Recaps

Xu Huo followed Teacher Ai to a retired government Laboratory security guard’s home, where players were secretly watching the apartment. When Xu Huo brought food upstairs, an explosion tore through the building, leaving him protected by his item but causing widespread destruction and casualties.

• Xu Huo learned from Shangguan Xi that Teacher Ai had visited a retired security guard from a government Laboratory, and that someone was watching the guard.
• Xu Huo joined Shangguan Xi at a dance club and observed Teacher Ai meeting the guard across the street.
• Xu Huo called the guard’s home, identified himself as Xu Gou delivering food to Teacher Ai, and entered the building as other players approached.
• A player rushed into the apartment after hearing a crash, and Xu Huo sensed the two people inside disappear as something began clicking.
• Xu Huo leaped through a hallway window and activated Absolute Safe Distance as the building exploded, killing many people and players nearby.

Xu Huo pursued Teacher Ai as W37 law enforcement Players tried to contain the chaos after explosions triggered a citywide search and clashes with outside Players. He reached Teacher Ai in a jewelry-store warehouse and warned that the W06 epidemic was spreading again, leading Teacher Ai to suspect live samples were the source.

• After the blasts, Xu Huo and Shangguan Xi tracked Teacher Ai and the retired security guard, but the pair vanished just as law enforcement captured them.
• Xu Huo spotted Teacher Ai fleeing and evaded law enforcement Players who tried to stop him.
• Outside Players stirred up trouble and attacked civilians, breaking the cordon as law enforcement clashed with them across the streets.
• Xu Huo tracked Teacher Ai to a jewelry-store warehouse and warned him that the W06 epidemic was spreading through W37 Base City again.
• Teacher Ai angrily concluded that live samples delivered to W37 had caused the infection, and the square-faced man asked what samples he meant.

Xu Huo questioned Teacher Ai and the square-faced man about the SE virus, learning that it was a genetic weapon originating in 01 Base City and that a renewed outbreak could spread from W37 to other Base Cities. He left the conversation facing doubts about the virus’s claimed effects on Evolver genes and the urgent need to stop its spread.

• Xu Huo confronted Teacher Ai and the square-faced man, offering not to harm them in exchange for information about the SE virus.
• Teacher Ai agreed to talk after Xu Huo showed a video of infected children, and explained that W37’s quarantine-zone outbreak could contaminate the city within forty-eight hours.
• Teacher Ai said the SE virus had weakened as it passed through successive infections, allowing some people to survive.
• Teacher Ai confirmed that the SE virus was a genetic weapon developed in 01 Base City to weaken other Base Cities, and claimed it damaged descendants’ genes and prevented them from becoming Evolvers.
• Xu Huo questioned whether the virus could truly damage Evolver genes, while Teacher Ai warned that ordinary residents could die and spread the infection to other Base Cities.

Xu Huo agreed to seek an SE Antidote at the government laboratory, while arranging for his companions to track Teacher Ai and Xiong Qing. He and Kuang Wenjun infiltrated the Canopy Pillar by disabling its spatial restrictions and setting fires to distract the guards.

• Xu Huo learned that W37's laboratory might hold research data and an SE Antidote, and agreed to retrieve them with Teacher Ai and Xiong Qing's help.
• Xiong Qing gave Xu Huo a laboratory map, and Xu Huo promised to draw the law enforcement team's attention while the others headed toward the city gate.
• Xu Huo found Shangguan Xi with Kuang Wenjun and Pan Qiao, then assigned Shangguan Xi and Pan Qiao to track Teacher Ai and Xiong Qing.
• Xu Huo took Kuang Wenjun toward the Canopy Pillar and asked whether she had an invisibility item.
• Xu Huo disabled the spatial restrictions around the Canopy Pillar, set several shops on fire to distract its guards, and led Kuang Wenjun into a television station building.

Xu Huo used a hijacked television broadcast to warn W37 that he would release biological weapons at the R1 Laboratory, prompting a government evacuation while Kuang Wenjun held off the enforcement team. He entered the evacuated laboratory, searched its archives, and found a file on the SE virus naming Luo Changren.

• Xu Huo took over Bluebird TV Station and ordered the host to broadcast an attack warning while Kuang Wenjun stayed behind to delay the enforcement team.
• The host announced that biological weapons would be released at the R1 Laboratory in five minutes, and W37 officials ordered nearby laboratories evacuated and sent Players to the station.
• Kuang Wenjun used her Space Artifact to repel successive waves of Players as she tried to buy Xu Huo time.
• Xu Huo entered the evacuated R1 Laboratory, disabled its electronic surveillance, and checked the floor plan against Xiong Qing's information.
• Xu Huo searched the archives and found an SE virus file identifying Luo Changren as a surgeon and former director of Project J1 at the A1 Laboratory in W06 Base City.

Xu Huo uncovered records linking Luo Changren, A1 Laboratory, and the SE virus, but found only an antidote for a weakened variant. As the base government searched R1 Laboratory and Duckbill Hat entered with Players, Xu Huo used the broadcasting system to claim he was breaking dangerous virus samples and trigger an evacuation alarm.

• Xu Huo read reports about Luo Changren’s genetic experiments, the SE virus’s possible inherited aftereffects, and A1 Laboratory’s destruction, then concluded that W11 and W37 may have preserved the original virus samples as weapons.
• Xu Huo found an antidote for the weakened SE3 variant and learned from Shangguan Xi that Players were guarding Bird Tower, where Teacher Ai and Xiong Qing might be headed.
• Xu Huo took several A- and B-level virus samples from R1 Laboratory and learned that Shangguan Xi’s companion had been caught after the biological-weapons threat was exposed as a diversion.
• Xu Huo smashed virus Potions beside the main control room microphone and warned the laboratory that he would break more, while Duckbill Hat entered and threatened him.
• Xu Huo’s smashed test tubes triggered an alarm that reported a biological weapon leak and ordered all laboratory personnel to evacuate.

Xu Huo triggered a crisis at the R1 laboratory, prompting W37’s mayor to order a full response as a virus outbreak and citywide riots unfolded. While Players searched the laboratory, Xu Huo used his Spiritual World to alter the search, and the chapter ended with the bespectacled Player separated from his team.

• Duckbill Hat warned that Space Artifacts across W37 had stopped working, and the mayor ordered everyone to defend the city.
• Law enforcement Players evacuated the laboratory, sealed off R1, and sent sixty Players inside to find Xu Huo.
• News of an invasion and an SE virus outbreak spread through W37, and explosions sparked riots across the city.
• Xu Huo opened doors along the laboratory’s third floor, moved downstairs, and brought a main building into his Spiritual World.
• Duckbill Hat noticed the lighting dim and warned the search teams that more than one threat might be present.
• The bespectacled Player pursued a figure through a dark corridor, but the figure vanished, and his teammates disappeared as well.

Xu Huo used his Spiritual World to trap and mislead the enforcement team inside the R1 Laboratory. Duckbill Hat realized the Clown had escaped by blending in with the team, then learned that Team 13 had spotted a clown-costumed Outer District Player at Tree Crown Pillar 06.

• Xiao Meng and the glasses man searched for their missing teammates while Xu Huo kept the eight Players trapped in a distorted version of the laboratory.
• Duckbill Hat followed traces to Da Liu, found him trapped in a hallucination, and threatened to make the Clown pay.
• The Clown lured Duckbill Hat through a sequence of illusory spaces and questioned him about the SE virus and the original sample in W37.
• Duckbill Hat returned to the laboratory and realized the apparent escape, the command-room call, and the Clown's disappearance had all been part of a trick to infiltrate the enforcement team.
• Duckbill Hat ordered the enforcement Players restrained, then received word that Team 13 had found an Outer District Player in a clown costume at Tree Crown Pillar 06.

As W37 descended into chaos from the SE virus outbreak, Xu Huo reached Bird Tower to investigate the people inside. He entered through a window and discovered that an intricate patterned surface had a mental interference effect.

• Duckbill Hat sent another squad to Crown Pillar 06 while he continued searching near the Laboratory, as the government focused on capturing Xu Huo amid the outbreak.
• Xu Huo saw Zhu Feiyun near the Crown Pillars and realized Zhu had used a tracking item on him; infected residents suffered under the lockdown while players and ordinary people blamed one another.
• Xu Huo met Shangguan Xi outside Bird Tower and learned that Teacher Ai and Xiong Qing had entered about five minutes earlier, while Pan Qiao had seen Teacher Ai at a window.
• Xu Huo flew invisibly to Bird Tower's top floor and saw an intricate curved surface whose patterns drew in and interfered with the mind.
• Xu Huo used Eye of the Deceased to pass through the iron bars and entered Bird Tower.

Xu Huo confronted a woman guarding the mental interference artifact on the Bird Tower’s top floor, and the two exchanged attacks while trying to protect the building. He used “Whispering Ball” against her as she stood inside his Spiritual World.

• Xu Huo found the tiny, spinning mental interference artifact on the Bird Tower’s top floor and met a woman who demanded that he leave.
• The woman attacked Xu Huo with golden metal fences and other artifacts, but he countered with his own items and closed in on her.
• Xu Huo and the woman fought at close range, each suffering minor wounds while avoiding damage to the Bird Tower.
• The woman used artifacts to escape Xu Huo’s grasp, but he pursued her and asked whether she heard anything.
• The woman blocked her ears and threw a smoke bomb as Xu Huo used “Whispering Ball” against her inside his Spiritual World.

Xu Huo watched two Players interrogate Teacher Ai, whose real identity was Luo Changren, about the SE virus antidote vaccine. The gloomy Player offered to spare Luo Changren’s companion if he handed over the vaccine, but Luo Changren had not answered.

• Xu Huo’s Spiritual World revealed that Xiong Qing and Teacher Ai had been defeated, and that the red-clad Player had subdued Teacher Ai with a needle.
• The red-clad Player identified Teacher Ai as Luo Changren, a fugitive from 01 Base City who had come to W37 with the SE virus antidote vaccine.
• Luo Changren told the red-clad Player that Gao Zhen had let him escape after he promised to bring the vaccine back to W37.
• Luo Changren resisted questions about the vaccine and refused to reveal anything, even when the red-clad Player threatened him.
• The gloomy Player offered to release Luo Changren’s companion in exchange for the vaccine.

Xu Huo rescued Luo Changren and Xiong Qing from W02 players in the Bird Tower, then helped W37 law enforcement capture the intruders. He confronted Gao Xiaoyan about W37’s broken promises and its secret population cleanup, and asked whether Mayor Gao Zhen had allowed the original SE virus sample into W37.

• Xu Huo used the Spiritual World to extract Luo Changren and Xiong Qing from the Bird Tower and bring the W02 players outside.
• Gao Xiaoyan ordered W37 law enforcement to surround the W02 players and take them to Prison No. A13, while the high-heeled woman escaped with a Ticket.
• Xu Huo reunited with Shangguan Xi and Pan Qiao, then reminded Gao Xiaoyan that she had not fulfilled her three promises to him.
• Xu Huo accused W37 of secretly carrying out population cleanup, but Gao Xiaoyan denied knowing what he meant and ordered him into a car.
• Xu Huo asked Gao Xiaoyan whether Mayor Gao Zhen had allowed the original SE virus sample to enter W37.

Xu Huo persuaded Gao Xiaoyan to take him to Government Hall so he could meet Mayor Gao, while W37 Base City descended into chaos from the infection. At Government Hall, the group encountered Zhu Feiyun and Zhao Jie, and an A-class player said the mayor might receive Xu Huo; the chapter ended with an author’s personal note.

• Xu Huo told Gao Xiaoyan he had tampered with Ren Man’s Spiritual World and insisted he could leave whenever he wanted.
• Xu Huo asked Gao Xiaoyan to arrange a meeting with Mayor Gao, and she agreed to contact the mayor when they reached Government Hall.
• The vehicle crossed W37 Base City as fires, infection, and desperate pleas for help overwhelmed the streets.
• Xu Huo and the others arrived at Government Hall, where Zhu Feiyun angrily confronted Xu Huo for impersonating him.
• Zhao Jie approached Xu Huo, but an A-class player stopped him and said the mayor might receive Xu Huo.

Xu Huo and his companions were released and summoned to meet Gao Zhen, the dying mayor of W37, alongside Luo Changren. Gao Zhen asked for the vaccine and admitted she planned to use the original SE virus sample against the infected, leaving the vaccine’s fate unresolved.

• Xu Huo persuaded the enforcement team to release Zhu Feiyun, and his companions ate while they waited.
• A secretary summoned Xu Huo and Luo Changren to the mayor’s office, where they found Gao Xiaoyan leaving and Gao Zhen connected to an IV stand.
• Gao Zhen asked Luo Changren for the vaccine, saying W37 would distribute it throughout the Base Station.
• Luo Changren accused Gao Zhen of allowing the original SE virus sample into W37 and using it to kill infected non-players.
• Gao Zhen admitted she intended to ease W37’s burden and said the remaining people would still need to reproduce and carry on the next generation.

Xu Huo confronted Mayor Gao Zhen about W37 Base City’s SE virus deaths and recognized that she planned to use outsiders as scapegoats to shield the government. As Gao Zhen faced death, Xu Huo offered to play along with her plan if she told him the full story behind the outbreak, and she asked whether he would do one last favor for her.

• Luo Changren described how others had led him to commit terrible acts, and Xu Huo mocked him before having Lou Jia take him away.
• Gao Zhen told Xu Huo that at least half of W37 Base City’s population would die, while the death toll continued to rise outside.
• Xu Huo realized the government intended to blame him and his companions for the outbreak to redirect public anger and protect W37’s leaders.
• Gao Zhen said she hoped people would remember the good she had done, and Xu Huo asked her to explain the entire SE virus incident before she died.
• Xu Huo offered to play his part in Gao Zhen’s plan, and she asked whether he would do one last favor for someone about to die.

Gao Zhen recounted how 01 Base City turned Luo Changren’s Evolution Potion into the SE virus and revealed that the virus could not harm infected people’s descendants. After Gao Zhen died, Xu Huo warned Gao Xiaoyan that he had recordings and asked her to get him a map of Government Hall showing Luo Changren’s location.

• Gao Zhen explained that 01 Base City secretly funded Luo Changren, then used his Potion to create the SE virus and target 06 Base City.
• Gao Zhen revealed that the Potion damaged Evolution genes, but the SE virus would not affect infected people’s descendants, and that she had let Luo Changren go to preserve hope for W37 Base Station.
• Gao Zhen said Luo Changren had mentioned a Doctor surnamed Zhang before she died in her office.
• Xu Huo silenced the monitor alarm and called Gao Xiaoyan, warning her not to rush in and telling her he had saved recordings of their conversations.
• Xu Huo confronted Gao Xiaoyan over the killed living sample and asked her to mark Luo Changren’s location on an indoor map of Government Hall.

Xu Huo seized Gao Zhen’s corpse and used the ensuing alarm to set plans in motion, then confronted Luo Changren about the vaccine and Dr. Zhang. Luo Changren insisted the vaccine was hidden in Bird Tower, but Xu Huo revealed that W37 had disproved the virus’s hereditary nature and that the supposed Evolution Potion was a gene-damaging drug.

• Gao Xiaoyan refused to let Xu Huo take Luo Changren, but agreed to let him question Luo Changren alone after Xu Huo threatened to act regardless.
• Xu Huo carried Gao Zhen’s corpse through Government Hall, triggering alarms that detected his mental strength above 200,000; Gao Xiaoyan ordered lower-ranked players to evacuate and called back B-level players.
• Xu Huo met Shangguan Xi and his companions, instructing them to distract the Enforcement Team at Bird Tower in ten minutes while he prepared to take over.
• Xu Huo went to Luo Changren’s room, where he exposed Luo Changren’s feigned unconsciousness and asked about Dr. Zhang and the Evolution Potion.
• Luo Changren demanded to see the vaccine spread before he would talk and claimed it was hidden in Bird Tower, but Xu Huo challenged him with evidence that the potion was fake and genetically damaging.

Xu Huo questioned Luo Changren about Dr. Zhang, the Evolution Potion, and the vaccine, uncovering how Dr. Zhang had drawn Luo into genetic research and left him a vaccine. The chapter ended with Xu Huo asking Luo Changren to describe Dr. Zhang’s appearance.

• Luo Changren rejected the claim that the Evolution Potion was fake, but broke down after Xu Huo showed him evidence from Gao Zhen.
• Xu Huo reasoned that Gao Zhen’s goal had been population control and that she would not have endangered Base City’s genetic future.
• Luo Changren explained that he had met Dr. Zhang in E21-District 024 after being driven out of 01 Base City, and that Dr. Zhang had persuaded him to research genetic modification.
• Luo Changren said Dr. Zhang had warned that forcibly changing genes could cause unforeseeable consequences, then later left him a vaccine after the SE virus outbreak.
• Xu Huo considered that Dr. Zhang might have anticipated the Evolution Potion’s adverse effects, but treated this as a theory, then asked Luo Changren to describe Dr. Zhang’s distinguishing features.

Xu Huo extracted clues about Dr. Zhang and Dr. Wu from Luo Changren, then used Gao Zhen’s corpse to draw W37’s law enforcement players away and escape into Bird Tower. With his allies’ items barely holding the pursuers back, he called Gao Xiaoyan as officials debated negotiating for the mayor’s body.

• Xu Huo questioned Luo Changren about Dr. Zhang, learned an address, and agreed to take him to uncover the vaccine buried beneath a floor tile.
• Xu Huo arranged for Shangguan Xi to collect Luo Changren, then carried Gao Zhen’s corpse into the air to attract the law enforcement players pursuing them.
• Lou Jia and other players attacked Xu Huo, but he used Gao Zhen’s corpse as a shield and broke through their encirclement with Go to Destination.
• At Bird Tower, Kuang Wenjun and Zhu Feiyun combined their items to stall the pursuers, while Xu Huo sent Pan Qiao to the fifth floor with an alien corpse.
• Gao Xiaoyan and Lou Jia surrounded Bird Tower, and officials argued against storming it because Xu Huo held Gao Zhen’s body; Xu Huo called Gao Xiaoyan as Luo Changren prepared to dig up the vaccine.

Xu Huo demanded an A-class item from W37 in exchange for Gao Zhen’s body while Gao Xiaoyan prepared for a possible fight. Inside Bird Tower, Luo Changren opened a hidden Metal Block but found its compartment empty.

• Xu Huo demanded an A-class item and gave Gao Xiaoyan thirty minutes to arrange the exchange, warning her to keep everyone away from Bird Tower.
• Gao Xiaoyan agreed to the deal while secretly ordering her people to test the defenses and kill everyone inside if fighting began.
• Xu Huo’s group learned that W37’s interference device was still being prepared, and Shangguan Xi worried that a clash could start soon.
• Xu Huo asked Luo Changren to show him where to break the floor, and Shangguan Xi helped dig up a Metal Block buried beneath Bird Tower.
• Luo Changren unlocked the Metal Block and found its compartment empty, leaving him horrified.

Xu Huo exposed Luo Changren’s claim that he had brought back a vaccine, revealing that the Potion was meant to treat the Aftereffect of Evolution. Luo Changren then admitted Dr. Zhang had also set aside an antidote for W37, but accused Xu Huo of taking the Potion and offered information about Dr. Zhang in exchange for its return.

• Luo Changren searched his empty box and accused those nearby of stealing his Potion.
• Xu Huo reasoned that Luo Changren’s supposed vaccine could not have been for the SE virus and confronted him about bringing the Potion back to W37.
• Luo Changren admitted the Potion was meant to treat the Aftereffect of Evolution and explained that he had received two doses from Dr. Zhang.
• Luo Changren revealed that Dr. Zhang had set aside another dose as an antidote, though he was unsure whether it could help W37.
• Luo Changren accused Xu Huo of taking the Potion and offered to tell him everything about Dr. Zhang if Xu Huo returned it.

Xu Huo exposed Luo Changren’s deception about the treatment Potion and learned that the blue Potion was the original SE virus sample. After deciding Luo Changren had not deliberately caused the outbreak, Xu Huo injected him with the green Potion and learned the Bird Tower launch platform’s codes were held by government officials.

• Shangguan Xi, Zhu Feiyun, and Kuang Wenjun argued over whether Luo Changren had acted selfishly or tried to help W37 Base.
• Xu Huo offered Luo Changren a choice between two Potions, but the apparent green Potion turned blue in Luo Changren’s vision, revealing that he was trapped in Xu Huo’s Spiritual World.
• Xu Huo identified the blue Potion as the original SE virus sample, and Luo Changren admitted he had planned to use it to punish Gao Zhen and those who believed themselves good.
• Xu Huo concluded that Luo Changren had not deliberately done evil and injected him with the green treatment Potion.
• Luo Changren revealed that only Base government officials knew the Bird Tower launch platform’s three encryption codes.
• Zhu Feiyun noticed movement outside, and Xu Huo said he had removed the spatial barrier and told Pan Qiao to throw the body bag outside.

Xu Huo revealed that former mayor Gao Zhen had used an Alien carrying the original SE virus to reduce W37 Base City's population, and explained how this discovery connected to his Dungeon side quest. He summoned Gao Xiaoyan to Bird Tower, while the group realized there was no vaccine or antidote to save the infected.

• Xu Huo threw Gao Zhen's body out of Bird Tower and used a megaphone to tell the people outside to check the numbers on the big screen and consider how to save W37 Base City.
• Gao Xiaoyan learned that the interference equipment had failed and agreed to bring an A-class item into Bird Tower with someone accompanying her.
• Luo Changren questioned why Xu Huo had summoned Gao Xiaoyan, while Shangguan Xi asked how the SE virus mystery related to clearing the Dungeon.
• Xu Huo explained that the Dungeon was called "Encrypted Information" and identified Gao Zhen as the mastermind behind spreading the original SE virus through an Alien sample.
• Xu Huo linked the forty-eight-hour countdown side quest to Luo Changren's warning about the virus spreading across the city, then said there was no vaccine or antidote.

Xu Huo confronted Luo Changren about his past lies and learned more about Dr. Zhang, then negotiated with Gao Xiaoyan at Bird Tower over the City Sandbox and an Antidote. He offered the Potion as a way to become W37 Base City’s savior, but Gao Xiaoyan challenged his claim about the SE virus.

• Xu Huo questioned Luo Changren about operating Bird Tower, and Luo said it would take at least ten doses to cover the city and delay the virus.
• Luo gave Xu Huo Dr. Zhang’s actual hideout address, and Xu warned him not to seek Dr. Zhang after leaving W37 Base Station.
• Gao Xiaoyan entered Bird Tower and offered Xu Huo the A-class City Sandbox and two B-class items in exchange for removing his trap from the Spiritual World.
• Xu Huo showed Gao Xiaoyan the Potion Luo had brought, explaining that it could slow the SE virus and weaken any hereditary properties it might have.
• Gao Xiaoyan rejected Xu Huo’s claim that the SE virus had hereditary properties and demanded to know what he was trying to do.

Xu Huo tried to persuade Gao Xiaoyan to use the Antidote to save W37’s infected residents, and proved it worked on a little girl. Gao Xiaoyan still defended the Government Hall’s plan to sacrifice some people, leaving Xu Huo weighing how to spread the Antidote without her cooperation.

• Xu Huo said he was keeping his promise to help Gao Xiaoyan and proposed testing Luo Changren’s Antidote on an infected person.
• Gao Xiaoyan had a little girl brought in and injected her with the medicine, which quickly improved the girl’s condition.
• Gao Xiaoyan isolated Xu Huo behind barriers and argued that W37 had to sacrifice some people to preserve resources and protect others.
• Xu Huo challenged her right to decide who lived, then warned that the virus could spread beyond W37 and provoke another Base City outbreak.
• Gao Xiaoyan said the Government Hall had already accepted the risks, while Xu Huo considered how to distribute the limited Antidote and asked whether many people knew about the plan.