Recaps

Xu Huo left the conflict over the Origin Stone and headed to He City, where the Wisteria Random Instance had swallowed residents and players alike. After weighing the risks to District 014, he ordered resources and personnel redirected, then entered the instance himself.

• Xu Huo warned the A-class players not to involve ordinary residents, allowed them to leave, and told the Xiang siblings he was going to He City.
• Xiang Yao reported that the Wisteria Random Instance had spread pollen across most of He City, put residents to sleep, and left more than a thousand local players unreachable.
• Xiang Yao cautioned Xu Huo that entering the high-level instance could trap him and leave District 014 vulnerable to further attacks.
• Xu Huo ordered the military and Special Defense Department to reduce mine security, said protecting the Origin Stones was not worth risking so many lives, and asked them to monitor the Holy Sword Society and the Ghastly Sound Knights.
• Xu Huo entered the purple-pink haze surrounding He City.

Xu Huo entered the A-Class Random Instance “Hunt,” where Players had to complete one hundred hunts without losing prey. He found Players forcing ordinary people to become prey and killed the group, leaving the survivors’ fate unresolved.

• Xu Huo evacuated residents from the city and discovered a spatial barrier that led into the Hunt instance.
• Xu Huo entered the forest instance, received a Mask marked with three rifles, and learned that Players had to keep their Masks on.
• Xu Huo defeated a Player who explained that failed attempts to kill someone erased a rifle from the attacker’s Mask, and that ordinary people had been dragged into the instance.
• Xu Huo found Players coercing ordinary people to attack one another and threaten them with being fed to an Alien.
• Xu Huo approached the clearing, and the Players’ heads flew off before they could confront him.

Xu Huo questioned a group of ordinary people from E25 and learned more about the Dungeon’s hunting rules while searching the vast forest for someone. After accepting a Sub-class Stone from a child, he kept the group with him and sent a Player to look for his hometown friends.

• Xu Huo learned that the E25 group had entered the forest after seeing wisteria, and that Players were hunting people to clear the Dungeon.
• Xu Huo worked out that Players had three chances to attack while ordinary people had only one, and suspected the main challenge was finding prey in the enormous forest.
• An old man offered Xu Huo money and equipment to save the group, but a child offered him a pale purple Sub-class Stone instead, and Xu Huo accepted it.
• Xu Huo gave the E25 group water and explained that he would keep them in a container item until he understood the Dungeon and found the person he was seeking.
• A Player who had ambushed Xu Huo asked to search for his hometown friends, and Xu Huo let him go, promising to take him out if he helped.
• Xu Huo released his perception to scan the forest again and wondered why no new Hunters had appeared.

Xu Huo investigated the strange forest, where players were being killed while asleep and ordinary people were looting them. After questioning two survivors and waking the player who had ambushed him, Xu Huo prepared defenses and sent aircraft in different directions to investigate.

• Xu Huo found a looted player corpse and suspected the man had been killed while asleep.
• Xu Huo used Transdimensional Space Power to destroy several patches of purple vines and found more players who appeared to have been killed in their sleep.
• Xu Huo caught two Mask-wearing ordinary people approaching the sleeping player who had ambushed him, and they explained that people in the forest kept losing consciousness without warning.
• Xu Huo used a Syringe to wake the player, who explained that his positioning device had failed and his trail marks had vanished.
• Xu Huo sent small aircraft in different directions, put on a metal suit, and activated defensive devices and combat robots.

Xu Huo investigated a forest where people fell into increasingly dangerous sleep and tried to find a way to reduce the threat by destroying its wisteria. After learning that the dungeon’s hunting requirements could also be affected by lost equipment, he joined forces with two players to clear more of the forest.

• Xu Huo found two people asleep in the forest, and even repeated slaps and wake-up potions failed to rouse them at first.
• Xu Huo concluded that the dungeon’s sleep effect could worsen with each episode and prepared extra wake-up potions before searching for the missing people.
• Xu Huo destroyed thousands of wisteria vines, but the dungeon remained active and he encountered only a few people.
• Two B-class players told Xu Huo that losing a hunting rifle had stopped one player’s kills from counting toward the clearing requirement.
• After hearing that others had not fallen asleep, Xu Huo decided to keep destroying wisteria, and the two players agreed to help.

Xu Huo and the others investigated a forest where people fell asleep and space seemed distorted, while an ambushed player dreamed of beautiful wisteria. After Old Crow was found dead and several rescued people fell asleep, Xu Huo noticed another figure appear in the forest.

• Xu Huo questioned the ambushed player about his dream of wisteria and told him to remember more details if he dreamed again.
• The female player reported that Old Crow had been killed in his sleep, and Xu Huo continued onward with the others instead of splitting up.
• Xu Huo and his companions found more than a dozen people from other Sub-districts, but none from District 014.
• At their night camp, four people released from Xu Huo's storage item fell asleep within minutes and could not be woken.
• A child described how danger changed the shape of his dreams, and Xu Huo spotted a figure in the forest.

Xu Huo followed a series of younger versions of himself through the wisteria-choked city and found another version of himself asleep beneath an ancient tree. As he remained missing inside Hai City, authorities and Players mobilized to find him while the public argued over whether he should risk himself for the city or prioritize the greater good.

• Xu Huo followed his younger selves through the wisteria until he found another version of himself asleep beneath an ancient tree.
• After two hours without contact from Xu Huo or the Players who entered Hai City, officials ordered the Totem Squad to find him and bring him out.
• Two squads in protective suits entered Hai City as wisteria continued to overrun the city and outgrow efforts to cut it back.
• Civilian Player groups also searched for Xu Huo while rumors spread about his disappearance and five more Level One Combat Zones appeared.
• People on online forums argued over whether Xu Huo had acted rightly by entering Hai City instead of staying to protect Country X.

Nie Xuan confronted Bai Tiaoyi after discovering that the Ghastly Sound Knights had been feeding missing people to Mutated Plants as part of a plan to alter the genes of everyone in Country X. Xu Huo woke in the wisteria forest and found that the missing Players and civilians had been consumed by Mutated wisteria.

• Nie Xuan traced Bai Tiaoyi to a patch of Mutated Plants and found the remains of people who had gone missing along the Ghastly Sound Knights’ route.
• Bai Tiaoyi explained that he intended to make Country X pay for his friend’s death by planting a defect in its people’s genes.
• Nie Xuan and Bai Tiaoyi fought as the wisteria-like white petals dissolved Nie Xuan’s defensive barrier.
• Xu Huo woke beneath purple wisteria, freed himself from its roots, and discovered that the missing Players and ordinary people had been turned into food.
• Xu Huo spotted Players from District 014 and began pulling them out of the flowers.

Xu Huo led the survivors through the vast Wisteria instance, rescuing sleepers and searching for missing people while the group tried to understand how to clear the instance. He found the pale purple Sub-class Stone the child had seen in their shared dream, confirming that the dream’s places and objects existed in the physical world.

• Xu Huo and the survivors pulled people from the wisteria, gave masks to those who needed them, and organized a search for others still asleep.
• Jin Xiang asked Xu Huo how they could clear the instance, and Xu Huo kept the survivors out of container items so they could help rescue people.
• The group searched among the wisteria and recovered sleepers, while Jin Xiang warned that attacking the vines could make them draw more nutrients from the people attached to them.
• Xu Huo and the child from Wormhole Point E25 found the pale purple Sub-class Stone hidden in a cave.
• Xu Huo concluded that the instance’s shared dream projected real places and objects into its dreamers’ perceptions.

Xu Huo explored the Wisteria instance, where people could be killed in dreams by ordinary people’s imagined weapons, and discovered the vines grew increasingly dense toward the southeast. Despite the danger and Jin Xiang’s advice to leave, Xu Huo stayed to rescue those trapped, and Jin Xiang announced he would leave the Special Defense Department to follow him.

• Xu Huo reasoned that deaths in the Wisteria dream were real and that the vines might possess mental power like the Goddess Vine.
• Jin Xiang brought spray-on potions, and the Special Defense Department deployed drones to search for people and help them escape the instance.
• Xu Huo split off with a team to explore, rescued people, and observed that the wisteria grew more densely toward the southeast.
• After three members of Xu Huo’s team fell asleep, Jin Xiang urged him to leave, but Xu Huo asked the Special Defense Department to keep rescuing those trapped and refused to return yet.
• Jin Xiang told Xu Huo he was leaving the Special Defense Department to follow him.

Xu Huo sent a message from the Wisteria instance, reassuring Country X and inspiring its people to resist the Outer District Players. While investigating the instance’s unusually large wisteria tree, he searched for the cause of the sleep-inducing anomaly and found a glowing stone.

• The Special Defense Department learned that Xu Huo was safe, and he sent a video announcing that he would clear out intruders again in two hours.
• Minister Ji and the military released Xu Huo’s video nationwide, raising people’s confidence and prompting ordinary citizens to monitor and resist the Outer District Players.
• The people of Country X tracked players and shared their movements, while some players responded by killing civilians without stopping the resistance.
• Xu Huo examined an enormous wisteria tree and tested the fertile soil, but found no evidence that the plants caused the Dungeon’s anomaly.
• Jin Xiang collected specimens and helped Xu Huo dig soil, then spotted a huge glowing stone.

Xu Huo discovered an Origin Stone hidden in a mutated tree and left the rescue effort to seek the Instance Authorization Letter, though his real aim was to destroy the instance grounds. He realized that Sub-districts judged to lack potential could be systematically stripped and ruined by the game, leaving District 014 vulnerable to a hidden risk.

• Jin Xiang found a large Sub-class Stone in a tree root, and Xu Huo helped the group search for more.
• Xu Huo found a small purple Origin Stone in the tree's heart and suspected it had promoted plant mutation.
• Xu Huo gave Jin Xiang the Sub-class Stones and left, claiming he would look for the Instance Authorization Letter while planning to dismantle the instance grounds.
• Xu Huo concluded that Sub-districts judged to lack potential were systematically exploited and could be reduced to wastelands.
• Xu Huo resolved that District 014 could be destroyed by a hidden risk that would set the game's process in motion.

Xu Huo destroyed the forest and a hidden fortress, causing the A-grade Random Instance “Hunting” to collapse. He and the people trapped inside were expelled into Hai City, where rescuers began waking the remaining sleepers.

• Xu Huo ignored the game’s warning and expanded his attacks, destroying the wisteria and other parts of the forest as Players rushed to rescue people.
• Xu Huo noticed that animals avoided the northwest and followed them to an invisible barrier concealing a vast white metal fortress.
• Xu Huo searched the abandoned fortress, found no clear clues, took a few pieces of equipment, and destroyed the structure.
• The game announced that the “Hunting” instance had collapsed and forcibly removed everyone inside.
• Xu Huo appeared on a street in Hai City as Players celebrated their return and continued rescuing sleepers; Xiang Yao and Xiang Mi expressed disbelief at his feat.

After escaping the collapsing Hunting instance, Xu Huo met with national leaders, learned about the crisis across Country X, and prepared to help combat Outer District Players across District 014. He left Hai City after ordering the Special Defense Department to investigate the Ghastly Sound Knights and entrusting Xiang Yao with the Goddess Vine.

• The Xiang siblings showed Xu Huo a call with Capital City leaders, who said Country X was uniting against the crisis and that other countries in District 014 were in the same boat.
• Xu Huo reviewed reports of citizens organizing rescues and resisting Outer District Players, then requested information on Country X's main combat zones and said he would shut down Sky Light Domain.
• Xiang Yao told Xu Huo that Ting City and Team Leader Nie were tied up in instances, and that Bai Tiaoyi had planted Mutated Plants in corpses to damage the genes of future Players.
• Xu Huo ordered the Special Defense Department to investigate thoroughly and seek information on missing Ghastly Sound Knights, then gave Xiang Yao the Goddess Vine to secure in Capital City.
• Xu Huo left Hai City, reflecting that the Instance Authorization Letter's destruction had likely caused the instance to collapse without making him a Wanted Criminal.

A Player reporting from Country Y’s capital praised Hans and other heroes while residents and rescue workers struggled to save people from a catastrophe. As the reporter defended the government’s response, a blood-red attack spread through the streets, killing people and raising their bodies into a field of bloody flowers.

• A reporting Player blamed Outer District Players for the hostage killings and claimed Hans’s arrival would save Country Y’s capital.
• A desperate man charged into his burning home to reach his trapped parents while Hans rescued hostages and received public praise.
• A burned rescue Player accused the reporter of lacking compassion and questioned whether the government used celebrated heroes to conceal the suffering.
• Blood-red patterns appeared on the streets and transformed into needles that pierced people, including the burned rescue Player, as a field of corpse-flowers spread through the city.

Xu Huo appeared in the devastated city as Hans, Lina, and other players from Country Y fought the Outer District Players. He intimidated the attackers into stopping their blood-based assault, then killed a group that challenged him.

• Hans, Lina, and their allies battled three Outer District Players, whose blood needles quickly incapacitated two of their companions.
• Lina saved Hans from a coordinated attack as the Outer District Players deflected the Country Y players’ energy weapons into nearby buildings.
• Xu Huo appeared on a rooftop, and the three Outer District Players halted their blood-based attack after he pointed at them.
• Xu Huo walked through the city, killing nearby Outer District Players without giving them a chance to fight back.
• A burly Outer District Player challenged Xu Huo, but Xu froze the charging group and killed them.

Xu Huo traveled across District 014, eliminating Level One battle zones and major groups of Outer District Players before returning to Ting City. The city remained sealed inside a Dungeon, and he had no news of the people trapped there or of the Ghastly Sound Knights.

• Xu Huo entered Country Y’s battle zones one by one and quickly ended its Level One battles, prompting the government to consider negotiating with Country X and to send its leaderboard Players after him.
• Xu Huo traveled through District 014, defeated three groups of Outer District Players occupying entire countries, and cleared the remaining Level One battle zones, bringing the Sub-district a relatively peaceful period.
• Xu Huo dealt with threats from Mutant Flora and Fauna in two more locations, then returned to Ting City, which remained isolated inside a Dungeon.
• Xiang Yao told Xu Huo that Ting City’s routine reports had stopped before the city was sealed and that no trapped Players, including Nie Xuan, had sent messages.
• Xiang Yao reported that Jin Feixue had been seen near erupting volcanoes, but investigators found no trace of anything suspicious there.

Xu Huo went to the Safe Zone to rest and used his Ability, "Script," to explore possible outcomes of a coming battle with Jin Feixue. The visions showed her Super Dimensional Instrument could counter his Time Power, while another Super Artifact might flood the city with magma.

• Xu Huo went to the Safe Zone, sent its occupants away, and rested while the Xiang siblings and government teams guarded the area outside.
• Xu Huo used "Script" to write out possible versions of his encounter with Jin Feixue at 5:46 a.m.
• In the visions, Jin Feixue attacked with a cross-shaped instrument that could kill Xu Huo, destroy the Safe Zone, or force him to evade its effects.
• Xu Huo concluded that Jin Feixue knew he was a Temporal Evolver and had prepared a Super Dimensional Instrument to counter his Time Power.
• Xu Huo inferred that the instrument could likely be used only once in a short period, but Jin Feixue's side also possessed a Super Artifact that could flood the city with magma.

Xu Huo prepared Capital City for Jin Feixue’s attack, deploying time-space Super Artifacts and arranging defenses against a possible lava surge. Jin Feixue arrived during a storm and played his violin, causing the Safe Zone to tear apart before the two men clashed in the air.

• Xu Huo contacted the military and the Special Defense Department and arranged defenses for Capital City.
• Xu Huo sent the Super Artifacts Time Tower and Sky Light Domain to two Elite Players and accepted a Random Instance trigger item as a contingency.
• Xu Huo left Underground Level 1 and waited at the entrance to a residential building as a storm swept through the Safe Zone.
• Jin Feixue appeared across the street, protected by a transparent barrier, and played his violin.
• Jin Feixue’s music raised an earthen dragon that struck the barrier, and Xu Huo and Jin Feixue rose into the air to fight.

Xu Huo and Jin Feixue’s battle destroyed the Safe Zone and the non-game-area simulation device, plunging the city into an A-Rank Random Instance. When Xu Huo tried to use Time Power against Whale, the attack turned back on him, and Nie Xuan moved to protect him as Jin Feixue was trapped in a Space Orb.

• Xu Huo and Jin Feixue’s Spatial Cutlines tore through the Safe Zone, forcing military and Special Defense Department Players to flee.
• The clash reached the non-game-area simulation device and destroyed it, after which Jin Feixue released a glass sphere that flooded the city with smoke and triggered an A-Rank Random Instance.
• Xu Huo found that he still could not use Time Power and that the instance prevented him from teleporting out of District 014.
• Xu Huo used Master's Invitation to reveal Jin Feixue, Whale, Nie Xuan, and several Special Defense Department Players within three thousand meters.
• Xu Huo sent Time Power toward Whale, but it bent away and struck Xu Huo instead.
• Nie Xuan appeared in front of Xu Huo while a transparent Space Orb enclosed Jin Feixue.

Xu Huo and Nie Xuan fought Jin Feixue and Whale amid the threat of a Super Dimensional Instrument, but a sudden explosion engulfed Xu Huo and the cross-shaped instrument. As Nie Xuan was thrown away, Bai Tiaoyi reappeared beside Jin Feixue while magma poured through a tear in the sky and a spatial passage began to form.

• Xu Huo escaped the Space Orb’s attack and teamed up with Nie Xuan to confront Jin Feixue as Whale was swallowed by dark matter.
• Jin Feixue’s cross-shaped Super Dimensional Instrument trapped the Magician Person and erased it, while Xu Huo used Time Power to hold Jin Feixue in place.
• Jin Feixue unleashed Space Power through the Violin’s broken strings, but Xu Huo froze him again with Time Power.
• An embroidered-ball instrument exploded in front of Xu Huo, and he charged toward the cross-shaped instrument as Nie Xuan tried to shield them with his Space Orb.
• The blast engulfed Xu Huo and the cross-shaped instrument and hurled Nie Xuan away; Bai Tiaoyi reappeared beside Jin Feixue as magma spilled through the torn sky and a spatial passage began to form.

Xu Huo stopped Jin Feixue and Bai Tiaoyi from escaping, then faced Jin Feixue in a final gamble over whether he had another Super Dimensional Instrument. Their battle left Jin Feixue poised to strike, but Xu Huo halted his dagger and made him vanish.

• Xu Huo destroyed two instruments powering the spatial passage, preventing Jin Feixue and Bai Tiaoyi from escaping.
• Xu Huo and Jin Feixue discussed their failed plans and the deaths of the Ghastly Sound Knights, while Jin Feixue sent Bai Tiaoyi away to safety.
• Xu Huo and Jin Feixue resumed their battle, each gambling on the other's powers and resources.
• Jin Feixue slipped behind Xu Huo and attacked his neck with a dagger, but a scrap of paper grazed Jin Feixue's eye and Xu Huo stopped the blade with one finger.
• Xu Huo's dagger and Jin Feixue vanished into thin air.

Xu Huo emerged from the fog alive after defeating Jin Feixue and three Ghastly Sound Knights, and District 014 celebrated the victory. Players across the district debated the battle and speculated about Xu Huo’s hidden identity, while the story left him known publicly only as “X.”

• Nie Xuan and the gathered Players waited anxiously for news from the fog after Xu Huo and Jin Feixue’s clash.
• A paper tornado swept out of the fog, followed by Xu Huo, who walked out unharmed as the Players cheered.
• A game notification confirmed that Jin Feixue and three Ghastly Sound Knights had died, prompting celebration among District 014 Players.
• Outer District Players connected the battle to the bounty on Xu Huo and speculated that he was a new Player from an E-class wormhole point with Temporal Evolution.
• Players argued online about Xu Huo’s Super Artifact and debated whether he had endangered or saved District 014.
• Players wondered who Xu Huo really was, but his identity remained unknown behind the nickname “X.”

Xu Huo confirmed Jin Feixue’s death as the players of District 014 celebrated the Ghastly Sound Knights’ defeat, and the Holy Sword Society delivered Bai Tiaoyi’s corpse. After reuniting with the painted woman and Big Mao, Xu Huo went with the others to the underground Safe Zone, where Country X’s senior officials awaited him.

• Xu Huo confirmed that Jin Feixue was dead, while Nie Xuan questioned whether Bai Tiaoyi had escaped.
• Yan Jiayu sent Xu Huo a Photo of a corpse marked as a Ghastly Sound Knights bullet.
• A representative of the Holy Sword Society apologized and delivered Bai Tiaoyi’s corpse as compensation.
• The painted woman and Big Mao emerged from the fog and reunited with Xu Huo.
• Xu Huo and the others entered the underground Safe Zone, where the old man greeted him.

Xu Huo learned that the “National Resources” Random Instance had sealed Capital City in fog and was killing people by suffocation, then advised officials to continue evacuating residents while they searched for answers. After privately tending to his injuries, he discussed the evacuation limits with Nie Xuan, who revealed that the military and Special Defense Department had gathered their strongest Players in the city.

• Minister Ji briefed Xu Huo that the instance covered Capital City, had caused 127 suffocation deaths, and required Players to determine a reasonable population size using local resources.
• Xu Huo advised the officials to prioritize saving people in immediate danger and continue evacuating residents according to their plan.
• Minister Ji arranged a room for Xu Huo, and the painted woman and Big Mao followed him inside.
• Xu Huo coughed up blood from internal injuries caused by the Cross Super Dimensional Instrument and drank healing Potions.
• Nie Xuan brought Xu Huo Potions and food, then explained that they could not quickly evacuate everyone or send all the Players away using container items.
• Xu Huo inferred that the military and Special Defense Department had gathered their strongest Players in Capital City, and Nie Xuan confirmed it.