Chapter Summaries

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.

Lu Bai fought the Survey Corps deathmatchers after they hesitated over the Node, using the long-haired man as a shield to defeat them. He ended the fight ranked first and found the long-haired man still hiding in his Iron Block state.

• The deathmatchers hesitated to attack Lu Bai, each watching for a chance to claim the Node while protecting himself.
• Lu Bai struck the long-haired man, who activated Iron Block, then dodged gunfire and used him as a shield.
• Lu Bai charged the armed deathmatchers, slammed the iron-bodied man into a clawed opponent, and fought off the others.
• Lu Bai killed the remaining deathmatchers with his sword and gained five points, bringing his total to 32 and keeping his rank at 1/31.
• Lu Bai tapped the long-haired man with his sword and asked how long he planned to keep playing dead.

Lu Bai kept Ren Baoshun pinned in his Iron Block state while a battle erupted between Xiao Xueyin’s group and the Deathmatch participants on the Fourth Floor. As Fei Xiao’s Ten Blades prepared to investigate the fight, Lu Bai headed downstairs with the Node and was fired upon by soldiers.

• Lu Bai slashed Ren Baoshun, but Ren’s Iron Block state absorbed the blow, and Ren avoided lowering his defenses by speaking quickly and then turning to iron again.
• Xiao Xueyin and her squad encountered nearly ten Deathmatch participants in the Staff Department’s Office Hall, and a fierce fight broke out involving soldiers, special abilities, and gunfire.
• Liu Yue restrained the Sportswear Deathmatch Participant, Yan Zhiquan pulled the Young Man with Bat Tattoo from the ceiling, and the Man in Suit attacked with guided playing cards.
• Fei Xiao and the Ten Blades emerged from their hiding place on the Second Floor and decided to move closer to find out who was winning the battle.
• Lu Bai carried Ren Baoshun down from the Fifth Floor with the Node, but soldiers who spotted him on the stairs opened fire, forcing him to retreat with [Flash Time].

Lu Bai followed an unseen group through the Fourth floor corridor while the Survey Corps and Survivor Alliance fought nearby. Zhou Zongming’s soldiers faced an invulnerable berserker as it charged into the crowd.

• Zhou Zongming ordered four soldiers to hold the Safe passage and led the rest toward the fighting, but an unseen attacker killed the four guards.
• Lu Bai heard the attackers approach, spotted ripples in the air, and followed the apparently invisible group into the Fourth floor hallway.
• A Survey Corps fighter stunned a bespectacled opponent with a homing Universal Card, allowing the Black Vest Man to strike him.
• Xiao Xueyin watched the Survey Corps’ fighters battle the Survivor Alliance and saw a Shorty fighter transform into a Pseudo Hulk.
• Zhou Zongming’s soldiers fired at the Pseudo Hulk without harming it, and the enraged monster charged toward the largest cluster of people.

A rampaging Green Giant tore through the temporary shelter, killing soldiers as Xiao Xueyin and Liu Yue tried to draw it toward a window. Liu Yue used her positional-switching ability to escape its charge, leaving the monster confused as she fled down the corridor.

• The Green Giant smashed through walls and killed soldiers, while Xiao Xueyin, Liu Yue, and Yan Zhiquan discussed using Liu Yue’s Immortal’s Leap to lure it out a window.
• Zhou Zongming charged the monster and threw a fragmentation grenade into its mouth, briefly hurting it before it grabbed him and smashed him against a wall.
• Liu Yue tried to draw the monster toward her, but it lost patience and lunged before she could lead it to the planned spot.
• Liu Yue used Hyper-Kinetic Positional Converter to switch places with the monster, then ran down the corridor as it stopped and looked around in confusion.

Liu Yue fled the Green Giant and encountered Lu Bai, while the Ten Blades were exposed and forced to fight the monster. Fei Xiao then ordered Er Bao to lure it into the Office Hall, where the other combatants had gathered.

• Liu Yue ran from the Green Giant, which turned its attention to the Ten Blades hiding beneath an Invisibility Cloak.
• A Ten Blades combatant spoke too loudly, prompting the Green Giant to attack and forcing the group to scatter.
• Liu Yue met Lu Bai, who introduced Ren Baoshun as a Survey Corps combatant and urged her to focus on the monster.
• Fei Xiao realized the fighting in the Office Hall had stopped and ordered Er Bao to draw the Green Giant toward the gathered combatants.
• Er Bao provoked the Green Giant and backed into the Office Hall, while Fei Xiao shattered a card thrown at him with a Silver Jujube Pit Nail.

The Ten Blades joined the battle in the Office Hall, where an indiscriminate flash and the Green Giant’s charge sent Er Bao plunging through the floor. As Fei Xiao’s side gained the upper hand, Lu Bai entered and asked why the fighting had stopped.

• The Ten Blades attacked everyone in the Office Hall, and the fighting among all three groups resumed.
• Four contestants attacked Er Bao, but a woman’s Solar Flare blinded fighters and the Green Giant’s blow shattered the floor, sending both him and Er Bao down to the third floor.
• Lu Bai told Liu Yue that nearly all the Deathmatch Arena contestants were gathered, then headed for the Staff Department’s Office Hall.
• Fei Xiao subdued Osas while Yan Zhiquan and Xiao Xueyin failed to stop him, and Lanke called for the Survey Corps to pause their fight against the Ten Blades.
• Fei Xiao crushed Osas’s head and asked whether Duan Jianhui would appear, just as Lu Bai entered and asked why everyone had stopped fighting.

Lu Bai confronted Fei Xiao over Osas's death and revealed the Node had drawn the Deathmatch participants' attention to him. Surrounded by rivals after Fei Xiao exposed him, Lu Bai chose to stay and prepare to fight.

• Lu Bai questioned Fei Xiao about killing Osas, then attacked him with Flash Time, but Fei Xiao's instincts let him dodge.
• Fei Xiao used his Repelling Force Field to knock Lu Bai back and announced that Lu Bai had taken the Node from Duan Jianhui.
• The Deathmatch participants from several factions surrounded Lu Bai, while Xiao Xueyin tried to help him escape through a window.
• Fei Xiao struck Xiao Xueyin in the chest and demanded that Lu Bai hand over the Node.
• Lu Bai refused to leave, and the skin exposed to the air began turning red.

Lu Bai revealed that he had planned to draw the Office Hall’s fighters toward him, then launched a devastating attack with his sword and abilities. The survivors coordinated their Gold-level abilities to weaken and surround him, slowing his killing spree as they tried to wear him down.

• Fei Xiao, Lanke, and Yan Zhiquan demanded Lu Bai surrender the Node, but Lu Bai announced he meant to kill everyone in the hall.
• Lu Bai used his speed and Flash Time to kill seven Deathmatch Arena fighters in less than half a minute.
• Fei Xiao weakened Lu Bai with Heavenly Conduit, while Yan Zhiquan and his classmates used Gold-level abilities to protect and support one another.
• Lu Bai resisted Yan Zhiquan’s taunt, avoided the group, and targeted weaker fighters as the survivors formed a coordinated team.
• The fighters boxed Lu Bai in and tried to wear him down; a Shorty fighter stabbed him, while a muscular woman and others attacked at close range.

Lu Bai used [Blood Rage] and [Super Regeneration] to break through the deathmatch fighters’ encirclement and began clearing the Office Hall. As the fighters fell, Fei Xiao retreated to a window with the barely conscious Xiao Xueyin.

• Lu Bai endured the fighters’ attacks while his wounds healed, then activated [Blood Rage] to boost his strength.
• Lu Bai used [Flash Time] to kill the Shorty deathmatch fighter as the others rushed to stop him.
• Lu Bai evaded Yan Zhiquan and Ariana, wounded more fighters with his pistol, and cut down Yan Zhiquan’s classmate.
• Lu Bai killed the fleeing fighter and then killed Lanke, leaving the encirclement in ruins.
• Fei Xiao retreated to the window and lifted up Xiao Xueyin, who was barely clinging to life.

Lu Bai defeated Yan Zhiquan and Fei Xiao, then treated Xiao Xueyin’s wounds and gained two Survey Corps members as followers. He turned to the badly injured Company Commander Zhou Zongming, hoping to rebuild order by starting with him.

• Lu Bai shot Yan Zhiquan repeatedly until he collapsed, then used Flash Time to sever Fei Xiao’s arm and free Xiao Xueyin.
• Fei Xiao tried to attack Lu Bai with a Jujube Pit Nail, but Lu Bai deflected it and killed him.
• Lu Bai stopped Xiao Xueyin’s bleeding with a makeshift bandage, while Liu Yue and the two Survey Corps men watched.
• Bat Tattoo Man and Black Vest Man offered to follow Lu Bai, and Lu Bai told them Duan Jianhui was still alive.
• Lu Bai checked on Zhou Zongming, found him barely conscious and badly injured, and removed a desk top to use as a stretcher.