
• Su Cheng and her companions fled as Mu Ling tried to restrain the vampire, but Su Cheng turned to fight when they could not outrun it.
• Su Cheng attacked the vampire, found that her weapons could not pierce its limbs, and ran toward An Jing's house while Mu Ling slowed its pursuit.
• The vampire killed Zhuangzi after Su Cheng overtook him, and An Jing appeared and restrained it with a blood-soaked rope.
• An Jing offered to let Su Cheng and the others leave, but Su Cheng demanded that she kill the vampire, which An Jing revealed was her husband.

Su Cheng escaped An Jing’s jiangshi and helped Third Aunt and Song Qingya destroy it, after which Third Aunt offered to take her as a disciple. The police arrested the villagers, Zhou Yang was expected to recover, and An Jing hinted that others might be carrying out similar crimes.

• Su Cheng and Mu Ling turned on An Jing, but An Jing broke the rope restraining her jiangshi and sent it after Su Cheng.
• Su Cheng fled toward the village entrance, where Third Aunt and Song Qingya helped trap the jiangshi; Third Aunt used Su Cheng’s jade pendant to weaken it and then destroyed it with blue flames.
• The jade pendant changed into a half-dragon pattern, and Third Aunt offered to make Su Cheng her disciple; Su Cheng accepted.
• Third Aunt treated Zhou Yang, and Su Xiaoxiao took him to an ambulance as police arrived to arrest the villagers and investigate their crimes.
• An Jing calmly told Su Cheng that she was not the only person doing such things before the police took her away.

Su Cheng became Third Aunt’s nominal disciple, learned basic cultivation, and awakened as a Celestial Master while Mu Ling evolved into a vengeful ghost. After helping Third Aunt send off the ghost children, Su Cheng completed the instance and prepared to return to her apartment, with Third Aunt quietly sending her to retrieve something before she left.

• Third Aunt gave Su Cheng an introductory cultivation manual and Song Qingya shared her notes, then taught Su Cheng how to meditate and absorb qi.
• Su Cheng obtained the Celestial Master class, while Song Qingya organized evidence from the Lin Family Village case for the association.
• Su Cheng discovered that Mu Ling had become a vengeful ghost with the new Ghost Mark skill, and Third Aunt explained how the villagers had raised the ghost children through an evil ritual.
• Su Cheng helped Third Aunt photograph and gather the tiny coffins as the ghost children passed on, and she realized she could see ghosts with her own eyes.
• The system announced that Su Cheng had completed all missions in the Coffin Keeper instance and would leave in ten minutes.
• Third Aunt walked Su Cheng back to the inn and, with two minutes remaining, sent her toward a secluded corner to retrieve something before she departed.

After returning from a special instance, Su Cheng registered for the Apartment Joint Competition and spent the next two days preparing. The chapter left her stocked with supplies and awaiting the competition.

• Su Cheng returned to her apartment, received meal vouchers and a supermarket shopping voucher, and learned that its medical pod could heal nearly all injuries.
• The system announced that registration had opened for a dangerous competition, and Su Cheng tore up her ticket to enter.
• Su Cheng learned that Yan Yu and Xu Shaowei had also registered, though Xu Shaowei could not be assigned to the same instance as them.
• Su Cheng memorized her celestial-master book and practiced its movement techniques, unlocking Fire-Attracting Art and Soul Summoning at a 30% success rate.
• On the night before the competition, Su Cheng bought two Smoke Grenades, two Miniature Bombs, and a Universal Identity Kit.

Su Cheng entered the Golden Leaf Hospital competition instance, where the task was left blank and the hospital’s emphasis on pregnancy and childbirth seemed suspicious. She posed as six months pregnant to obtain a red inpatient wristband and was directed to the fourth-floor ward.

• Su Cheng chose the golden door and arrived at Golden Leaf Hospital, one of 9,990 registered competitors in the Zone E x Street Competition.
• After learning that the hospital closed at 19:00, Su Cheng questioned Nurse Tao Yue'er and noticed the nurse repeatedly urging her to register for obstetrics and gynecology.
• Su Cheng observed that every woman in the registration line was pregnant and that women at least six months along received red inpatient wristbands.
• Su Cheng claimed to be six months pregnant, obtained a red wristband, and was instructed to go to the inpatient ward on the fourth floor.
• Su Cheng found a family of three waiting by the elevators.

Su Cheng entered Golden Leaf Hospital’s obstetrics ward, where she discovered a nighttime rule enforced by monstrous nurses. When contestants arrived after seven, she claimed the two women were pregnant, persuading the monsters to let them pass.

• Su Cheng noticed a red scarf and blood-red eyes hiding in the elevator’s air vent as she rode up with Li Li, her mother-in-law, and her husband.
• Nurse Liu assigned Su Cheng and Li Li a room, warned them not to leave at night, and the family members hurried away before seven.
• Li Li told Su Cheng that her due date was the following week, then fell asleep before the clock reached seven.
• After the clock paused at 19:00, Su Cheng went to the corridor and found two monstrous nurses attacking three newly arrived contestants.
• Su Cheng said the two surviving women, Liu Yue and Mo Yiyi, were pregnant, and the nurses reluctantly cleared the way to their rooms.

After surviving the hospital’s nighttime massacre, Su Cheng teamed up with Mo Yiyi and Liu Yue and learned that sleeping patients were safe from the monsters making rounds. At dawn, they split up to search for information, but Nurse Liu stopped them as they left the ward.

• Mo Yiyi told Su Cheng that the hospital staff had turned into monsters and killed contestants throughout the building.
• Su Cheng deduced that after 7 p.m. only patients in inpatient beds were spared, then teamed up with Mo Yiyi and Liu Yue, who shared their abilities.
• A monster nurse entered the ward and watched Su Cheng for a minute but did not attack because she kept her eyes closed; Su Cheng concluded that the monsters could not attack sleeping patients.
• Su Cheng, Mo Yiyi, and Liu Yue stayed awake through the hourly rounds, then planned to search separately for information and meet again before noon.
• Nurse Liu stopped the three as they left, questioned Mo Yiyi and Liu Yue about their missing wristbands, and Su Cheng claimed they were emergency admissions.

Su Cheng investigated the maternity ward’s strange treatment of pregnant women and received a nutritious meal that appeared to her as warm raw meat despite smelling like roast chicken. After giving the meal to Li Li, who ate it greedily and called it pig’s trotters, Su Cheng suspected the food helped the babies grow and headed to see the doctor.

• Nurse Liu stopped Su Cheng from leaving the ward, and Su Cheng later visited Li Li, who told her she taught at Golden Leaf High School.
• Su Cheng noticed that women carrying multiples stayed in VIP rooms and wondered why the hospital treated pregnant patients so leniently.
• The nurses gave Su Cheng a large meal that looked like raw meat to her, while Li Li eagerly ate her own portion.
• Su Cheng offered her meal to Li Li, who devoured it and identified it as pig’s trotters; Su Cheng suspected the food appeared differently to each person.
• Nurse Liu collected the empty boxes and urged Su Cheng to eat so her baby would grow, prompting Su Cheng to question whether the patients were truly pregnant.
• Su Cheng went to the nurses’ station to ask to see the doctor, and the nurse turned her head in stiff, jerky movements.

Su Cheng investigated the hospital, learned that nutritional meals could cause pregnancy, and found Yan Yu working in the cafeteria. The chapter left Su Cheng facing questions about Yan Yu and the meat-filled meals as a cafeteria worker watched them closely.

• Su Cheng received an ultrasound form from Doctor Wu and noticed that Doctor Wu kept a locked cabinet in her office.
• Su Cheng saw Li Li's mother-in-law force her to drink medicinal soup and noticed murderous intent in Li Li's eyes.
• Su Cheng questioned a female ghost in the elevator, who said nutritional meals tasted good and made bellies grow with babies.
• Su Cheng reached the lobby, avoided a smiling volunteer, and sensed that the new guards, cleaners, and volunteers had no souls.
• Su Cheng entered the cafeteria and discovered Yan Yu working there; another cafeteria worker warned Yan Yu not to chat during work.

Su Cheng rescued Yan Yu from the cafeteria after realizing nutritious meals clouded contestants’ minds and could cause a strange pregnancy. An ultrasound revealed a round object in Yan Yu’s uterus, and the doctor urged her to keep eating the meals so she could give birth sooner.

• Su Cheng persuaded Yan Yu to leave the cafeteria by threatening to complain to Auntie Zhang, and Yan Yu packed a meal before they left.
• Su Cheng told Yan Yu that the nutritious meal looked like raw meat to her through her Yin-Yang Eyes, and Yan Yu realized the food had been clouding her thoughts.
• Su Cheng left the meal for the female ghost in the elevator, which ate it and then panicked at a familiar scent.
• Su Cheng took Yan Yu to the second floor for an ultrasound, saying the meals might have made her pregnant with something other than a fetus.
• The doctor scanned Yan Yu and found a small round object in her uterus, then encouraged her to eat more nutritious meals so she could give birth sooner.

Su Cheng investigated Doctor Wu’s office and discovered that the hospital’s nutritious meals accelerated pregnancies while causing abnormal growth in ordinary patients. She triggered a quest about a forgotten surgery and then recognized Yang Ze in a newly occupied ward room.

• Yan Yu learned she would give birth in three to five days, and Su Cheng took her to register before returning to the inpatient ward.
• The elevator ghost warned Su Cheng to beware of the operating room, and Su Cheng asked Yan Yu to distract Doctor Wu while she investigated the doctor’s office.
• Su Cheng compared ultrasound images and concluded that the nutritious meals caused abnormal growth in ordinary people and sped up fetal development in pregnant women.
• Su Cheng found Doctor Wu’s diary, medicine, and records about Ai Xiang’s fatal premature labor, then triggered the random quest “The Forgotten Surgery.”
• Su Cheng returned to the ward corridor and saw Yang Ze sitting blankly in one of the newly occupied rooms.

Su Cheng discovered that the nutritious meals drove contestants into a ravenous frenzy and helped Yan Yu resist the craving. She then left the ward to find Mo Yiyi and Liu Yue, whom she spotted in the cafeteria with a familiar young man.

• Su Cheng and Yan Yu deduced that contestants who had survived the first night had triggered the monsters’ killing mechanisms after eating the nutritious meals, and that something in their bellies had kept the monsters from killing them.
• When the new meals arrived, Yan Yu succumbed to the meat’s aroma, so Su Cheng restrained and sedated her, then took both meals to Li Li, who eagerly ate them.
• Su Cheng and Yan Yu obtained examination forms to leave the ward, but a nurse noticed that the system showed no form for bed 29.
• Su Cheng and Yan Yu went to the cafeteria, where Su Cheng found Mo Yiyi and Liu Yue with a young man she recognized as someone the Toward the Moon Society had robbed.

Su Cheng teamed up with Song Yichi after learning about his medical knowledge and discovered that the growth in Yan Yu’s abdomen was a living placenta caused by the nutritious meals. They entered the outpatient consultation room together to find surgical instruments and pursue Song Yichi’s mission, where Doctor Li demanded that Yan Yu approach alone.

• Su Cheng traded information with Song Yichi, learned how instance missions worked, and agreed to team up with him.
• Song Yichi examined Yan Yu’s and Li Li’s ultrasound reports and identified the abnormal growths as placentas.
• Yan Yu asked Song Yichi to remove the growth, and he offered to lead the group to surgical instruments in the outpatient consultation room, where he also had a mission.
• Mo Yiyi and Liu Yue chose to search for random missions while Su Cheng, Yan Yu, and Song Yichi went to the consultation room.
• Yan Yu’s name appeared on the queue display, but Su Cheng pushed the door open and insisted that all three enter together.
• Doctor Li ordered Yan Yu to approach her desk and told the others to wait outside.