Chapter Summaries

After removing the Leviathan egg from Peng Jiating, Zhang Heng returned home and celebrated the New Year with his family. Aquya then asked him to accompany her into a special dungeon because she could not face going there alone.

• Zhang Heng removed the Leviathan egg from Peng Jiating and returned the Yasinba Tribe's Guardian Amulet to Tiantian.
• Zhang Heng returned home and apologized to his grandfather and parents for keeping them waiting.
• Zhang Heng spent New Year's Eve with his family and received greetings from friends, including Hayase Asuka and Shen Xixi.
• Zhang Heng noticed that Aquya had gone quiet and messaged her a New Year's greeting.
• Aquya asked Zhang Heng to join her in a special dungeon that would not consume a game attempt, explaining that she could not go there alone.

Key Plot Points and Events

• Zhang Heng receives an email invitation from You Always Look Unhappy (#`O′) for a new game round.
• He enters the instance and finds himself in a bustling train station entirely constructed from Lego bricks.
• He meets You Always Look Unhappy (#`O′), who is also a Lego minifigure, and they take a taxi to discuss the situation.

Character Developments

• Zhang Heng adapts to his new Lego minifigure form.
• You Always Look Unhappy (#`O′) reveals she's from the game's version of Guangzhou and is concerned about her family.

Significant Themes

• Adaptation to new environments and forms.
• The blurring of reality and game worlds.

Character Interactions

• Zhang Heng and You Always Look Unhappy (#`O′) reunite and work together, with Zhang Heng showing concern for her wellbeing.
• Zhang Heng and the taxi driver have a brief interaction, highlighting the differences between the game world and reality.

Key Plot Points and Events

• Zhang Heng and You Always Look Unhappy (#`O′) travel to Guangzhou in a taxi driven by a talkative local.
• They arrive at Teemall, the largest commercial center in Tianhe, where You Always Look Unhappy (#`O′) wants to grab a drink before heading home.
• At a Starbucks, they encounter a bald man related to the main quest, whom they ignore as instructed by You Always Look Unhappy (#`O′).

Character Developments

• Zhang Heng: Shows patience and understanding towards You Always Look Unhappy (#`O′)'s quirks and past.
• You Always Look Unhappy (#`O′): Reveals her past aspirations and experiences, showing vulnerability and introspection.

Significant Themes

• The mundane and extraordinary coexisting in everyday life.
• The contrast between one's aspirations and reality.
• The impact of ignoring or engaging with significant events (the main quest).

Character Interactions

• Zhang Heng and You Always Look Unhappy (#`O′) bond over their shared experience, with Zhang Heng showing understanding and acceptance of her past.
• The driver's enthusiastic tour guide behavior contrasts with Zhang Heng and You Always Look Unhappy (#`O′)'s silent communication.
• The bald man's attempt to engage them in the main quest is rebuffed, highlighting their decision to ignore the impending apocalypse.

Key Plot Points and Events

• You Always Look Unhappy (#`O′) and Zhang Heng walk through Yangji Village and recall its past as a urban village.
• They discuss her father who works nearby and her mother who is preparing dinner at home.
• They follow a high school girl who resembles You Always Look Unhappy (#`O′), intending to 'kill' her (i.e., merge with her).
• Zhang Heng hits the high school girl with a 1*1 blue brick, and they put her in the trunk of an abandoned car.
• They arrive at You Always Look Unhappy (#`O′)'s home, and she knocks on the door, announcing, "It's me, Mom."

Character Developments

• You Always Look Unhappy (#`O′): She shows nostalgia for her childhood home and reveals her desire to reunite with her mother. She also displays a mix of nervousness and apprehension about returning home.
• Zhang Heng: He shows reluctance to harm the high school girl and expresses concern about whether she's 'dead' after the hit.

Significant Themes

• Nostalgia and the passage of time, as seen in the transformation of Yangji Village.
• The complex emotions surrounding homecoming and reunions, as experienced by You Always Look Unhappy (#`O′).
• The blurred line between reality and game, as Zhang Heng struggles with the concept of 'killing' a Lego character.

Character Interactions

• You Always Look Unhappy (#O′) and Zhang Heng: They share a friendly banter as they walk through the city, with You Always Look Unhappy (#O′) trying to lighten the mood with jokes. They work together to 'kill' the high school girl, although Zhang Heng shows reluctance.
• You Always Look Unhappy (#O′) and her mother: Their interaction is brief but poignant, with You Always Look Unhappy (#O′) nervously knocking on the door and announcing her presence.

Zhang Heng spent New Year's Eve with Mei Nan's family in the instance dungeon, then checked into a hotel and encountered the Bald Man, who asked him to help save the world. The chapter ended with Zhang Heng learning that the man knew about the world's destruction in three days and considered him the Chosen One.

• Mei Nan brought Zhang Heng home and introduced him to her mother and younger brother as a classmate.
• Zhang Heng shared dinner with Mei Nan's family, then thanked her mother and left with Mei Nan.
• Mei Nan told Zhang Heng that her family was fine but that she herself had a problem, and she said she would find him when the world was destroyed.
• Zhang Heng found a hotel and saw the Bald Man waiting in the lobby, but went to the front desk without speaking to him.
• The Bald Man followed Zhang Heng into the elevator and asked him to help save the world after learning Zhang Heng already knew it would be destroyed in three days.

Zhang Heng learned that players had to use Lego building skills to stop monsters from destroying the city, but he spent the first two days exploring instead. When Mei Nan explained that the instance was a competition with limited attempts and rumors of a B-grade item, Zhang Heng learned why other players were trying to clear it.

• Bald Man demonstrated how Master Builders could turn ordinary objects into weapons and offered to teach Zhang Heng, who declined.
• Zhang Heng spent two days sightseeing and sampling food in the city rather than training his Lego Assembly skill.
• Mei Nan told Zhang Heng that a spacetime passage had opened above Little Waist and monsters were expected to appear within ten minutes.
• Mei Nan explained that twenty-four items could open the instance, only one player or team could win, and each item allowed ten attempts with a limited amount of training time.
• Mei Nan said she had already used her item four times and might lose her remaining attempts because another team had recruited a Lego expert.
• Mei Nan revealed that rumors of a hidden B-grade item were motivating players to clear the instance.

Zhang Heng used the instance’s accelerated time to study Lego assembly before joining Mei Nan for another attempt at the Master Builder game. They found Demon Butcher at the Metal Rose bar and proved themselves as Chosen Ones, just as the Bald Man appeared and revealed he was believed to have died three years earlier.

• Zhang Heng realized the instance gave him enough time to practice, studied Lego assembly techniques online, and entered the game when Mei Nan sent the email.
• Zhang Heng and Mei Nan traveled to the Metal Rose bar to find Demon Butcher, ignoring the Bald Man’s expected appearance.
• Mei Nan built a motorcycle from a flowerbed and bicycle parts to prove she was a Chosen One.
• Zhang Heng assembled a sword in under two minutes, though the Waiter mistook it for a baguette with a fish tail.
• The Waiter revealed himself as Master Builder Demon Butcher and let Zhang Heng and Mei Nan into the bar.
• The Bald Man appeared and declared that the world’s survival rested on the Chosen Ones, while Demon Butcher recognized him as Mobile Arsenal, believed dead for three years.

Bald Man and Waiter explained that the Evil Scientist planned to open a spacetime passage and risk the city to revive his dead wife and daughter, leaving Zhang Heng and Mei Nan as the Master Builders’ hope. Zhang Heng learned that the passage required the Quantum Collider and the unique Infinite Blocks, and that closing it at the right moment was their only plan.

• Bald Man recounted the Evil Scientist’s plan and the devastation caused by the monsters that came through the passage three years earlier.
• Bald Man and Waiter revealed that the Evil Scientist had once led the Master Builders before his family’s deaths drove him to become their enemy.
• Bald Man demonstrated his weapon-making skill and explained the Master Builders’ names reflected their specialties.
• Bald Man said the Evil Scientist had likely placed a Quantum Collider atop Little Waist but would have a backup, so destroying one collider would not be enough.
• Bald Man explained that they had to close the passage after it opened but before monsters arrived, and that the unique Infinite Blocks were essential to activating it.

Bald Man, Waiter, Zhang Heng, and Mei Nan went to find the Messenger so she could contact the surviving Master Builders, but Evil Scientist’s bionic humans attacked her first. The group rescued the Messenger and fought back, then called on Zhang Heng and Mei Nan to build something as the battle threatened nearby civilians.

• Bald Man explained that the group could defeat Evil Scientist while he used the Quantum Collider, remove Infinite Blocks, and stop the time-space passage, then recruited Waiter to find the Messenger.
• Mei Nan told Zhang Heng that they would face a fight at the Messenger’s home and explained that the Master Builders had much stronger Lego Assembly skills than the Chosen Ones.
• Waiter led the group to the Messenger’s building, where they saw her fleeing from Evil Scientist’s bionic humans.
• Waiter built an inflatable cushion from nearby objects, and the Messenger jumped from the seventh floor and landed safely on it.
• Bald Man assembled a Gatling gun and attacked the bionic humans, while Waiter refused to release the destructive Butcher because civilians were nearby.
• As the surviving bionic humans returned fire, Bald Man and Waiter told Zhang Heng and Mei Nan to build something.

Zhang Heng and Mei Nan built a Smart Fortwo to escape the Black-clad Bionic Humans, with Zhang Heng using a rope and wheelchair to accommodate the Bald Man. The group drove away from the residential complex, and the Bald Man said he knew a place where they could shake their pursuers.

• Mei Nan decided to build a Smart Fortwo while Zhang Heng tried to make a vehicle and ended up with a nylon rope.
• Mei Nan finished the car, and Zhang Heng put the Messenger and the Waiter in its trunk before tying the rope to the Bald Man's wheelchair.
• Mei Nan drove the group out of the residential complex, and the Bald Man fired at the pursuing Black-clad Bionic Humans from his wheelchair.
• Mei Nan swerved around a truck at an intersection, and the Bald Man, the Messenger, and the Waiter pulled the wheelchair closer to keep it from swinging wide.
• The group escaped as the traffic accidents blocked their pursuers, and the Bald Man said he knew a place where they could shake the Little Tails.

The Bald Man and his companions reached a scrapyard and asked Messenger to contact the surviving Master Builders before the Evil Scientist destroyed the city in three days. Messenger built a giant beehive for her messenger bees, and the Bald Man settled on a short message calling the Master Builders to join them.

• The Demon Butcher destroyed the car to keep the Evil Scientist's androids from tracking the group to the scrapyard.
• Waiter introduced Messenger to the Chosen One and her tagalong, and the Bald Man asked her to contact the other Master Builders.
• Messenger built a giant beehive from discarded electronics while the Bald Man mistook it for an unrelated project.
• Black bees emerged from the hive, and Messenger asked what message she should send.
• The Bald Man shortened his message until Messenger finally accepted: “We found the Chosen One. Come at once!!!”

Bald Man and Waiter tried to gather allies against Evil Scientist, but most invitees refused or could not come. Mei Nan explained the coming trial and urged Zhang Heng to leave before dawn, but Zhang Heng decided to stay and prepare for the fight.

• Messenger Bees returned with messages from Ms. Cat, Daddy Cowboy, Rocket Man, Dessert King, Candy Baby, and King of the Ocean, none of whom joined the group.
• Waiter concluded that gathering everyone had failed and admitted he had no backup plan.
• Mei Nan told Zhang Heng he could learn Lego Assembly from Mobile Arsenal, Demon Butcher, or Messenger, and recommended Mobile Arsenal for its weapons.
• Mei Nan warned Zhang Heng that Evil Scientist's subordinates would attack around 7:15 or 7:20, and that Demon Butcher would die helping the others escape if they left before dawn.
• Zhang Heng decided the group would stay, and Mei Nan agreed to set warnings and make two Box Guns while Zhang Heng began learning Lego Assembly.

Zhang Heng learned the basics of construction from the messenger and created a ladybug, but the lesson was interrupted when the Evil Scientist's Black-clad Bionic Humans attacked the scrapyard. As the defenders were overwhelmed, Zhang Heng asked them to buy him three minutes, and the Waiter unleashed the Butcher.

• Zhang Heng chose the messenger as his teacher after finding her step-by-step lessons more useful than the Bald Man's or the Waiter's instruction.
• Zhang Heng spent the night learning construction and created a ladybug, gaining a better grasp of how Lego creations worked.
• An alarm warned the group that the Evil Scientist's forces had reached the scrapyard, and the Bald Man attacked them with grenades.
• Zhang Heng, Mei Nan, the Bald Man, the Waiter, and the messenger fought off the Black-clad Bionic Humans as they climbed the scrapyard walls.
• The Bald Man deployed a Metal Storm, but the attackers kept coming, so Zhang Heng asked the others to buy him three minutes.
• Mei Nan told the Waiter to release the Butcher, and the Waiter sent the monster into the enemy crowd.

Zhang Heng turned the tide of the battle by assembling a Sky Aircraft Carrier, which destroyed Evil Scientist’s forces and rescued Mei Nan and the others. The group reached the carrier and discovered Zhang Heng was alone aboard, while Bald Man questioned Mei Nan about her awakening.

• The Butcher drew enemy fire but was destroyed by Evil Scientist’s Nano-Disintegrator, leaving Bald Man, Waiter, Messenger, and Mei Nan pinned down.
• As the bionic humans closed in, Zhang Heng’s Sky Aircraft Carrier rose from behind the garbage pile and blasted the attackers.
• The carrier’s shield blocked another Nano-Disintegrator beam and its weapons destroyed the weapon and nearby bionic humans.
• Bald Man created a helicopter, and he, Waiter, Messenger, and Mei Nan flew up to the carrier to find Zhang Heng.
• Zhang Heng revealed he had assembled the carrier, and Bald Man asked Mei Nan about her awakening and possible secret abilities.

Zhang Heng used his extra time to return to the Parallel Instance, where he learned from the Master Builders and became a Level 2 Lego expert. With Evil Scientist far stronger than him and the coming battle only two days away, the group still had no clear way to win.

• Zhang Heng explained that he had built the Sky Aircraft Carrier and revealed that the system had accepted his method for entering the Parallel Instance.
• Zhang Heng recalled traveling four years into the past, learning from the scientist, and witnessing the scientist's transformation into Evil Scientist.
• Zhang Heng told Mei Nan that his Lego Assembly skill was near the top of Level 2, but Evil Scientist was likely Level 3 and beyond his ability to defeat.
• Zhang Heng suggested Bald Man might be crucial to clearing the instance because of his unusual connection to Evil Scientist and his role in earlier events.
• Bald Man and Waiter proposed relaxing and building team spirit before the battle, then worried that they lacked enough people to attack Little Waist.

Zhang Heng and his companions took refuge in a KTV while he arranged to distract Evil Scientist’s forces and searched for help beyond Mobile Arsenal. Their memories of the vanished Destruction King led them to consider finding him to fight Evil Scientist, but they did not know where he was.

• Zhang Heng said the Sky Aircraft Carrier was on autopilot to draw the Black-clad Bionic Humans away from them.
• Bald Man and Waiter recalled how Destruction King’s destruction once kept the Master Builders busy and celebrated.
• Bald Man and Waiter described how they struggled to adjust when Destruction King disappeared and society no longer needed the Master Builders.
• A KTV waiter told Bald Man that smoking was prohibited, and Bald Man put out his cigarette.
• Mei Nan suggested finding Destruction King to help defeat Evil Scientist, but the group wondered how to locate him.

With less than thirty hours before Evil Scientist opened the time portal, Zhang Heng's group searched for former Master Builders who could help stop him. They found Destruction King running a kway teow shop, but he had lost his destructive ability and refused to return to his old life.

• Zhang Heng explained that someone had misled the Master Builders searching for Destruction King and led the group to a kway teow shop on Shangxiajiu Pedestrian Street.
• Waiter recognized Flame Girl and asked her to come out of retirement, but she said she had become an ordinary shop owner.
• Zhang Heng asked Flame Girl to bring out the chef, then identified him as Destruction King.
• Destruction King admitted his past identity and explained that he had changed his life after starting a family and opening the shop with Flame Girl.
• Destruction King tried and failed to take apart a stool, demonstrating that he had lost his ability, and offered the group discounted kway teow instead.

A mechanical spider attacked the street near the Kway Teow shop, putting A'gang in danger and prompting Destruction King to rescue him. Destruction King’s destructive ability returned as he dismantled the spider, and Flame Girl encouraged him to use his power to become a hero.

• A mechanical spider attacked Lotus Fragrance Tower, and A'gang was knocked unconscious nearby.
• Flame Girl spotted A'gang as the crowd fled, while Bald Man’s RPG failed to damage the spider.
• Destruction King charged toward the spider, rescued A'gang, and narrowly dodged its attack.
• Destruction King’s destructive ability returned, and he dismantled the mechanical spider until only a tiny device remained.
• Flame Girl confirmed A'gang was unharmed and told Destruction King to use his ability for good and become a hero.

The group prepared for the final battle by building a defended shelter and trying to choose a team name. Zhang Heng and Fan Mei Nan shared a quiet New Year’s moment before the Bald Man announced that the team had settled on New Year Game Squad.

• The Waiter welcomed Destruction King to the group, and the Bald Man suggested choosing a team name.
• The five avoided returning to the hotel and built a protected house where they could wait out the final twenty-four hours.
• Fan Mei Nan thanked Zhang Heng for keeping her company over the New Year and told him her full name was Fan Mei Nan.
• The Bald Man, the Waiter, and Destruction King asked Zhang Heng and Fan Mei Nan to vote among three proposed team names.
• Zhang Heng proposed New Year Game Squad, and Fan Mei Nan’s vote made it the team’s name.
• The Bald Man agreed to design an operation badge and joked that the team would look like New Year mascots.

Zhang Heng and his companions planned how to reach Evil Scientist’s Quantum Collider atop Little Waist without alerting his forces. They arrived disguised as tourists, though Bald Man still brought the Smart Toilet Seat he intended to return.

• Fan Mei Nan explained that Evil Scientist had installed the Quantum Collider on Little Waist’s Photography Observation Deck and warned that the tower was heavily guarded.
• The group planned to enter as tourists through the open observation hall, with a backup plan to secure the elevators and power distribution room if discovered.
• Bald Man insisted on wearing the team emblem beneath his clothes and carrying the Smart Toilet Seat to return to Evil Scientist.
• Zhang Heng changed the group’s appearances, and the six arrived beneath Little Waist disguised as ordinary tourists.
• Fan Mei Nan questioned Bald Man’s toilet-seat disguise, and Zhang Heng suggested making it look like a surfboard.