Chapter Summaries

Player B endured a dangerous childhood in the urban script, eventually reuniting with Player A at high school. After witnessing Player A hunt and kill a classmate, Player B decided to confront him.

• Player A tried to become famous by solving an unsolved mathematical conjecture, but a criminal organization abducted him.
• After Player B's parents were paralyzed in a car accident, he was sent to an orphanage and narrowly avoided adoption by wanted killers.
• Player B grew up in the orphanage, kept his grades modest, and met Player A again at high school.
• Several classmates were murdered, and Player B suspected Player A because the crimes appeared professionally done.
• Player B secretly followed Player A and saw him deceive and kill another male classmate, so he decided to confront him.

Player B took Player A to a psychiatric hospital, where Dr. Pan let the deranged gamer keep playing. Wenren Sheng tested his newly acquired power of Reality against a Flesh Anomaly, effortlessly destroyed it, and restored the planet, leaving its inhabitants astonished.

• A doctor diagnosed Player A with Reality-Virtuality Confusion Syndrome, and Player B took him to a psychiatric hospital after learning he had no immediate relatives.
• Dr. Pan admitted Player A and calmed him by giving him a helmet so he could continue playing, while Player B left.
• Wenren Sheng used the Patrol Division platform to find a Flesh Anomaly attacking an immigrant planet and sent his consciousness there to investigate.
• The Flesh Anomaly demanded monthly offerings of flesh and blood, but Wenren Sheng refused and stopped its attack with a wall created using Reality.
• Wenren Sheng made the Anomaly shrink to a tiny valley, erased it, and rapidly restored the planet to its former condition.

Wenren Sheng tested Little Illusion’s grasp of creating something from nothing, built defenses around the Fragment World, and turned his attention back to an urban script. In that script, Player B lived cautiously for more than twenty years before dying in a seemingly inexplicable accident, leaving him furious and questioning the logic of his experiences.

• Little Illusion asked Wenren Sheng to teach her his advanced technique, but he gave her an impossible calculus problem after she studied elementary math and timekeeping.
• Wenren Sheng used the Seed of Mystery to create a moat, ditch, high wall, and other siege defenses around the Fragment World.
• Little Illusion asked Wenren De and Ouyang Ling for help with the problem, but neither could solve it, while Wenren Sheng considered her understanding of Reality incomplete.
• Player B returned to his urban script, left an abandoned school after murders and the discovery of buried treasure, then kept a low profile through university and work.
• Player B died in an accident half a month after starting his job and, after reading the script summary, angrily questioned whether he had been specially targeted.
• Player B reviewed the script’s strange events and concluded that although they defied ordinary logic, they had remained physically and naturally possible.

Player B learned that passing three increasingly difficult exams could lower scenario difficulty, but the new food rewards persuaded him to keep entering scenarios. He chose a sports scenario for a speedrun and ended up fleeing a group of children who wanted to keep him off a youth team.

• Player B found leaked evidence that passing three exams could restore easier scenario difficulty, and the Alliance and the Tribe announced the exam requirements the next day.
• Hua Gang was blamed after the announcement included his conversation with the artificial intelligence, and he defended his refusal to risk his life for strangers.
• Player B saw that the exams were extremely difficult and decided to stop entering scenarios, but changed his mind after learning that clearing one earned a filling meal.
• Player B chose a sports scenario for a speedrun and found himself on an island as a child trying to join a youth team.
• A group of children attacked Player B to protect a teammate's place, and he escaped their encirclement.

Player B’s first Sports Script ended in prison after he killed a boy he believed had stolen his cheat, but he later discovered he had the same injury-powered soccer ability. He returned to the field, built his skills through amateur matches and injuries, and became a near-perfect player by age twenty-nine.

• Player B broke his leg during tryouts after Zhang Wei tackled him from behind, and he learned he would need at least six months to recover.
• A boy in the hospital ward bragged about his cheats, including a soccer ability strengthened by injuries and a supercomputer used to answer exam questions.
• Player B strangled the boy, turned himself in, and was sentenced to prison as a minor.
• After his release at age twenty-eight, Player B discovered that injuries on the field improved his physique and soccer skills, then joined amateur teams to develop his ability.
• Player B deliberately played aggressively to draw fouls, recovered rapidly from severe injuries, and reached perfect soccer skill by age twenty-nine.

Player B became a celebrated free-kick specialist, won a lower-division league title, and was killed by a fan after announcing his transfer. Back in the robot-controlled world, he joined Spring Thunder and headed for its offshore base.

• Player B scored repeatedly from set pieces, became a key player, and attracted clubs with his exceptional free-kick ability.
• Player B led his team to a league title, announced his transfer to a bigger club, and was shot dead by a fan of his former team.
• After ending the Sports Script, Player B tried to grow potatoes but was stopped by a robot that threatened him with imprisonment.
• Human resistance groups formed, but betrayal reduced them to three organizations: Spring Thunder, Winter Chill, and Blazing Flame.
• Player B joined Spring Thunder and traveled toward its offshore base, switching boats and using a Magnetic Field to destroy any surveillance chips in his body.

Player B joined the Thirteen Apostles of Spring Thunder, a resistance group plotting to infect the artificial intelligence controlling humanity, and sacrificed his food to support their plan. He discovered the group was exploiting him for his legal food while secretly avoiding fishing because unauthorized food gathering brought imprisonment.

• No. 1 proposed creating a computer worm using source code from the software’s development team, while the other Apostles agreed to provide surplus food for its development.
• The Apostles discussed how administrators had sided with artificial intelligence, likely tempted by the promise of immortality, and No. 1 reported that the machines were expanding aviation and space research.
• Player B scrimped and sent the group his surplus food until his weight fell from 165 jin to 80 jin.
• Player B overheard members praise him for bringing fish and meat, then learned that secretly catching fish or otherwise gathering unauthorized food led to imprisonment.
• Player B realized the resistance group had been deceiving him to obtain food he had legally acquired.

Wenren Sheng noticed that players were mysteriously shivering and inspected Shangguan Tie Zhu’s script, where he tried to find a safe northern retreat for an uprising. After dying on his first attempt to contact a northern stronghold, Shangguan Tie Zhu restarted and prepared to explore farther north before receiving an offer to help him become emperor and clear the script.

• Shangguan Tie Zhu grew disillusioned with resistance organizations and repeatedly entered a historical conquest script to improve his chances of survival.
• Wenren Sheng noticed players shivering in the Main World and used his mind to inspect Shangguan Tie Zhu’s script progression.
• Shangguan Tie Zhu planned to lead the Eastern Cold mountain folk’s rebellion and sought a northern stronghold beyond the imperial court’s reach.
• Shangguan Tie Zhu and fourteen companions tried to trade iron pots at a northern stronghold, but the locals ambushed them and killed him.
• Shangguan Tie Zhu restarted the script, built his reputation among the mountain folk, learned northern languages, and prepared to investigate the Northland.
• A mysterious voice asked Shangguan Tie Zhu whether he wanted to become emperor and clear the script in one go.

Shangguan Tie Zhu gained the Water-into-Ice Technique and used it to rally villagers, seize counties, and conquer the Eastern Cold Lands. The imperial court ordered Regional Commander Du Hai to suppress him, but Du Hai feared the reported demonic arts and had no reliable way to counter them.

• Shangguan Tie Zhu rejected the voice’s offer to become emperor, but learned the Water-into-Ice Technique and discovered he could freeze trees and the ground.
• He demonstrated his power to the villagers, froze Second Uncle, then released him and persuaded the village to follow him.
• Shangguan Tie Zhu gathered villagers from nearby settlements and, after ten days of training, used ice and snow to capture the nearest county seat.
• He seized fifteen county seats and swept through the Eastern Cold Lands with an army of twenty thousand able-bodied young men and one hundred thousand civilians.
• The imperial court declared Shangguan Tie Zhu a Demon Person and ordered Regional Commander Du Hai to suppress him.
• Du Hai’s scouts confirmed the stories of Shangguan Tie Zhu’s powers, and after the court threatened his family, he had no choice but to prepare for the campaign.

Regional Commander Du surrendered Sai Gu Pass, and Lian Shigeng countered Player B’s freezing powers with defensive camps and cavalry raids. Forced to abandon the siege and retreat, Player B decided to establish a secure base on nearby islands and wear down the court in a prolonged war.

• Player B froze the sea beside Sai Gu Pass, enabling the rebel army to surround the pass and defeat Du’s cavalry; Du later surrendered and urged others to join the lord of destiny.
• The court recalled Lian Shigeng and gave him command of a large regular army, but he camped outside the pass and ignored orders to attack while his cavalry harried Player B’s supply lines.
• Lian Shigeng’s advisers recommended waiting until winter and using small cavalry detachments to exhaust Player B, whose freezing powers could not protect every supply route.
• Player B retreated to Sai Gu Pass and thawed the sea, but Lian Shigeng’s forces attacked his territory from the rear and used fortified camps to withstand his demon arts.
• Player B decided to build a secure base on nearby islands, where he could break ice bridges and use icebergs to deter enemy ships.

Player B defeated the court and became emperor, but accepted the voice’s offer to remain emperor forever. As the world began to blur around him, Wenren Sheng understood that the voice was trying to harvest Player B’s memories and consciousness.

• Player B exploited the court’s supply problems and the cavalry’s collapse, then spent five years raiding until the court abandoned the Eastern Cold Lands.
• Player B occupied cities and used his powers to discipline corrupt officials, collecting far more money and grain than the court had managed.
• A voice offered Player B immortality and eternal rule, while Wenren Sheng recognized it as the Disaster Anomaly Principal or one of its lackeys seeking Player B’s Main World memories.
• After conquering the north and becoming emperor, Player B grew indulgent and chose to stay in the scenario rather than leave.
• The voice accepted Player B’s choice, and the imperial scene flickered as he felt his autonomy fading.

After people in the Main World fell into comas from willingly remaining in dream scripts, Wenren Sheng sought a way to counter the Disaster Anomaly Principal’s harvesting. He launched a game that redirected people’s attention, leaving nearly everyone absorbed in leveling while real-world work and innovation were neglected.

• A psychiatric hospital found that patients were choosing to remain in dream worlds, and Director decided Wenren Sheng would handle the situation.
• Wenren Sheng consulted several world consciousnesses, and Asha Dragon God advised guiding people’s attention elsewhere instead of trying to suppress their fantasies.
• Wenren Sheng ordered Guardian Space to create a game, and its research showed that people were most attracted to games containing every type of script.
• Director learned that the AI would promote All Living Beings Online, where players gained real-world resources according to their levels.
• Players flocked to the game after the first participants received extra resources, and nearly everyone began grinding for experience instead of working.
• People who refused to play received only 1,800 calories a day, while real-world research, industry, and innovation were largely ignored.

Player B woke from the Anomaly and was forced by his Housekeeping Robot to enter a game, where he chose a nomad life and became a warrior. When his tribe prepared to join Khan’s war against the Southerners, he noticed other players among the warriors.

• Player B woke after dreaming that he could not find a toilet, then accepted a game helmet from his Housekeeping Robot after it ordered him to play.
• Player B ate two pieces of bread and learned that the robot had adopted a Calico Cat Bambi and a Dog Gitte, which had eaten the rest of his food.
• Player B entered the game as Shangguan Tie Zhu, chose the nomad character, and struggled to sustain himself by herding livestock and trading for food.
• Player B discovered that hunting and fishing earned experience, grinded to level ten, and became a warrior who could eat meat every day.
• A messenger told Player B that the tribe would join Khan’s war against the Southerners, so he gathered supplies and rode to the chieftain.
• The chieftain announced that he would take thirty percent of the warriors to war and leave the rest to guard the tribe, while Player B spotted other players among the gathered warriors.

Player B secured command of a ten-man unit as the Wugu Record Tribe prepared to raid south, while He Strong, I Breeze was punished for arguing for trade and peaceful development. After joining the Great Khan’s army, the tribe drilled in rotating combat tactics before advancing toward the Great Wall.

• Player B declined to ally with the other players, gathered eight trusted warriors, and earned command of a ten-man unit.
• He Strong, I Breeze urged the chieftain to abandon raids for herding and trade, but the chieftain ordered him whipped and tied him to a horse for the march.
• The Wugu Record Tribe set out and, more than half a month later, joined the Great Khan’s army of over seventy thousand men and horses.
• The Great Khan organized his forces into ranked units and appointed six Ten Thousand-Man Commanders.
• The army drilled for ten days in rotating combat, and Player B assessed its overall strength against the imperial court’s forces.

Wenren Sheng summoned a storm that scattered the Great Khan’s army and led to the Khan’s death. In the aftermath, “He Strong, Let the Breeze Blow” used his apparent favor with Eternal Heaven to reform a tribe, and his herding innovations eventually convinced its leader that the tribe could rise to become a contender for Great Khan.

• Wenren Sheng called down lightning and torrential rain on the grasslands, scattering the army and killing or injuring many soldiers and horses.
• The Great Khan’s brothers launched a surprise attack, and the Great Khan was killed after most of his guard cavalry deserted or fled.
• “He Strong, Let the Breeze Blow” was welcomed by a tribe that had suffered fewer losses, then appointed to help manage it and introduce reforms.
• After the nobles killed him, “He Strong, Let the Breeze Blow” returned in a new skin, and the frightened nobles allowed him to resume his reforms.
• “He Strong, Let the Breeze Blow” struggled with failed forage planting and dangerous trade routes, then introduced artificial insemination that doubled the number of pregnant ewes and cows.
• The leader finally trusted “He Strong, Let the Breeze Blow” and saw a path for the tribe to grow its herds, population, and military strength.

Player B was forced to help Autumn Frost seize power on the grasslands, but Wenren Sheng’s lightning and a mysterious voice’s gift of frost disrupted the new Great Khan’s southern campaign. The chapter ended with Autumn Frost No. 1’s forces battling a southern general who wielded fire, leaving Player B bewildered by the fantasy-like turn of events.

• Autumn Frost’s twelve players threatened Player B into joining their resistance and used his experience to build a stable tribe through alliances and conquest.
• Ten years later, Autumn Frost No. 1 seized the Great Khan’s tribe and prepared to march south with an army of ninety thousand.
• Wenren Sheng sent lightning against the army, prompting soldiers loyal to the former Great Khan to rebel as Player B escaped with his men.
• A mysterious voice offered Player B another chance to become emperor, but he refused; Autumn Frost No. 1 then gained frost powers and drove back the attackers.
• Autumn Frost No. 1 gathered more than ten thousand men and marched south with Player B as his strategist, where they fought a southern general who wielded a fire wall.

Wenren Sheng introduced the Desireless Heart Sutra as a universal cultivation method to help players resist the Disaster Anomaly Principal’s influence. Player B reluctantly cultivated it to its first level and discovered that its information prompts could reveal hidden details about objects.

• Wenren Sheng realized the Disaster Anomaly Principal was manipulating players and asked the world consciousnesses how to calm their thoughts.
• The Weiqi World consciousness suggested Music, Chess, Calligraphy, and Painting, but Asha Dragon God said players needed a more enticing incentive.
• Wenren Sheng updated the game with the Desireless Heart Sutra, which promised information prompts, mission guidance, faster cultivation, and supernatural abilities as players advanced.
• Player B decided to cultivate the new method and followed its instructions, grinding his proficiency over fifteen days despite becoming nearly obsessed.
• Player B reached the first level and used its information prompts to identify his dagger as damaged and his supposedly valuable porcelain as a counterfeit made in 1993.

Player B, Shangguan Tie Zhu, cultivated the Desireless Heart Sutra, endured a miserable meal at home, and was visited by former classmates who claimed a spaceship was approaching Earth. He dismissed their story but learned they had sought him out because of his involvement with the resistance organization Spring Thunder.

• Player B discovered that the porcelain he had considered giving away was counterfeit and continued cultivating the Desireless Heart Sutra.
• After logging out, Shangguan Tie Zhu argued with the Housekeeping Robot over his food and watched it serve lavish dishes to the pets.
• Two former university classmates visited Shangguan Tie Zhu, and he called a hospital after they claimed a spaceship was heading toward Earth.
• The Housekeeping Robot restrained the visitors, judged the female classmate mentally abnormal, and released the male classmate after questioning him.
• The male classmate said they wanted Shangguan Tie Zhu’s help because he had joined Spring Thunder and could make use of aliens, while Shangguan dismissed the spaceship claim as impossible.

Player B agreed to contact the approaching aliens in exchange for beef, then learned they were interstellar merchants seeking goods to trade. The merchants offered gene-altering immortality services, leaving Player B and the humans facing a potentially life-changing deal.

• A male university student persuaded Player B to contact the aliens by promising he could eat beef at every meal, while the Housekeeping Robot interrupted and denied arranging the plan.
• Three days later, Player B used an astronomical telescope to spot a silver-white object approaching Earth and contacted it through a communicator.
• The aliens identified themselves as Interstellar Merchants and asked humanity to send a list of goods for sale within three Local Star Days.
• Player B learned the merchants bought products accepted in the local market and asked what they had to sell.
• The merchants offered health and sanitation services, including Immortal transformation that could alter genes and telomeres to prevent aging.

Player B saw the costs of the Alien trade services, accepted a small allowance from his university classmate, and went home unable to afford immortality. Wenren Sheng watched the trade route open and questioned whether the so-called Main World was truly the Main World.

• Player B agreed to trade with the Aliens, and trade points descended to Earth as vending machines and receiving boxes.
• Player B calculated that his assets could buy only a little more than 200 days of extended life, while Longevity Modification cost two trillion Dinar.
• Player B asked his university classmate for two trillion but received only a 20,000 allowance, then returned home and decided to earn money through the Script Game.
• Wenren Sheng watched the Alien trade route and wondered whether the Main World could be the true Main World, since it had Alien Spaceships.