Recaps

Lu Bai learned from Agu that the deathmatchers were waiting for a world-changing node, and Agu proposed that they work together. Wu Ya, Tian Wang, and Ke Jiangni arrived to check on Lu Bai, while Agu left him to decide before nightfall.

• Lu Bai studied the published location data and concluded that deathmatchers had left their tents to avoid being found.
• Agu approached Lu Bai, introduced himself, and suggested they work together because Lu Bai lacked full deathmatcher training.
• Lu Bai worked out that the gathered deathmatchers were waiting for a virus cure or vaccine to appear as a valuable node.
• Agu explained that controlling the node for more than twenty-four hours would double a deathmatcher’s points, but would also reveal his location through the System Panel.
• Wu Ya arrived with Tian Wang and Ke Jiangni to check on Lu Bai, and Agu asked Lu Bai to signal him by tonight if he accepted the offer.

Lu Bai was warned about dangerous deathmatch participants and questioned by Zhou Zongming before agreeing to cooperate with Agu. Agu revealed that vaccine trials were imminent and offered Lu Bai the vaccine in exchange for placing in the top ten, leaving them to plan how to retrieve it from the Research Center.

• Lu Bai warned Wu Ya, Tian Wang, and Ke Jiangni to stay away from other people like him and Agu, then went to lunch with them.
• Zhou Zongming questioned Lu Bai, reminded him to keep his head down, and inadvertently confirmed that the nearby building was the Research Center.
• Lu Bai noticed Agu’s chewing gum surveillance ability and met with him to discuss cooperation.
• Agu told Lu Bai that vaccine trials would begin soon and that the shelter’s atmosphere was becoming tense.
• Agu offered Lu Bai the vaccine in exchange for placing in the top ten, and Lu Bai agreed before Agu began discussing how to retrieve it from the Research Center.

Lu Bai infiltrated the Research Center disguised as a cleaner and followed Agu’s directions into a lab, where he revealed that he had suspected Agu was a researcher. After crushing the earpiece, Lu Bai left Agu’s plan behind as Zhou Zongming emerged from hiding in the vaccine lab.

• Lu Bai entered the Research Center in a cleaner’s uniform while Agu guided him past staff and security.
• Lu Bai used a sixteen-digit password to open an isolation door and entered a lab, where a bespectacled researcher confronted him.
• Lu Bai questioned the researcher about the vaccine and learned Professor Jiang was leading the research elsewhere.
• Agu warned Lu Bai that the Rapid Response Force was downstairs, but Lu Bai deduced that Agu worked at the Research Center and had personally surveyed it.
• Lu Bai crushed the earpiece and mocked Agu’s plan.
• Zhou Zongming came out of a storage room in the vaccine lab and cursed Agu for making him hide there.

Lu Bai warned Zhou Zongming that someone planned to steal the vaccine, then went to Professor Jiang’s laboratory, where Zhou was already confronting Analyst Gu. Agu attacked Zhou, but Lu Bai arrived as soldiers surrounded the lab and faced Agu’s gun.

• Lu Bai told Zhou Zongming that someone planned to break into the Research Center and steal the vaccine, but Zhou did not treat the warning as reliable enough to report.
• Lu Bai tied up a lab worker and went looking for Professor Jiang’s laboratory while Zhou went to investigate the Research Center.
• Agu claimed he had come to deliver a virus sample, but Zhou Zongming challenged him and tried to verify the story with Professor Jiang.
• Agu attacked Zhou, knocked away his pistol, and left him struggling to reach it.
• Lu Bai entered, locked the laboratory door, and explained that the soldiers outside had led him there.
• Agu aimed Zhou’s pistol at Lu Bai, who pointed to his forehead and told Agu where to shoot.

Lu Bai cornered Agu in the laboratory, where Agu revealed that the shelter’s supposed vaccine was a poison designed to make people appear near death to zombies. After injecting himself and taking a USB drive, Agu triggered a Deathmatch Arena node, leaving the lab as danger gathered outside.

• Agu distracted Lu Bai with gunshots, locked himself in the isolation room, and refused to surrender as the Rapid Response Force entered the lab.
• Agu explained that the vaccine was actually a carefully dosed poison that could make zombies avoid its user, then injected himself with it.
• The Deathmatch Arena announced Agu as a node and offered double points to the player who obtained him.
• Agu took a USB drive and asked Lu Bai what a node was; Lu Bai identified it as an experiment log.
• Agu warned that the node’s appearance would reveal everyone’s location, and a hysterical scream came from outside the window.

Zombies erupted across the settlement, and Zhou Zongming ordered the Rapid Response Force to contain the outbreak by sealing off affected zones. As the chaos spread, Lu Bai leaped from the fifth floor and raced toward the danger.

• Zombies attacked people in multiple settlement zones while civilians fled in panic.
• A group of men in suits discussed how their plan to draw the military's attention had caused more chaos than expected.
• Zhou Zongming learned that Zombies had appeared in eight zones and ordered the Rapid Response Force to seal passageways and hold the affected areas.
• Zhou Zongming left Lu Bai and Agu in the Research Center, with four men assigned to guard Agu.
• Lu Bai told Agu to try escaping, then jumped from the fifth floor and sprinted off.

Tian Wang, Wu Ya, and Ke Jiangni fled the zombie attack at the shelter and encountered Guo Mi while trying to escape a blocked passage. Guo Mi revealed remarkable agility as she saved Wu Ya, who wondered whether she was like Lu Bai.

• Tian Wang led Wu Ya and Ke Jiangni away from the shelter chaos, and they disagreed about whether to head for District 7 or the military camp.
• The three reached a blocked passage where soldiers held back survivors, while an official’s megaphone drew zombies toward the crowd.
• Wu Ya apologized after Tian Wang tried to push past Guo Mi, then invited Guo Mi to flee with them.
• As zombies charged, Guo Mi pulled Wu Ya away from the crowd and led the group along the corrugated metal wall.
• Guo Mi leaped over a lunging zombie while carrying Wu Ya, and Wu Ya asked whether she was like Lu Bai.

Lu Bai returned to the shelter and headed for District 23 as the Zombie outbreak overwhelmed the base. He found soldiers trapped by the horde and watched Sun Chuan attempt to escape, leaving Sun Chuan gravely injured.

• A mysterious high-school boy appeared in Agu’s isolation room, ignored the guards, and told Agu to follow him if he wanted to avoid elimination.
• Lu Bai retrieved the Eight-Sided Han Sword, checked that Agu had not moved, and set out for District 23 without seeking Wu Ya and the others first.
• Lu Bai saw panicked civilians and Zombies spreading through the shelter, then reached District 23, where soldiers were trapped between hordes.
• Sun Chuan tried to escape by pulling down a riot-shield soldier and drawing the Zombies’ attention to his comrade.
• A Zombie crashed into Sun Chuan and sent him flying, while Lu Bai stood nearby without helping.

Lu Bai escaped the zombie-infested District 23 and returned to District 7, where Wu Ya’s group had arrived looking for him. Guo Mi revealed a dagger at Wu Ya’s throat and used her as leverage against Lu Bai.

• Lu Bai watched Sun Chuan die, then received a point for the death of a Deathmatch Participant.
• As zombies overran the passageway, Lu Bai fled through District 23 toward District 7, expecting Wu Ya and the others to head there.
• Wu Ya, Ke Jiangni, Tian Wang, and Guo Mi passed the checkpoint into District 7 and waited in Lu Bai’s empty tent.
• Lu Bai returned and noticed Guo Mi sitting close to Wu Ya, then traded awkward remarks with her.
• Guo Mi put a dagger to Wu Ya’s throat and told Lu Bai that his concern for Wu Ya was clear.

Guo Mi took Wu Ya hostage to confront Lu Bai over her younger brother’s death, but Lu Bai refused to back down and killed her after she stabbed him with a poisoned dagger. The chapter left Lu Bai standing over Guo Mi’s corpse, reflecting on her choice to come after him.

• Guo Mi held a dagger to Wu Ya’s neck and challenged Lu Bai, saying her next move depended on him.
• Guo Mi revealed that Lu Bai had killed her younger brother, and Lu Bai said he would kill her if she killed Wu Ya.
• Guo Mi threw Wu Ya toward Lu Bai to distract him, then stabbed him from behind with a poisoned dagger.
• Lu Bai caught the dagger in his hand, learned it carried a neurotoxin, and killed Guo Mi with his sword.
• Lu Bai gained one point and looked down at Guo Mi’s corpse, wondering why she had come after him instead of running away.

After Lu Bai killed Guo Mi, Xiao Xueyin arrived and invited him to join a team of deathmatchers who were hunting others like themselves. Lu Bai agreed after a brief clash and an exchange with the team, and Xiao Xueyin revealed an ability that boosted his teammates’ physical attributes.

• Lu Bai killed Guo Mi, then told Wu Ya and Ke Jiangni they could leave the tent because no one had seen what happened.
• Xiao Xueyin entered, pointed out Guo Mi’s corpse, and said he had come looking for her before offering Lu Bai a place in his group.
• Lu Bai attacked Xiao Xueyin, but Xiao Xueyin dodged the sword and absorbed the force of Lu Bai’s knee strike.
• A spiky-haired youth and the Hoodie Man joined Xiao Xueyin, who explained that the team wanted Lu Bai to help kill other deathmatchers.
• Liu Yue approved of Lu Bai after he joked that he had multiple organ failure, and Lu Bai agreed to join the team.
• Xiao Xueyin revealed his ability, which increased the other team members’ physical attributes by twenty percent.

Lu Bai joined Xiao Xueyin’s team of five Deathmatchers, who planned to hunt isolated opponents near the Research Center before going after the Node. After leaving Wu Ya and the others at the shelter, Lu Bai learned from Xiao Xueyin that Deathmatchers might end up in different shelters, raising questions about what they would need shelter from.

• Lu Bai agreed to join Xiao Xueyin’s team, which planned to target lone Deathmatchers near the Research Center rather than rush the Node while 127 opponents remained.
• Wu Ya urged Lu Bai to stay at the shelter, but he told her he was going with the team and asked her and the others to keep themselves safe.
• Xiao Xueyin handed out walkie-talkies, and the team set off toward the Research Center while he waited for Lu Bai to say goodbye.
• Lu Bai caught up with Xiao Xueyin, who warned him against pursuing a relationship with a native and mentioned that the Deathmatchers might end up in different shelters.

Lu Bai and his companions discussed the major deathmatcher teams before using Liu Yue and Zhuo Li’s abilities to get past the guards into District 6. They reached the Research Center, which was under heavy military lockdown, and found its entrance watched by soldiers and snipers.

• Zhuo Li told Lu Bai and the others about four major teams: the twenty-member Survey Corps, the ten-member Ten Blades, six students in gray uniforms, and three suited men who had brought infected into the shelter.
• Lu Bai, Xiao Xueyin, Liu Yue, Zhuo Li, and the others reached the District 7 exit into District 6, where two armed soldiers guarded the passage.
• Liu Yue used her charm to distract the soldiers, and Zhuo Li activated Immortal's Leap, making them panic and flee.
• The group entered District 6 and found the Research Center under wartime alert, with searchlights, a cordon, soldiers inside, and snipers guarding against trespassers.

Liu Yue, Lu Bai, and Xiao Xueyin’s group hunted Deathmatchers around the Research Center while chaos continued at the shelter. After gunfire drew attention elsewhere, an explosion ripped through the Research Center’s rooftop.

• Liu Yue, Zhuo Li, Xiao Xueyin, the Hoodie Man, and Lu Bai hunted Deathmatchers, and Lu Bai killed one to reach 17 points and rank first among 117.
• Lu Bai asked Xiao Xueyin whether he had intended to recruit Guo Mi, and Xiao Xueyin admitted he had wanted Lu Bai from the start.
• As dawn approached, Xiao Xueyin urged the group to keep hunting because the person behind the chaos would not let it end easily.
• A woman’s scream alerted the civilians and brought Zhou Zongming’s soldiers to the scene; Zhuo Li recognized the woman as a Deathmatcher.
• Soldiers and the Survey Corps exchanged gunfire, which Xiao Xueyin suspected was meant to draw attention away from the Research Center.
• An explosion tore through the Research Center’s rooftop, sending smoke and debris into the air.

The Survey Corps launched an attack on the Research Center, drawing deathmatchers toward the Node while Lu Bai and his team waited outside. As the fighting dwindled and rivals gathered around the building, Lu Bai set out to question a Survey Corps soldier.

• An explosion struck the rooftop sniper, and another hit the Administrative Building as a Survey Corps fighter descended with Vertical Maneuvering Equipment.
• More than a dozen deathmatchers rushed across the cordon toward the Research Center while Lu Bai’s team held back.
• Gunfire erupted inside the building, and deathmatchers continued entering as the defenders’ resistance weakened.
• Zhuo Li spotted rival teams and groups of deathmatchers waiting around the Research Center for the Node to emerge.
• Lu Bai drew his Eight-Sided Han Sword and went to find a Survey Corps soldier to question while Xiao Xueyin told him to keep the walkie-talkie channel open.

Lu Bai reached a group of Survey Corps deathmatchers and swiftly disarmed and killed them. He gained two points, raising his total to 19 while remaining rank 1/104.

• Agu emerged from the Research Center and shouted for the guards, drawing several figures toward him.
• Zhou Zongming's soldiers were ambushed by armed Survey Corps deathmatchers, and Zhou fled toward the front line as his men were killed.
• Lu Bai approached four deathmatchers and cut off their hands before they could fight back or escape.
• Lu Bai killed the group, including their leader and the red-plaid-shirted deathmatcher, and gained two points.

Lu Bai interrogated Survey Corps member Osas and learned that the Corps planned to lure deathmatchers into the Research Center and kill them, possibly with explosives. He brought Osas back to the group, where Xiao Xueyin and Liu Yue noticed the captive.

• Lu Bai killed the black-checkered deathmatcher and questioned Osas about the Survey Corps.
• Lu Bai deduced that the Corps had gone to the Research Center, and Osas revealed its plan to lure deathmatchers there and kill them, possibly with explosives.
• Osas said Brother Hui had taken control of the “Node” during the first half of the night.
• Lu Bai bandaged Osas’s wounds and took him away from the Survey Corps.
• Lu Bai returned to the Research Center with Osas, and Xiao Xueyin and Liu Yue reacted to the captive.

Lu Bai and the others realized the Survey Corps might be targeting contestants inside the Research Center, but the building exploded before they could learn its plans. The blast unlocked the arena’s final objectives, and Lu Bai, Xiao Xueyin, Liu Yue, and Osas were left among the few survivors.

• Xiao Xueyin told Lu Bai that an escaped experiment staff member had claimed Brother Hui possessed the Node and planned to defend the Research Center.
• Lu Bai questioned the staff member’s story and warned that the Survey Corps might intend to kill every contestant who entered the building.
• The Node changed position, figures leaped from the Research Center toward the Administrative Building, and contestants pursued them.
• The Research Center exploded and collapsed, killing contestants and triggering system announcements that unlocked the objectives Restore Order and Destroy Order.
• Lu Bai found Xiao Xueyin, Liu Yue, and Osas alive, while Xiao Xueyin wondered whether only a few contestants remained.

After the explosion, Lu Bai and the survivors examined their third-round Ability Pools while deciding how to respond to the Survey Corps and the Ten Blades. Lu Bai chose Flash Time, and the chapter ended with the black-suited boss urging the group to fight as Lu Bai challenged his courage.

• The explosion left Zhuo Li alive, killed Hoodie Man, and reduced the six gray-uniformed students to four survivors.
• Lu Bai chose the rainbow-tier Flash Time ability over Demon Contract and Cannot Be Looked At Directly.
• Liu Yue celebrated her gold-tier Ability Pool and wanted to fight, while Xiao Xueyin warned that the Survey Corps had strength in numbers and urged everyone to flee.
• The black-suited boss and his bald lackey joined the survivors, and Yan Zhiquan brought the three surviving classmates over to propose an alliance.
• Xiao Xueyin pointed out that the Survey Corps and Ten Blades had teamed up, and Lu Bai challenged the black-suited boss for dumping Zombies at the shelter.

Lu Bai killed the black-suited leader and his last remaining ally with his newly acquired [Flash Time] ability, while the other fighters gathered to plan how to face the Survey Corps and Ten Blades. Their discussion was interrupted by Company Commander Zhou Zongming arriving with soldiers, and the survivors were surrounded and ordered to surrender.

• Lu Bai beheaded the black-suited leader and then killed the bald man who attacked him, earning two points.
• Yan Zhiquan and Xiao Xueyin redirected the fighters toward discussing how to deal with the Survey Corps, while Lu Bai secretly tested [Flash Time].
• Four more fighters joined the group, and Xiao Xueyin proposed weakening the Survey Corps and Ten Blades rather than fighting them head-on.
• Two armored vehicles and around a hundred soldiers arrived from the shelter, surrounded the fighters, and ordered them to get down.
• Company Commander Zhou Zongming recognized Lu Bai and demanded to know what had caused the explosion, while Xiao Xueyin blamed a group that had tried to overthrow the temporary shelter.

Zhou Zongming brought Lu Bai and the others to the Administrative Building after Xiao Xueyin warned that the Survey Corps was planning to overthrow the military base. The Survey Corps and Ten Blades ambushed the troops, leaving Zhou Zongming facing mounting casualties as the fighting escalated.

• At the Administrative Building, Fei Xiao confronted Duan Jianhui about failing to warn the Ten Blades Team about the explosion, but Duan Jianhui’s radio reported that their other enemies were joining forces.
• Xiao Xueyin warned Zhou Zongming that the Survey Corps had caused the explosion and was at the Administrative Building; Zhou Zongming brought Lu Bai and the others there as suspects.
• Zhou Zongming’s troops found dead guards outside and searched the building while Lu Bai studied it and Liu Yue remarked that the silence felt wrong.
• Duan Jianhui and Fei Xiao divided up defensive positions, placing Ten Blades members at the stairwells and the Zhu Brothers in the elevator shaft.
• Survey Corps gunmen ambushed soldiers climbing the stairs and fired from the building’s windows, inflicting heavy casualties on Zhou Zongming’s troops.
• Zhou Zongming ordered his deputy to use the armored vehicles’ machine guns against every firing position in the building.

Lu Bai killed Zhu Er and Zhu Da in the elevator shaft, then searched the Administrative Building for the System Panel’s Node. He headed downstairs, suspecting it was with the Survey Corps commander, Brother Hui.

• Zhou Zongming ordered the armored vehicles’ heavy machine guns to fire while Xiao Xueyin and the others debated when to enter.
• Lu Bai slipped into the elevator shaft and confronted Zhu Da and Zhu Er.
• Lu Bai dodged the brothers’ grappling hooks, killed Zhu Er, and caught Zhu Da as he tried to escape.
• The System awarded Lu Bai two points, bringing his total to 24 and keeping him ranked first among 42 participants.
• Lu Bai searched the upper floors, detected that the Node overlapped with his location, and continued downstairs toward Brother Hui.

Lu Bai confronted Duan Jianhui in the Conference Hall, killed Agu, and attacked Duan Jianhui after learning he was threatening Wu Ya and the others. Duan Jianhui avoided both strikes and warned that they had only minutes left, while Fei Xiao led the Ten Blades away from the fighting.

• Lu Bai killed the bearded man outside the Conference Hall and entered to find Duan Jianhui and Agu watching battle footage.
• Lu Bai shot Agu, then challenged Duan Jianhui, who asked why Lu Bai had revealed the deathmatch to natives and offered two USB drives.
• Lu Bai demanded both USB drives and slashed the conference table, but Duan Jianhui avoided the attack and retrieved a drive.
• Duan Jianhui threatened that Wu Ya and the others would soon die, while Lu Bai attacked him again without landing a hit.
• Fei Xiao led the Ten Blades away rather than alerting the Survey Corps, and a soldier cautiously began advancing upstairs.

Lu Bai fought Duan Jianhui in the Conference Hall and figured out how the man’s abilities distorted others’ perception, severing his arm before he escaped. Lu Bai claimed the Deathmatch Arena Node and left the hall wary that Duan Jianhui was still watching him.

• Zhou Zongming learned that his troops were taking heavy casualties inside the Administrative Building and considered asking Xiao Xueyin and the others for help.
• Lu Bai attacked Duan Jianhui with a sword, but Duan Jianhui remained unharmed and mocked him.
• Lu Bai deduced that Duan Jianhui’s abilities made him easy to overlook and misjudge, then attacked with his eyes closed and cut off Duan Jianhui’s arm.
• Duan Jianhui vanished from Lu Bai’s sight and escaped after warning him to stay vigilant.
• Lu Bai picked up the usb drive and acquired the Deathmatch Arena Node, which would take twenty-four hours to grant the Double Points Reward.
• Lu Bai left the Conference Hall and scanned the corridor, suspecting Duan Jianhui was watching him.

Zhou Zongming sent Xiao Xueyin and the others into the Administrative Building as support while the Survey Corps fought their way through the floors. Lu Bai killed a Deathmatch Participant on the fifth floor and faced a group of enemies who recognized that the Node was on him.

• Zhou Zongming ordered Sixth Squad to hold its position and prepare for Xiao Xueyin and the others to arrive.
• A Sportswear Deathmatch Participant dodged the soldiers' gunfire and defeated them, while a young man with a bat tattoo ambushed and killed another squad in the stairwell.
• Yan Zhiquan and the others discussed whether Lu Bai was suspicious, and Osas pointed out that the Node had moved onto Brother Hui.
• Lu Bai approached a middle-aged man with a biology textbook, distracted him with a question, and stabbed him through the heart.
• Several Deathmatch Participants rushed from the fifth-floor offices, noticed the Node was on Lu Bai, and prepared to attack him.