Recaps

A Yi explained how Players could use the hospital’s initial layout as a reference to resist the mental Dungeon’s illusions, and Xu Huo considered how its basic infrastructure might be exploited. After A Ying and A Yi found the sample and cleared the Dungeon, Xu Huo returned to his role as hospital director and learned the infection had spread.

• A Yi told Xu Huo that Players could compare the hospital’s changing interior with its initial layout to identify false details and find task locations.
• Xu Huo discussed using known reference points to resist mental interference and suggested that destroying the Dungeon’s basic infrastructure might disrupt it, though doing so could provoke the Dungeon Boss.
• Xu Huo, A Yi, and A Ying encountered medical staff upstairs and triggered an alarm that sent them rushing to the sample room.
• Xu Huo held off the approaching security guards while A Ying found the sample, and A Yi handed Xu Huo the wrapped Glass Bottle before vanishing.
• Xu Huo handed the bottle to the medical staff and ordered them to check for missing samples and increase patrols.
• The Doctor told Xu Huo that an infected patient had been moved from the seventh floor to isolation after a patient entered the laboratory in Building Two, and Xu Huo ordered a thorough inspection and treatment of anyone infected.

Xu Huo’s actions remained a mystery as players in the mental instance grew anxious about a supposed contagious disease, while Nie Xuan learned that Lichun was resting at a hotel instead of helping Xu Huo. The chapter left Nie Xuan wondering how Xu Huo planned to deal with the many players inside the instance without her.

• The players in the first building feared they might be infected after guards took two spotted patients to the isolation ward, while nurses’ conversation made them doubt whether the hospital was real.
• Zheng Liang and the others questioned a patient making a scene over canceled visits, but Brother Liang decided they might have to take a risk that night.
• The Special Defense Department tracked the Fog Zone and reported that at least seventy or eighty people, including Cannibal Players, had entered it.
• Nie Xuan reviewed footage of several people who looked like Xu Huo and concluded that the first one was probably the real Xu Huo and the others were disguises.
• The Secretary told Nie Xuan that Lichun had refused the department’s job offer, taken a hotel job, and gone to sleep, leaving Nie Xuan to wonder what Xu Huo was planning.

As the hospital grew more dangerous, Gu Yu and the other players tried to use Cleaning Agent on the main gate, believing the infection might let them clear the Third Task. Gu Yu reached the gate and threw the Glass Bottle, but vanished after a Cannibal Player bit her shoulder.

• Gu Yu, Zheng Liang, Wen Xue Lin, and the other players learned that patients were disappearing and that the hospital might be experimenting on them.
• The players drew lots, assigning one group to lure monsters away while Gu Yu and five others went to the main gate with stolen Cleaning Agent.
• Brother Liang and the others found the corridor covered in writhing flesh and faced a patient who had turned into a powerful monster.
• Gu Yu climbed down from the Third Floor and cut the bedsheet rope when monsters grabbed it from below.
• Several monsters attacked Gu Yu near the gate, and a Cannibal Player bit her shoulder before she threw the Glass Bottle and vanished.

Zheng Liang, Gu Yu, and the others escaped the instance and spoke with Nie Xuan, while concealing what they knew about Xu Huo. Meanwhile, Xu Huo detained ten foreign Players in an isolation ward and began interrogating one by making him doubt his identity.

• Zheng Liang, Wen Xue Lin, and Guan Zu Hong escaped the instance after scrubbing the entrance, and Gu Yu joined them outside.
• Nie Xuan questioned the group about the instance and Xu Huo, and Gu Yu told the others to conceal how they had entered.
• Gu Yu set out to find Lichun while Zheng Liang and the others stayed near the instance to wait for Xu Huo.
• Xu Huo restrained ten foreign Players in Building Three's isolation ward and questioned a brown-haired Player named David Pierce.
• Xu Huo showed David Pierce a mirror, and David screamed when he saw a black-haired, black-eyed reflection.

Xu Huo extracted information about a foreign spy network and Country Y’s item trading and newly discovered ore from David Pierce and Bentley Abe. After obtaining coordinates for the ore, Xu Huo killed Bentley and prepared to investigate the site himself.

• Xu Huo invented a past for David Pierce, who began recalling the spy network’s failed attempts to seize the antidote fungus and assassinate officials.
• David Pierce told Xu Huo that other countries had item-trading shops and that Country Y had traded for items using ore from a new resource zone.
• Xu Huo questioned Bentley Abe, who recognized him as the Dungeon Boss and offered rewards in exchange for his freedom.
• Bentley offered to trade ore for his release, then gave Xu Huo the site’s coordinates when Xu Huo pressed him.
• Xu Huo praised Bentley’s loyalty and killed him with a sword stroke.

Xu Huo cleared the Dungeon of Cannibal Players, escaped the Special Defense Department’s encirclement, and learned that foreign Players were also attacking across Capital City. The chapter ended as strange, foul-smelling black rain began falling and Xu Huo tested a raindrop with King Fungus filaments.

• Xu Huo killed the Players in isolation wards who might have known the mineral deposits’ location, then discharged David Pierce, sending him out of the Dungeon.
• Xu Huo manipulated the hospital’s entrances and unleashed ghosts, viruses, and escaped Experiment Samples, causing most Players inside to die or go mad.
• Xu Huo collected items left by ship Players, ended the Dungeon, and fled the Special Defense Department’s encirclement using Straight Line Distance.
• Xu Huo learned that the Special Defense Department had targeted Cannibal Players, controlled ordinary Players, and fought foreign Players around the city.
• Black, foul-smelling rain began falling, and Xu Huo released King Fungus filaments to test a drop on the windowsill.

Xu Huo and his companions discovered that the spreading black rain poisoned water and transformed exposed people into violent Aliens. As Aliens broke into their shelter, the group fought back while Xu Huo blocked the windows, but more attackers poured into the room.

• Xu Huo tested the rain and warned Zheng Liang and the others that it was poisonous, then Guan Zu Hong found that their water was poisoned too.
• Xu Huo pulled a transformed Special Defense Department Player into the room, and the group killed him after he attacked Brother Liang.
• More Aliens broke through the windows, and Zheng Liang and Guan Zu Hong killed one that attacked them in the hallway.
• Brother Liang emerged from the bedroom with several Aliens behind him as Xu Huo finished barricading a window with Harm Not Self.
• Xu Huo sliced apart Aliens trying to enter through the window and shot several others in the head.

Xu Huo and Zheng Liang's group escaped an Alien attack and hid while black rain and mass mutations plunged the city into chaos. The Special Defense Department struggled to contain its mutated Players, but an Antidote showed promise and Nie Xuan reported that Country Y's rain-related high-level Artifact might be in the city.

• Aliens overwhelmed Zheng Liang's group, so Xu Huo weakened the floor and collapsed the room behind them as they escaped downstairs.
• Xu Huo and the others sheltered in an apartment building's security office, where they saw mutated Special Defense Department Players and decided to stay put because the Aliens had keen hearing.
• Emergency broadcasts warned residents to avoid tap water and stay indoors as panic, traffic jams, and fights over supplies spread across the city.
• Minister Fan and other leaders were trapped in the temporary command center while the department struggled with mutations and collapsing trust among its members.
• Jiang Qiao reported that an Antidote fungus had restored a mutated Player, and Nie Xuan told Minister Fan that Country Y's rain-related high-level Artifact might be in the city.

As the rain-driven Alien tide overwhelmed the command center and destroyed Special Defense Department headquarters, Xu Huo left his group to search for survivors. He found an injured Special Defense Department Player trying to rescue two children and intervened just as Aliens cornered them.

• Minister Fan ordered a search for the hidden Player while his command center came under attack from Aliens.
• Minister Fan ordered troops to prepare to drive the frenzied people toward headquarters, but the Special Defense Department building collapsed before they could proceed.
• After seeing the collapse on the remaining surveillance screens, Xu Huo told his companions to relocate and left the security room alone.
• Xu Huo found an injured Special Defense Department Player trying to lift two children to safety as three fast Aliens attacked her.
• The Player threw the second child toward a balcony and reached for a grenade, but Xu Huo stopped her and shot all three Aliens with his Water Knife Gun.

Xu Huo saved a Special Defense Department Player from Alien poison with his Antidote, but she died after rushing to answer a distress call. After killing two Players who attacked him and looted her belongings, he delivered the children to Zheng Liang and called Nie Xuan to ask about a nearby reservoir.

• Xu Huo lifted the female Player and two children to safety, then killed the Aliens approaching through the rain.
• He treated the female Player with an Antidote Syringe, discovered it could cure Alien poison, and warned that the rain would eventually contaminate the city's water supply.
• The female Player went to answer a distress signal, but Xu Huo found her dead and placed the children inside Shelter 101.
• Xu Huo killed two Players who had attacked him and tried to steal from the female Player.
• He took the children to Zheng Liang and called Nie Xuan to ask whether a reservoir was near the Special Defense Department headquarters.

Xu Huo planned to test whether diluted Antidote could purify a reservoir while asking Zheng Liang to obtain identity documents. Meanwhile, Nie Xuan’s forces surrounded a hideout linked to the Y Country players, trapping Mr. Lin and his allies as they tried to escape.

• Xu Huo learned the locations of two reservoirs from Nie Xuan and decided to use the larger one to test the Antidote.
• Xu Huo gave Zheng Liang a list of requirements for obtaining identity documents, then left through the rain.
• Nie Xuan sent the Special Defense Department to surround a Y Country players’ hideout, where several players escaped using disguises and unusual abilities.
• Mr. Lin ordered his allies to break out without entering a dungeon, but the Special Defense Department captured the square-faced man after he triggered an item.
• Mr. Lin escaped through a window using an air cushion after his glass-shattering ability erupted, but a Special Defense Department player attached a rope to his shoe.

The Special Defense Department captured Mr. Lin and questioned him about the high-level item causing the black rain, but he refused to reveal where it was hidden. Xu Huo reported finding twelve Players near Wenshan Mountain and agreed to help investigate.

• Special Defense Department Players subdued Mr. Lin with a coordinated attack and remotely controlled capture clamps.
• Nie Xuan interrogated Mr. Lin, who claimed the black rain item could affect an enormous area and that someone else would take over if he died.
• Nie Xuan ordered Players to search the area around the Sub-district for the item, while Lichun refused to help.
• An elderly man called Xu Huo for assistance, and Xu Huo told him he had encountered twelve Players in a lowland beneath Wenshan Mountain.
• The old man promised to send Players to meet Xu Huo and place Wenshan Mountain and the Special Defense Department headquarters under Lichun's name.

Xu Huo fought three raincoat-wearing Players in the woods near the source of the black rain, using his artifacts to resist their attacks. The depression’s hallucinations and black rain trapped the attackers, and C discovered the rain had poisoned him as he tried to escape.

• Xu Huo spotted the black-rain source at the depression and fled into the woods as three Players approached.
• The raincoat-wearing Players used restraints, weapons, and coordinated attacks, but Xu Huo countered with his artifacts and dissolved several of their items.
• The depression appeared behind the attackers, and black hands dragged one Player into the water while another became trapped in a hallucination.
• C fired at the surroundings, saw a woman's face, and retreated after abandoning his companions.
• C noticed his raincoat was torn and black poison was spreading across his hand, then stabbed his arm to test whether he was hallucinating.

Xu Huo survived C's explosion by sheltering in an intact metal house, while the Special Defense Department searched for him and pursued the hidden players toward Wenshan Mountain. The chapter ended with Xu Huo answering their call as he stepped into the burning forest.

• Poisoned C tried to detonate a bomb, but Xu Huo's attack prompted him to throw an explosive barrel that killed the three raincoat-wearing men and ignited the forest.
• Codename A ordered B to retrieve the high-level item while the others led the Special Defense Department toward Wenshan Mountain.
• Special Defense Department players argued about Xu Huo's fate as Wang Chaoqing sent eight shadows into the mountain to search.
• The Special Defense Department team entered the woods under a strict time limit while helicopters searched from above.
• Xu Huo emerged unharmed from a metal house that had survived the fire and answered the incoming phone call.

Xu Huo investigated the unseen player near the depression and drew Code Name B into a trap. B’s attempts to hunt Xu Huo ended with his feet pinned and a blade narrowly missing his head.

• Xu Huo offered the painted woman a part-time job in exchange for a Medal of the Gentleman of Light, and she eagerly accepted.
• Team Leader Wu told Xu Huo that eight players had entered Wenshan Mountain and the Special Defense Department was preparing to bombard the area.
• Xu Huo returned to the depression and discovered that a hidden player was concealed near an ordinary tree stump.
• After the hidden player fired at Xu Huo, the helicopter attacked the area, forcing the player to move into the woods.
• Code Name B approached Xu Huo and shot at him, but Xu Huo retreated while drawing B toward the burning belt.
• Xu Huo’s trap pinned B’s feet to the ground, and a streak of cold light nearly struck B’s head.

Xu Huo’s Spiritual World failed to hold B, and the backlash left him with throbbing temples as the Players regrouped for battle. Codename A disappeared after a fight with the tall, thin Player’s group, while the painted woman arrived to assist them and landed behind Xu Huo.

• B escaped Xu Huo’s Spiritual World with a movement item, and Xu Huo felt the backlash of the breach.
• B warned the other Players in Wenshan Mountain about a possible Special Defense Department ambush as the helicopter resumed firing.
• Codename A fought the tall, thin Player and his mechanical puppets, then vanished after a grenade exploded and scattered Wang Chaoqing’s shadow.
• The tall, thin Player searched the mountain with the female Player after Wang Chaoqing reported seeing something green fly over the hollow.
• The Special Defense Department sent the painted woman as support, and she flew through the woods before landing behind Xu Huo.

Xu Huo sent the painted woman into the depression with the Nuwa Stone and King Fungus mycelium to help reverse the damage from the black rain. Meanwhile, Zeng Tai fought Code B, who entered the depression and found himself trapped again on the white spiral staircase.

• Xu Huo sent the painted woman to take the mycelium-covered Nuwa Stone into the depression and let it spread underwater.
• Zeng Tai and his animal props attacked Code B, but B eventually gained the upper hand and escaped into the depression.
• Code B used a cloth prop to shield himself from the poisonous water and pressed a glowing blue device into the depression.
• The white spiral staircase appeared beneath Code B, his props vanished, and Big Scissors rushed toward him after shearing off both his arms.

Xu Huo and the Special Defense Department fought aliens emerging from a water-filled depression, while Painted Woman recovered a high-level item hidden in one alien’s stomach. The aliens then rushed toward headquarters, and Xu Huo began investigating the item and its absent owner.

• Xu Huo killed Code Name B, took his belongings, and found a high-frequency device but no black-rain item.
• Wang Chaoqing arrived with Special Defense Department players, and an alien surged from the depression before Xu Huo cut it down.
• More aliens attacked the group, but they abruptly abandoned their fight and charged toward headquarters in Capital City.
• Painted Woman brought Xu Huo a cube-like electronic item from an alien’s stomach, and he noticed that the black rain eased after it left the depression.
• Xu Huo concluded that the item needed to stay near open water and suspected its owner was hidden among the aliens heading into the city.

Xu Huo and Nie Xuan deduced that the Aliens were transporting the black rain item and halted the bombing of Wenshan Mountain. As the Special Defense Department moved to intercept the Aliens, Xu Huo put the Nuwa Stone and King Fungus in the reservoir, while one of the captured Players died inside the painted woman's World in the Painting.

• Xu Huo reasoned that the Aliens and the Players at Wenshan Mountain were bait and transporters, and told Nie Xuan to look for open water along their route.
• Xu Huo said bombing Wenshan Mountain was no longer useful, and Nie Xuan withdrew the bombing order and sent Zeng Tai's group to defend headquarters.
• Zeng Tai argued about being ordered to stop pursuing the infiltrating Players, but Jian Yuanjie made him obey.
• Zhu Yuchan recognized an infiltrating Player flying backward toward the basin, and the group hurried to intercept the Aliens instead.
• The painted woman put two unconscious Players in the World in the Painting while Xu Huo placed the Nuwa Stone and King Fungus in the reservoir.
• The painted woman admitted that one of the Players inside the painting had suddenly spat blood and died.

Xu Huo discovered that the Black Water item was incomplete and had the painted woman throw it into the rain clouds, reversing the flow of the poisonous rain. The reversal destroyed Country Y’s base and forced its leaders to evacuate.

• Xu Huo questioned Codename A in an enclosed space and deduced that the Black Water item had to remain within the rainy area.
• Xu Huo concluded that the cube was incomplete after Codename A reacted to his deduction.
• Xu Huo had the painted woman throw the cube into the rain clouds, causing the rain to stop and the Black Water on the ground to rise.
• The reversed Black Water flooded Country Y’s temporary base, contaminating thousands of staff and Players and killing the operation’s person in charge.
• Country Y ordered an emergency evacuation and destroyed the base before leaving it in flames.

As the black rain stopped, the Special Defense Department struggled to contain the growing number of people contaminated by Alien toxin. Xu Huo prepared the reservoir’s King Fungus water as a temporary measure and promised the painted woman a trip to District 011, while drawing her into one last task.

• Nie Xuan led a search that found and arrested the foreign Players hiding near a park and river.
• Minister Fan ordered the department to isolate people who had turned into Aliens and let those still able to save themselves scatter and hide.
• Xu Huo told Team Leader Wu to send people to take over the reservoir, where the King Fungus could produce water that might delay the toxin’s effects.
• Xu Huo persuaded the painted woman to stop worrying about losing her pocket money and promised her an Ancient Castle in District 011.
• The painted woman eagerly helped Xu Huo lift boxes from the reservoir after he said they had one more task before leaving.

Xu Huo and the painted woman reached a checkpoint, where her unpredictable violence escalated into the killing of several journalists before they drove on. As they entered the Alien-infested area, Xu Huo called Gu Yu to ask where to pick her up.

• The painted woman crashed into a military truck while trying to park, then threatened the checkpoint by learning how to use a Rocket Launcher.
• Xu Huo blocked her Paper Knife and identified himself, while journalists confronted him with questions about the Black Rain and the detoxifying fungi.
• Zeng Tai relayed Team Leader Wu's order to let Xu Huo and the painted woman through, and Zhu Yuchan destroyed the journalists' recording equipment.
• The painted woman killed several journalists who had been questioning Xu Huo, then got into the car as the Special Defense Department personnel watched in alarm.
• Xu Huo questioned the painted woman about why she had killed them, drove around Aliens charging at the car, and called Gu Yu to arrange a pickup.

Xu Huo rescued Gu Yu and the other trapped players, then fought an alien-like player who threatened his younger brother. After discovering the man’s escape ability had been disabled, Xu Huo confronted him as they fell from a rooftop.

• Xu Huo drove toward Gu Yu and the trapped players while aliens gathered around his car, and he used Completed Script to reveal that someone was following him.
• An alien-like player attacked Xu Huo and the painted woman with a sword and a Micro Bomb, but the painted woman and Xu Huo overpowered him.
• The attacker threatened to hand Xu Huo’s younger brother to human traffickers unless Xu Huo let him go, so Xu Huo carried him to a rooftop and left him hanging over the edge.
• Xu Huo let go of the man’s Kite String and discovered that the man’s signal transmitter had not been destroyed when he crushed it.
• Xu Huo revealed that the man could no longer escape into the game and confronted him as they fell from the building.

Xu Huo learned that Country Y players had kidnapped Tongtong to lure him into a trap, and he raced to one of their suspected hideouts. He sent the painted woman into the sealed building to find and protect Tongtong while he prepared to confront the kidnappers.

• Xu Huo tortured a Country Y player until the man revealed that Tongtong was being held at a hideout and explained how Country Y had staged its attacks.
• Xu Huo called Team Leader Wu, learned Tongtong had been kidnapped, and asked Nie Xuan to send people to retrieve him.
• Xu Huo ignored Team Leader Wu's warnings and sped toward one of the two suspected addresses.
• Xu Huo crossed the cordon, startling Dai Wenqian and the other players as he raced past them.
• Xu Huo reached a building sealed by a special Item and sent the painted woman inside to find and protect Tongtong on the Ninth Floor.

Xu Huo and the Special Defense Department team searched the item-infused building, where hidden players used dolls and movie illusions to ambush them. The team pursued an escaping player into a dark corridor.

• Xu Huo entered the deserted building with a Special Defense Department scouting team after their surveillance devices failed.
• The team fought a giant doll and used a robot item to reach the second floor, where they discovered the movie theater was dark.
• A hidden player used movie illusions and real gunfire to attack the team, but Xu Huo identified the illusion and struck the player.
• Xu Huo exposed another player hiding inside a crocodile doll, and the team leader stopped a fox doll from escaping with a Potion.
• The player concealed in the fox escaped from sight, and the team pursued him into a corridor where the lights flickered and went dark.