Chapter Summaries

Xu Xi and his teammates reconsidered their approach to the looping flight, deciding to investigate the crash while a seemingly ordinary flight attendant appeared in the altered cabin. As Xu Xi waited in his seat for her cart to reach him, his teammates stayed wary and prepared for whatever came next.

• A different, normal-looking flight attendant pushed a clean refreshment cart through the rust-covered cabin, and Aleksye, Itanu, and Yansheng wondered whether different times and spaces were overlapping.
• Xu Xi warned his teammates about Manya's corpse, and Aleksye pushed it beneath a nearby seat before heading toward the restroom to avoid the attendant.
• Xu Xi considered the Dungeon's increasingly difficult loops and suspected that the timing of the attendant's appearance mattered.
• Itanu decided to make himself useful to Xu Xi, while Yansheng grew more suspicious of his fellow players and kept watch.
• Xu Xi fastened his seat belt and waited for the refreshment cart to arrive.

Xu Xi questioned a flight attendant about the plane and learned the reported crash had happened more than thirty years ago, not over twenty. He discovered the drink might be a useful item, while Yansheng prepared to question the attendant too.

• Ji Yang examined a dead player's wounds and concluded she had been used as a human shield.
• Xu Xi told the other players, "Watch out for the corpse," then returned to his seat.
• Xu Xi asked the flight attendant about the flight and learned the plane crash from the news report had occurred more than thirty years earlier.
• Xu Xi requested a drink, tasted it, and suspected the juice was an item before pocketing it.
• Itanu drank some of the same juice, while Yansheng saved his and asked the flight attendant a few questions.

Aleksye, Itanu, and Yansheng investigated the plane while Xu Xi pieced together its overlapping timelines. The group’s search continued as Yansheng invited Xu Xi to help report a passenger carrying a dangerous item, but Xu Xi questioned whether such an item existed.

• Aleksye returned from the restroom, learned what had happened, and concluded that the flight attendant and passengers belonged to different timelines.
• Yansheng proposed asking the flight attendant to help search the plane, while Itanu suspected Yansheng had restrained him during the earlier attack.
• Xu Xi deduced that the plane had been involved in three crashes across three timelines and that it had been repaired and returned to service after each crash.
• Yansheng told Xu Xi that he and Itanu were going to report a passenger carrying a dangerous item, then invited Xu Xi to join them.
• Xu Xi asked what they would do if there was no dangerous item, and Yansheng replied that they could not know without checking.

Xu Xi realized the bloody footprints marked danger, while Aleksye reached the cockpit and was trapped inside by two attacking flight attendants. Yansheng fled a swarm of bloody figures with a flight attendant, bringing them toward Xu Xi and Itanu.

• Aleksye dodged two bloodied flight attendants, forced her way into the cockpit, and shut the door as they pounded against it.
• Yansheng approached a seemingly normal flight attendant to warn her, but a crowd of mangled figures appeared around them.
• Xu Xi noticed the bloody footprints and inferred that the tattooed man had turned back after spotting them.
• Itanu stared at the footprints and felt relieved that he had avoided following Yansheng.
• Yansheng grabbed the flight attendant and ran from the figures, then emerged with the swarm behind them in front of Xu Xi and Itanu.
• Itanu's scalp tingled at the sight, while Xu Xi prepared to use Rollback.

Xu Xi, Itanu, and Yansheng survived the Ghostly Shadows by staying in their seats, but Manya’s corpse reanimated and attacked Percy. Yansheng subdued the corpse and turned to question Percy, while Xu Xi and Itanu continued watching from a distance.

• The Ghostly Shadows passed over the seated Xu Xi and Itanu, then vanished after Yansheng pushed Percy toward an empty seat and returned to his own.
• Xu Xi realized that sitting in a seat seemed to protect people from the Ghostly Shadows, and the others stayed still as well.
• Manya’s wounded corpse crawled out from beneath a seat and attacked Percy, who fled toward Yansheng for help.
• Yansheng used an ability to immobilize Manya, then beat her down until her bones broke.
• Yansheng confronted the shaken Percy and said they needed to talk.

As the plane’s turbulence brought the cabin’s corpses back to life, Xu Xi sought Itanu’s help against the blonde woman. Itanu subdued her with his item, allowing Xu Xi to kill her, though Itanu realized he had mainly been used as a shield.

• The lights dimmed and the cabin filled with decay as Xu Xi saw a previously motionless corpse begin twitching again.
• The blonde woman appeared behind Xu Xi and stabbed him in the neck, then Xu Xi woke in the next loop and went to Itanu.
• Itanu assumed Xu Xi had noticed a new danger and wanted to rely on his item, while Xu Xi chose him because he seemed capable and had a protective shield.
• As Manya transformed and attacked Percy, the blonde woman emerged from the restroom and advanced on Xu Xi and Itanu.
• Itanu activated his item and wrestled the blonde woman, then Xu Xi stabbed her in the neck with a fruit knife.
• Itanu realized Xu Xi had used him mainly as a shield while delivering the killing blow.

Xu Xi and Itanu survived the fight with the blonde woman, but realized the plane’s crash was advancing with each loop and their time was running out. Percy revealed an emergency ejection device in the cockpit, and Yansheng led her there while Xu Xi stayed behind with Itanu, suspecting Yansheng was under mental influence.

• Xu Xi stabbed the blonde woman after Itanu pinned her down, while Yansheng killed Manya elsewhere in the cabin.
• Itanu realized the plane was falling farther with each loop and that the crash process could not be reversed.
• Yansheng questioned Percy, who revealed that an emergency ejection device had been left in the cockpit during the plane’s modification.
• Itanu warned that the cockpit might be dangerous and suspected Yansheng had been mentally influenced by the beverage.
• Yansheng and Percy went toward the cockpit, while Xu Xi stayed behind with Itanu and chose to trust the tattooed man more.

Xu Xi and Itanu discovered that the pilot’s guilt over the plane crash was sustaining the looping flight dungeon, and they reassured him that the airline’s unsafe plane—not his handling—had caused the disaster. The pilot landed the plane and vanished, and Xu Xi and Itanu cleared the dungeon.

• Xu Xi and Itanu entered the dark restroom and emerged into a ruined cockpit, where a distressed pilot repeatedly blamed himself for the crash.
• Xu Xi told the pilot that the airline had repeatedly returned a crashed, modified plane to service and that the crash was not his fault.
• Itanu urged the pilot to save the two surviving passengers, and the pilot pulled back on the control yoke as the plane’s systems came alive.
• The pilot landed the plane, apologized for keeping them trapped, and disappeared as the flight announcement resumed.
• Xu Xi and Itanu left the empty plane and cleared the dungeon when white circles appeared beneath their feet.

After clearing a Dungeon, Xu Xi reviewed its branching timelines, learned the effect of his new Mind-Cleansing Drink, and discovered he had climbed to fourth place globally. He immediately tried to enter another Dungeon, but matchmaking found no players and began inviting them instead.

• Xu Xi concluded that the Dungeon had three paths across different timelines, with two leading to dead ends, and credited the tattooed man’s observations with helping him survive.
• Xu Xi learned that the Mind-Cleansing Drink could temporarily prevent mental Contamination or clear it after exposure.
• Xu Xi checked his panel and saw that he ranked second in Huaguo and fourth globally, with 692 floors cleared.
• Xu Xi skipped the forum and started matchmaking for another Dungeon, but no players were available, so the system began inviting players and warned that a single-player Dungeon would be generated if no one responded.

Ji Yang explained how Xu Xi’s sparse actions revealed the Dungeon’s clues and speculated that three intertwined timelines might each have had a source of obsession. After the Dungeon was cleared, the leaderboard showed Xu Xi at Floor Count 692, second on Huaguo’s leaderboard and fourth globally, leaving Ji Yang and his viewers stunned.

• Ji Yang explained that the drinks Percy served were special Items that subtly affected players who refused them, including amplifying Bangs Man’s arrogance and misplaced trust.
• Ji Yang interpreted Xu Xi’s hints as pointing to the plane’s flight information and three intertwined points in spacetime, and credited Tattooed Man with following Xu Xi’s reasoning about the restroom.
• Ji Yang and the viewers questioned how the Pilot’s obsession could sustain all three timelines, and Ji Yang guessed that each timeline might have had its own source of obsession.
• The viewers checked the rankings and saw Xu Xi at Floor Count 692, second on Huaguo’s leaderboard and fourth globally, leaving Ji Yang and the Livestream Room silent.

Online users and players marveled at Xu Xi's rapid rise to second in Huaguo and fourth in the world after clearing eight Dungeons in eleven days. They speculated that he could reach God Hunt's floor 999 in two more Dungeons, leaving everyone wondering whether they were about to witness a legend.

• Forum users discussed how Xu Xi cleared his flight Dungeon with little apparent effort and gained 104 floors, raising his total from 588 to 692.
• Users noted that Xu Xi had cleared eight Dungeons in eleven days, with seven of them taking only four days after his week of rest.
• People speculated that Xu Xi could reach floor 999 in two more Dungeons and wondered whether he would team up with Liang Bu, Xie Simin, and other elite players.
• Xu Xi's rankings and the mystery of floor 999 became trending topics as online users debated what wish he might make upon reaching the top.
• Players recalled Xu Xi's solo Dungeon speedrun of 2 minutes and 48 seconds and learned he had been in the God Hunt Game for less than half a month.

Xu Xi’s sudden rise to second place on the Huaguo Leaderboard astonished Xie Simin and foreign viewers, who learned he had cleared seven Dungeons in four days. After Xu Xi invited Xie Simin and other top players to a team, he canceled the invitation just as they prepared to enter a Dungeon.

• Xu Xi’s livestream and rapid climb to second place on the Huaguo Leaderboard drew attention from foreign viewers.
• Xie Simin saw Xu Xi replace her on the leaderboard and learned from the Player Forum that he had joined the game eleven days earlier and cleared seven Dungeons in four days.
• Xu Xi sent Xie Simin a team invitation, and she accepted it.
• Xie Simin urged Zhang Yi and Tang Rongting to accept their invitations, and both replied that they had received them.
• Xu Xi canceled the team invitation as Xie Simin prepared to enter a Dungeon.

Xu Xi canceled an unexpected multiplayer matchmaking attempt and entered a solo Dungeon, where a woman asked to borrow soy sauce at his door. The chapter ended as he opened the door and the visitor raised an axe.

• Ji Yang and the livestream viewers were surprised when God Hunt appeared to start another Dungeon so soon after Xu Xi's last one.
• Xu Xi canceled matchmaking after learning no players were available and chose to enter a solo Dungeon.
• Xu Xi arrived in a dim, worn room and began surveying his surroundings.
• A woman outside asked to borrow soy sauce, and Xu Xi opened the door despite suspecting a trap.
• The visitor raised an axe as the door opened.

Xu Xi investigated his haunted room alone and found a diary describing a man-eating building whose entrance was locked. He suspected he needed the landlord’s key to escape, but the room was filled with black aura and God Hunt did not answer his call.

• A woman outside Xu Xi’s door repeatedly asked to borrow soy sauce, and he ignored her while searching the room.
• Ji Yang saw that Xu Xi had entered the Dungeon alone and worried about the danger at his rank.
• Xu Xi found a diary whose writer described growing supernatural disturbances, a locked entrance, and a man-eating building.
• Xu Xi inferred that escaping through the main entrance with the landlord’s key might clear the Dungeon, though he expected obtaining the key to be difficult.
• Xu Xi photographed the room and saw black aura filling it, then called God Hunt again and received no answer.

Xu Xi searched the apartment building for a way out and encountered the landlord while knocking on residents’ doors. She told him no one who entered could leave, offered to sell him supplies, and demanded a disturbance fee.

• Xu Xi descended to the entrance and found its iron gate chained shut, then photographed the lock’s keyhole with his phone.
• Xu Xi knocked on the residents’ doors for help, including 402, but no one answered.
• As Xu Xi turned toward the fifth floor, an old woman appeared close behind him and confronted him about making noise.
• Xu Xi guessed that the old woman was the landlord and claimed he had been asking neighbors for soy sauce because he could not leave to buy any.
• The landlord said people could enter the building but could not leave, offered to sell Xu Xi any supplies for money, and demanded a disturbance fee.

Xu Xi tried to pay the landlady’s disturbance fee with spirit money, but she killed and ate him when he had no other payment. Rollback restored him to the start, where he answered a neighbor’s knock by stabbing her with a fruit knife.

• The landlady demanded a five-hundred disturbance fee, and Xu Xi offered spirit money, which she refused as dead people’s money.
• The landlady claimed Xu Xi could pay with something else, then dismembered him and ate his head when he had no money.
• Rollback restored Xu Xi to the room, where he checked that his limbs and neck were intact and concluded the landlady was an anomaly.
• A woman knocked and asked to borrow soy sauce while Xu Xi’s God Hunt livestream viewers watched.
• Xu Xi opened the door and stabbed the woman in the crotch with a fruit knife.

Xu Xi subdued Xie Haoyong and questioned him about the building, its landlord, and its tenants. After learning that the landlord lived on the sixth floor and that a doctor lived in the building, Xu Xi refused to release Xie Haoyong.

• Xu Xi stabbed the burly man in the crotch, took his axe, and dragged him inside.
• Xu Xi questioned the man, who identified himself as Xie Haoyong, a former private chef wanted for poisoning his employer's family.
• Xie Haoyong told Xu Xi that tenants could not leave, had to follow the landlord's rules, and could buy supplies from her.
• Xie Haoyong revealed that the landlord lived on the sixth floor and that the only tenants he had met were a butcher and a doctor.
• After Xie Haoyong asked to be released, Xu Xi said he had never promised to let him go.

Xu Xi realized the building’s tenants treated flesh and blood as currency and may have shared an unspoken system for targeting newcomers. After killing Xie Haoyong, he decided to investigate the landlord on the sixth floor before attempting to take her key.

• Xu Xi inferred that tenants could pay with their flesh and blood and that the landlord did not intervene in private disputes between neighbors.
• Xu Xi suspected that the building’s longtime tenants had an understanding about dividing up newcomers.
• Xu Xi refused to release Xie Haoyong and chopped off his head with the axe.
• Xu Xi decided to head to the sixth floor to learn more about the landlord before confronting her for the key.

Xu Xi repeatedly rolled back after encountering traps while trying to reach the sixth floor, then investigated room 502 and found a woman who attacked him with ropes and dolls. After restarting again, he tortured Jie Haoyong to learn where he lived.

• Xu Xi found a key on Jie Haoyong, avoided room 502, and became trapped in a stairwell loop with dark figures and a floor that swallowed him, so he killed himself to roll back.
• Xu Xi returned to the starting point, killed Jie Haoyong without questioning him, and tried the key on room 502, but it did not fit.
• A woman opened room 502 and invited Xu Xi inside; he saw her grotesque dolls, ran, and was ensnared by ropes before manually restarting.
• Xu Xi returned again, demanded Jie Haoyong's apartment number, and cut off his left arm when Jie claimed to live in room 502.

Xu Xi searched room 501, found notes revealing the burly man's suspicions about the woman in room 502, and killed her to take control of her hemp rope. He then used the rope as part of a plan to get the landlord to open his locked room, and waited as she went to fetch a spare key.

• Xu Xi searched room 501 and found money and a notebook describing tenants as meat and noting that the woman in room 502 depended on her hemp rope.
• Xu Xi knocked on room 502 and killed the woman before she could react, causing the ropes to go limp.
• Xu Xi discovered that the hemp rope was an item, took it, and returned to room 401, leaving the axe inside.
• Xu Xi pretended he had locked himself out and asked the landlord for a spare key, agreeing to pay the disturbance and lock-opening fees.
• The landlord went to fetch the spare key, and Xu Xi waited in the corridor, relieved that his plan had worked.