Recaps

Xu Huo waited at a Seventeen Faces lecture hall while his companions planned to intercept Mr. Wei, and he joined the faith under the pretense of arranging his own burial. Mr. Wei arrived to report a theft and donate money, unaware that Xu Huo was watching him.

• Xu Huo and his companions learned that Mr. Wei was driving directly to the lecture hall, so they hurried there to wait for him.
• Xu Huo spoke with a Seventeen Faces instructor about its beliefs and asked whether the organization would arrange his funeral if he died.
• The instructor recorded Xu Huo's name and gave him a Seventeen Faces badge after he insisted on applying for burial arrangements in advance.
• Mr. Wei arrived, asked the instructor to notify his family that his belongings had been stolen, and passed Xu Huo without recognizing him.
• Mr. Wei told the instructor he had come to donate money and asked him to buy desserts for the deceased, whom he remembered as young despite his own advanced age.

Disguised as the lecturer, Xu Huo learned that the Hels Group had secretly buried unnamed mine disaster victims and that Mr. Wei knew their sacrifice had been meaningless. Xu Huo followed a congregant into Hels Group headquarters, where his power reached inside despite the security barriers, as he pursued the Abode of the Dead and the truth behind the old mining accidents.

• Xu Huo, disguised as the lecturer, heard a congregant challenge the church's neglected offerings to the mine disaster victims, while Mr. Wei said their sacrifice had been meaningless.
• Xu Huo concluded that the Hels Group had caused the mine disaster for a goal that failed and had secretly buried the victims in a cemetery that might be the Abode of the Dead.
• Xu Huo knocked out Mr. Wei and sent Zhao Yiming to take him to a hospital, where Meng Xiaoman injected him with a tiny Syringe.
• Xu Huo let the congregant buy Mr. Wei's requested dessert and follow his own convictions, then tailed him with Jiao Hongyuan to Hels Group headquarters.
• After security detected and removed Jiao Hongyuan's tracking gadgets, the congregant entered headquarters, and Xu Huo sent a chain-like line of power after him.

Xu Huo tracked a young believer into Hairs Group headquarters while considering why the company had preserved the mine victims’ remains. Before he could learn more from Mr. Wei, the old man vanished from the hospital, and Xu Huo ended his cooperation with Zhu Zhongliang’s group over their secret tracking and suspicious conduct.

• Xu Huo used the Ability Lock Target to track the young believer into Hairs Group headquarters and wondered why the mine victims had been called “sacrifices.”
• Jiao Hongyuan received Meng Xiaoman’s call reporting that Mr. Wei had disappeared from the hospital while she was away registering their family relationship.
• Xu Huo met the others near Mr. Wei’s home and learned that Zhu Zhongliang had secretly planted a tracking item on Zhao Yiming.
• Shen Fei admitted their group had been followed after visiting a Hairs employee, and Xu Huo ended their cooperation.
• Shen Fei argued they should keep working together to find Mr. Wei, while Zhao Yiming and Meng Xiaoman blamed the group’s actions for putting their lead at risk.

Xu Huo split from Shen Fei’s group and sent them to a luxury goods store warehouse, then assigned Zhao Yiming and Meng Xiaoman tasks to investigate mine accidents and gain access to Hairs’ headquarters. He visited Fei’er’s elderly relatives to question them about the Tiantianle mine collapse, but they dismissed his theory and offered to show him Suolan’s father’s belongings.

• Shen Fei demanded that Xu Huo share their findings, so Xu Huo sent Shen Fei, Zhao Yiming, and Meng Xiaoman through his Spiritual World into a luxury goods store warehouse, where robots arrested them.
• Xu Huo kept Zhao Yiming and Meng Xiaoman working with him and told them to record mines with recurring accidents and seek official authorization to enter Hairs’ headquarters.
• Xu Huo told Jiao Hongyuan he would approach the search for the other person who knew from another angle, then left to visit Fei’er’s residence.
• Xu Huo questioned Suolan’s elderly relatives about the Tiantianle mine collapse, suggesting Suolan’s father might have caused it deliberately.
• The old gentleman rejected Xu Huo’s theory and offered to let Mary show him the belongings Suolan’s father left behind, but Xu Huo asked whether anyone had ever suspected the mine disaster was not an accident.

Xu Huo searched Suolan’s father’s belongings and spoke with a little girl about guilt and the difficulty of speaking plainly. He then confronted two Players in the woods while investigating Mr. Wei’s disappearance and the century-old mining disaster.

• Xu Huo found only a few keepsakes connected to Suolan among her father’s belongings and considered why she had avoided the site of his death.
• A little girl gave Xu Huo a fruit and said that people who did wrong should accept punishment rather than hide their mistakes.
• Xu Huo contacted Zhao Yiming and went into the woods near the mining area, where two Players followed him.
• Xu Huo trapped the Players with hidden blades and killed one after asking whether they had taken Mr. Wei.
• The surviving Player admitted that they had taken Mr. Wei, who killed himself after they questioned him, and Xu Huo inferred the Players were linked to Shen Fei and the others.

Xu Huo killed a player who had tried to escape, then used records of mining accidents to identify small-company owners as targets connected to the Hels Group. He began interrogating one owner with a lethal syringe, and the man accused Tiantianle of killing thousands.

• Xu Huo killed the player who shouted “Animal Instinct” and returned to Chuanwan City.
• Zhao Yiming gathered records about mining accidents and their owners, while Xu Huo told the others that the “Dwelling of the Dead” was inside Hels Group headquarters.
• Xu Huo left his companions to investigate the Hels Group and traveled to a neighboring city to confront a mining company owner.
• Xu Huo and two men in Tiantianle uniforms tied up the drunken owner and showed him a syringe of the euthanasia drug “Good Night.”
• Xu Huo tried to inject the owner, who fought back and accused Tiantianle of killing thousands.

Xu Huo interrogated a mine owner who believed that sacrificing people kept mines producing gems, and questioned whether Tiantianle and other mining groups had deliberately caused accidents. The boss claimed no one else knew his secret, but Xu Huo was left considering who else might have suspected the truth behind the mining disasters.

• Xu Huo broke the boss's arms and threatened his family until the boss agreed to explain how he learned about the mine's secret.
• The boss said his father's friend had told him that throwing people into a mine caused it to produce more gems, and he claimed the government and mining groups knew about the practice.
• Xu Huo challenged the boss's theory and noted that it remained uncertain whether living people could trigger any reaction with underground magma.
• The boss admitted that he had arranged his own killings and insisted that his family and no one else knew about them.
• Xu Huo considered whether workers, victims' relatives, or Nian might have suspected that mining groups had deliberately caused accidents.

Xu Huo investigated the Tiantianle mine accident that killed Suolan’s father and uncovered a century-old conspiracy involving District 019’s government and mining groups. He learned that they had deliberately caused miners’ deaths to produce valuable human-bone gemstones, while the victims’ families sought revenge.

• Xu Huo used names obtained from Tiantianle’s boss to track down people who might know the truth about the mine accident.
• After questioning two former Tiantianle leaders, Xu Huo confronted a bitter old man whose family had been killed and injected him with truth serum.
• The old man revealed that District 019 had engineered mining accidents to obtain human-bone gemstones during an economic crisis.
• District 019’s government and mining groups recruited vulnerable people from remote places and concealed their deaths as accidents.
• Victims’ families had sought revenge against mining leaders, while most people believed the deaths had been bad luck.

Xu Huo investigated whether Suolan’s father and other deaths were connected to a century-old pattern of man-made mining disasters involving the Tiantianle Group, but found no clear link to the Enbel Maiden. He met two other investigators outside the homes of retired technicians, and they questioned whether the mining-disaster theory would lead them to the painting.

• Xu Huo traced Suolan’s father’s accident and the blind old lady’s family to Tiantianle mines, noting that a disaster had followed the mine brawl that killed her sons.
• Xu Huo found that some passengers in a later aircraft accident came from a place whose workers may have gone to nearby mines, but he could not confirm a connection.
• Xu Huo investigated the aircraft’s developers and found that only two technicians had returned to work for Tiantianle, but uncovered no new lead on the Enbel Maiden.
• Xu Huo went to visit the two retired technicians and encountered the crew cut woman and the bald big man outside the Tiantianle residential area.
• Xu Huo explained that he had confirmed the mining disasters were man-made, while the other two questioned whether the events were connected to the Enbel Maiden.

Xu Huo and his companions debated whether Suolan’s painting was connected to the District 019 mine disaster, whose true death toll and government cover-up Xu Huo had uncovered. Their conflicting views on responsibility led Xu Huo to investigate what happened to Suolan’s connections and powerful officials when she was twenty.

• Xu Huo reviewed the crew cut woman and bald big man’s collected information, then showed them the real death toll and evidence from the mine disaster.
• The crew cut woman suggested that Suolan and the blind old lady might never have learned the truth about the disaster or its connection to their personal losses.
• Xu Huo argued that Suolan’s painting might be linked to the disaster, though he could not explain why she seemed to feel such love for District 019 instead of hatred.
• The bald big man argued that District 019’s residents and descendants had benefited from the mine disaster, while the crew cut woman condemned that reasoning and the perpetrators’ claims of sacrifice.
• Xu Huo reopened his Jixin Terminal and ordered an investigation into major events affecting Suolan’s connections and District 019’s government and Tiantianle Group when Suolan was twenty.

Xu Huo and his companions investigated people connected to Tiantianle for clues about why Master Suolan had sided with the perpetrators. While posing as a tourist, Xu Huo attracted the attention of several Players and bought ten thousand trained fingerbirds.

• Xu Huo reasoned that Master Suolan must have faced a powerful personal upheaval among the perpetrators, so he and his companions chose to investigate Tiantianle employees.
• The three rested at the hotel, then split up to pursue separate targets.
• Xu Huo wandered through the residential area, buying local food and tourist items while drawing the attention of Players.
• Xu Huo bought ten thousand fingerbirds and learned that pressing every button on their whistle would free them from their training.
• Several Players followed Xu Huo, and one remarked that the tourist had a lot of money.

Xu Huo drew the attention of a group of Players planning to rob him, and He Jiaorong disguised herself as a man to recruit him for a Dungeon. She proposed investigating a powerful District Government figure who might have the Enbel Maiden, but Xu Huo had not yet agreed.

• He Jiaorong warned her companions that Xu Huo had resisted her before, while they argued over whether to target him.
• Xiao Wu suggested they let others weaken Xu Huo first, as several groups were already following him.
• Xu Huo recognized He Jiaorong when she approached him disguised as a young man and asked to join him.
• He Jiaorong told Xu Huo a rumor that an important figure connected to the District Government had collected the Enbel Maiden.
• He Jiaorong shared a file about a wealthy businessman protected by B-class Players and invited Xu Huo to help investigate him.

Xu Huo kept He Jiaorong and her companions at Yongxing Hotel with an extravagant magic show and a late-night card game, all while concealing his intentions. Just as they expected him to make a move, he pulled a blanket over himself and told them not to blink.

• He Jiaorong explained the target's medical itinerary, and Xu Huo agreed to work with her group.
• Xu Huo insisted that the group stay with him in a suite at Yongxing Hotel.
• Xu Huo arranged a magic troupe's aerial performance, and He Jiaorong's companions grew less wary after hearing his family came from an E-class wormhole point.
• Xu Huo kept the group awake with a card game and won back the money he had spent on the show.
• When He Jiaorong and the others tried to go to bed, Xu Huo stood up, covered himself with a blanket, and told them not to blink.

Xu Huo investigated the heart-chip surgeries and traced their origins to the Mattelidoreti family, then sought help from a retired journalist. Old Mr. Yue revealed that the former Chief Executive’s youngest daughter had disappeared.

• Xu Huo escaped He Jiaorong and the others, then searched hospital records for people who had received heart-chip surgery.
• Xu Huo found that the Mattelidoreti family had funded the chip project around the time Solan began painting in oils.
• Xu Huo evaded patrol robots that tried to fine him for dropping feathers and changed his appearance before returning.
• Xu Huo visited the retired journalist Old Mr. Yue and asked about the Mattelidoreti family a hundred and ten years earlier.
• Old Mr. Yue told Xu Huo that Mattelidoreti’s youngest daughter had disappeared.

Xu Huo questioned Old Mr. Yue about Xia Xi Duolai Ti’s disappearance and learned details that linked her case to District 019’s past mining disasters. He left with old records and a new lead in Ember Town, though the evidence ruled out Funiu Village as the place connected to Suolan.

• Old Mr. Yue explained how Xia Xi Duolai Ti’s disappearance had led to a search and described the laws passed to protect minors.
• Xu Huo asked whether District 019’s government had colluded with mining groups to cause disasters, and Old Mr. Yue admitted he had suspected the truth but chosen not to investigate.
• Old Mr. Yue told Xu Huo that Xia Xi Duolai Ti had vanished during a school trip in Funiu Village and confirmed Mattelidoreti had veto power.
• Old Mr. Yue lent Xu Huo an old U disk containing photographs and interviews about Xia Xi Duolai Ti’s disappearance.
• Xu Huo compared the records with Suolan’s history, ruled out Funiu Village, and noticed that nearby Ember Town had later become Jiushang City before being renamed Ember.

Xu Huo questioned Old Mr. Yue about Xia Xi Duolai Ti, then pursued leads connected to Master Suolan and the Tiantianle Group. After a technician revealed where the aircraft accident survivor had secretly moved her sons’ ashes, Xu Huo learned the trail led to Sanhui City.

• Xu Huo persuaded Old Mr. Yue to let him keep the U disk and promised to return it.
• Xu Huo asked the crew cut woman and the big man to investigate whether Master Suolan had ever left Dingding Flower Town, and learned that a wealthy fan was arranging the deaths of Players seeking the painting.
• Xu Huo tried to hypnotize two Tiantianle technicians, but armed robots arrived after he found a tracking chip in one technician, forcing him to flee with the other.
• Xu Huo met the second technician in a hospital, where the technician admitted that Tiantianle Group’s young master had ordered him to alter aircraft data.
• The technician told Xu Huo that the blind survivor’s two sons had died in the mines and that she had secretly moved their ashes to Sanhui City.

Xu Huo uncovered how Tiantianle Group and the government had silenced survivors of an illegal mining scandal, then learned a young woman in the psychiatric hospital was undercover to expose an organ-harvesting operation. He arranged for the technician to take her place and sabotaged the hospital’s preparations, leaving the operation unable to proceed the next day.

• Xu Huo forced a technician to reveal that Tiantianle Group’s young master had covered up illegal mining and that the old woman’s family and other witnesses had suffered for trying to expose it.
• The technician described the surviving victims and explained that fear of Tiantianle Group and the government had kept him silent.
• A young woman told Xu Huo she was undercover to expose the hospital’s organ harvesting and was scheduled for surgery the next day.
• Xu Huo persuaded the woman to hide under the bed and arranged for the technician to take her place, using a disguise mask to make him appear younger.
• Xu Huo checked the planned operation, visited the doctors involved, and tampered with hospital equipment so the surgery could not go ahead.

Xu Huo investigated the blind old lady’s alibi and concluded she might still be connected to Xia Xi Duolai Ti’s disappearance, possibly through being a Player. He left for Jiushang City to pursue the lead, while his partners discussed the danger of exposing District 019’s past crimes.

• Xu Huo learned that the blind old lady had been hospitalized during Xia Xi Duolai Ti’s disappearance, while Master Suolan had visited her daily and remained in Dingding Flower Town.
• Xu Huo considered whether the blind old lady could have been a Player, since traveling between the relevant locations would otherwise have been nearly impossible.
• Xu Huo reviewed the old lady’s medical records, found no usual signs of Evolution, and decided to continue investigating despite the lack of direct evidence.
• Xu Huo promised the crew cut woman and the bald big man rewards for their help, then set off for Jiushang City.
• The crew cut woman and the bald big man discussed Xu Huo’s promise and the risks of revealing District 019’s crimes.

Xu Huo joined a tour in Jiushang City, where struggling businesses used the Enbel Maiden and the city's amber heritage to attract customers. The tour brought him to an amber museum, where he saw rare specimens and learned how genuine amber differed from fakes.

• Xu Huo hired a tour guide and rode with two visitors who had come to Jiushang City seeking opportunities.
• The tour guide explained that Jiushang City's economy had declined after its amber deposits ran out, prompting locals to use the Enbel Maiden to draw visitors.
• The tour guide claimed he had met Master Suolan and taken her to a meal, though Xu Huo and the other passengers doubted him.
• At the museum, the tour guide's supposed back-door arrangement failed, and Xu Huo paid a thousand White Cash to get the group inside.
• Xu Huo viewed the museum's colorful amber specimens and its prized purple amber containing two entwined white snakes.
• The tour guide showed Xu Huo pictures of fake amber and explained that it could be made to preserve various objects and animals.

Xu Huo investigated Jiushang City's accounts of how it got its name and found no evidence of the rumored “Enbel Maiden.” Comparing the town's history with Old Mr. Yue's information, he suspected Enbel Town's former residents were connected to Xia Xi Duolai Ti's disappearance and a conspiracy involving deliberately caused mining disasters.

• The guide explained that Jiushang City was first called Enbel after Enbo discovered amber, then renamed after Jiushang found purple amber, though public records omitted the alleged naming error.
• Xu Huo and the others visited elderly witnesses, who described Enbel Town's history but knew nothing about an “Enbel Maiden” or Master Suolan.
• The witnesses said adults handled the amber trade, the mines had few serious accidents, and Enbo had died long ago.
• Xu Huo compared the town's timeline with Old Mr. Yue's account and reasoned that people from poor Enbel Town might have left to work in more dangerous gemstone mines.
• Xu Huo connected “Enbel” to Enbel Town and “Maiden” to Xia Xi Duolai Ti, suspecting the town's people and other avengers had joined forces around deliberately caused mining disasters.

Xu Huo reasoned backward from the painting “Enbel Maiden” to reconstruct the likely kidnapping of Xia Xi Duolai Ti and identify where the painting might have been made. He concluded that the blind old lady had an accomplice, probably a local in Ember Town, but the culprit remained unknown.

• Players searched Enbo’s past for clues about the “Enbel Maiden,” but found no useful connection to a woman or the painting.
• Xu Huo considered Xia Xi Duolai Ti the likely “Maiden” and reasoned that he had last been in Ember Town after disappearing from Funiu Village.
• Xu Huo inferred that the blind old lady had planned the abduction and relied on an accomplice to track Xia Xi and hide him.
• Xu Huo concluded that the kidnappers likely kept Xia Xi’s fate unknown to damage Mattelidoreti and the District Government, contributing to Mattelidoreti’s early departure from office.
• After ruling out the blind old lady’s son’s grave, Xu Huo identified Ember Town as the likeliest place for the painting and suspected the accomplice was a local connected to the victims.

Xu Huo identified Embo as a possible culprit behind the Ember Maiden disappearances and visited Amber Square to investigate. There, he resisted a woman’s seductive Ability and stopped her as she tried to leave.

• Xu Huo reasoned that the culprit likely lived alone and could hide victims underground, leading him to suspect Embo.
• Xu Huo went with the guide and the other travelers to see places associated with Master Suolan, and the guide took them to Amber Square.
• At Amber Square, Xu Huo bought pink amber and had it tested to confirm it was genuine.
• A beautiful woman tried to take Xu Huo’s amber and used her Ability to charm the people nearby, but Xu Huo resisted her.
• The woman turned to leave, and Xu Huo reached out and pressed a hand to her shoulder.

Xu Huo forced a Player from the “Enbel Maiden” Dungeon to help him gather people near Ember City’s observation tower, using a rapidly spreading toxic fungus to secure her cooperation. He left her with a deadline and went to the crowded mining district to look for clues about the Dungeon’s painting.

• Xu Huo took the wary woman to a barbecue restaurant and learned that she was in the “Enbel Maiden” Dungeon and worked with Players from other Dungeons.
• Xu Huo told the woman he was also in the “Enbel Maiden” Dungeon and offered to help her clear it, then poisoned her with a toxic fungus when she doubted him.
• The woman agreed to help Xu Huo after he promised her an Antidote, and he ordered her to draw everyone to the observation tower and stall them until one o’clock that night.
• Xu Huo walked through the repurposed amber mines, where tourists and fake clues made it harder for Players to find the real painting, then stopped at an amber-making stall.

Xu Huo secretly dug beneath Amber Square, searching for the Enbel Maiden while distracting the players and authorities. He found a metal box containing a young woman tortured and preserved in amber, along with a tablet condemning the government and mining conglomerate.

• Xu Huo rented a shop near Amber Square and used a mechanical pangolin and 114 to dig underground toward Enbo’s residence.
• When two players broke into the shop, Xu Huo killed them, then sent a woman and her companions to cause a disturbance at the observation tower.
• Xu Huo returned underground as the disturbance drew attention away, and the robots continued digging through rock to a depth of 150 meters.
• At five in the morning, 114 found a metal box buried in rubble, and Xu Huo opened it.
• Xu Huo discovered a young woman sealed in amber with steel spikes through her hands and feet, beside a tablet accusing the government and mining conglomerate of slaughtering miners.

Xu Huo found Master Suolan’s painting “Continuance” hidden beneath the amber containing Xia Xi Duolai Ti and uncovered its depiction of Fragrance, Xia Xi, and the powerful figures tied to District 019’s tragedy. After securing the painting and body, he approached the female Player and her companions to recruit them, and his Player nickname drew attention to his leaderboard standing.

• Xu Huo discovered the oil painting “Enbel Maiden” beneath the amber and found that Master Suolan had titled it “Continuance.”
• Xu Huo studied the painting’s depiction of Xia Xi Duolai Ti and Fragrance bound amid gemstones bearing the faces of powerful officials and mining-group leaders.
• Xu Huo packed away the painting and stored Xia Xi Duolai Ti’s body in the Staff Dormitory before returning to the surface at dawn.
• The female Player confronted Xu Huo for the Antidote, and he gave her the King Fungus extract that cleared the black veins from her body.
• Xu Huo offered the female Player and her companions a chance to help him clear the Dungeon, then revealed his nickname, Passerby A, as proof of his identity.
• Nearby Players recognized Passerby A as a Player on the E-class wormhole point leaderboard.