Recaps

Xu Huo visited the Exchange to buy equipment capable of countering spacetime attacks. He left with a jamming device and several advanced artifacts, having spent 145 million White Cash and retaining 25 million.

• Liu Ye explained that artifacts combining spacetime and physical defense were rare, then showed Xu Huo jamming devices that could weaken and reveal spacetime forces.
• Xu Huo chose a coin-shaped advanced jamming device and ordered it made into a bracelet engraved with a Wormhole Flower.
• Huai Ye presented newly stocked Defense Artifacts, and Xu Huo bought the A-class Flower Bloom.
• Xu Huo bought the A-class saber Unbreakable and the B-class Snow Dagger to strengthen his collection of Attack Artifacts.
• Xu Huo spent 145 million White Cash on the new equipment and had 25 million left.

Xu Huo settled into a complimentary suite at Yongxing Hotel and reviewed Liang Shuang’s notes. Elsewhere, Xue Lang and a woman in a black windbreaker argued over whether to target Xu Huo, and the woman watched his hotel from an entertainment airship before disappearing as Xu Huo sensed her presence.

• Xu Huo arrived at Yongxing Hotel, where the manager showed him the luxurious suite and its complimentary services.
• Xu Huo studied Liang Shuang’s detailed notes about items, potions, and Sub-district prices, then rested.
• The woman in a black windbreaker told Xue Lang that Xu Huo was staying at Yongxing Hotel, but refused to help with his personal grudge.
• Xue Lang and the woman fought briefly after he suggested she had feelings for Xu Huo, then agreed to leave the next day.
• The woman in a black windbreaker watched Yongxing Hotel from an entertainment airship and vanished as Xu Huo looked toward it.

Xu Huo browsed District 001 news about Carroll Field, the Field family's missing Super Artifact, and the politics of higher-level Wormhole Points. He learned more about Carroll's family and the harsh treatment of ordinary people in technologically advanced Sub-districts.

• Xu Huo read rumors about Carroll Field's new beauty and his eight wives, along with reports that the Field family had failed to recover the components of the Combat Angel.
• Xu Huo considered the functions of the Angel's Teeth and wondered whether the Paper Puppeteer and the Suitcase Man had resolved their contest.
• Xu Huo read speculation that Carroll Field's move to E27 followed a family power struggle over the Super Artifact.
• Xu Huo learned that Carroll's eighth wife, Kim Seol, came from a D-class Wormhole Point and had replaced the bride originally meant for E27.
• Xu Huo read that powerful Wormhole Points carried out human 'pest control' and that technologically advanced Sub-districts had little patience for ordinary people.

Xu Huo hosted Jiang Zifeng and Ye Bingxin at Yongxing Hotel, where they used his seven-day voucher to book an extravagant night of entertainment. During an aerial tour of Card City, they discussed government defenses and Evolution Aftereffects before spotting a delivery of high-grade instruments to Stellar Machinery Branch Company.

• Xu Huo welcomed Jiang Zifeng and Ye Bingxin to his hotel floor and explained that a Dungeon reward had given him a free seven-day voucher.
• Jiang Zifeng booked a range of hotel performances and activities, and the three friends took a sightseeing ship over Card City.
• Jiang Zifeng described how energy barriers, interference devices, and machines protected government bases and Stellar Company branches.
• Ye Bingxin and Jiang Zifeng discussed Evolution Potions and Aftereffects, and Xu Huo said his Evolution rate was over forty while theirs were a little over fifty.
• Jiang Zifeng pointed out black crates of high-grade instruments being delivered to Stellar Machinery Branch Company, but Xu Huo showed little interest.

Xu Huo helped two injured hotel guests evade their pursuers and learned they had stolen an encrypted file exposing human experiments in District 001. The pair stayed at the Yongxing Hotel to decrypt and publicize it, while the woman took a troubling call.

• Xu Huo encountered a high-ponytailed woman and her wounded companion fleeing pursuers in the Yongxing Hotel elevator.
• Xu Huo warned them that their pursuers were waiting outside and invited them to shelter in his top-floor room.
• The woman explained that they had stolen an encrypted file detailing human experiments and their clients, and that it would self-destruct after a time limit or if taken outside the sub-district.
• The pair said they had avoided the District Government because the people behind the experiments had official connections, and the injured man claimed he could decrypt the file.
• Xu Huo warned that the pursuers would find another way to capture them, then the woman received a call and answered it with a sound-canceling item.

Xu Huo helped two Players escape the hotel, then learned they had misled him about the stolen files and questioned the District Government’s explanation. After receiving his interference device, he left for Flower City, where travelers discussed the city’s flowers and the dangers facing Mutated Plants cultivators.

• The hotel manager warned Xu Huo that District Government Players would arrive, so he urged the two Players with the high ponytail to leave before their pursuers arrived.
• Xu Huo found a discarded metal carrier and handed it to the hotel staff to pass on to the District Government.
• District Government Players examined Xu Huo and claimed the two Players had stolen important medical papers, but Xu Huo remained doubtful about their account.
• The Exchange delivered the Wormhole Flower interference device, and Xu Huo tested how it weakened his control of Cube Space.
• Xu Huo left a message for Jiang Zifeng and Ye Bingxin and boarded a public flying vehicle to Flower City, listening to passengers talk about its flowers and Mutated Plants cultivators.

Xu Huo witnessed passengers harass a mother and child identified as residents of Flower City, then offered the sick child a potion that the mother refused. Later, the airship’s medical alert brought robots to the pair, and the woman resisted their approach.

• Passengers recognized the mother and child as Flower City residents, pulled off the mother's cloak, and mocked them while she stayed silent and moved away.
• Xu Huo offered the mother a potion, but she carried her child away, and a nearby old man explained that Flower City households received government potions.
• Six Players secretly boarded the airship, including the pair Xu Huo had seen chased at the hotel, who blended into a nearby crowd.
• An airship medical alert sounded, and surveillance cameras revealed weapon ports as the robots responded.
• Xu Huo saw that the mother and her breathless child had triggered the alert, and she watched the robots warily while refusing to let them approach.

A mother’s sick child was diagnosed with regression and taken to a regression hospital, leaving her devastated as the airship’s passengers accepted the government’s intervention as routine. Xu Huo reflected on how society had made families of those who regressed into sinners, while a mustached Player tried to stop the mother from killing herself.

• Passengers argued over whether the mother should let a medical robot examine her child, and one suspected the child was regressing.
• The mother refused to trust anyone, but a tranquilizer dart incapacitated her and the robot examined the child.
• The robot diagnosed Subject 0931 with regression and transported him to a regression hospital, while another robot found the mother healthy.
• Xu Huo observed the passengers’ acceptance of the child’s removal, and a mustached Player explained that families of people who regressed had become a social class blamed by others.
• The mustached Player stopped the mother from climbing out of the observation window, then upset her by suggesting she have another child, and she slapped him.

Zhang Yuanqing woke after a troubled night and thought about his worsening condition, which had previously been controlled by special medicine. He joined his family for breakfast, where Jiang Yu'er offered to take him shopping, but his grandmother forbade him from going.

• Zhang Yuanqing recalled that his condition had once been controlled by medicine and worried that the medicine was losing its effect.
• Zhang Yuanqing got up after his maternal aunt threatened to splash him awake.
• Zhang Yuanqing remembered that his mother had left him in his grandparents' care while she pursued her career.
• Zhang Yuanqing joined Jiang Yu'er and his grandmother for breakfast and asked where his grandfather was.
• Jiang Yu'er offered to take Zhang Yuanqing to the Mall to buy clothes, and his grandmother threatened to break his legs if he went.

Xu Huo explored Flower City and used the Game Government Library to search for a likely place connected to He Pu’s Diamond Key. He narrowed the possibilities to old buildings in the jurisdiction and discovered that one of his previous candidates had escaped regular renovation.

• Xu Huo arrived in Flower City’s central commercial district and asked a robot for a Play Guide to locate the Game Government Library.
• A short man tried to borrow Xu Huo’s library card with a supposed information-altering device, but a library visitor warned him that it was a theft item.
• Xu Huo entered the library and used a Jixin Terminal to research Flower City’s history and building renovations.
• Xu Huo learned that the city underwent minor renovations every five years and major ones every ten, while buildings in the jurisdiction had largely remained unchanged.
• Xu Huo identified several possible locations for He Pu’s Diamond Key and found that one of his existing candidates had not been regularly renovated.

Xu Huo researched the Game Government Base and Flower City’s policies, weighing whether He Pu might have left something at the base. After leaving the reading pod, he was approached by a Player offering Dungeon updates and introductions to weapons.

• Xu Huo read about the Game Government Base in Flower City and considered whether He Pu had hidden something there.
• Xu Huo reviewed Flower City’s generous benefits and strict limits on residents’ choices and opportunities.
• Xu Huo looked through records of Flower City’s notable figures before leaving the reading pod to browse printed materials.
• A Player offered Xu Huo recent Dungeon updates, but Xu Huo declined and told him to wait for other buyers.
• The Player followed Xu Huo and offered to connect him with sellers of weapons unavailable through ordinary channels.

Xu Huo encountered a suspicious woman at an underground station before going to the Game Government Base for a government clerk interview. After the brief interview, he saw the young interviewer depart in a flying craft and headed to find food.

• Xu Huo dismissed a player who offered him a business card and threw it away.
• At the underground station, Xu Huo noticed a woman with a cradle; after she boarded a hovercar, gunshots and breaking glass triggered an assault alarm.
• Xu Huo arrived at the Game Government Base, where the system first told him interviews were full before verifying his identity and admitting him.
• Two middle-aged interviewers asked Xu Huo about his medal and why he might save a stranger, and he asked whether he could look around the base if he did not get the job.
• As Xu Huo left, he saw the young interviewer in a flying craft and briefly felt the force of the man's blue-eyed gaze before deciding to find food.

Xu Huo visited Flower City's Welfare Park under a new disguise, posing as a donor while investigating how the city cared for its orphaned children. He left after learning that several teenagers were departing the park, including Xiao He, who was joining the powerful Han family.

• Xu Huo changed his face and clothes, then traveled to Flower City's Welfare Park.
• A security player warned Xu Huo to leave the school area, and he said he wanted to sponsor children before meeting the park director.
• The director explained that donations were divided equally, nonresidents could not adopt, and adopters had to accept monitoring; Xu Huo donated two hundred thousand White Cash.
• Several teenage children arrived to sign their departure papers, and the director praised Xiao He's decision to continue his studies with the Han family.
• A girl said the Han family's car had arrived and Xiao He would take the Han surname the next day.

Xu Huo learned how Flower City’s orphans were sorted into different futures, then spoke with a girl at Welfare Park about her hopes for children. That night, he watched Flower City’s residents react to an Outer District Player’s insult and await the arrival of Carroll Field.

• The director explained that children with exceptional genetic test results, including Xiao He, were recruited by families to train as future Players.
• Xu Huo considered the three likely fates of the park’s orphans and accepted flowers from a girl who asked him about life in the outer districts.
• The girl told Xu Huo she hoped her future students would rescue children from across the game and bring them to Flower City.
• Xu Huo returned to his hotel, arranged the flowers, and watched the city center fill with visitors after dark.
• A Flower City crowd used aircraft to force an Outer District Player and his companions to leave after the Player mocked the residents’ virtual rooms.
• The crowd gathered outside a club hoping to see Carroll Field, and a young man on the top floor called for Carroll to come look outside.

Kailuoer watched Flower City’s privileged residents mistreat Welfare Park youths before fireworks became cover for a deadly attack on outsiders. As Players and ordinary visitors were killed and trapped inside the sealed city center, Flower City’s upper class watched safely behind barriers, and one enraged Player struck at them.

• At a club, Kailuoer kept his distance from a girl from Welfare Park while the long-haired young noble seized her and gave another girl to a Server.
• The club manager signaled for the fireworks, and the city’s lights went out as the first flares rose.
• Players began dying when their heads suddenly exploded, and the attacks continued with each burst of fireworks.
• Trapped by the sealed perimeter and unable to escape or find safety indoors, ordinary visitors and Players fled into the streets as more people were killed.
• While Flower City’s upper class watched from behind protective barriers, an enraged Player attacked the barrier.

Outsider Players and residents were trapped in Flower City as its people turned a fireworks gathering into a massacre, until an unknown A-class swordsman attacked Carroll Field. The swordsman’s assault cracked the city’s foundations, and Carroll ordered his Players to drag the swordsman out.

• Outsider Players tried to break Flower City’s defenses and escape, but aircraft and barriers drove them back as the slaughter continued.
• The swordsman struck a Flower City woman and nearby residents with a black arc, then appeared amid the chaos as Flower City Players moved to confront him.
• The swordsman fought Carroll Field, breaking through his Defense Barrier before Carroll summoned a meteor and an unseen force struck the swordsman through several high-rises.
• The swordsman’s attacks split the streets across the city center, causing the ground and buildings to collapse as he taunted Carroll.
• Carroll transferred to an aircraft and ordered his Players to drag the swordsman out.

Xu Huo saved a little girl from the massacre in Flower City and returned her to Welfare Park before avoiding the authorities’ search. After encountering a strange figure that emerged from his shadow, he hurried back to Yongxing Hotel, where the hotel refused to let Flower City Players search without proper authorization.

• Xu Huo carried the little girl away from the panicked crowd and escaped the city center as Flower City Players slaughtered people around the barrier.
• The little girl refused to return to Welfare Park at first, then asked Xu Huo to take her to the director; Xu Huo left her near the park and told her to run along the main road.
• Xu Huo hid from an approaching aircraft, heard residents accept the cover story that Outer District Players had attacked, and waited until power returned across the city.
• A shadow pulled Xu Huo into a gray world, then vanished; Xu Huo detected a figure hidden in his shadow and tore it apart with his mental power.
• Xu Huo returned to Yongxing Hotel, where the receptionist told Flower City Players they could not search guests without official authorization and a valid reason.

Xu Huo watched Flower City players fail to force their way into Yongxing Hotel, then found the wounded A-class player who had attacked Carroll Field hiding in his room. The man revealed his grudge against Carroll and warned Xu Huo that Flower City could track him down, while Xu Huo suspected someone might also be pursuing the man.

• Xu Huo watched the hotel staff refuse entry to Flower City players, and the Fat Player mocked them for backing down.
• The wounded A-class player used a shadow fragment to follow Xu Huo into his hotel room and explained that his injuries kept reopening.
• The man said Carroll Field had caused his wife's death, but Xu Huo challenged his view of their relationship and suggested booking another room.
• Xu Huo threatened the injured man by pointing out that a C-class player might defeat a badly wounded A-class player.
• The man warned Xu Huo that Flower City players could find him because he had left traces while rescuing the girl, and Xu Huo wondered if someone was pursuing the man too.

A wounded A-class player recruited Xu Huo to help sabotage Flower City’s special ore vein, which could produce props that predict small-scale events. Xu Huo learned the vein was controlled by the Han family and their partners, but doubted the player’s plan would work.

• The wounded man explained that he had checked into Yongxing Hotel to delay Carroll Field’s retainers and asked Xu Huo to handle a task for him.
• The man told Xu Huo that Flower City’s special ore vein produced materials suited to spacetime props, including some that could predict specific events.
• Xu Huo recalled several apparent cases of precognition and questioned whether the props could truly predict the future.
• The man said the Han family shared the vein’s mining rights and revealed that his two previous companions had died near its sealed entrance.
• The man asked Xu Huo to get someone in the Han family to contaminate the vein, and Xu Huo doubted the scheme could succeed.

Xu Huo learned that the vein’s entrance lay beneath the crystal flower, then became trapped in a confrontation between the sword-wielding player and Flower City’s forces at Yongxing Hotel. After an explosion tore through the hotel and a gray shadow swept over the sealed area, the two sides began fighting while Xu Huo and the Fat Player tried to survive.

• Xu Huo refused to help the man with the sword target Carroll Field and planned to investigate the directly administered zone for clues about the vein.
• The man with the sword revealed that the vein’s entrance was beneath the crystal flower as Flower City players surrounded Yongxing Hotel.
• A masked player warned that everyone inside the hotel could become a target once capture authorization was granted, while the man with the sword taunted Carroll Field and recounted his grievance.
• Xu Huo and the Fat Player headed for the second-floor restaurant, but an explosion blasted through Yongxing Hotel and hurled players into the flames.
• The Fat Player warned Xu Huo that both groups were using them as cannon fodder, and the players inside and outside the hotel began fighting after a gray shadow swept across the area.

Xu Huo fought Flower City's players as they surrounded Yongxing Hotel with weapons and a powerful spatial barrier. After reaching the barrier, he found that his A-class item could pierce it but not break it, and began testing whether he could manipulate the spatial rays within it.

• Xu Huo joined the battle around Yongxing Hotel while Flower City used explosive bullets, anesthetic nets, and sound interference to attack the Outer District Players.
• A burly Flower City player trapped the area with a barrier from his round staff and killed an attacker with a powerful shock wave.
• Xu Huo fought three players, vanished when an explosion struck the street, and used his control of Space Power to reach the barrier's edge.
• Xu Huo pierced the spatial barrier with Unbreakable but could not destroy it, so he began experimenting with the rays inside it.

Xu Huo fought off Players at Flower City’s spatial barrier, cut a passage through it, and was pursued by a powerful government Player. He wounded the pursuer with poisoned attacks, and the man realized Xu Huo had poisoned his Artifact.

• Xu Huo stabbed holes in the spatial barrier, killed a Player who attacked him, and let the older attacker escape with a Ticket.
• Xu Huo figured out that the barrier consisted of separate triangular layers and opened a passage through it.
• A burly Flower City Player attacked Xu Huo, who fled through an underground passage while evading him and the surveillance devices.
• The burly Player chased Xu Huo through the city, wrecking tunnels and buildings as Xu Huo used his Spiritual World, Cube Space, and Artifacts to counterattack.
• Xu Huo cut the pursuer’s arms and part of his foot, and the burly Player realized Xu Huo had poisoned his Artifact.

Xu Huo escaped the underground passage after the poisoned burly player vanished into the Station, then returned to find Flower City descending into widespread chaos. He watched the directly administered district seal itself off and learned that Xue Lang and other Outer District Players had raided Card City's government for advanced devices and dangerous experimental materials.

• Xu Huo used his cutting lines, spatial barrier, Spiritual World manifestation, Space Ray blades, and "Holder's Death" against the poisoned burly player, who disappeared into the Station before the attack landed.
• Xu Huo left the underground passage and found players looting Flower City as fires and explosions spread and government Players moved to contain the unrest.
• Xu Huo observed the directly administered district deploy detection instruments, Space-Time Artifact Limiters, and connected defensive barriers, then stopped to check the Jixin Terminal.
• Xu Huo watched footage of the attack on Card City's government and recognized Xue Lang among the raiders who seized spatial teleportation devices and three dangerous experimental materials.
• Xu Huo read the warning that the missing materials could produce dangerous, contaminating derivatives and saw that the attacks had left ordinary civilians largely unprotected.

Xu Huo hid from the ongoing manhunt in Mu Yan’s flower shop, where they discussed Flower City and the rumored precognitive items made from its mineral vein. After Mu Yan described a past attack that suggested the vein’s controllers had anticipated danger, Xu Huo searched for information and then looked up Jiang Jiang.

• Xu Huo took shelter in Mu Yan’s flower shop, and she let him stay after recognizing him from the Maze Dungeon.
• Mu Yan served Xu Huo noodles and described the benefits and hardships faced by players living in Flower City.
• Xu Huo and Mu Yan discussed the deadly fireworks incident and how powerful families maintained control over Flower City.
• Xu Huo asked about the mineral vein and precognitive items, and Mu Yan said outsiders rarely accessed them.
• Mu Yan recounted a large-scale attack from a year earlier, when the families controlling the vein appeared to have left in advance.
• Xu Huo searched Dimension Below for information about precognitive items, then searched for Jiang Jiang.

Xu Huo investigated whether Flower City's mineral vein was connected to foreknowledge, then learned from library records that it had been transformed by an Origin Stone brought back by a deceased Han family Super Evolver. The vein was sealed inside a separate space, leaving Xu Huo without a clear way to reach it.

• Xu Huo and Mu Yan considered why Flower City's core figures had gathered and whether the mineral vein was tied to foreknowledge, but Xu Huo could not find a way to investigate it.
• After the Attack Incident, Flower City published photos of invading players and Carroll Field declared, "The night has passed, and a new sun has risen."
• Xu Huo left Mu Yan's flower shop, checked on his Game Government Base interview results, and saw the mustached player leave disappointed.
• Xu Huo researched the mineral vein in Flower City's library and learned that an Origin Stone brought back by a Han family Super Evolver had caused special item-making minerals to appear.
• Xu Huo learned that the deceased spiritual-type Super Evolver had sealed the vein and its Origin Stone in a separate space that could not be entered without a specific method.