Recaps

Xu Huo fought Bai Tiaoyi, who used powerful items and spatial interference to trap and overpower him. As Bai Tiaoyi tried to seize Xu Huo’s black blade, Xu Huo recalled it and released the Magician Person.

• Bai Tiaoyi attacked Xu Huo with chains, and Xu Huo evaded him by using Space Rays and the surrounding buildings.
• Bai Tiaoyi used smoke rings and a drawer item against Xu Huo, but Xu Huo recovered his stolen item with An Irresistible Request.
• Bai Tiaoyi used a spatial interference device and a ring of cards to trap Xu Huo, then struck him through his defenses with a kick and an umbrella.
• Bai Tiaoyi questioned Xu Huo with a black notebook, but Xu Huo cut through the umbrella and attacked with his black blade.
• Bai Tiaoyi tried to seize the blade and fix Xu Huo in place, so Xu Huo recalled the blade and released the Magician Person.

Xu Huo’s fight with Bai Tiaoyi turned against him when Bai Tiaoyi countered his mental powers, but a short woman intervened and sent Bai away with an A-class Space Maze. She invited Xu Huo to eat and offered to guide—or punish—him, leaving him in the hands of a powerful stranger.

• Xu Huo used his space-time items, mental power, and the Magician Person to break through Bai Tiaoyi’s defenses, but Bai caught his manifested blade and used a device to disrupt the attack.
• Bai Tiaoyi kept out of range of Xu Huo’s mental powers, then overpowered him and sent him crashing through several buildings.
• Xu Huo and Bai Tiaoyi burst into an office where players were grilling food, and a short woman insulted Bai Tiaoyi before they attacked each other.
• The woman used an A-class Space Maze to make Bai Tiaoyi vanish, then beckoned Xu Huo over and gave him food.
• Xu Huo thanked the woman and learned that she had noticed him, liked him, and intended to teach him if he proved sensible.

Ms. Gong taught Xu Huo how to develop his Space Power through precise deconstruction and layered compression of Space Rays. She demonstrated that the same power could control or destroy a human body, leaving Xu Huo to consider the difference between crude destruction and precise deconstruction.

• Ms. Gong called Xu Huo Little Barbecue and asked him to demonstrate his use of Space Ray, then showed how she could precisely break a skewer into smaller pieces.
• Ms. Gong explained that Xu Huo should align the Rays inside an object with his own instead of specializing in controlling particular materials, and suggested he study the Cube Space.
• Ms. Gong formed a cube from layered spatial barriers, compressed it, and explained how a sudden release of its stored Space Rays could crush a container.
• Ms. Gong said Space Rays could treat a human body as an object or container, then enclosed an unknown Player in a spatial barrier and made his body explode.
• Ms. Gong asked Xu Huo whether forced destruction or precise deconstruction was more impressive.

Xu Huo watched Ms. Gong fight two Holy Sword Society Gold Apprentices after she confronted them over their killings in District 017. He returned to help, acquired a spatial artifact that let him see through overlapping spaces, and spotted the battle again as the middle-aged Gold Apprentice brought out Precise Hit.

• Ms. Gong confronted five Holy Sword Society Players and fought the two Gold Apprentices while sending Xu Huo away from the battle.
• Xu Huo chose to return to the city center, but five Holy Sword Society Players surrounded him before he could locate the mirrored space.
• Xu Huo defeated a B-level Player and found the Moon Gazer in the man's inventory.
• Xu Huo used the Moon Gazer to follow Ms. Gong as she fought the two Gold Apprentices and scolded them.
• The middle-aged Gold Apprentice produced Precise Hit, and Xu Huo suspected the attack might be a trap.

Ms. Gong fought off two Gold Badges and Bai Tiaoyi, while Xu Huo intervened to save her from a surprise attack. After Bai Tiaoyi escaped with a Ticket, Ms. Gong gave Xu Huo a Ticket and mentioned a rumor about Dr. Wu in the sub-district.

• A middle-aged Gold Badge used a medicine designed to weaken Ms. Gong, causing her disguised face to sag as he and another Gold Badge attacked her.
• Ms. Gong used Space Rays to wound the Gold Badges, but Bai Tiaoyi appeared behind her and tried to seize her neck.
• Xu Huo disrupted Bai Tiaoyi's vision and pulled him away from Ms. Gong, then survived Bai Tiaoyi's attack with the help of Kitty Borrows Three Lives.
• Bai Tiaoyi tried to kill Xu Huo, but Ms. Gong restrained him with threads, and he escaped into the game using a Ticket.
• Xu Huo asked Ms. Gong about her plans, and she gave him a Ticket while mentioning a rumor that Dr. Wu had appeared in the sub-district.

Xu Huo was followed by four emotionless people who seemed to be observing him and wanted the chips he carried. The Paper Puppeteer arrived in District 017, exchanged information about the Holy Sword Society with Xu Huo, and warned him that Suitcase Man was there too.

• Xu Huo accepted a Ticket from Ms. Gong and left Xiaoyue City, evading a trio who called after him.
• Xu Huo noticed four people following him whose Emotional Color and attention scores stayed unusually low, and his attacks failed to hit them as they vanished and reappeared.
• Xu Huo showed the four people two chips taken from an intelligent Alien, and they briefly looked at the chips before turning their attention elsewhere and disappearing.
• A vast storm of paper scraps swept toward the city, and the Paper Puppeteer appeared before Xu Huo.
• Xu Huo gave the Paper Puppeteer two addresses linked to the Holy Sword Society and told him about its internal split.
• The Paper Puppeteer said the old Holy Sword Society still did some good and warned Xu Huo that Suitcase Man was in District 017.

Xu Huo rescued a group of passengers from a fight over a military truck and brought them to the AS9 Safe Zone, where they found the city burning and its underground base abandoned. The stranded survivors faced new danger as two bloodthirsty Players began hunting them.

• Xu Huo encountered a Special Defense Department team fighting five Players over a military transport truck and offered to take its passengers to the AS9 Safe Zone.
• Xu Huo put the passengers inside the "Staff Dormitory," sent an attacking Player through a door to the District 014 Players, and left for the Safe Zone.
• Xu Huo released the passengers into the burning AS9 Safe Zone, where they learned the underground base was gone and watched a military convoy refuse to take them along.
• Two Players from other districts noticed the stranded survivors after killing a rescue team and began competing to kill them for spoils.

Xu Huo stopped Cannibal Players from approaching a group of survivors and warned that District 017 might not survive. A girl claiming to be the granddaughter of Country A’s top leader offered him A-class items to escort her to the Capital Safe Zone and rescue a Player in the AS9 Safe Zone, whose work deciphering an Alien chip she said made him their country’s hope.

• Xu Huo killed the two Cannibal Players who approached him, and the others backed away.
• Xu Huo advised the Players behind him to buy container items and take people to another Sub-district because District 017 probably would not hold out.
• A girl revealed that she was a Player and offered Xu Huo three A-class items to escort her to the Capital Safe Zone, plus two more if he helped rescue someone in the AS9 Safe Zone.
• The girl revealed that she carried a remotely triggered Micro Bomb to prevent Xu Huo from taking her hostage without fulfilling the deal.
• In private, the girl told Xu Huo that the person she sought had deciphered part of a chip taken from a Big Head Alien and was the only Player in her country to experience abnormal brain Evolution.
• The girl explained that the chip could expose how Aliens were brought to District 017 and said the decipherer was their hope; Xu Huo asked whether he was a Player.

Xu Huo accompanied Jin Zi to a nursing home to find Meng Cun, a dying Player with an abnormally enlarged head who refused to leave before decrypting a chip. Xu Huo revealed that he had found three identical chips inside Big Head Aliens, making Meng Cun reconsider whether his condition and the chip were connected.

• Xu Huo took Jin Zi to a nursing home on the outskirts of the city, where they found Meng Cun in the basement.
• Jin Zi urged Meng Cun to leave for treatment, but he refused because he wanted to finish decrypting the chip before he died.
• Meng Cun warned Xu Huo that helping Jin Zi would bring no reward and explained that he had less than three days to live without the fluid in his brain being drained.
• Xu Huo told Meng Cun that Big Head Aliens were called Intelligent Aliens and showed him three chips he had removed from them.
• Meng Cun reconsidered his work when Xu Huo suggested the chips might matter because of the Aliens they came from.

Xu Huo decided to take Meng Cun to another Sub-district for treatment, but four mysterious Players tracked them and forced him to flee. Trapped in Dagang City with his teleportation device disabled, he faced a citywide web of strange Space Rays.

• Xu Huo told Meng Cun that someone had tracked the chips and offered to take him to a Doctor in another Sub-district, while Jin Zi warned Meng Cun not to trust him.
• Meng Cun chose to go with Xu Huo, and Xu Huo removed the chips before a surge of power struck the area.
• Xu Huo pulled Meng Cun and Jin Zi into Staff Dormitory and escaped the AS9 Safe Zone with the End-to-End Ring, but explosions followed them into the next city.
• Xu Huo crossed five cities while four Players followed his teleportation route, then found his device disabled after he was trapped in Dagang City.
• Multicolored Space Rays spread across Dagang City, covering it in Space Power.

Xu Huo navigated the deadly Space Rays spreading through the city while confronting the four players tracking him. A mysterious man in a black coat intervened, and Xu Huo found himself transported to a gloomy Castle.

• Space Rays spread across the city, killing or injuring players who touched them and forcing others to flee or turn back.
• Xu Huo sensed a safer route through the rays and charged toward the city, narrowly avoiding a dense shower that killed several players.
• The four players tracking Xu Huo pursued him toward the northwest, where Space Power was most concentrated.
• Xu Huo attacked one pursuer, but the man vanished, and another struck Xu Huo and sent him flying.
• The pursuers aimed energy weapons at Xu Huo, but a man in a black coat froze three of them and took a weapon.
• The black-coated man opened his case, and Xu Huo was transported to a gloomy Castle.

Xu Huo killed a well-equipped Player in a strange space where Tickets could not work, then continued through the corridor with a long-ponytailed Player. They found a lifelike doll made from a modified Player's corpse, suggesting the Suitcase Man's Dungeon held a worse danger ahead.

• Xu Huo attacked a Player whose spatial device had failed, broke through his defenses, and killed him with a Manifestation.
• The dead Player's devices began to crack or leak, and Xu Huo found little useful among his belongings.
• A long-ponytailed Player joined Xu Huo in searching the corpse and suggested the group might be connected to the Aliens' invasion of District 017.
• The long-ponytailed Player suspected they were trapped in the Suitcase Man's Dungeon and identified Lawrence Li as the other Super Player.
• Xu Huo and the long-ponytailed Player reached the end of the corridor and found a lifelike doll made from a modified Player's corpse.

Xu Huo and the other Players searched the windowless Castle after realizing they could not escape the Suitcase Man’s Leather Case. Xu considered whether the Castle was a Dungeon contained in an Artifact and left to investigate a possible way out.

• Lian Hanshan identified the trapped Players as those caught by the Space Ray, while a middle-aged woman complained that the Suitcase Man might kill them.
• A bearded Player threatened the woman, and the others debated whether the Castle was a Dungeon or a container Artifact.
• Lian Hanshan confirmed that Lawrence Li had been fighting the Suitcase Man, and the Players split up to search the Castle again.
• Xu Huo reasoned that a Dungeon might be inside the Leather Case and considered using his Super Artifact, but worried it could expose him or make escape harder.
• Xu Huo told his companions he was going to the Restroom, and Lian Hanshan suggested stopping for food in a nearby hall.

Xu Huo learned that the painted woman had escaped the Castle through a portal that appeared in its space, supporting his theory that Suitcase Man’s Leather Case had opened a passage. The group then considered using Guan Donglai’s item to escape, but they lacked the required A-class spacetime items.

• Xu Huo questioned the painted woman and learned that she had escaped through a portal that suddenly appeared high in the Castle.
• The painted woman said the Castle’s dolls had been busy cooking and cleaning before she found the portal and escaped with a wooden doll.
• Xu Huo concluded that Suitcase Man had likely opened the Leather Case and that its portal might have formed before or after he entered the Castle.
• Xu Huo and the other Players introduced themselves as Zhu Zhu, Guan Donglai, Lian Hanshan, and Yu Er.
• Guan Donglai proposed using his Narrow Escape rope, which required each user to pay an A-class spacetime item.
• Xu Huo and Lian Hanshan said they lacked the required items, so Guan Donglai put the rope away and said he would seek help elsewhere.

Xu Huo considered searching the Castle for the Suitcase Man’s Instance Authorization Letter while the Players sought a way out. Outside, the Suitcase Man and Lawrence Li fought in a safe city, where Lawrence Li attacked after demanding the Super Artifact, but the Suitcase Man’s power began to overwhelm his Space Rays.

• Zhu Zhu asked Guan Donglai to sell her an A-class escape item, but he left without agreeing.
• Lian Hanshan explained that Guan Donglai could exploit the Players’ desperation because he held a possible route out and demanded a valuable space-time item.
• Xu Huo proposed searching the Castle for the Suitcase Man’s Instance Authorization Letter, and Lian Hanshan and Zhu Zhu went their separate ways as explosions sounded.
• The Suitcase Man and Lawrence Li continued their battle in a safe city near the Capital Safe Zone, after having destroyed three cities.
• Lawrence Li demanded that the Suitcase Man hand over the Super Artifact, and the Suitcase Man challenged him to stand up and take it.
• Lawrence Li’s Space Rays struck and surrounded the Suitcase Man, but the rays drooped around him as the street began collapsing.

Lawrence Li fought the Suitcase Man as the Players searched for a way out of the Castle. Guan Donglai opened a passage that let Xu Huo and others escape, but the Suitcase Man froze everyone outside and confronted them.

• Lawrence Li used Space Rays to halt the Abyss’s advance, then pierced the Suitcase Man’s defensive barrier and made his Leather Case’s clasp shift.
• After the Players failed to find the Instance Authorization Letter, Guan Donglai offered to lead an escape in exchange for A-class space-time items or spatial instruments.
• Guan Donglai prepared his climbing rope while the bearded man attacked the middle-aged woman, who filled the corridor with mist from her steamer pot.
• Xu Huo escaped through Guan Donglai’s spatial passage with the painted woman’s help, while Lian Hanshan escaped by his own means.
• The Suitcase Man appeared outside, froze everyone in place, and looked toward Xu Huo as he said, “Someone opened the suitcase.”

Xu Huo escaped the Suitcase Man’s attack as Lawrence Li intervened, then hurried to R City to investigate the combat base and help Jin Zi contact her family. The call ended with Jin Zi’s mother apparently captured, and five Players confronted Xu Huo and demanded that he hand Jin Zi over.

• The Suitcase Man killed Guan Donglai by making his body boil and vaporize, but Lawrence Li’s Space Ray broke the frozen area and the Players fled.
• Xu Huo escaped to another city with “Ring of Ends Connected” and saw holes clearing the storm clouds toward the Capital Safe Zone.
• Xu Huo reached R City, released Jin Zi, and asked her to contact her family to locate the command room.
• Jin Zi called her mother, who said Jin Zi’s brothers were dead and urged her to hide, before a man interrupted and the call ended.
• Five Players surrounded Xu Huo and Jin Zi, and the man in the gold jacket demanded that Xu Huo hand her over.

Xu Huo returned to the Capital Safe Zone to find the command room and learn what had happened to Jin Zi’s family. He infiltrated the combat base amid a hostage crisis, where Outer District Players were killing government staff to force officials to surrender items.

• Jin Zi showed Xu Huo the command room’s location and asked him to get her family out, then stayed behind and asked him to look after Meng Cun.
• Xu Huo returned to the Capital Safe Zone and used his Spiritual World to start a fight among Players, creating an opening to infiltrate the combat base.
• Xu Huo reached the command room, where Outer District Players held government staff hostage and killed captives in front of senior officials.
• A tattooed Player threatened an old official after the man warned that the Suitcase Man and Lawrence Li were approaching the capital.

Xu Huo infiltrated the Capital Safe Zone's command room to send an encrypted message, then escaped amid an explosion that crashed the system and caused the command room's staff to disappear. The Players were left trying to determine how he had entered and where everyone had gone.

• The tattooed Player killed several government staff members for refusing to cooperate, and the glasses man ordered him to stop.
• Xu Huo had a translator send an encrypted message to Safe Zones, then told him that the Super Artifact had not been found.
• A Player noticed Xu Huo in the command room, but Xu Huo used an explosion to crash the computers and vanished.
• The Players discovered that everyone in the command room was gone and argued over how Xu Huo had entered.
• The glasses man concluded that Xu Huo had likely entered through the ground beneath the command room.

Xu Huo freed government officials held in the residential buildings and encountered Dou Shengnan controlling Players near the combat base. He warned Jin Zi’s family that District 017 was becoming dangerous, leaving them to decide whether to stay or flee.

• Cai Bo discovered that the command room’s Players and detained officials had disappeared, then learned that officials in the residential buildings had also been rescued.
• Dou Shengnan used her Pocket Watch to control Cai Bo and other Players, including two A-class Players, as Xu Huo watched from a distance and withdrew.
• Xu Huo returned to the residential building and released Jin Zi’s family, who had learned about the Encrypted Information.
• Jin Zi’s grandfather asked whether Xu Huo held a grudge against Dou Shengnan, and Xu Huo explained that he was trying to locate the woman in the black windbreaker who had arrived with Xue Lang.
• Xu Huo warned Jin Zi’s family that Alien viruses could spread through District 017 and cause regression, death, or violent behavior, while they struggled with whether to abandon the people they were responsible for.

Jin He asked Outer District Players to help people escape District 017 after Xu Huo explained the limits and dangers of evacuation. Elsewhere, Xue Lang ordered Chang Bei to deal with Xu Huo’s interference, and their confrontation escalated.

• Jin Zi's grandfather told Xu Huo that District 017 could not evacuate everyone and agreed to seek help for the children from the Holy Sword Society.
• Xu Huo advised Jin He to post a public plea asking decent Outer District Players to take people with them, and Jin He sent out a video appeal.
• Jin He assigned most of the remaining combat-base personnel to leave with Xu Huo while he and several elderly people stayed behind.
• Xue Lang read a message describing a black-clad Super Evolver who had obtained a Super Artifact and accused Chang Bei of being that Player.
• Xue Lang told Chang Bei to clean up Xu Huo’s mess, and she challenged his fear of Xu Huo before he cut across the floor with a Space Ray.

Xu Huo gave the Special Defense Department King Fungus fluid to treat a deadly fungus infection targeting women, then reunited with Chang Bei and asked about her plans. Chang Bei warned that Xue Lang might go after Xu Huo’s home and revealed Dr. Zhang had been busy seeking children.

• Chang Bei left after mocking Xue Lang, who smashed his Communicator and glared at the nearby players.
• Xu Huo stopped Qian Qiyun and other Special Defense Department players, who explained that a deliberately released, mutated fungus was killing women and that King Fungus fluid was the only treatment that had helped.
• Xu Huo gave Qian Qiyun two boxes of King Fungus fluid, explained how to use them, and asked for updates on the treatment.
• After the Special Defense Department players left, Xu Huo spoke with Chang Bei across the shattered windows of an office building.
• Chang Bei told Xu Huo that Xue Lang might visit his home and that she had recently visited it herself.
• Xu Huo and Chang Bei discussed Dr. Zhang’s interest in children, and Xu Huo asked where she planned to go after leaving District 017.

Chang Bei was ambushed by Players seeking the Super Artifact and was nearly killed before Xue Lang intervened. Xue Lang and Chang Bei resisted Dou Shengnan’s mental attack, leaving the confrontation poised to continue.

• Chang Bei gave Xu Huo a puzzle ball and said she had not finished Dr. Zhang’s task before withdrawing into the darkness.
• Players attacked Chang Bei with a glowing Stone, a trapping chest, steel bars, gravity, and spatial transport, quickly overwhelming her.
• Dou Shengnan hypnotized the attackers while Jin Feixue used his Violin’s air blades to drive them away and seize Chang Bei.
• Chang Bei escaped Jin Feixue’s grip, but Space Rays cut through buildings and Players, prompting the attackers to retreat.
• Xue Lang appeared beside Chang Bei, and both of them remained unaffected by Dou Shengnan’s Pocket Watch attack.

Dou Shengnan and Jin Feixue fought Xue Lang while Chang Bei was caught in the Suitcase Man’s attack, but Lawrence Li and the Paper Puppeteer helped her escape. Xu Huo fled as the Capital Safe Zone burned and District 017 collapsed, then asked Bai Kou where large numbers of ordinary people could find refuge.

• Dou Shengnan trapped the nearby Players in her Spiritual World, and Jin Feixue’s strand infected Chang Bei as she and Xue Lang tried to escape.
• Jin Feixue and Dou Shengnan attacked Xue Lang, who called Chang Bei out of the rubble; the Suitcase Man appeared and began melting her.
• Lawrence Li and the Paper Puppeteer disrupted the Suitcase Man’s control barrier, allowing Chang Bei and the other Players to flee.
• Xu Huo returned to the combat base, gathered the painted woman and the others, and escaped through the End-to-End Loop as the Capital Safe Zone erupted in flames.
• As District 017 fell to Aliens and invading Players, Xu Huo contacted Bai Kou to ask where many ordinary people could be taken in.

Xu Huo rushed to evacuate residents from a small city in District 017 using container artifacts, with help from a Special Defense Department squad leader. After learning that a concealed ship in Yuecheng was taking people aboard, he headed there, leaving the evacuation of the small city behind as an alien group approached.

• Xu Huo borrowed two container artifacts from Bai Kou and began moving residents into them, asking nearby Special Defense Department Players to help prioritize children.
• A squad leader questioned where Xu Huo planned to take the evacuees, and Xu Huo said he had found them shelter and would check on District 014 afterward if needed.
• Xu Huo filled the first artifact and transferred it and its occupants to Bai Kou through Dimension Below, then continued loading people into the second.
• The squad leader showed Xu Huo footage of a concealed ship above Yuecheng that was taking residents aboard, and Xu Huo decided to go there.
• Xu Huo caught two sisters who had jumped from a balcony and put them in an artifact, but he remained unmoved when other people jumped to their deaths.
• With an alien group expected to reach the city in about ten minutes, Xu Huo said he would head to Yuecheng and asked whether B-class Players there could delay the ship if it tried to leave.