Recaps

After rejecting an invitation that would have split up their group, Xu Huo learned the rules for staying in Little Bear City and began looking for new companions before returning to the Bear Hug Zone. He recruited a trio and a pair, leaving the group newly reformed and ready to face the Wasteland Zone together.

• A white-haired leader invited Yilan and Xu Huo to join his team but dismissed Old Duan and Ding Xiang as liabilities.
• Lao Gao warned that the team had little time to gather supplies, and Yilan later told Xu Huo that players could stay in Little Bear City for fifteen days, with extra limits tied to their points.
• Xu Huo refused to join the white-haired man's team, and Yilan chose to return to Xu Huo, Old Duan, and Ding Xiang.
• A group of Cannibal Players mocked Xu Huo and his companions, but the three walked away and decided to return to the Bear Hug Zone.
• Xu Huo searched for additional companions and met Wood, Wolf Fang, and Na Wei, along with Love Orange and Two Heads.

Xu Huo and the others traveled together after choosing him as their leader, sharing skills and supplies while discussing the degeneration caused by Evolution Potions. They ended the journey hoping for a cure and joking about Dr. Wu, whose rumored Perfect Potions inspired their respect.

• Two Heads proposed a vote for a group leader, and Love Orange and the others supported Xu Huo.
• The group rested overnight, then left Little Bear City together and shared poisoned hidden weapons and antidote roots made by Love Orange with Na Wei's help.
• Xu Huo asked Wood about degeneration, and Wood explained its symptoms and how District 025's treatments eased the suffering without curing it.
• Ding Xiang suggested that some players' bodies could not adapt to evolution, while Two Heads questioned why the game had not replicated Dr. Wu's Perfect Potions.
• Wolf Fang hoped the Game Government would develop a cure, and Two Heads joked that players were better off hoping Dr. Wu became their godfather.

Xu Huo accepted Mitchell’s challenge and fought the poison-wielding player inside the arena. After Love Orange’s Antidotes stopped Mitchell’s toxins, Xu Huo wounded him with poison of his own, leaving the fight unresolved as the toxin spread up Mitchell’s arm.

• After the group entered Little Bear City, Mitchell challenged Xu Huo and offered him a place on his team if he was also a poison user.
• Xu Huo entered the arena with two Antidotes from Love Orange, while Mitchell unleashed a tornado and filled it with venomous creatures and poisonous powder.
• Mitchell broke through Xu Huo’s defensive barrier and injured him, but the Antidotes prevented the poison from taking effect.
• Xu Huo countered with Space Sharp Blades, sliced through the attacking creatures, and forced Mitchell back.
• Xu Huo slashed Mitchell’s arm and told him to try his poison as dark purple lines began spreading from the wound.

Xu Huo survived Mitchell’s poison and explosive last stand, then won a difficult arena match that pushed his score above 2,000. Ordered to cross into another Sub-district, he passed through Gate Two and entered a scorching, desert-bound Wasteland Zone.

• Mitchell’s poison failed to kill Xu Huo, and his bomb left Mitchell dead while Xu Huo survived behind layered barriers.
• Xu Huo received another challenge, and he told Ding Xiang that he would wait in the Wasteland Zone if he was forced to cross over.
• Xu Huo used an interference device and, with Yilan’s mental-energy assistance, killed his formidable opponent before disappearing from the arena.
• Xu Huo teleported away, learned he had to reach Gate Two within an hour, and headed for it with a score of 2,203.
• Xu Huo encountered Yilan’s group at Gate Two, then crossed into the Wasteland Zone, where scorching heat and an endless desert stretched beyond the greenery.

Xu Huo explored the scorching desolate area, gathered plants that could help replenish fluids, and waited for Ding Xiang's group to join him. After they reunited and prepared supplies, the group followed a rough map and set out toward a marked cross-zone location.

• Xu Huo unlocked a long-distance teleportation device, gathered edible plant juice, and found no sign of the Chaos Space near the desert's edge.
• Ding Xiang, Two Heads, Love Orange, Wood, Wolf Fang, Na Wei, and Old Duan earned enough points to pass through the Second Gate and reunite with Xu Huo.
• Love Orange identified two useful plants, and the group filled a bottle with their juice and made bundles of roots and broad-leaf hats.
• Two Heads showed the group a rough map marking a cross-zone location northeast of Little Bear City, and they agreed to follow it.
• The group set out across the desolate area, unsure how they would earn points or what challenges awaited them.

Xu Huo and his team struggled through a sudden snowstorm before Challenge Island forced them into a team arena match against a stronger six-person team. The first-round battle began with Xu Huo under attack from two opponents.

• Xu Huo and his companions rested in the heat, then set off again when the sky abruptly darkened and snow began to fall.
• The group found a frozen man suspended in midair by Spatial Ray blades and realized the storm had trapped them in a strange space.
• Challenge Island matched Xu Huo’s eight-person team against a six-person team in an arena match, with the opponents declaring they would leave no survivors.
• The two teams began fighting, and Xu Huo escaped an eye-shaped cutline trap before countering with his knife, Space Power, and poison.

Xu Huo’s team lost the first round after a teammate surrendered, then won the second when Xu Huo overwhelmed the opposing challenger with Space Power. After Challenge Island killed the defeated player, the poisoned opposing player demanded an antidote as both teams prepared to fight over the remaining points.

• A teammate on Xu Huo’s team surrendered during the first round, dropping the team’s score to 100 and ending the match.
• Xu Huo stepped forward to face the opposing team’s ice-wielding Space Power Super Evolver in the second round.
• Xu Huo battered the man’s barriers with Space Sharp Blades and Space Rays until he pinned him down, winning the round and raising his team’s score to 2,801.
• The defeated man charged at Xu Huo after the arena ended, and a streak of white light from Challenge Island killed him.
• The poisoned opposing player collapsed with a black-and-purple hand and demanded an antidote, while Two Heads and Wood warned that the teams were outnumbered and might have to fight.

An instrument bomb scattered Xu Huo, Ding Xiang, and the others across the dark, freezing wasteland of Challenge Island. Xu Huo and Ding Xiang followed a massive space wall while searching for the Perfect Potion, then ran as two walls closed in on them.

• A poisoned player detonated an instrument bomb that scattered Xu Huo, Ding Xiang, and the others, leaving Xu Huo and Ding Xiang alone.
• Xu Huo and Ding Xiang found a huge space wall and Xu Huo suspected the Perfect Potion lay beyond it.
• Xu Huo told Ding Xiang he had come to District 025 to gamble on his chances despite his regression.
• Xu Huo and Ding Xiang followed the wall through the wasteland, sharing their dwindling rations and water.
• A second space wall approached, and Xu Huo and Ding Xiang ran as it threatened to crush them.

Xu Huo and Ding Xiang escaped a merging spatial wall but remained trapped in the barren zone, where they searched for a way out. After finding a series of small spatial walls, they spotted Love Orange on the other side of one, but could not hear each other.

• Xu Huo and Ding Xiang escaped around the corner of a stationary spatial wall as it merged with a moving wall, and saw a corpse shattered by Space Power.
• Xu Huo and Ding Xiang traveled along the wall for a day, then rested and changed direction when they found no other players or route back to the normal barren zone.
• Xu Huo and Ding Xiang encountered several small, stable spatial walls as they crossed the darkness.
• Ding Xiang noticed a figure inside a spatial wall, and Xu Huo and Ding Xiang recognized Love Orange when she appeared on its other side.
• Xu Huo and Ding Xiang and Love Orange tried to communicate across the wall but could not hear one another.

Xu Huo used Love Orange's stickers to trace a route through Chaos Space and opened a passage through a large spatial wall. After he crossed it, the wall vanished, leaving him separated from Ding Xiang.

• Love Orange and Ding Xiang found each other on opposite sides of an invisible spatial wall and communicated with gestures and lip-reading.
• Xu Huo asked Love Orange to mark nearby spatial walls with stickers, then used the markers to guide the group through the disordered spaces.
• Xu Huo found the stickers led toward a large spatial wall and decided to try breaking through it with his Spatial Evolution ability.
• Xu Huo carved a passage through the wall and entered it alone, promising to return for Ding Xiang if he made it across.
• Xu Huo reached the other side, but the spatial wall disappeared behind him, along with Ding Xiang.

Xu Huo entered a small space wall in the Barren Area and found a sealed corridor lined with corpses, including District 025 law enforcement officers and a Player who died while injecting a hidden Potion. After he left, the Chaos Space disappeared, and he reunited with Ding Xiang, Love Orange, and the others.

• Xu Huo opened a passage into a small space wall and walked through darkness until he reached a solid, transparent wall.
• Xu Huo examined the wall of corpses and found that it contained Players from different Sub-districts, many of them District 025 law enforcement officers who had died between nine and thirty years earlier.
• Xu Huo noticed a dead Player holding a Potion sewn into his skin and connected him to Ding Xiang and Yilan, who had hidden similar Potions and seemed to be investigating something.
• Xu Huo found that the corpse-lined passage was sealed in every direction except the way he had entered, then backed out of the space wall.
• The small space wall and the other scattered walls disappeared, and Xu Huo saw Two Heads, Old Duan, Wood, Ding Xiang, and Love Orange nearby.
• Xu Huo regrouped with the others, who said they had been trapped in the Chaos Space for two days without leaving the same area.

Xu Huo and his group crossed the wasteland, recruited two stranded Players, and encountered the white-haired man's team before a massive tsunami of Space Sharp Blades attacked them. As the spatial force surrounded both groups, Xu Huo stopped to draw on the Space Rays.

• Two Heads and the others shared their remaining food and water as they continued across the hot wasteland.
• Xu Huo's group subdued Norman and Chen Xiao, took their supplies, and invited them to join.
• Xu Huo's group met the white-haired man's team, and Two Heads traded barbs with one of its members.
• A corpse impaled on Space Sharp Blades flew into the white-haired man's team, unleashing a spatial tsunami that chased both groups.
• The spatial force closed in around the fleeing Players, and Xu Huo stopped to draw on the Space Rays.

Xu Huo protected his group from a spatial tsunami, but an unpredictable spike killed one of their companions. Afterward, the white-haired man offered to take Xu Huo’s group in, and the players discussed the dangers and unknowns of Challenge Island.

• Two Spatial Evolution users from the white-haired man’s team helped Xu Huo form a barrier, and he repeatedly deconstructed and rebuilt it to withstand the spatial tsunami.
• After the tsunami weakened, a Space Ray spike pierced a player and shattered his body from within; Yilan confirmed he was dead.
• When the Space Sharp Blades receded, Love Orange noticed Xu Huo was exhausted and bleeding, and he said a Potion would not help him.
• The white-haired man invited Xu Huo and his group to join his team, but Two Heads insisted Xu Huo was their captain.
• Xu Huo asked whether a larger team would affect arena matches, and the white-haired man warned that Challenge Island would eventually split large teams apart.
• Ding Xiang asked whether anyone had left the wasteland, and the white-haired man said his team knew of no successful crossings and had only estimates about the points and conditions required.

Xu Huo and the others struggled through the desolate zone as a fast-moving spatial wall closed in around them. After Xu Huo broke through it with his spatial power, the group vanished into another space, leaving their fate uncertain.

• Xu Huo declined to join Yilan and the others, though both groups continued onward within helping distance.
• After two days of extreme heat and blizzards, a player from the white-haired man's group disappeared, and Xu Huo identified a moving spatial wall.
• Xu Huo and the others fled as the spatial wall closed in from all sides, killing players it caught.
• Xu Huo used a strand of space power to break open the wall, unleashing chaotic spatial energy that injured him.
• The spatial bodies rushing toward the group suddenly vanished, and Ding Xiang wondered whether the space or the group had disappeared.

Xu Huo’s group followed the white-haired man’s map across the Wasteland and entered an arena match against a hungry team. Two Heads won the first round and fought the opposing team’s muscular female player in the next round, leaving the duel unresolved.

• The white-haired man showed Two Heads, Yilan, Xu Huo, and the others a map marking a cross-district point and a shop that had vanished.
• Xu Huo’s group followed the map, traveled through changing weather, and was eventually pulled into an arena match against seven gaunt players.
• An opposing player fired a sealing device at Two Heads, but Xu Huo redirected its needles, and Two Heads made the player surrender without killing him.
• Two Heads’s score rose, making him the winning team’s player selected for the second round, and a muscular female player challenged him.
• Two Heads used a Windmill to raise a sandstorm and attacked the woman, but she stunned him and pierced his shoulder with a curved metal earring.
• Two Heads wounded the woman’s leg with a blade from his calf, and she rolled away and slashed at his throat.

Two Heads won a brutal ring match, earning the group points as they continued across the Wasteland District. Their journey ended with a confrontation looming against the armed Players they had encountered before, who carried human ears and promised to kill them as a supposed good deed.

• Two Heads defeated the physically evolved female Player, and Challenge Island eliminated the losing team.
• Xu Huo and his companions received points, continued through the Wasteland District, and won two more ring matches.
• The white-haired man spotted a group approaching, and Xu Huo's companions recognized the Players who had previously ambushed them.
• The newcomers carried numerous guns and human ears, claimed they had found a supply point, and threatened to kill Xu Huo's group.

Xu Huo and the white-haired man’s group fought off an armed team in the wasteland, though three attackers escaped. Realizing Challenge Island was deliberately weakening them, the survivors agreed to split up and meet again in half a day.

• The white-haired man led his team and the other players into battle against six armed attackers while Xu Huo and Two Heads conserved their strength.
• When a sandstorm obscured the battlefield, two attackers targeted Xu Huo and Two Heads; Two Heads fought one while Xu Huo killed the other and took his gun.
• Xu Huo used the stolen gun to shoot into the fight, helping the white-haired man’s group defeat two more attackers as the remaining three escaped by teleporting.
• Ding Xiang complained about Challenge Island, and her score dropped sharply; Old Duan warned the others to keep their voices down.
• The white-haired man said the encounter was no coincidence and told Xu Huo they should split up and meet again in half a day.

Xu Huo and the other Players crossed the Wasteland District while speculating about the Challenge Island and the world beyond it. Under the light of Rabbit Eye Star, the planet suddenly appeared to rush toward them, revealing a volcanic surface as it loomed over the horizon.

• Xu Huo agreed discreetly to help the white-haired man’s group stay in contact while keeping his distance from them.
• Love Orange tried to lift Wood and the others’ spirits, while Two Heads urged the Players to fight back against the island’s organizers.
• Xu Huo asked about the island’s center, and the group speculated that it might hold staff or supplies before continuing onward.
• Rabbit Eye Star appeared after sunset, and Love Orange said it was seen only once every twenty years and had last appeared seven years earlier.
• The group wondered if the island was far from District 025, then watched Rabbit Eye Star rapidly grow larger and reveal its volcanoes and lava flows.

Xu Huo explored the island’s Curved Time, using it to watch past events recorded in the walls of corpses. He discovered that Enforcement Department teams and other Players had been searching for Potions and dying there, and he continued looking for traces of Dr. Wu.

• Xu Huo recognized that the duplicated corpses and space walls were linked to Curved Time, then rewound one stretch to watch a female Player die and a wounded man inject himself with a hidden Syringe before dying.
• Xu Huo watched Players search the dead man’s body, then concluded that multiple organizations had landed on the island.
• Xu Huo rewound another stretch of Curved Time and saw an Enforcement Department team carrying red ore debate whether finding the Perfect Potion was worth their lives.
• Xu Huo saw the Enforcement Department team later die in a space wall after its captain transmitted coordinates in a final report.
• Xu Huo watched more past events, including Syringe-carrying Players and a female corpse resembling Ding Xiang, whose terminal showed the event had occurred ten years earlier.
• Xu Huo spotted a familiar member of the armed squad among later arrivals on the island, though that member’s teammates had changed.

Xu Huo searched the Curved Time segments in Chaos Space and discovered that Dr. Wu had hidden a red ore key in the Wasteland Zone after a meteorite impact. After the spatial walls vanished, Xu Huo questioned Love Orange about Rabbit Eye Star, while Ding Xiang and Old Duan reacted to the many bodies they had seen.

• Xu Huo reviewed memories of the island, learning that Rabbit Eye Star appeared frequently, meteorites had transformed the landscape, and the island was divided into several zones around a central district.
• Xu Huo saw Dr. Wu leave a red ore key on the ground, where a later meteorite impact buried it beneath soil and rocks.
• Xu Huo found a memory of a scientific team planning to install energy-release devices in the central district to prevent further meteorite impacts.
• Xu Huo concluded that the key might not lead to the Perfect Potion and that Rabbit Eye Star and a red streak of light could offer clues to its whereabouts.
• After the spatial walls disappeared, Xu Huo asked Love Orange whether Rabbit Eye Star's orbit could point toward another zone, while Ding Xiang asked about the corpse wall.
• Old Duan said the corpse wall contained many dead people, including members of the Inspection Department.

Xu Huo’s group joined forces with the white-haired man’s group while other Players harassed them, then faced a sudden storm that revealed a Chaos Space. Its Space Power swept everyone away in different directions.

• Old Duan said a corpse might have belonged to a friend in the covert Inspection Department, and Xu Huo’s group continued through the barren zone.
• Xu Huo’s group reached low hills, rested, and discovered that Ice Shovel’s team was repeatedly attacking and retreating to wear them down.
• Xu Huo signaled the white-haired man’s group, and the two groups joined together as Ice Shovel’s team and two other groups followed at a distance.
• Two Heads spotted five tornadoes approaching, and the groups found themselves blocked from going around them by the other Players.
• Xu Huo saw a red flash inside a tornado, and several tornadoes vanished as a Chaos Space appeared and scattered the Players.

Xu Huo questioned Ding Xiang about her mission on Challenge Island and learned that District 025 believed Dr. Wu had left behind an ingredient for the Perfect Potion. The chapter ended with Xu Huo wondering what uncontrollable substance the Potion might contain.

• Xu Huo watched Rabbit Eye Star trigger a brief rewind that transformed the wasteland into a green plain before meteorites fell and restored the barren landscape.
• Xu Huo told Ding Xiang he had seen a woman resembling her in the corpse wall and questioned her about why she had come to the island.
• Xu Huo used his mental power to restrain Ding Xiang and infer that she was an Inspection Department Player investigating Challenge Island.
• Ding Xiang told Xu Huo that meteorites had struck Challenge Island and rumors of an Origin Stone had led the Enforcement Department to search the island for years.
• Ding Xiang explained that some government officials believed Dr. Wu had used an ingredient from Challenge Island to make the Perfect Potion.
• Xu Huo wondered whether the Perfect Potion contained a substance that even District 025 could not control.

Xu Huo questioned Ding Xiang about Challenge Island, Dr. Wu, and the missing Origin Stone, learning how the island became a dangerous search site. He suspected that Alton Company and government officials were connected to the disappearances and the underground show, while the island’s central area remained unexplored.

• Xu Huo asked Ding Xiang what she knew about Challenge Island and the search for the Perfect Potion’s ingredients.
• Ding Xiang explained that meteorite impacts had transformed the island’s Chaos Space and left red ore, while the Origin Stone believed to be there had never been found.
• Ding Xiang said a red light was thought to be a replay of the Origin Stone flying away, and Xu Huo noted that it seemed to head toward the island’s center.
• Ding Xiang revealed that the District Government had sold Challenge Island to Alton Company for mining after withdrawing its forces.
• Xu Huo connected the island’s underground show to disappearances of Players and challenged Ding Xiang over why the Inspection Department had not simply arrested Alton Company and the suspected officials.

Xu Huo questioned Ding Xiang about District 025’s limits on investigating suspected officials, then resumed searching the barren zone for the mineral key. He spotted a red glimmer among scorched stones, suggesting the key might be nearby.

• Ding Xiang explained why District 025 had abolished its public officials’ oath system and allowed some minor offenses to go unpunished.
• Xu Huo challenged Ding Xiang over the Inspection Department’s inability to question suspects and asked what she was investigating in Challenge Island’s central area.
• Ding Xiang refused to answer, and Xu Huo set off to search for a way out while still looking for the Perfect Potion.
• Xu Huo investigated nearby space walls, reasoning that Dr. Wu’s mineral key was likely hidden near the red light he had previously seen.
• Xu Huo watched Rabbit Eye Star appear over scorched ground as a red streak passed and a faint red glimmer flickered among the stones.

Xu Huo recovered Dr. Wu’s unusual ore key from Curved Time and continued toward the district crossing with Ding Xiang. After surviving arena matches and reuniting with Old Duan and the white-haired man’s group, they followed the map to a vast city near the crossing point.

• Xu Huo retrieved the ore key from underground after Curved Time ended and concealed what he knew about it from Ding Xiang.
• Xu Huo and Ding Xiang left Chaos Space, encountered Ice Shovel’s seven-player group, and entered an arena match before they could fight.
• Xu Huo won two rounds, taking the group’s points; six players died, while Ice Shovel escaped using a resurrection ticket and a teleportation device.
• Xu Huo and Ding Xiang used the defeated players’ supplies, crossed the hills, and met Old Duan and the white-haired man’s group again.
• The white-haired man’s map led the groups toward the district crossing, and after a day of clashes they reached the outskirts of a vast city.