Huaguo
Survival by Rewinding: I Really Am Not a Big ShotBiodata
| Feature | Value |
|---|---|
| Name | Huaguo (华国) |
| Type | Country |
| Known region | J Province 138 |
| Notable players | Xu Xi, Liang Bu, Xie Simin, Zhang Tian 137 |
| First Appearance | Chapter 1 |
God Hunt and Contamination
God Hunt selects players to survive dungeons. Failure contaminates part of a player’s country, while success clears contamination; the extent depends on the dungeon’s difficulty. By Xu Xi’s selection, every provincial capital in Huaguo had suffered some contamination, though the country was still holding out 1.
Contamination could return after a cleanup: in J Province, Ji Yang saw it spread again when another player failed an instance, despite Xu Xi’s earlier cleanup 138.
Mixed-Team Competitions
Huaguo took part in all three mixed-team competitions before the fourth. Its contestant won the preceding competition: a thirteen-year-old player who eliminated the contestants from every other country 97 98.
God Hunt selected Xu Xi as Huaguo’s contestant for the fourth competition. Viewers celebrated by filling the livestream with “248,” a reference to his two-minute, forty-eight-second first-instance record 97. When he withdrew from the in-instance show, Huaguo viewers largely trusted that he had a plan, despite criticism from abroad 101 105.
Xu Xi cleared the competition solo in forty-three minutes. Huaguo viewers celebrated, while the broadcast’s hosts and commentators tried to reconstruct his reasoning 135.
Players and Rankings
God Hunt maintains real-time Huaguo and global player rankings. When the rankings became available, the country’s top three players were Liang Bu, Xie Simin and Zhang Tian. The public release of Floor Counts gave ordinary people a clearer sense that the 999th floor could be reached 137 138.
| Xu Xi’s Huaguo rank | Floor count | Milestone |
|---|---|---|
| 71st | 498 | Six instances cleared 136 137 |
| 47th | 588 | Seven dungeons cleared 165 166 |
| 2nd | 692 | Eight dungeons cleared; fourth globally 189 |
| 1st | 866 | Nine dungeons cleared; also first globally 205 |
After Xu Xi reached first place, Huaguo announced a special holiday and arranged a nationwide broadcast for his next dungeon. He cleared it, bringing his record to ten dungeons and 999+ floors 205.
Media and Public Response
- China Central Television broadcast the fourth mixed-team competition, with hosts Jiang Jin and Yao Han and commentators Lin Miao and Luo Zongyun 97 128.
- Ji Yang, a livestreamer, followed Xu Xi’s runs and hoped he would become a source of hope for Huaguo 83 168.
- Huaguo forum: Players used the national forum to exchange instance information, discuss rankings and communicate after being isolated in Player Space and dungeons 137.
- God Hunt research: A widely held hypothesis in Huaguo proposed that the game’s instances were worlds it had once devoured 132.