Recaps

Xu Huo watched Yu Kingdom’s crisis escalate as the masked man’s demands triggered killings and a Player War, until the government announced that the hostages had been rescued and the fighting suppressed. He discussed the country’s weakness and the difficulty of clearing the Dungeon, ending with his suggestion that a powerful common enemy could unite Yu Kingdom.

• Xu Huo and Xiao Mei discussed how the masked man’s demand to kill players stuck in Dungeons was intended to pressure Yu Kingdom and disrupt attempts to clear the Dungeon.
• Bodies of Outer District Players and local players appeared as Yu Kingdom’s organizations searched for the Imperial Treasure and the masked man’s two-hour deadline passed.
• A video showed a vast black sphere at the Yongta–Yu Kingdom border, where players fought blind and injured people who escaped were killed by the black gas.
• The Yu Kingdom government announced that the hostage crisis had been resolved, ordered player organizations to stand down, and threatened severe penalties for organized fighting.
• Xiao Mei wondered whether Lian Qingkong had intervened, while Xu Huo speculated about the descendants of two families and said a shared powerful enemy could unite Yu Kingdom.

Xu Huo met the God of Night to ask about the Yu Kingdom’s Imperial Treasure and the descendants of two families. The old man gave him an incomplete Gao family genealogy, leaving Xu Huo to consider what its records might reveal.

• Xu Huo left Bei Bao and Xiao Chun with Xiao Mei and followed the skinny Player to meet someone.
• Bei Bao considered attacking Xu Huo, but Xiao Mei stopped her and the painted woman kept Xiao Mei from leaving.
• Xu Huo met an old man known as the God of Night and delivered Gao Ming’s message.
• Xu Huo asked about government arrangements for the descendants of the two families and whether the government had leads on Gao Hui’s register.
• The old man handed Xu Huo a book that proved to be an incomplete Chenfeng Gao family genealogy ending two hundred years earlier.

Xu Huo realized Lian Qingkong was preparing a final move as rumors spread that the ailing leader was near death. After visiting Lian Qingkong with Bei Bao, Xu Huo arranged to travel to Miecheng for the Imperial Treasure, but Lian Qingkong turned against him.

• Xu Huo concluded that the Yu Kingdom government had obtained only an incomplete Gao family genealogy and identified the old man who gave it away as Lian Qingkong.
• Rumors of Lian Qingkong's grave condition spread through the capital, drawing local and stranded Outer District Players into the growing crisis.
• Xu Huo brought Bei Bao to the Nursing Home, where Lian Qingkong comforted her and arranged for her to stay somewhere safe.
• Xu Huo confronted Lian Qingkong about his plan to weaken Player organizations and asked for a government escort to Miecheng to retrieve the Imperial Treasure within five days.
• Lian Qingkong plunged the Nursing Home into darkness, apparently intending to kill Xu Huo, who responded by unleashing his Time Power.

Xu Huo retrieved a box he claimed was the Imperial Treasure and was pursued by stranded Players as he traveled toward the capital with Dai He and Xiao Mei. He offered to lead Players to clear the Dungeon, then used his power to slam everyone nearby to the ground.

• Xu Huo accepted Lian Qingkong’s gamble and left the government building with Dai He, while questioning Lian about his ties to the Assassin Family.
• Xu Huo invited Xiao Mei to join him, teleported to Miecheng, and dug up a box at Gao Hui’s former home before pursuing Players caught up with them.
• Xu Huo and Dai He split into two groups with Xiao Mei and the painted woman, then fought off Players pursuing them for the suspected Imperial Treasure.
• A masked Player offered to draw the pursuers away in exchange for the treasure, but Xu Huo announced that it could help stranded Players leave District 039 and offered to share rewards.
• After the masked Player warned that Xu Huo might be deceiving them, Xu Huo pressed his hand down and slammed every nearby Player to the ground.

Lian Qingkong gathered Yu Kingdom’s Player organizations and Outer District Players for a final vote on his proposed government arrangement as his death approached. The vote began at the Nursing Home, but a question about stranded Outer District Players interrupted it, and Lian Qingkong promised to address their situation afterward.

• The government held two rounds of meetings in which invited Players met Lian Qingkong and discussed his proposed transfer of authority.
• On the fifth day, local and Outer District Players gathered at the Nursing Home to hear the final proposal and vote.
• Lian Qingkong’s representative distributed miniature terminals that would self-destruct after each vote was cast.
• An Outer District Player asked how the government would handle Players stranded in Yu Kingdom, and Lian Qingkong said he would address their situation after the vote.

Outer District players confronted Lian Qingkong over claims that a government Player had found the Imperial Treasure, and threatened to destroy the capital if Xu Huo entered. Lian Qingkong sealed the Nursing Home and his quiet young protector killed Liu Feng and several attackers, warning the remaining players to stay twenty meters from the bed.

• A middle-aged Outer District player showed footage of Dai He and demanded to know whether the government had found the Imperial Treasure.
• The middle-aged player argued that the treasure should remain lost and threatened to take others down with the stranded players if it was real.
• Lian Qingkong said the government had stopped searching fifteen years earlier and would not interfere with outsiders seeking the treasure.
• The middle-aged player warned that his people were stationed throughout the capital and would attack Xu Huo if he arrived.
• Lian Qingkong sealed the Nursing Home, and four of his guards attacked the stranded players as others advanced toward his bed.
• Liu Feng lunged at Lian Qingkong, but the bespectacled young Player cut him apart and killed nearby attackers, warning everyone to stay twenty meters away.

Lian Qingkong activated a citywide lockdown and unleashed a deadly black sphere on the Players around the nursing home. Xu Huo reached him in time to stop the dying Chief Executive from continuing the slaughter, leaving nearly two hundred dead.

• A stranded Player attacked Lian Qingkong, but a young government Player blocked the Space Ray blades and sent them back.
• Stranded Players set fires and attacked government buildings, while Lian Qingkong learned that Dai He had not returned to the city.
• Lian Qingkong's signal activated a citywide simulation device, and government Players began capturing stranded Players whose Personal Panels were sealed.
• A black sphere swallowed the nursing home and surrounding Players, and Xu Huo entered it to reach Lian Qingkong.
• Xu Huo froze Lian Qingkong's young guard and persuaded the dying Chief Executive to stop, after nearly two hundred Players had been killed.

Xu Huo brought the Imperial Treasure to Lian Qingkong and revealed it was a genealogy identifying descendants of the Gao and Peng families. They burned the book, ended the struggle over it, and cleared the B-class instance, though the surviving Players remained hostile.

• Xu Huo injected Lian Qingkong and warned the stranded Players that they would die if they tried to stop him from clearing the instance.
• Xu Huo killed a Player who threatened him, then stopped an assassin who tried to silence Unlucky Egg and the others.
• Unlucky Egg gave Xu Huo a family register, and Lian Qingkong concluded it might trace descendants of the Gao family.
• The painted woman arrived with the Chenfeng Gao family genealogy, which Xu Huo handed to Lian Qingkong as the Imperial Treasure.
• Xu Huo and Lian Qingkong burned the genealogy, and the government shut off the simulated device so most stranded Players vanished.
• The game announced that the Players had cleared the B-class instance Illusory Tinder and granted rewards.

After the Dungeon’s crisis ended, Xu Huo stayed to ask the dying Lian Qingkong about Abilities and Super Evolution. Lian Qingkong warned him about underestimating Super Players and named a successor, while Xu Huo left the hospital room; the successor later came out with something for him.

• Xu Huo agreed to let Xiao Mei take a share of the team rewards, while Unlucky Egg declined his share.
• Lian Qingkong was transferred to a hospital after completing his final arrangements, and Xu Huo asked him whether Abilities could evolve beyond the game’s restrictions.
• Lian Qingkong explained that Super Players could use both Abilities and Super Evolution powers, and warned Xu Huo that Temporal Evolution was not invincible.
• Lian Qingkong praised his hardworking, steady successor and said he would not have chosen Xu Huo if Xu Huo lived in the Yu Kingdom.
• Lian Qingkong told Xu Huo he could not teach the successor Temporal Evolution, then Xu Huo left the room as Lian Qingkong neared death.
• The young player who had undergone Spatial Evolution came out of Lian Qingkong’s room and said he had something to give Xu Huo.

After settling Lian Qingkong’s funeral and Dungeon rewards, Xu Huo learned more about the Imperial Treasure and prepared to leave District 039 to deal with the dolls following him. Outside the capital, he encountered a battered Player who claimed to have important information for Yu Kingdom and recognized him as Qi Congming.

• A young Player gave Xu Huo transcribed copies of Lian Qingkong’s notes, and Xu Huo accepted them before leaving the government building with the painted woman and his companions.
• Xu Huo gave Unlucky Egg an Antidote and let him forgo the team reward, while Xiao Mei exchanged her share for an A-class defensive spatial instrument.
• Fu Kuai asked Xu Huo how he had cleared the Dungeon, and Xu Huo explained that he had identified the Imperial Treasure as a genealogy and burned it.
• Xu Huo attended Lian Qingkong’s memorial ceremony, then decided to leave the capital and deal with the dolls following him before visiting Gao Ming.
• At the capital’s checkpoint, an injured Outer District Player refused to leave and demanded to speak with Yu Kingdom’s government, and Xu Huo recognized him as Qi Congming.

Qi Cong told Xu Huo that Yan Jiayu had been unreachable for nearly three months and might be trapped in a Random Instance in a remote forest. Xu Huo investigated the dungeon’s possible location, then confronted the Yongta and Yuejiao Players who were provoking Yu Kingdom at Lian Qingkong’s mourning hall.

• Qi Cong explained that his tracking item had led him to believe Yan Jiayu was trapped in a Random Instance near Yu Kingdom.
• Xu Huo concluded that Yan Jiayu might be cut off from her Personal Panel and examined Qi Cong’s map of the remote forest.
• Xu Huo returned to the capital and reviewed government records showing unusual Mutant Animal activity in the forest.
• Xu Huo asked for information about Yu Kingdom’s battle dolls but was denied access, so he went to find Ji Qingcheng.
• Xu Huo forced the Yongta and Yuejiao Players to kneel at Lian Qingkong’s mourning hall and asked whether they were satisfied.

Xu Huo investigated the combat puppets and considered whether they were connected to Yan Jiayu’s disappearance and Suitcase Man’s Dungeon. While seeking ways to enter and escape the forest, he asked Gao Ming to examine the space Rubik’s Cube inside his body, and Gao Ming proposed cutting away part of his heart to stop its invasion.

• The Yongta and Moonhorn players left the mourning hall after threatening Ji Qingcheng, and Ji Qingcheng shared Yu Kingdom’s puppet records with Xu Huo.
• Xu Huo learned that combat puppets had abducted players and used their skin, and he suspected they might choose targets based on items, instruments, or evolutionary powers.
• Xu Huo reviewed reports about Suitcase Man and considered that the primeval forest might be the Super Player’s Dungeon, making escape difficult.
• Xu Huo searched for teleportation instruments and contacted Platinum Eye and District 014 to investigate Suitcase Man’s whereabouts and Dungeon.
• Xu Huo visited Gao Ming for an examination, and Gao Ming suggested cutting away part of his heart to keep the space Rubik’s Cube from invading it.

Xu Huo considered the risks of removing the higher-dimensional Space Power from the water Rubik’s Cube and decided to proceed. He reviewed his Dungeon rewards and tested his upgraded Ability, which revealed safe exits from the Wooden Cabin and village.

• Gao Ming warned Xu Huo that operating on the water Rubik’s Cube could damage his heart and that the wisp inside might be a higher-dimensional form of Space Power.
• Xu Huo recalled how Space Power in the Night Tour instance forbidden zone had disrupted his Time Power and concluded that instruments could control higher-dimensional Space Power.
• Xu Huo decided to proceed with the operation but first examined his rewards, including three A-class items, the A-class instrument Waterlogged Kelp, and the upgraded Ability 100% Exit From the Role.
• Xu Huo tested 100% Exit From the Role and saw arrows pointing toward safe exits from the Wooden Cabin and village.

Xu Huo tested his new Abilities and sorted through his rewards before heading to the primeval forest near Yu Kingdom to investigate whether it contained a Dungeon. He summoned Little Pink Hat to help test the space, and she agreed to consider the idea of sending an Awakening Doll inside.

• Xu Huo tested One Hundred Percent Out of Character, Protagonist's Halo 2.0, and Film Set, then examined his rewards and upgraded The Never-Dying Passerby to The Never-Dying Passerby 2.0.
• Xu Huo declined Gao Ming's offer of surgery, accepted his logbook of spatial surgery notes, and left to investigate the forest near Yu Kingdom.
• Dai He reported that players had found no disappearances, unusual instrument readings, or spatial entrance in the forest.
• Xu Huo summoned Little Pink Hat and offered her snacks, toys, and item clothing in exchange for her help.
• Little Pink Hat suggested the forest might be an unincorporated Sub-district, but warned that a Super Player's Dungeon could be dangerous.
• Xu Huo proposed sending an Awakening Doll into the forest to test whether it could enter safely.

Xu Huo prepared to enter the space where Yan Jiayu might be trapped, bringing Qi Cong and the painted woman along while the Yu Kingdom players searched for an entrance. Before they could proceed, a group from Yongta Kingdom arrived and confronted them.

• Xu Huo reviewed reports about Suitcase Man and asked Bai Kou to seek information from a Game Government Base, while Qi Cong confirmed Yan Jiayu had remained in District 039.
• Xu Huo insisted Qi Cong enter the space with him because Qi Cong could locate Yan Jiayu, and Qi Cong agreed after asking Xu Huo to protect him.
• Xu Huo and the painted woman prepared supplies, instruments, and combat robots in case the space was cut off from the game.
• Dai He warned Xu Huo that people from Yongta Kingdom were approaching, and the group faced the newcomers as their leader asked whether they were searching for battle dolls.

Xu Huo and Qi Cong were transported into a strange, brightly colored city where mascot costumes attacked newcomers as food. Disguised in drapes, they passed as locals and continued searching for the others.

• A battle puppet appeared as Xu Huo questioned the group, and a surge of Space Power transported Xu Huo, Qi Cong, and the others to a bustling city.
• The costumed residents turned their attention to the newcomers, revealing an appetite for them, so Xu Huo grabbed Qi Cong and fled through the street.
• Xu Huo used "Seaweed Soaked in Water" to hold off the attacking mascots and discovered that the costumes were empty items that felt no pain.
• Xu Huo dressed himself and Qi Cong in decorative drapes, and the mascots treated Qi Cong as one of their own.
• A decorative rabbit announced, "Welcome to Suitcase Man's Happy Circus City!"

Xu Huo and the others explored the circus city after being trapped in a space that might be Suitcase Man’s Super Dungeon. They sought a way out and tried to locate Yan Jiayu, but a fight involving the Yongta group drew their attention as the toy people turned hostile again.

• Dai He brought five Yu Kingdom government players to meet Xu Huo, and the group cautiously moved through the circus city while avoiding the toy people.
• A frog doll offered the group money and led them to a warehouse full of costumes; Xu Huo warned everyone not to wear them because they might be items.
• Xu Huo concluded they should find the battle doll that brought them in or seek Yan Jiayu, then marked balloons with sunflowers for her to recognize.
• The group returned to the street with the balloons, where children asked to buy them and a fight broke out nearby between the Yongta players.
• As Xu Huo and the others headed toward the fight, toy people surrounded them, and several rushed at them with glowing green eyes.

Xu Huo and the others struggled to understand the rules governing the puppet people and combat puppets in Circus City, while the Yongta Kingdom group set off toward the northern Castles. Both groups were soon attacked again, and Xu Huo suspected that most of the city’s puppet people were Players.

• Puppet people swarmed Qi Cong, and a masked combat puppet attacked with Micro Bombs before leaving.
• Xu Huo watched people replace destroyed puppet people and take over their roles, then the group returned to the street.
• Xu Huo and the Yongta Kingdom leader concluded that puppet costumes did not prevent recognition and that combat puppets might be drawn out by attacks on the Dungeon.
• The Yongta group headed toward the northern Castles while Xu Huo searched the city for Yan Jiayu.
• Both groups faced renewed attacks, and Xu Huo suspected that most of the puppet people were Players.

Xu Huo split up from Dai He and the others to find the battle puppets while they released balloons to signal Yan Jiayu. At the supply warehouse, the painted woman attacked one battle puppet and distracted it, allowing Xu Huo to interfere with the other.

• Xu Huo and the others found that puppets could only follow scripted roles and were stopped when they crossed the boundaries of their assigned areas.
• Xu Huo told Dai He and the others to release balloons from a warehouse and wear sunflower accessories to signal Yan Jiayu, while he went to search for battle puppets.
• Xu Huo and the painted woman reached a warehouse where battle puppets repaired discarded costumes and machinery.
• The painted woman breached a battle puppet's defenses, damaged its sensors, tore up costumes, and lured it out of the warehouse.
• Xu Huo ensnared the remaining battle puppet with black Manifestations of Mental Power while interference made it turn its head repeatedly.

Xu Huo and the painted woman tested how Circus City’s puppets responded to destruction, then discovered that attacking a disguised shop owner triggered a frenzied assault by the city’s puppet people. After Xu Huo killed the owner, the crowd returned to normal, leaving the wounded puppet’s intentions unclear.

• Xu Huo and the painted woman dismantled puppets and fought off ordinary enforcers, but their search revealed no way out.
• Xu Huo damaged a dessert tower to summon real battle puppets, then tested one by removing a wire; it self-destructed, as did another fighting the painted woman.
• A wounded puppet pointed Xu Huo toward a fake ice cream shop, where he found that its owner remained mobile after being cut open.
• The owner escaped screaming, triggering the surrounding puppet people to attack Xu Huo and the painted woman in a coordinated frenzy.
• Xu Huo cut the owner in half, stopping the screams and returning the puppet people to cheerful normality.
• The painted woman wondered whether the wounded puppet had tried to warn them or lead them into danger.

Xu Huo and the painted woman fought the combat puppets near the Suitcase Man’s Castle, then split up to investigate the Yongta Kingdom Players and protect their allies. Xu Huo found the Yongta group under attack, and Mental Portals appeared as one of them was captured.

• Xu Huo and the painted woman fought the combat puppets, discovering that the puppets grew stronger closer to the Suitcase Man’s Castle and could overwhelm Players with coordinated instruments.
• Xu Huo escaped the puppets’ encirclement with the painted woman and used a Mental Portal to move them several thousand meters away.
• Xu Huo sent the painted woman to find Qi Cong, Dai He, and the others, then tracked the Yongta Kingdom Players near the Castle.
• The Yongta group was discovered by combat puppets and toys, and the middle-aged man and his companions fought their way out of a closing containment trap.
• A sonic attack slowed the fleeing Yongta Players, and spider locks immobilized one of them as combat puppets swarmed in.
• Several Mental Portals appeared in front of the Yongta Players.

Xu Huo rescued a Yongta Kingdom Player from a self-destructing Spider Lock, then joined Zhu Bu and his companions to investigate how to escape the dungeon. With the Castle as their best lead, Xu Huo agreed to approach it despite the danger.

• Xu Huo contained the Spider Lock's explosion while the other Players escaped the battle dolls' attack.
• Zhu Bu caught up with Xu Huo, introduced himself, and offered him food as they discussed their situation.
• Zhu Bu explained that the battle dolls returned to the forest and that the dungeon entrance might be fixed near there.
• Xu Huo described how toy people and battle dolls responded to intruders and warned that threats grew stronger near the Castle.
• Zhu Bu argued that reaching the Castle might reveal a way out, and Xu Huo agreed to approach it while avoiding battle dolls.

Xu Huo and his companions discovered that Circus City became far more dangerous after nightfall, when its dolls and mutant animals appeared and forced visitors to watch their performances. After a rabbit spotted them as living people, Xu Huo split the group up and fled into a game tent, where dolls immediately attacked him.

• Xu Huo agreed to stay in contact with Zhu Bu but chose to act alongside the Yu Kingdom players, while suspecting Zhu Bu had another motive for visiting Suitcase Man’s Castle.
• Xu Huo returned to Qi Cong and Dai He, who told him they had been injured while stealing balloons and had found human bones hidden in a room.
• The city lights came on, and dolls and mutant animals emerged across Circus City to perform as night mode began.
• Dolls forced Qi Cong toward a mutant bear’s show, and Xu Huo rescued him after the bear attacked and devoured two dolls.
• A red-eyed rabbit spotted Xu Huo and his companions as living people, so Xu Huo scattered the dolls and ordered the others to run separately.
• Xu Huo entered a game tent to escape but was attacked by roly-poly toys and dolls with rapidly growing hair and dresses.

Xu Huo and Qi Cong endured a series of deadly circus attractions in Circus City and escaped each one. After Qi Cong’s defensive equipment was destroyed, Xu Huo lent him replacements and told him to hide until dawn if they were separated.

• The wide-mouthed doll dragged Xu Huo and Qi Cong into a huge performance arena, where Xu Huo cut through its palm and escaped with Qi Cong.
• A giant magician tried to sweep them into his coat, but Xu Huo used Mental Portal to get away.
• Xu Huo and Qi Cong watched mutated lizards start a fire and battle puppets throw doll people into the flames to extinguish it.
• After teleporting away, Xu Huo and Qi Cong fell into an oil-slicked slide filled with blades and escaped after Xu Huo stopped their descent.
• Qi Cong said his defensive equipment was broken, so Xu Huo gave him replacements and told him to find a hiding place if they got separated.

Xu Huo and Qi Cong struggled to survive the circus city’s relentless nighttime attractions, escaping traps and an invisible attacker while finding that the parade offered a rare safe passage. The chapter ended with a kangaroo doll giving Xu Huo sunflower seeds.

• Mutated snakes carried Xu Huo and Qi Cong toward an acrobatic tent, but Xu Huo escaped with Qi Cong through the Mental Portal and treated his snakebite with an Antidote.
• Xu Huo hung Balloons marked with a sunflower and zero on Qi Cong, and they fled across rooftops, through a Mirror Space, and away from an invisible attacker clinging to Xu Huo’s back.
• Xu Huo and Qi Cong escaped the attacker by setting him on fire, then discovered that the city’s nighttime mode kept them circling when they tried to move away from the Castle.
• Fireworks announced a carnival parade, and Xu Huo and Qi Cong walked with it without being attacked.
• A kangaroo doll approached Xu Huo, circled him, and dropped sunflower seeds into his palm.