Recaps

Su Cheng examined the competition’s restrictions and had Mu Ling investigate the ghosts disturbing the residents of Red Moon Garden. After Mu Ling protected the frightened, unawakened Xu Shaowei through the night, Su Cheng set out to collect five more positive-review forms for a qualification certificate.

• Su Cheng discovered that the competition had sealed Smart Bag tools whose technology exceeded the instance’s level by ten times or more, then absorbed White Qi while Mu Ling returned to the bracelet.
• At three in the morning, noises from the apartment above prompted Su Cheng to send Mu Ling to find their source.
• Xu Shaowei left her apartment to confront the noisy child, encountered three ghosts in the corridor, and escaped inside when Mu Ling opened her locked door.
• Mu Ling drove off the other two ghosts and stayed outside Xu Shaowei’s apartment at Su Cheng’s request, while Xu Shaowei spent the rest of the night terrified.
• At daybreak, Su Cheng left Mu Ling to watch Xu Shaowei and went out to make deliveries and collect five remaining positive-review survey forms.

After earning her certificate and bonus, Su Cheng resigned from the delivery job and became Red Moon Garden’s lost-and-found administrator. She inspected the suspicious items in her care, then used Mu Ling’s perspective to track Xu Shaowei, who hurried toward a nearby temple.

• Su Cheng collected fifty positive reviews, took the certificate and bonus instead of double pay, and resigned despite Manager Peng’s protests.
• Su Cheng returned to Red Moon Garden and applied for the lost-and-found administrator position; Manager Lan hired her and showed her the office.
• Su Cheng found that the records did not match the eight unsettling items stored in the locked chest.
• Mu Ling spotted Xu Shaowei leaving her apartment, and Su Cheng guessed she was heading to the nearest temple.

Su Cheng spoke with Xu Shaowei about the distorted world, but Xu Shaowei rejected her warning and left the complex. After gathering rumors about Building 4, Su Cheng entered Apartment 205, where Zhao Fengshan and Tang Yue’s ghosts confronted her.

• Su Cheng told Xu Shaowei that the world was distorted and warned her about its traps, but Xu Shaowei mistook her for someone recruiting for a pyramid scheme and ran out; Su Cheng sent Mu Ling after her.
• Su Cheng befriended Old Wang and learned about strange incidents in Building 4, including the deaths of Zhao Fengshan and his caregiver, Tang Yue.
• Su Cheng researched the deaths and used a key taken from Old Wang to enter Apartment 205.
• A ghostly girl appeared in the stairwell, then vanished when Su Cheng saw her.
• Zhao Fengshan’s ghost appeared in the apartment, followed by Tang Yue’s ghost, who ordered Su Cheng to leave.
• Su Cheng told Tang Yue that the apartment belonged to Zhao Fengshan, and Tang Yue angrily insisted that their dispute was none of Su Cheng’s business.

Su Cheng defeated Tang Yue and Zhao Fengshan in apartment 205 while delivering their lost belongings, then returned to her routine at Red Moon Residential Complex. After receiving a call from her parents about a package, she wondered what her fake parents had sent her.

• Su Cheng let Tang Yue and Zhao Fengshan choose their own lost belongings, but Tang Yue tried to take the resentful axe and could only claim her stapler.
• Tang Yue trapped Su Cheng in a memory of torturing Zhao Fengshan, but Su Cheng escaped the illusion and revealed her celestial-master power.
• Zhao Fengshan attacked Tang Yue, who swallowed half his soul before Su Cheng burned her away with the Fire-Kindling Art.
• Zhao Fengshan reclaimed his golf club and wig, then Su Cheng burned his remaining soul and left apartment 205.
• Su Cheng copied Old Wang's key and returned the new key ring beneath the security-booth desk.
• Su Cheng's mother called to say a package was on its way, and Su Cheng wondered what her fake parents had sent.

Su Cheng collected a parcel from the Little White Parcel Station, where employee Chen He had secretly murdered the owner, Boss Wen. After discovering the meatballs sent by her fake parents contained human remains, she tested their limits and concluded they could only threaten her through verbal traps or by luring her out of White Moon City.

• Su Cheng left work early to collect her parcel before the expected rain and encountered Chen He working at the Little White Parcel Station.
• Chen He’s thoughts revealed that he had killed Boss Wen and hidden the body in the station’s refrigerator, while the corpse began to rise unnoticed.
• Su Cheng opened the meatball jars sent by her fake parents and found a fingernail and curled hairs inside the food.
• Su Cheng pretended to enjoy the meatballs while refusing to reveal anything about her alternate space, then sent her parents a photo of an empty jar.
• Su Cheng ignored her parents’ next call and reasoned that they could not directly attack her inside White Moon City, but could try to trick her into leaving.

Su Cheng and Mu Ling tried to protect Xu Shaowei when a ghost infant possessed her and Shen Ying attacked her in the rain. Shen Ying escaped through a hidden door, while Mu Ling and Su Cheng were left to wonder about the door and Shen Ying’s strange powers.

• Su Cheng learned that Xu Shaowei had taken refuge in a hotel, and Mu Ling stayed nearby after sensing danger there.
• A ghost infant possessed Xu Shaowei and drove her into the rain, where she struggled to regain control and encountered Shen Ying, who tried to kill her.
• Xu Shaowei used a mysterious knife to expel the ghost infant, and Mu Ling appeared to block Shen Ying’s attack.
• Shen Ying escaped through a hidden door that vanished before Su Cheng could inspect it, and Su Cheng recognized her as the rainy-night killer.
• Shen Ying returned to her abandoned hideout and discovered that her staff had transferred the damage from Mu Ling’s attack to a companion; she then tried to recover her lost memories.

Shen Ying recovered her sealed memories and learned that the system’s restrictions had ruined her preparations, while Su Cheng brought Xu Shaowei back to Red Moon Garden. There, Su Cheng helped Wang Tai, encountered the ghost girl Ruoruo, and followed her memories to the rooftop, where she witnessed the boy who had killed her.

• Shen Ying remembered her sealed memories, regretted failing to kill Xu Shaowei, and checked the missions that the system had assigned her.
• Su Cheng carried Xu Shaowei to Red Moon Garden and used White Qi to drive two ghosts from Wang Tai’s body, then warned him about his wife and learned about a resident in unit 605 of Building 5.
• Su Cheng met the ghost girl Ruoruo in the elevator, helped her recognize her name, and took her to the rooftop after she identified a medal in the lost property box.
• On the rooftop, Su Cheng watched Ruoruo’s memory reveal that a boy had strangled her for her medal and that his mother had hesitated to call for help.

Su Cheng learned that Ruoruo had been murdered by Yue Chao and Wen Chun, then drowned in an abandoned water tank, and promised to find the items linking them to her. After reuniting with Xu Shaowei and confirming their shared mission, Su Cheng visited Ruoruo’s mother and uncovered records identifying the killers and their later deaths.

• Ruoruo showed Su Cheng the memory of Yue Chao and Wen Chun mutilating and drowning her, then asked for help finding the belongings connected to them.
• Su Cheng returned to Room 401, where Xu Shaowei had recovered her memories, and learned they shared the mission to help the annual celebration proceed smoothly.
• Su Cheng and Xu Shaowei discussed Shen Ying, the rainy-night killer, and agreed Su Cheng would handle Yan Yu while Xu Shaowei dealt with her own work.
• Su Cheng visited Room 605 in Building 5 and met Ye Mei, Ruoruo’s distressed mother.
• Su Cheng found Ye Mei’s records identifying Yue Chao and Wen Chun as Ruoruo’s killers, along with reports that Wen Chun, Yue Rong, and Yue Chao had all died.

Su Cheng and Mu Ling subdued Yue Rong, Wen Chun, and Yue Chao in Room 606, then returned the ghosts’ lost belongings to them. Ruoruo took revenge by devouring the family, growing stronger but becoming clouded by resentment.

• Su Cheng identified Wen Chun as the severed-leg ghost and Yue Chao as the boy with the ball, then entered Room 606 to confront the family.
• Yue Rong, Wen Chun, and Yue Chao attacked Su Cheng, but she and Mu Ling overpowered them and confined their weakened souls in rings of blue fire.
• Su Cheng used the lost property box to return Yue Rong’s axe, Wen Chun’s broken high heel, and Yue Chao’s ball and fruit knife to them.
• Su Cheng left the family to Ruoruo, who devoured Yue Rong, Yue Chao, and Wen Chun to avenge herself.
• Ruoruo thanked Su Cheng, who warned her that devouring more souls could let resentment take control of her reason.

Su Cheng helped Ruoruo reunite with her mother, secured her certificate, and prepared to leave Red Moon Garden for Man Moon Hotel with Xu Shaowei. The chapter ended with two specters outside White Moon City worrying that Xu Shaowei was no longer obedient and might never leave the city.

• Ruoruo met Ye Mei on the rooftop, and after Ye Mei discovered her daughter's remains, she jumped to join her; the two souls embraced and faded away.
• Su Cheng persuaded Manager Lan to hand over her certificate by implying she could enlist the ghosts in Building 4, then resigned from the job.
• Su Cheng exchanged contact information with Wang Tai after he recovered his memories and thanked her for helping him.
• After Xu Shaowei sent her a job listing, Su Cheng applied to be a sleep tester at Man Moon Hotel, where Yan Yu was staying.
• Su Cheng and Xu Shaowei planned to leave Red Moon Garden, and Xu Shaowei ended her lease and ignored a call from her fake father.
• Two specters outside White Moon City fretted that Xu Shaowei was no longer obedient and might not leave the city.

Su Cheng and Xu Shaowei arrived at the Man Moon Hotel as sleep testers, where they found suspicious stone markers beneath their beds and prepared to investigate. Their stay was set to grow dangerous after nightfall, while the purpose of the markers remained unknown.

• Su Cheng and Xu Shaowei warned two new residents at Red Moon Garden that Building 4 was haunted before leaving for the Man Moon Hotel.
• Su Cheng noticed an evil toad in the hotel lobby, and the receptionist directed her and Xu Shaowei to wait for Manager Lin.
• Manager Lin gathered Su Cheng, Xu Shaowei, Wang Yue, Lin Qing, and Gao Xiaoyun, had them sign liability waivers, and assigned them rooms on the fourth floor.
• Su Cheng photographed her room and found several piles of black stones arranged beneath the bed, then scattered them and alerted Xu Shaowei, who found the same markers in her room.
• Xu Shaowei told Su Cheng that the ghost mother and child had died by suicide after the mother was abandoned, and the two women planned to investigate the hotel before nightfall.

Su Cheng saved Gao Xiaoyun from a ghost that tampered with a treadmill, but Gao Xiaoyun treated the incident as a chance to gain followers. After discovering that Lu Heng and Yun Xi were planning to explore the deadly Shunshun Tunnel that night, Su Cheng investigated the location.

• Gao Xiaoyun asked Su Cheng to photograph her jogging, and Su Cheng spotted a second face on her phone as a ghost sped up the treadmill.
• Su Cheng stopped the treadmill and seized the ghost, which vanished in black smoke, then showed Gao Xiaoyun a recording of the incident.
• Gao Xiaoyun decided to post the footage on Star Moon and asked Su Cheng to help her make paranormal videos, but Su Cheng refused and warned her not to conduct rituals at the hotel.
• Su Cheng followed Lu Heng on Star Moon and watched his videos, recognizing that his supernatural encounters were real and that he had not recovered his memories.
• Su Cheng learned that Lu Heng and Yun Xi planned to explore Shunshun Tunnel that night and searched for the tunnel's location and pictures.

Su Cheng tried to protect Yan Yu from the spirit attached to her and prepared for the hotel’s ghosts to emerge after dark. When a ghost crawled out of her television, Su Cheng restrained it and sent Mu Ling after it, while Xu Shaowei investigated her own room.

• Su Cheng stopped Xu Shaowei from confronting the spirit on Yan Yu’s back and used Qi to ease its hold on Yan Yu.
• Su Cheng and Xu Shaowei showed Yan Yu their matching black bracelets, prompting her to question her recent changes and agree to stay at the front desk.
• Su Cheng left Qi on Xu Shaowei for protection, then returned to her room and found a decaying smell and a strange video playing on the television.
• A female ghost crawled out of the television, but Su Cheng grabbed and restrained it before sending Mu Ling after it.
• Xu Shaowei searched her room with a compass, whose needle pointed toward the curtains.

Su Cheng discovered a hidden chamber beneath Man Moon Hotel and followed its passage into an underground space, where she found a ritual underway around Yan Yu. The robed figures were Gao Xiaoyun, Wang Yue, Lin Qing, Xu Shaowei, and another guest, and they turned to face Su Cheng.

• Gao Xiaoyun returned to the dark gym to recreate her ghost video, but a treadmill started by itself and killed her.
• Wang Yue encountered a grotesque, living corridor and was dissolved by a surge of acid.
• Su Cheng followed Mu Ling to a concealed chamber, where Mu Ling defeated a female ghost and Su Cheng found bloodied goat horns and black stones.
• Su Cheng discovered a hidden passage beneath the chamber and climbed down into a red-misted underground space.
• Su Cheng found five robed figures chanting around Yan Yu, who had a burning cross embedded in her chest, and recognized Gao Xiaoyun, Wang Yue, Lin Qing, Xu Shaowei, and another hotel guest among them.

Su Cheng learned that the Sun God Cult had built the Man Moon Hotel’s basement to feed a Calamity, and she suspected the cult’s plans were tied to the New Year’s party. After telling Xu Shaowei and Yan Yu, she left the hotel before dawn and checked Lu Heng’s popular livestream.

• Su Cheng told Xu Shaowei and Yan Yu what the black toad had revealed about the Sun God Cult and the Calamity.
• The three suspected the cult’s plan was connected to the New Year’s party, though they did not know what it intended to do.
• At two in the morning, Su Cheng said she would go out and return before dawn, then left the Man Moon Hotel.
• Su Cheng opened her phone and saw that Lu Heng’s livestream on the Star Moon platform was trending with a million viewers online.

During the blind-man’s-buff game in Shunshun Tunnel, Liu Yanhe was killed after asking a ghost how he died, while Lu Heng caught a female ghost by asking her name and learned the rules could restrain the spirits. The game continued as Chang Yue caught another troublemaker, leaving Lu Heng and the remaining players still in danger.

• Lu Heng discovered that his blindfold had been switched so he could see, and he spotted six ghosts among the players.
• Liu Yanhe followed a ghost child’s false clues, caught him, and asked how he had died; the child and a charred ghost snapped Liu Yanhe’s neck, and other ghosts attacked his body.
• Lu Heng caught the female ghost Tian Lin and asked her name, avoiding a question about her death; after she answered, the rules pulled her into the tunnel wall.
• Lu Heng realized that eliminated ghosts were bound by the game’s rules, while Chang Yue sensed danger but had no chance to quit before a ghost approached her.
• Chang Yue grabbed the ghost’s wrist and declared that she had caught a troublemaker, then was asked what question she wanted to ask.

Lu Heng and Yun Xi discovered that the ghosts could not harm players who followed the rules, but Lu Heng was exposed as a cheater and the tunnel began punishing him. Su Cheng arrived at Shunshun Tunnel and was trapped by Shen Ying, while Mu Ling confronted Shen Ying outside.

• Chang Yue removed her blindfold after hearing what she thought was her mother, saw the ghosts, and was killed after fleeing.
• Lu Heng repeated his question to the charred male ghost and was saved when the ghost was pulled into the wall; Yun Xi followed his lead, and the two survived the ghosts’ attacks by obeying the rules.
• The little boy removed Lu Heng’s blindfold, exposing him as a cheater, and the tunnel’s faces attacked him as his jade clasp shattered and briefly shielded him.
• Su Cheng rode the enlarged black toad to Shunshun Tunnel and learned from Mu Ling that Shen Ying was inside the production van.
• Shen Ying’s trap enclosed Su Cheng in a blue ring, blocking her connection to Mu Ling and resisting her attempts to break out.
• Mu Ling overturned the van and confronted Shen Ying, who revealed that she had killed the four crew members and released red butterflies that began consuming Mu Ling’s ghostly energy.

Su Cheng defeated Shen Ying, destroying her body and extinguishing her soul after surviving her traps and attacks. She then turned back toward the tunnel, where Yun Xi stumbled out, while Lu Heng remained inside.

• Shen Ying trapped Mu Ling with red butterflies and a formation, then sent a Soul-Devouring Butterfly toward Su Cheng behind a blue barrier.
• Su Cheng used Dragon's Roar to break the barrier and destroy the butterfly, then attacked Shen Ying while the golden dragons pressed against her contracts.
• Shen Ying exhausted her contracts and weapons trying to survive, but Su Cheng slashed her throat and pierced her heart with the boning knife.
• Su Cheng burned Shen Ying's corpse and used blue flames to extinguish her soul; Mu Ling ate the weakened red butterflies.
• Su Cheng put away the blood-soaked boning knife and turned toward the tunnel to check on Lu Heng, but Yun Xi stumbled out.

Su Cheng rescued Yun Xi and Lu Heng from the tunnel, brought them back to the hotel, and investigated a symbol linked to the Sun God Cult. Wang Tai told her the cult’s murders were part of a ritual and suggested the competition’s tenth task might lead them beyond White Moon City.

• Su Cheng found Yun Xi unconscious outside the tunnel, then entered to rescue Lu Heng and carried both survivors back to the hotel.
• Su Cheng completed an evaluation document for the hotel while the rescued pair rested in her room.
• Su Cheng drew the symbol that appeared when Shen Ying’s soul departed and learned from the black toad that it was on the Sun God Cult leader’s mask.
• Su Cheng sent the symbol to Xu Shaowei, Yan Yu, and Wang Tai, who called to confirm it was the Sun God Cult’s emblem.
• Wang Tai told Su Cheng the cult was behind recent murders and described a friend’s narrow escape from the extremely yin land beyond White Moon City’s gates.
• Su Cheng inferred that the tenth task might connect to the Sun God Cult and the area outside the city, and Wang Tai agreed.

Su Cheng rescued Yun Xi and Lu Heng from the tunnel and learned that Hu Ding, their studio owner, was linked to the Sun God Cult. As the group regrouped at the Man Moon Hotel, Lu Heng asked whether everyone had received the same fourth mission: stopping White Moon City's upcoming New Year's gala.

• Su Cheng submitted a one-star review of the Man Moon Hotel, and Yun Xi woke up and remembered how the tunnel ghosts had attacked her before Su Cheng's light drove them away.
• Yun Xi thanked Su Cheng, recalled that she knew her from Yan Yu and the street competition rankings, and offered her a jade bead and then a sealed old book; Su Cheng accepted the book.
• Yun Xi recognized the design on Su Cheng's paper as a mark she had seen tattooed on Hu Ding, the owner of her and Lu Heng's studio, and said she could contact him.
• Su Cheng called Xu Shaowei and asked him to investigate Hu Ding with Yun Xi while she went to White Moon City's boundary with Wang Tai.
• Lu Heng woke up with his memories restored, and Su Cheng demanded payment for rescuing him; Xu Shaowei arrived and said Yan Yu would come shortly.
• Lu Heng asked whether everyone's fourth mission was the same as his: stopping the upcoming New Year's gala.

Su Cheng, Lu Heng, and Wang Tai crossed the boundary of White Moon City and discovered that the peaceful countryside beyond it was an illusion concealing a wasteland filled with ghosts. Su Cheng used the Fire-Attracting Art to protect them from a surging horde, but the trio remained surrounded.

• Su Cheng and Lu Heng joined Wang Tai to investigate outside White Moon City, while Xu Shaowei and Yan Yu stayed with Yun Xi.
• At the city gate, Su Cheng saw through the illusion of fields and farmers and recognized the shadowy figures calling her their daughter as hostile entities.
• Lu Heng gave Wang Tai a potion to counter the shadows' mental attack, and Wang Tai chose to enter the city outskirts with Su Cheng and Lu Heng.
• After the trio crossed the gate, Su Cheng marked out a safe circle with blue fire, revealing hundreds of ghosts surrounding them in the darkness.
• The ghosts kept pressing against the flames, and Wang Tai threw his relic bead at the advancing horde.

Su Cheng and her companions used Lu Heng’s astrolabe to find and destroy a giant ghost, but red motes from its remains seemed to turn Lu Heng and Wang Tai against each other. After questioning her own intentions, Su Cheng unlocked Gene Lock Stage Three and advanced to Immortal Celestial Master, leaving the fighting ghosts blasted away by her new power.

• Lu Heng used his bloodied astrolabe to identify a giant shadow as the source of what they sought, and Su Cheng led the group toward it.
• Su Cheng split the giant shadow with her boning knife, and a red mote flew into her forehead without leaving any sign of injury.
• Lu Heng and Wang Tai turned on each other, while Su Cheng considered exploiting them for their items before rejecting the idea as a betrayal of her principles.
• Su Cheng reaffirmed that strength was for survival, not for bullying the weak, and the system announced that she had unlocked Gene Lock Stage Three and gained two special skills.
• The system advanced Su Cheng’s class to Immortal Celestial Master, and her sudden burst of power blasted away the surrounding ghosts.

Su Cheng uncovered how the Sun God Cult used Calamity Seeds to trigger a massacre and summon the Calamity, then purified the trapped souls outside White Moon City. She reunited with Yan Xing at the city gate, where Yan Xing said her parents’ auras had suddenly vanished.

• Su Cheng saw a vision revealing that the Sun God Cult had used Calamity Seeds to provoke a massacre and summon the Calamity, while White Moon City’s stone gate interrupted the ritual and trapped the victims’ souls outside the city.
• Su Cheng realized the New Year’s task was a trap and that stopping the Calamity’s descent required preventing the Calamity Seeds from disrupting the gala.
• Su Cheng used the mental technique to absorb yin energy, freed Lu Heng and Wang Tai from the black shadows, and removed their Calamity Seeds.
• Su Cheng used Deliver All Sentient Beings to release the resentful souls outside the city, clearing the black mist and revealing a wasteland.
• Su Cheng recognized Yan Xing at the stone gate, and Yan Xing explained that she had come to retrieve her parents but their auras disappeared when she arrived.

Su Cheng and her companions reached the shopping mall rooftop to stop the Sun God Cult from spreading Calamity Seeds on New Year’s Eve. After the cult’s cardinal transformed into a mass of heads belonging to dead contestants and attacked, Su Cheng destroyed its core, while the cultists remained poised to confront them.

• Su Cheng borrowed Yan Xing’s phone to call Yan Yu and Xu Shaowei, but neither answered, then took Lu Heng and Yan Xing to the rooftop overlooking the square.
• At 23:00, Su Cheng and her companions arrived as a red-robed cardinal and white-robed Sun God Cult followers painted enormous bloody eyes on the rooftop.
• Su Cheng killed the cardinal, and Lu Heng found a box on his body that contained Calamity Seeds.
• The cardinal’s headless body grew dozens of heads belonging to contestants, and a cultist revealed that the Sun God Cult targeted outsiders as offerings.
• The heads attacked Su Cheng, Lu Heng, and Yan Xing while the cultists blocked the rooftop exits; Su Cheng used flames and her companions’ attacks to expose and destroy the creature’s core.
• Su Cheng drank a potion Lu Heng gave her and turned toward the unmoved cultists.

Su Cheng and the contestants faced Calamity’s arrival after the Sun God Cult sacrificed its remaining followers, while the system’s countdown paused. As monsters poured through portals and Calamity reached for the fighters, a woman leaped onto its giant claw.

• Su Cheng, Lu Heng, and Yan Xing killed the white-robed followers, but their leader sacrificed himself at midnight and summoned Calamity, causing the system to pause the instance countdown.
• Su Cheng realized the cultists had turned themselves into sacrificial vessels, and she urged the others to prevent Calamity from fully descending.
• A woman broadcast a call for the contestants to unite, while a frail contestant protected a child and rallied residents to flee as contestants fought the flying monsters.
• Lan Qing revealed herself as the broadcaster and used holy-water arrows to fight the monsters, while Lu Heng, Yan Xing, and other contestants joined the battle.
• As Calamity’s giant claw reached for the fighters, the contestants’ weapons failed to harm it, and a woman leaped from a rooftop onto the claw.