Recaps

Xu Huo accepted Lady Lily’s request to kill a Holy Sword Society Player, a mission that would bind him to the Nobles’ faction in District 011. After taking a Perfect Evolution Potion and traveling to Xiang City, he infiltrated the courthouse where the prisoner was being held and prepared to act.

• Lady Lily asked Xu Huo to kill a captured C-class Holy Sword Society Player before sunrise, and Xu Huo recognized the assignment as his Allegiance Pledge to the Nobles.
• Xu Huo returned to Rose Castle, where Bai Kou warned him not to rely too heavily on his Spiritual World with so many Players nearby.
• Xu Huo injected a P2S Evolution Potion, raising his evolution rate to 40%, but felt resistance in his movements and learned that rapid advancement could cause fatigue.
• Xu Huo disguised himself, traveled to Xiang City, and entered the courthouse invisibly by following Black Shoulder Badge guards.
• Xu Huo marked paintings, damaged a restroom pipe, stole a spare cleaning uniform, and added a false name to the staff roster.

Xu Huo prepared a subtle pollen trail in the courtroom and investigated suspicious handling of blood collected during courthouse identity checks. As the trial began under heavy security, the White Shoulder Badges argued with the Black Shoulder Badges over a lead they had found in the Locker Room.

• Xu Huo scattered traceable plant pollen across the courtroom, then left with a patrol team and waited nearby for the trial.
• Xu Huo watched a Black Shoulder Badge discard blood from identity checks, then followed a woman who retrieved it and entered an apartment building.
• The White Shoulder Badges found something suspicious in the cleaning staff's Locker Room and arrested the cleaners, while the Black Shoulder Badges secured the courthouse and closed the men's restroom.
• The hooded Holy Sword Society player arrived in restraints, followed by Leyton Miller, Asis Werner, Kag Herta, Lady Lily, and other trial attendees.
• The Black Shoulder Badges barred everyone from entering or leaving once the trial began, and the White Shoulder Badges eventually agreed to let them accompany the team investigating the Locker Room lead.

Xu Huo tried to make contact with the Holy Sword Society player in custody, but the player spotted him, took his ticket, and exposed his position. Xu Huo escaped the courthouse and led the pursuers to a hidden room in a middle-aged woman’s home, where she attacked him.

• Xu Huo slipped into the courthouse during a disturbance and identified the injured Holy Sword Society player after he left court.
• Xu Huo searched the restroom and later planted a ticket as a signal, hoping the player would mistake it for a message from a rescuer.
• The Holy Sword Society player reached through the wall, grabbed Xu Huo, and took the ticket, alerting the Black Shoulder Badge guards to Xu Huo’s presence.
• Xu Huo escaped through a window, evaded pursuit with his abilities and disguise, then led guards and government Players to the middle-aged woman’s home.
• Xu Huo broke through a wall into the home’s hidden room, where the middle-aged woman shoved him back with an invisible force.

Xu Huo deduced how a Holy Sword Society player was using a one-time paper item to kill people across great distances. After the Yelan Laboratory exploded and the killing resumed, he took a dead Black Shoulder Badge agent’s Communicator.

• The middle-aged woman and arriving Holy Sword Society players broke through the Black Shoulder Badge agents’ encirclement and headed toward the courthouse while Xu Huo escaped in disguise.
• The Yelan Laboratory exploded, drawing Ran Ying and many Black Shoulder Badge agents away from the courthouse as Asis Werner and his companions emerged.
• Players began dying across the city, and Asis ordered his forces to kill Holy Sword Society members and anyone suspected of belonging to it.
• Xu Huo recognized the killings from earlier incidents and deduced that a one-time paper item used victims’ real names and blood as ink.
• Xu Huo took a dead Black Shoulder Badge agent’s Communicator.

Xu Huo escaped to the Station after a Holy Sword Society Player attacked him through space, and he suspected the captured Player had been taken deliberately. At the Station, he observed a Potion seller and several other Players, then boarded the train with most of them and sat behind the man missing two fingers.

• Xu Huo considered the Holy Sword Society’s organization and returned to Rose Castle, where he learned Qing Cai had left.
• When Xu Huo examined the marked Diamond Glove, a Holy Sword Society Player attacked him by manipulating space, but Bai Kou sent him to the Station.
• Xu Huo concluded the captured Player had likely been taken on purpose and noticed that his own repeated Evolutions were causing symptoms like an Aftereffect.
• At the Station, Xu Huo watched a Potion seller trade with Players and heard him criticize the train’s food prices.
• Xu Huo boarded the train with several of the Station’s Players and sat behind the man missing two fingers from his right hand.

Xu Huo and the other Players traveled aboard Train 792, where a birthday announcement imposed a five-thousand-White-Cash spending requirement. As the Conductor pressured passengers to buy the special meal, Xu Huo paid for it, added a tip, and sent the Chef a gift.

• A Player with a mole sat beside a beautiful woman and invited her to dine, while the Potion seller moved to another carriage.
• The train announced its rules and revealed that passengers were encouraged to spend at least five thousand White Cash for the Chef's birthday.
• The Potion seller described how powerful Conductors could be, and Xu Huo explained that train staff were generally strong enough to restrain passengers.
• The Conductor distributed birthday cakes and promoted a five-thousand-White-Cash meal set.
• Xu Huo paid for the meal, added a five-hundred-White-Cash tip, and bought a gift package for the Chef.

After the train lights went out, a mysterious attack killed two Players in Xu Huo’s carriage while many others slept. The surviving Players realized other carriages were affected too and suspected the danger was inside the carriages.

• Xu Huo, Xiao Xianglin, and the other Players shared a meal and spent the afternoon dancing with the beautiful female Player.
• After the carriage went dark, Xu Huo woke to an axe-wielding shadow that vanished when he struck it.
• Xu Huo found the elderly man and the blonde Player decapitated, then woke Xiao Xianglin, who used a megaphone to rouse the sleeping Players.
• The female Player identified three others who had been awake, while Xu Huo said the victims were already dead when he opened his eyes.
• A Player from the carriage ahead sealed their door, and Xu Huo noticed the rear carriages were silent.
• The Player with the severed finger reasoned that the killings had happened too quickly to be caused by someone moving between carriages, so the danger was likely inside them.

After several passengers were found murdered across the train, Xu Huo and the other Players debated how the killer had put them to sleep and who among them could be responsible. They kept watch through the night, with Xu Huo privately suspecting several passengers but leaving the killer unidentified.

• Xu Huo suggested checking nearby carriages, and the smoking player returned from the carriages behind them reporting more deaths.
• The Players debated whether the killings came from poison, an item, or an Ability, and suspicion fell on Xiao Xianglin because he had sold Potions in other carriages.
• Xu Huo privately suspected the smoking player, the man in a raincoat, and the player with severed fingers, while withholding what he knew about the figure he had seen.
• Xu Huo said he had not seen the attacker clearly and suggested the figure might have been a hallucination, after which the Players stayed awake to guard themselves.
• Xiao Xianglin played cards with Xu Huo and Xu Jinfeng to stave off sleep, while the smoking player kept scraping at the table and insisted he would not drink.

Xu Huo investigated the locked carriages and encountered a player who might be the Holy Sword Society member he had tracked, while his strange nighttime visions continued. He wondered whether the Potion he had taken was causing the hallucinations as the players took turns resting.

• Xu Huo and the other players found blood in the corridor and discovered that the carriages ahead were locked, while the Conductor refused to reveal what had happened there.
• Xu Huo recognized the player with severed fingers as a possible captured Holy Sword Society player, and the player's Good Friends Score briefly rose before dropping as he considered killing Xu Huo.
• Xiao Xianglin suggested Xu Huo's vision had been a hallucination and gave him several Potions, while Xu Huo bought two Evolution Potions in return.
• Xu Huo sprang up with his sword after sensing someone nearby, but found no one, so the players divided into groups to rest.
• Xu Huo lay down with several items equipped and wondered whether his lingering unease and visions were an Aftereffect of the Potion.

Xu Huo and the other Players spent the night in the train carriage as a ghost story seemed to become real, and a Player was dragged away and killed. At dawn, Xu Huo inspected the neighboring carriage and found its Players dead, then discovered that the skinned man had died from blood loss.

• Xu Huo rested in shifts with the other Players and introduced himself to You Si while smoking.
• The female Player told a ghost story about a bus, funeral money, and a living passenger, then Xu Jinfeng claimed he saw people waving funeral money outside.
• A bloodied Player from the carriage ahead begged for help before vanishing, and Xu Huo and the others blocked their carriage door with tables.
• At dawn, Xu Huo entered the neighboring carriage and found every Player there dead, with the previous night's victims brutally mutilated.
• Xu Huo examined the skinned man's corpse and concluded that he had died from blood loss.

Xu Huo investigated the deaths in the carriage and suspected that the Chef’s pudding or a Player’s power had caused the mass hallucinations and killings. He sought out the surviving Players in the fourth carriage and asked whether anyone there had eaten the pudding.

• Xu Huo examined the bodies and concluded that one Player had eaten himself to death while the others had died amid apparent hallucinations.
• Xiao Xianglin and the other surviving Players left the blood-soaked carriage, and Xu Huo shut its door without fully closing it.
• Xu Huo asked the Conductor for a meal like the Chef’s special birthday dish, but the Conductor did not return with an answer by noon.
• Xu Huo considered whether the pudding, a dangerous Player, or an unusual phenomenon had caused the train’s deaths and decided to avoid crowds.
• Xu Huo went to the fourth carriage, where a Player said its passengers had narrowly avoided the same disaster, and Xu Huo asked whether anyone had eaten the pudding.

Xu Huo survived another night on the train and entered the Great World at Sea, where he was assigned the D-class Dungeon "Friendship Lasts Forever." The Dungeon’s announcement explained that newcomers seeking to settle in the city would face a test of friendship.

• Xu Huo returned to Carriage Six as the Players argued over who had killed people and made Xu Jinfeng hallucinate.
• You Si broke through the female Player’s barrier and metal spikes to reach the Restroom, then returned and warned the others that lights-out was near.
• Xu Huo moved to Carriage Five, placed Emergency Shelter No. 101 inside, and spent the night without incident while testing his blood.
• Xu Huo emerged in the morning and saw that only four Players remained alive in Carriage Six, while an injured female Player and Brother Sha were in his carriage.
• The train brought Xu Huo to the Great World at Sea, where the game assigned him to the D-class Dungeon "Friendship Lasts Forever."

Xu Huo and Xiao Xianglin arrived at Friendship Garden with other participants for a deadly Dungeon requiring them to gain pure friendship. The host introduced the reality show’s special anniversary rules, but had not yet revealed what they were.

• Xu Huo learned that the Dungeon mission was to gain friendship within seven days and observed the frightened passengers traveling with him.
• Xiao Xiao panicked and tried to leave, but her partner comforted her and promised they would face the danger together.
• A passenger disparaged the women’s relationship, prompting a crew-cut man to challenge his assumptions.
• The vehicle arrived at Friendship Garden, where the host announced that 381 participants had gathered for the show.
• Xiao Xianglin suggested that he and Xu Huo team up, but the host began announcing changes to the show’s rules.

Xu Huo and the other guests learned that Hello, Me Too would pair strangers for dangerous friendship challenges, with survival and rankings determining who became a legal resident of the Great World at Sea. The chapter ended as the guests realized the competition had a limited number of places.

• The host announced that guests would be randomly paired and explained the Three-Color Showdown, where choices determined the danger of challenges for teammates.
• The host said guests who lost their partners might miss a round, and that the names of those who found true friendship would appear above Friendship Garden.
• Xu Huo wrote “Yu Cong” on his screen, while Xiao Xianglin used the name “Xiao Yong.”
• Xu Huo spotted acquaintances from the bus, including You Si, Zhuang Mengtian, Gan Yi, Shaja, and Pu Donghai, and saw their varied reactions to him.
• Xiao Xianglin questioned why anyone would endanger a teammate, and players revealed that only a limited number of high-ranking guests would become legal residents of the Great World at Sea.

Xu Huo and the other participants learned that killing in the Three-Color Showdown brought a deadly punishment from the plaza and the ocean below. After six guests died, the host began the first choice between two contestants, leaving their decision unresolved.

• Xu Huo received teammate number 64, while Xiao Xianglin went to find teammate 117.
• A guest who had received a bye was killed, and the plaza swallowed nearby people, exposing a piranha-filled ocean below.
• The host explained that the plaza punished those who violated the show's rules of friendship, and the underwater player was killed by a creature from the depths.
• Zhuang Mengtian asked whether guests who returned after being driven out would be welcomed back, and the host said they would if they stopped ruining friendship.
• The host randomly selected contestants 164 and 73 and presented them with black, white, and yellow balls to choose whether to end, offer, or share hardship in a potential friendship.

Xu Huo watched the first pair choose different balls, setting Number 73 up for a deadly task in the Botanical Garden. After Number 73 died, a Player and an ordinary person prepared to choose their balls together.

• Number 73 urged Number 164 to choose white, but Number 73 chose yellow and Number 164 chose black at the last second.
• Number 73 and Number 164 argued over their choices, and the host announced that the next task would fall to whoever remained in the plaza.
• The audience increased Number 73’s task difficulty, and the host assigned him to plant a hand-holding tree in the Botanical Garden.
• Number 73 sank into the ground and was swallowed by a giant python, failing his task.
• Number 229 and a refined-looking Player agreed to choose yellow and complete their task together.

Xu Huo and Player No. 64 both chose white, and Xu Huo was selected for a zoo task requiring close observation and photographs of three kinds of living reptiles. He entered a dense jungle and faced a rapidly approaching python.

• No. 91 and No. 229 entered the Golden-backed Lizard breeding zone, where lizards attacked them and prevented them from completing their task.
• Xu Huo learned that contestants could not forfeit their tasks and considered how the program’s friendship ratings might differ from the game’s requirements.
• Two women began a task assembling a skeleton specimen from a piranha-filled pool.
• Xu Huo and Player No. 64 both chose the white ball, and Xu Huo was selected as the Lucky One.
• Xu Huo entered the jungle for the Reptile Appreciation task, and a python lunged at him.

Xu Huo searched the jungle for reptiles to document for his mission while evading poisonous plants and dangerous Mutant Animals. He captured a red venomous snake and escaped a giant camouflaged creature, then followed monkeys carrying buckets in search of water.

• Xu Huo killed a giant python, examined the surrounding carnivorous plants, and realized their toxin kept other animals away.
• Xu Huo found a large lizard, filmed it as a living reptile, and marked it with "①" before it wandered off.
• Xu Huo captured a red, four-eyed venomous snake and marked its cage with "②".
• Xu Huo escaped a green-skinned tiger and a massive plant-covered creature that swallowed the tiger.
• Xu Huo spotted monkeys carrying small buckets through the trees and watched them as he searched for water.

Xu Huo captured reptiles and negotiated with a troop of white monkeys to lead him to a cabin entrance. There, he found two injured players and agreed to travel with them, but one player abruptly killed the other.

• Xu Huo watched white monkeys fish with buckets and vines, then tranquilized a crocodile and dragged it ashore to identify it.
• Xu Huo failed to win the monkeys over with candy, so he strung them up and threatened to pull out their teeth until they led him toward a cabin entrance.
• Xu Huo found a destroyed cabin passage and two injured players hiding nearby; one carried a live rainbow ant for her task.
• Xu Huo agreed to travel with the two players, but the female player snapped the other woman’s neck after accusing her of trying to abandon her.

Xu Huo and the female Player crossed a forest where evolved ants attacked a leopard and threatened a troop of white monkeys. They followed the monkeys toward an entrance and exit pod, where another Player appeared to be setting a trap for them.

• The female Player defended killing someone during the mission, and Xu Huo continued traveling with her through the forest.
• Xu Huo spotted a panicked Mutant Animal and escaped above the trees as a swarm of evolved ants tore down a tree and chased the leopard.
• Xu Huo rescued a white monkey from the fallen tree, then watched the monkey leader point them toward a direction through the forest.
• Xu Huo and the female Player followed the monkeys and received an alert for an entrance and exit pod, where another Player claimed the hatch was broken.
• The female Player warned that the other Player might be dangerous, and Xu Huo teleported to the hatch while activating Like Repels Like.

Xu Huo returned from his task and discussed the meaning of pure friendship with Xiao Xianglin. Shaja was sent to watch a surgery, revealed that he could fight while restrained, and returned alive after killing the medical staff.

• Xu Huo overcame two players’ attempts to stop him, returned to Friendship Garden, and learned that Player 91 and You Si had also completed their tasks.
• A female player thanked Xu Huo for intervening and left after he suggested the Dungeon’s requirements might differ from the production team’s selection.
• Xu Huo and Xiao Xianglin discussed avoiding violence and seeking friendship with ordinary people as ways to complete the tasks.
• Player 29 switched from the yellow ball to the black ball after Shaja agreed to team up with him, leaving Shaja with the harder task.
• Shaja was taken to an operating room, where the doctors prepared to operate on him while he was restrained.
• Shaja opened his eyes, killed the medical staff with invisible blades, and returned to the plaza less than five minutes later.

Xu Huo watched the three-color competition and considered how its deadly rules might drive participants to kill one another. As Xiao Xianglin and Player 117’s attempt to cooperate collapsed into a fight, Xu Huo spoke with You Si and noticed the scarred man from the car.

• Player 29 challenged Shaja’s easy mission, then attacked a non-Player who provoked him before backing away from Shaja.
• Xu Huo considered how the competition’s lack of trust could lead participants to reduce the number of survivors.
• Xiao Xianglin and Player 117 agreed to work together, but their facial plastic surgery mission quickly turned into a fight over who would be the surgeon.
• Xu Huo greeted You Si, who said he was trying to quit drinking because his wife had threatened to divorce him if he did not.
• Xu Huo spotted the scarred man who had worn a raincoat in the car as the man stepped forward when his number was called.

Xu Huo and Shaja forced Gan Yi to draw one of his fortune cards, and the three were suddenly shown a dark staircase leading to a door and a red Wooden Fish. After a thunderous thud broke the vision, Gan Yi jumped up and backed away from them.

• The man in the raincoat chose a white ball alongside a frightened woman and was assigned an underwater task to catch an immature piranha.
• Xu Huo, You Si, Shaja, and Gan Yi gathered while waiting for the remaining participants to finish their tasks.
• Gan Yi offered to read fortunes with a deck of gold cards, and You Si tried a card before walking away on his hands.
• Xu Huo drew a card showing a door, and Shaja drew one showing a Wooden Fish.
• Xu Huo and Shaja made Gan Yi draw a card, which showed him a door opening to reveal a red Wooden Fish.
• Xu Huo, Shaja, and Gan Yi were transported into a vision of a spiraling staircase and a door before a thunderous thud ended it and Gan Yi backed away.

Xu Huo, Shaja, and Gan Yi ended their standoff without fighting, while the Players discussed the show’s task areas and the Great World at Sea’s possible preparations. As the first round neared its end, the host promised the remaining guests a “good environment for making friends” and hinted at what would happen next.

• Shaja proposed that she, Xu Huo, and Gan Yi avoid a fight, and Gan Yi left the standoff.
• You Si told Xu Huo that Gan Yi had teamed up with Zhuang Mengtian and suspected she had attacked passengers on the train.
• The raincoat-wearing man rejected You Si’s attempts to talk by raising a light barrier, posting a warning sign, and putting on headphones.
• Xu Huo, Shaja, and You Si discussed the late hour, the task areas, and the possibility that the Great World at Sea controlled where participants were sent.
• The host announced that 297 of the 381 guests remained and promised to create a good environment for making friends.

Xu Huo and the others debated how to earn the Dungeon’s pure friendship, while the first round left only 274 survivors. In the second round, Xu Huo chose the white ball again to show sincerity, then drew an aquarium task to paint a mutated man-eating shark.

• Xu Huo tested the nearly five-meter-thick Enclosure Wall, and Xiao Xianglin returned wounded and confirmed that the Players could not escape.
• Xu Huo asked Xiao Xianglin to share his friendship, but their exchange did not clear the Dungeon; the group speculated that helping another Player might be the key.
• Xiao Xianglin left after the group rested, while Players continued returning to the plaza until dawn.
• The host announced that 274 people survived the first round and began the second round of the Three-Color Contest.
• Xu Huo chose the white ball despite Player 64 choosing black, explaining that he wanted to show sincerity.
• Xu Huo drew the aquarium task: painting a mutated man-eating shark.