Recaps

Xu Huo fought Dong Qifeng’s A-class player, the glasses man, and used spatial movement and layered items to survive the stronger opponent’s attacks. He began to infer the man’s item restrictions and noticed that the glasses man was deliberately avoiding his Spiritual World.

• The glasses man used items to evade Xu Huo’s attacks and attacked him with mental interference, a nail, and powerful punches.
• Xu Huo blocked the nail with Angel's Teeth and used Realistic Wax Figure to absorb a surprise blow, but the glasses man drove him into the ground.
• Xu Huo used the all-metal chair and Holder's Death to catch the glasses man off guard, though the assassination item only cut the back of his scalp.
• Xu Huo dodged the glasses man’s next attacks by changing locations through space and opening doors to disrupt his vision.
• Xu Huo realized the glasses man was deliberately avoiding his Spiritual World.

Xu Huo and Chi Minghong fought the glasses man as he tore through the Villa, but his powerful items kept them on the defensive. When the glasses man pursued Xu Huo through a mysterious doorway, he found himself inside a gigantic circular Book Tower.

• The glasses man used an item to resist Xu Huo’s mental interference, smashed through the Villa’s walls, and pulled Xu Huo back down when he tried to escape into the air.
• Xu Huo returned the Villa to his Spiritual World, but the glasses man’s attack forced him to shrink its range until Chi Minghong intervened with Sword Qi and Ground Collapse.
• The glasses man pulled Chi Minghong toward him, but Xu Huo raised spiral staircases throughout the Villa to rescue her and obstruct their pursuer.
• The glasses man destroyed the staircases and used frozen pellets and a nearly invisible cutting film to drive Xu Huo out, but Inviolable Territory blocked both attacks.
• The glasses man punched Xu Huo through a doorway into darkness and followed him, only to find himself inside a gigantic circular Book Tower.

Xu Huo trapped the glasses man in his Spiritual World and fought to kill the B-class player despite his powerful items. As Xu Huo tried to escape a barrage of bombs, a shadowy spike killed the glasses man and the shadow caught the bombs.

• The glasses man escaped Xu Huo’s black liquid trap, threatened to destroy the Villa with a bomb, and entered the Book Tower.
• Xu Huo used shifting doors to trap and attack the glasses man, who cut through the doors with Thin Thread and tried to force Xu Huo into the open.
• Xu Huo shot the glasses man through the chest with a pellet fired through a doorway, but the wounded man ensnared Xu Huo and dropped dozens of bombs.
• Xu Huo closed the Spiritual World and tried to escape the blast, but found it had not fully closed.
• A shadowy spike pierced the glasses man’s head, killing him, and a spreading shadow caught his blood and the bombs.

Xu Huo discovered that the shadow personality representing his childhood could act independently, confirming the danger posed by his missing memories. He contained its manifestation for the time being, then examined and catalogued the glasses man's powerful Artifacts.

• The childhood shadow carried the bomb and corpse to Xu Huo, then fled into a room when the Book Tower fully appeared in the Spiritual World.
• Xu Huo inspected the four personality manifestations and found that the childhood shadow's manifestation had grown, suggesting its suppression had weakened.
• Xu Huo pressed the shadow's manifestation back to its original size and postponed dealing with it.
• Xu Huo examined the glasses man's belongings, identifying five A-class Artifacts, including Backstab, Ideal Skin, and Everything Wants to Cut Everything.
• Xu Huo catalogued the glasses man's B-class and support items, including the special life-saving item Kitty Borrows Three Lives.

Xu Huo killed the glasses man and discovered that his rapid self-repair had kept Holder's Death from being fatal, while the shadow had overwhelmed his defenses. Back at the Villa, the Players argued over whether to keep searching for slips together or pursue a higher Dungeon rating, and Ding Xiang looked to Xu Huo for support.

• Xu Huo examined the glasses man's wounds, found signs of rapid self-repair, and concluded that the shadow had killed him despite his defensive items.
• Xu Huo collected the glasses man's valuables and returned to the Villa, where Chi Minghong and the other Players were stunned that he had killed a B-class Player.
• Chi Minghong led the Players upstairs to search for more slips while Xu Huo rested, and the group found additional gruesome images.
• The Players disagreed over whether everyone should get a slip before anyone searched for more, and Xu Huo warned that some might be unable to clear the Dungeon.
• Zhou Yuanzhu went upstairs to search, splitting the Players into opposing camps, and Ding Xiang appealed to Xu Huo as the dispute escalated.

Xu Huo remained in the lobby while the other players searched upstairs, then killed Teacher Fan without moving when Teacher Fan attacked him. The survivors compared their numbered slips and found that four players could exchange them to clear the Dungeon.

• Chi Minghong abandoned Liang Zong and Ding Xiang to join the players heading upstairs, leaving Xu Huo and Teacher Fan in the lobby.
• After finding a slip numbered one, Chi Minghong attacked Teacher Fan, and they fought until Liang Zong's artifact moved them across the lobby.
• Teacher Fan rushed Xu Huo, but a nearly invisible artifact thread severed his head, and Xu Huo told the others to resume clearing the Dungeon.
• Zhou Yuanzhu listed the slips the players had collected, revealing that the player from this zone, Chi Minghong, Liang Zong, and Zhou Yuanzhu could exchange slips to clear the Dungeon.

Xu Huo woke after resting and learned that Zhou Yuanzhu had killed the remaining players before he and Chi Minghong solved the instance by identifying the last book read. After leaving the instance, Xu Huo asked Chi Minghong to investigate a laboratory and returned to the Dong family estate, where he learned that Young Master Xuan had gone to the beauty pageant’s final vote.

• Xu Huo slept for eight hours in Emergency Shelter No. 101 and learned from Chi Minghong that Zhou Yuanzhu had killed Number 4, Number 2, and Ding Xiang.
• Xu Huo reasoned that the instance’s “last one” referred to the last book read, and Chi Minghong used his number 7 slip to clear the instance.
• Xu Huo and Chi Minghong left the instance, and Chi Minghong gave him promised items and an extra B-class item.
• Xu Huo asked Chi Minghong to investigate a laboratory and identify people connected to it, especially those involved with children.
• Xu Huo returned to the Dong family estate, where Zeng An told him Young Master Xuan had gone to the Entertainment Building for the beauty pageant’s final vote.

Xu Huo arranged for Xiao Dou to live at a welfare institute in Snow City, then went with the Dong family to the Entertainment Building. There, he joined the others in Tomorrow’s Venue as the pageant vote neared its end.

• Xu Huo learned that Xiao Dou wanted to leave with him, but decided to fund the boy’s care at a welfare institute until he turned eighteen.
• Zeng An recommended a Snow City welfare institute and agreed to arrange Xiao Dou’s placement after speaking with the young master.
• Xu Huo rode with the Dong family to the Entertainment Building, where a staff member explained how Tomorrow’s Venue and its shifting rooms worked.
• Xu Huo entered Room 039 and reunited with Dong Jingxuan, Dong Qifeng, and Dong Yanqiong while the pageant’s final votes were being counted.
• Dong Jingxuan voted for Number Five, while Xu Huo watched Guo Longzhi and another contestant compete for the lead with three minutes remaining.

Xu Huo was driven out of Tomorrow's Venue after Dong Qifeng tried to attack him, then encountered Mr. Chang, one of the train hijackers, at another venue. As Xu Huo confronted him about his fake face, he revealed the Small Tunnel item Dong Jingxuan had activated.

• Xu Huo sensed that more than a hundred players had gathered at Tomorrow's Venue, likely for a wartime mobilization meeting.
• Dong Qifeng sent a hidden blade at Xu Huo and then ordered two B-class players to attack him over the item Xu Huo had helped Dong Jingxuan win.
• Xu Huo broke through the room's Gate Wall, and venue security ordered him and Dong Qifeng's two bodyguards to leave under the Government Hall's wartime rules.
• Xu Huo entered another venue to avoid Dong Qifeng's men and spotted Mr. Chang, a train hijacker marked by Shared Location, selling medicine to women.
• Xu Huo asked Mr. Chang how he made a fake face look real, and Mr. Chang joked about earning money and pleasing women.
• Xu Huo took out the Small Tunnel item that Dong Jingxuan had activated.

Xu Huo used Mr. Chang to drive off the two players pursuing him, then disguised himself and entered the entertainment venue beneath Tomorrow's Venue. There, he joined a billiards game where players had to move the balls without touching them, and began his first round against a mixed-heritage player.

• Xu Huo trapped Mr. Chang with Thin Thread and asked him to have his friend lure away the two players pursuing him while answering questions about spatial passage items.
• After the two pursuers left, Xu Huo released Mr. Chang, changed his face, and entered the entertainment venue beneath Tomorrow's Venue.
• Xu Huo joined a billiards game where players wagered items and followed rules that prevented them from touching the balls or using their cues on them.
• Xu Huo began a round against the mixed-heritage player, who used an air-compressing projectile item to knock balls into the pockets.

Xu Huo won successive billiards matches at Tomorrow's Venue while watching the gathered players and considering whether Zone 002 planned to open a space passage there. He recognized the man in raincoat among new arrivals, but the man ignored his greeting as their guarded companions watched.

• Xu Huo used the Note Launcher to sink five balls consistently and defeated the mixed-race player.
• Xu Huo beat the player with the mole by his brow, then prepared to leave as the crowd gathered to bet.
• The suit man offered a B-class item as a stake, and Xu Huo agreed to play another round after spotting three newcomers.
• Xu Huo recognized the young man as the man in raincoat he had met at the Great World at Sea and recalled his warning about an apparent Holy Sword Society member.
• The man in raincoat met Xu Huo's eyes, then ignored his nod and put in an earbud while the mixed-race player told Xu Huo to respect his opponent.

Xu Huo played billiards with Wei Chengzhang and his companions while waiting in Tomorrow's Venue, then joined Dong Jingxuan as the group was attacked. A blackout and the collapse of the floor above killed many people, and the fighting continued under the rubble as disguised players turned on their allies.

• Xu Huo beat Wei Chengzhang at billiards, introduced himself as Xu Zhi, and learned the identities of the other players.
• Dong Jingxuan came downstairs to join Xu Huo, and Brother Lei verified Xu Huo’s identity with the item Little Tunnel.
• As the group prepared to wager on billiards, players gathered nearby and the hall’s lights went out.
• During the blackout, Young Master Hong was decapitated, and Xu Huo told Dong Jingxuan to head for a corner instead of the exit.
• The floor above Tomorrow’s Venue collapsed, crushing many people, and players from upstairs began fighting among the survivors.
• A voice ordered everyone to keep quiet, and players in Snow City uniforms suddenly attacked their own allies.

Xu Huo freed Dong Jingxuan from a restraint during a coordinated attack on Snow City Players and learned that the city was under lockdown. As Dong Jingxuan prepared to teleport to the Dong family estate, he spotted the injured Dong Yanqiong and moved toward her just as a crossbow bolt flew at them.

• Attackers struck the gathering, trapping Dong Jingxuan and others with a Thin Rope while Players fought across the venue.
• Brother Lei and his companions protected Dong Jingxuan as Xu Huo observed the battle and noticed the attackers trying to destroy a giant ring.
• Chi Minghong told Xu Huo that Snow City was locked down and its Players had been ordered to fight Outer District Players and wanted criminals.
• Xu Huo used the Life Core to destroy the metal floor and free Dong Jingxuan from the restraint.
• Xu Huo asked Dong Jingxuan about teleporting to safety, and Dong Jingxuan said the Dong family estate was protected by a Super Artifact.
• Dong Jingxuan spotted the injured Dong Yanqiong and started toward her as a crossbow bolt flew in from the side.

Xu Huo and the others escaped the Entertainment Building using Dong Jingxuan’s Space Teleport Artifact, but an enemy’s interference sent them to a plaza prepared with traps. Surrounded and unable to teleport again, the group faced an ambush.

• Xu Huo, Wei Yu, and Wei Chengzhang helped Dong Jingxuan and Dong Yanqiong fend off attackers while Brother Lei warned that the spatial restriction might soon trap them.
• The middle-aged woman accused Zone 002’s powerful families of mass killings and of targeting people with inherited genetic traits.
• Dong Jingxuan used his Space Teleport Artifact to transport himself, Xu Huo, Dong Yanqiong, a bodyguard, Wei Yu, and Wei Chengzhang away from the Entertainment Building.
• Xu Huo realized they had arrived at the wrong place and warned that someone had interfered with the artifact and surrounded them.
• Enemies attacked the plaza with shifting floor tiles and wind blades, killing Dong Jingxuan’s bodyguard.
• Dong Jingxuan discovered he could no longer use the artifact, while Xu Huo spotted the surrounding players and hidden traps.

Xu Huo fought the players hunting him and the Wei siblings in a hidden underground plaza, then detonated a powerful item to break through the structure. After discovering the plaza was a completed experimental zone, he urged Wei Yu and the others to leave before Snow City's players arrived.

• Xu Huo used his items to lift the Dong siblings, freeze the animated stone traps, and battle the attackers while Wei Yu defended Wei Chengzhang from poisonous gas.
• Xu Huo charged a B-class player, dragged him down from the platform, and narrowly avoided his powerful punch with help from another Super Evolver.
• Xu Huo prepared to detonate Little Mushroom Cloud, and Wei Yu brought Wei Chengzhang to him after the attackers began retreating.
• Xu Huo gave Wei Yu two B-class items, then Little Mushroom Cloud exploded and blasted open the underground plaza.
• Xu Huo saw the damaged machinery below and learned from Wei Yu that the site had been under government control for a new experimental zone.
• Xu Huo warned that Snow City's players would soon arrive and told the others to leave first.

Xu Huo protected Dong Jingxuan and his companions from a B-class Holy Sword Society player until reinforcements from Zone 002 arrived. The group escaped by flying vehicle, but the teleportation interference suggested more testing grounds lay beneath them.

• Xu Huo argued that the Holy Sword Society player could not kill Dong Jingxuan and the others easily while he stood in the way, and the player defended the Society’s campaign against Zone 002’s powerful families.
• Zone 002 reinforcements approached, but the B-class player fired a barrage of bullets and attacked Xu Huo’s group with flying knives and a ram’s-horn hammer.
• Xu Huo used his defensive items and trapped the hammer with “Everything Wants to Cut Everything,” forcing the B-class player to retreat.
• Five groups of Zone 002 players arrived, confirmed Dong Jingxuan’s identity, and intercepted the Holy Sword Society members as Xu Huo and the others boarded a flying vehicle.
• Wei Yu suspected more testing grounds lay underground, while Xu Huo told Dong Jingxuan to contact the Dong family before they tried to return there.

After the Holy Sword Society attacked Snow City, Xu Huo and the others discussed whether Zone 002 had used a large-scale Space Teleport Artifact to target a newly formed district. They headed for Snow White Villa to hide, while Xu Huo arranged to meet Chi Minghong for the files she had gathered.

• Dong Jingxuan learned from Brother Lei that the Dong family estate was sealed off and that returning there would risk interception by the Holy Sword Society.
• Xu Huo questioned whether Zone 002 had obtained a large-scale Space Teleport Artifact and considered the possibility that it could send players to a designated district.
• Wei Yu revealed that a new district had appeared at E20, and the group discussed whether it might be vulnerable to occupation by older districts.
• Xu Huo pointed out that the Holy Sword Society's attack reflected the power struggles common in the game world.
• Dong Jingxuan changed course toward Snow White Villa after Xu Huo suggested it as a safer hiding place outside Snow City.
• Xu Huo contacted Chi Minghong, who said she had files to share and agreed to meet him at the site of their earlier Dungeon.

After Government Hall's crackdown began, Xu Huo and his companions hid while gathering information and treating their injuries. Lu Qing reunited with them and revealed her search for Liao Lian had led her to suspect that Snow City's Players had bought people in bulk, but Government Hall held no records of them.

• Xu Huo and his companions concealed their aircraft in the woods, treated Dong Yanqiong's wounds, and discussed the danger in Snow City.
• Xu Huo contacted Number 10 and learned that Government Players had nearly killed him as communications across Snow City remained controlled.
• Chi Minghong arrived with Lu Qing and gave Xu Huo files she had found while investigating Government Hall.
• After Dong Jingxuan questioned how Lu Qing had gotten a cleaning job, Lu Qing attacked and bit him while demanding to know what had happened to Liao Lian.
• Lu Qing told Xu Huo she had traced Liao Lian to an Underground Market, where Snow City Players reportedly bought people in bulk, but found no records in Government Hall.

Xu Huo studied Government Hall’s files and concluded that it had taken the children from Dr. Zhang’s Welfare Institute, while the records left their fate unclear. He suspected Government Hall was conducting human experiments in Snow City and pressed Dong Jingxuan about the base and the Dong family’s connection to it.

• Chi Minghong explained that Liao Lian’s records were missing and gave Lu Qing a Ticket to travel to her hometown.
• Xu Huo warned Lu Qing against turning her search for her sister into hatred of Zone 002, and Chi Minghong offered her a place to rest.
• Xu Huo reviewed Government Hall’s files and learned that it had monitored Dr. Zhang, taken the children from the Welfare Institutes, and left their fate undocumented.
• Xu Huo suspected Dr. Zhang had knowingly raised the children under surveillance and wondered whether they were still alive as test subjects.
• Xu Huo questioned Dong Jingxuan about Government Hall’s human experimentation base and whether it was located in or near the Dong family estate.

Xu Huo and Chi Minghong went to Snow City to investigate a suspected experimental facility, but its heavy security made entry difficult. When a convoy headed for Chen He's Pharmaceutical Industry, Xu Huo chose to use the opportunity to visit the Water Supply Bureau instead.

• Xu Huo persuaded Dong Jingxuan to mark the location of Chen He's Pharmaceutical Industry on a map, and Dong Jingxuan suggested another family might be behind the teleportation passage.
• Xu Huo told Chi Minghong he was going to Snow City, and she agreed to go with him after hearing the risks.
• Xu Huo and Chi Minghong left the woods and found Snow City monitored by Players and networked robots that detected unauthorized items.
• Xu Huo and Chi Minghong waited for a chance to approach the facility, then spotted a convoy heading toward Chen He's Pharmaceutical Industry.
• Chi Minghong suspected Dong Jingxuan had withheld information, but Xu Huo decided they should go to the Water Supply Bureau first.

Xu Huo and Chi Minghong sought a way to identify hidden laboratories in Snow City, but a patrol ambushed them and drove them into a residential building. As Xu Huo evaded the search, one patrol player betrayed his teammate, and the dying player warned the squad that Xu Lin had turned against them.

• Xu Huo proposed comparing water-use records to find buildings that might conceal human laboratories.
• A patrol spotted Xu Huo and Chi Minghong, attacked them with guns and a laser cannon, and surrounded the area.
• Xu Huo entered Building J2 under an invisibility cloak after using the Life Core to destroy its alarm wiring.
• Xu Huo used mental interference to disrupt the patrol squad's search and split its members across the building.
• Xu Lin shot one teammate, stabbed another, and took his Communicator after declaring that he had changed.
• The wounded player used a second Communicator to tell the squad that Xu Lin had betrayed them and to order them to kill him on sight.

Xu Huo disguised himself as Xu Lin and killed two Players while sowing confusion among the government squads. The remaining Players became trapped in an apparent illusion where civilians turned into zombie-like Monsters, and the chapter ended with the gunman asking what experiment could create them.

• Xu Huo, disguised as Xu Lin, stabbed Liu Jin and his companion, hid their bodies, and returned to mislead the other groups.
• Wang Youquan's group encountered another squad, then found Zheng Cheng and the surroundings had vanished and their Communicators had stopped working.
• A Player fired into a crowd of civilians, killing them, but the civilians rose again as fast, Monster-like corpses.
• The corpses overwhelmed the gunman, and his teammate returned to rescue him and block them with an item.
• The gunman promised his teammate an item in return for saving him, while his teammate wondered what experiment had turned corpses into Monsters.

Xu Huo extracted rumors about a secret laboratory from an armed Player and learned it might be near the New Xiangyang Energy Plant. He and Chi Minghong escaped the surrounding Players on a stolen motorcycle, but the pursuit continued as they headed for the rooftops.

• Xu Huo threatened the armed Player with poison and learned that the Government Hall had been linked to experiments on living people.
• The armed Player revealed that several Government Hall staff had been transferred to the New Xiangyang Energy Plant, and Xu Huo let him go.
• Zheng Cheng shot the armed Player when he reached the next floor, while Xu Huo told Chi Minghong where the laboratory might be.
• Chi Minghong stole a low-altitude motorcycle and drove Xu Huo away from the encirclement.
• Government Hall Players pursued them, and Chi Minghong headed for the roof while Xu Huo blocked their attacks.

Xu Huo and Chi Minghong escaped their pursuers and reached the New Xiangyang Energy Plant amid a toxic gas emergency caused by an explosion nearby. As the Holy Sword Society breached the plant’s defenses and fighting tore open its underground structures, Xu Huo and Chi Minghong used the chaos to slip inside.

• Xu Huo and Chi Minghong fled their pursuers as an explosion released toxic gas near the New Xiangyang Energy Plant, triggering citywide alarms and panic.
• Xu Huo gave Chi Minghong an antidote, and the pair headed toward the plant while nearby players helped contain the gas and evacuate residents.
• Xu Huo and Chi Minghong discovered that Outer District Players were attacking the plant, which was protected by a barrier controlled by a player near its main gate.
• The Holy Sword Society broke through the barrier with explosives and entered the plant, where combatants sliced the main complex apart and exposed its underground routes.
• Xu Huo and Chi Minghong slipped into the collapsed building after destroying a Metal Plate, throwing in Smoke Bombs, and shouting a warning about a toxic gas leak.

Xu Huo and Chi Minghong forced researcher Lu Huizhi to lead them through the Laboratory, where Xu Huo uncovered evidence that researchers were experimenting on children. The chapter ended as a video began documenting the sixty-eighth experiment on child test subject R17.

• Xu Huo and Chi Minghong captured Lu Huizhi and made him guide them to the Laboratory.
• Lu Huizhi's attempt to get help failed when the researchers in the Laboratory abandoned him and left.
• Lu Huizhi offered them four Sub-class Stones, including one with a time attribute, and Xu Huo took one while revealing he knew about the children held there.
• Chi Minghong restrained Lu Huizhi, and Xu Huo used his blood to access the workstation and find experiment records and videos.
• Xu Huo watched a recording of R17 recovering from an experiment and heard the therapist announce the start of the sixty-eighth experiment.