Recaps

Xu Huo recruited players to prepare identical dolls and resin, then gathered players in Dingding Flower Town to coordinate the search for the Enbel Maiden and complete the instance's ascension. He promised to reveal the painting's location and its story before a final clear, while delaying team formation to avoid a dispute over shared rewards.

• Xu Huo asked three players in Ember City to find a factory that could make at least a hundred identical dolls within three days and to prepare resin so he could turn the dolls into amber.
• Xu Huo gave the players the doll specifications and a photograph, then left for Dingding Flower Town and asked the crew cut woman and her companion to spread a rumor about the Enbel Maiden's hiding place.
• Nearly fifty players gathered in Dingding Flower Town, and Xu Huo told them he knew the painting's location but had not cleared the instance because its story could improve their ratings.
• Xu Huo asked the players to cooperate in completing the instance's ascension and promised to arrange a later meeting to team up for the final clear.
• Xu Huo explained that he was postponing team formation because players could stall the distribution of shared rewards or fight over them.

Xu Huo forced the Players to accept his plan by killing five attackers and began preparing to make the Enbel Maiden Dungeon transcend. In Green Sun City, an unknown object suddenly fell into a crowded square.

• Xu Huo killed the five Players who attacked him, and about thirty Players agreed to cooperate with his plan.
• Xu Huo set the password "Human Puppet Factory" and arranged a meeting point in case their communications were interrupted.
• Xu Huo showed the Players a headless puppet modeled on Xia Xi Duolai Ti and explained the tasks they needed to complete.
• Xu Huo sent some Players to take action in Dingding Flower Town while he continued receiving amber puppets.
• A mysterious object appeared above Green Sun City's crowded central square and fell into its fountain despite the armed robots' response.

Mannequin parts sealed in amber and slabs accusing District 019’s government and mining conglomerate of murdering miners sparked public unrest, while a signature linked to Master Suolan’s missing painting deepened the mystery. As authorities searched for the Players behind the incidents, an anonymous masked man asked the public whether they still remembered Xia Xi Duolai Ti.

• Amber containing mannequin body parts and accusatory stone slabs appeared in several cities, and the Jixin Terminal Control Center blocked related information.
• Residents questioned the old mining disasters, gathered to demand access to the truth, and shared records alleging officials had hidden the death toll and mistreated victims’ families.
• Governments blamed Outer District Players and urged residents to wait, but new amber appeared alongside a signature attributed to Master Suolan.
• An expert and Suolan’s son confirmed the signature appeared genuine, while the account that posted a photograph of the painting vanished.
• Government Players searched for the amber distributors and mannequin factories, but the Players evaded them.
• A masked man’s video reached the top of the trending list and asked whether people still remembered Xia Xi Duolai Ti.

District 019’s leaders debated how to respond after a video revealed puppets resembling the long-missing Xia Xi Duolai Ti and stirred public demands for answers. Mattelidoreti warned that the district’s buried crimes had become a generational curse, but most officials favored concealing the truth and delaying accountability.

• The appearance of Xia Xi Duolai Ti’s apparent remains drew attention to the Duolai Ti family and renewed demands for the District Government to explain the past.
• The Secretary told the emergency meeting that the government had found no trace of the culprits and risked losing public support if it failed to respond quickly.
• An elder proposed treating the puppets and stone slab as a deception and catching the Outer District Players responsible.
• Mattelidoreti argued that District 019’s victims and their descendants had never forgotten the mining disaster and warned that someone might eventually seek revenge.
• The current Chief Executive’s advisers rejected revealing the bone gemstones and urged the government to stall until those involved in the old crimes had died.

Xu Huo tried to force Mattelidoreti into an open conversation about Xia Xi Duolai Ti, while District 019 investigated the Players behind the unrest. After his recruited Players were captured and their group chat vanished, Xu Huo went to Qingcheng to seek help from Teacher Tian Tian Zai Gou Li.

• Mattelidoreti declared that Xia Xi Duolai Ti did not exist in the Duolai Ti family, while the District Government waited to see what evidence the Outer District Players had.
• District 019 reopened the Jixin Terminal and investigated Mannequin Amber, tracing its production to a Factory but failing to find the female Player and her group.
• Xu Huo publicly demanded a conversation with Mattelidoreti by the following morning and claimed he had kept Xia Xi Duolai Ti's corpse.
• District 019 arrested ten Players who had helped distribute Mannequin Amber, but they knew little about Xu Huo's wider plan.
• The Players' group chat disbanded and its creator disappeared before the government could use it to track Xu Huo.
• Xu Huo traveled to Qingcheng and offered White Cash to a short man at Teacher Tian Tian Zai Gou Li's door, asking for a favor.

Xu Huo asked a hidden Storm Factor to protect an important call in which he planned to expose the District Government’s role in a mining disaster staged for human-bone gemstones. The old woman agreed to help after recognizing evidence tied to the dead miner, then recounted how the disaster had destroyed her family and left her disabled.

• Xu Huo told Shorty and the person on the Communicator that he planned to publicly accuse the District Government and mining group of staging the disaster, despite having no hard evidence.
• After Xu Huo showed a photo of Xia Xi Duolai Ti’s body, the old woman came out of the bedroom and offered to help him without strings attached.
• The old woman explained that Tian Tian’s father had died in the mine while trying to earn money for her treatment and Tian Tian’s brain surgery.
• The old woman said she had seen human-bone gemstones uncovered during the rescue, then fought the District Government until she received compensation for Tian Tian’s surgery.
• The old woman recalled that someone robbed her of the compensation and broke both her legs to stop her from returning to the District Government.

Xu Huo arranged for the blind old woman to interfere with District 019’s systems during his public announcement, then began presenting evidence about the people connected to Xia Xi Duolai Ti’s disappearance. He left the district watching as he introduced the first two figures in his account.

• The old woman told Xu Huo about her family’s suffering and gave him a device to help her access intelligent systems near the District Government and the Hels Company.
• Xu Huo asked Old Mr. Yue to let him publish his information, and Old Mr. Yue realized that Master Suolan had likely shared his reluctance to expose the past.
• The next day, Xu Huo attached the device to his terminal, disguised himself, and joined District 019’s public channel as viewers waited for Mattelidoreti to respond.
• Xu Huo said Xia Xi Duolai Ti had not been taken by another Player and presented portraits and records about a blind woman whose child and family died amid mining and aircraft disasters.
• Xu Huo introduced Enbo, an eccentric ordinary person whose hometown was renamed several times and was then called Ember City.

Xu Huo explained how Old Mrs. Mei and Enbo avenged the mining disaster victims by kidnapping and killing Xia Xi Duolai Ti, then challenged Mattelidoreti to speak the next morning. When District 019’s Players closed in, Xu Huo escaped their trap and returned to the retirement home.

• Xu Huo connected Old Mrs. Mei and Enbo to the mining disaster and explained that they had kidnapped and killed Xia Xi Duolai Ti as revenge against Mattelidoreti.
• Xu Huo revealed that the Hels Group’s cemetery records and the rise in human-bone gemstones pointed to the government and mining companies profiting from the deaths of Evolvers.
• Xu Huo called their act the weak’s revenge and said it had shown the District Government and mining companies that they had enemies.
• Xu Huo warned that his interference device had been breached and asked to speak with Mattelidoreti the next morning before shutting the device down.
• Xu Huo used Three Seconds of Life and spatial movement to escape the retirement home, but District 019’s Players trapped him with attacks and invisible barriers.
• Xu Huo returned to the retirement home and asked Old Mr. Yue to let him in.

Xu Huo fought through a Government encirclement around the Nursing Home as A-class Players used interference devices and powerful items to contain him. His return to the residents sparked a conflict between the Players and the Nursing Home’s protective robots, while an aircraft began disabling the city barrier.

• An elderly Storm Factor professional told Xu Huo she had planted a flaw in the District Government’s intelligent system, and Government Players soon attacked him at the Nursing Home.
• Xu Huo endured waves of A-class attacks, destroyed nearby interference devices with Cube Space, trapped five A-class Players in the Book Tower, and escaped the first encirclement.
• Xu Huo failed to break through the second encirclement and returned toward the Nursing Home as its elderly residents were being evacuated.
• Old Mr. Yue refused to board an aircraft and accused the Government Players of trying to kill the residents to cover up their actions.
• The Nursing Home’s robots defended the elderly residents and attacked the Players after one killed an armed robot, while the Players tried to seize the Jixin Terminal.
• An aircraft launched an interference device at the city barrier, and a beam of light struck the barrier until it began to dissolve.

Xu Huo resisted the government Players’ attempt to capture him and demanded that District 019 answer publicly for Xia Xi Duolai Ti’s disappearance and the mining disaster. As evidence and unrest spread, government leaders recognized that the crisis could no longer be contained by silencing him.

• Xu Huo evaded the government Players’ encirclement, and they switched to publicly asking him to cooperate with an investigation.
• Xu Huo challenged the government’s vague accusations and offered to answer questions publicly, leaving the Players unable to respond.
• A government representative told Xu Huo that Mr. Duolai Ti would meet him privately the next morning, but Xu Huo refused to settle the matter behind closed doors.
• The District Government’s intelligent system malfunctioned, armed robots nearly targeted residents, and officials diverted Players to evacuations and security measures.
• Government leaders discussed the evidence linking the mining disaster to past crimes and the growing public unrest, and questioned whether the conflict would continue across generations.

Fang Jing proposed exposing the Mining Group’s crimes as District 019 faced a crisis, and the District Government moved against the group while protecting Xu Huo. Surrounded by government forces and Players in Ember City, Xu Huo contacted his remaining companions as arrests and attacks mounted.

• Fang Jing’s proposal to sacrifice the Mining Group won support after the Chief Executive rejected her call for a public confession.
• The Mining Group’s representative denounced Fang Jing and stormed out, while the Chief Executive ordered the District Government to prepare for negotiations and resistance.
• The District Government launched an operation against the Mining Group, whose members fled or fought back, and attempts on Xu Huo’s life increased.
• The District Government deployed Players and armed robots to surround Xu Huo’s building as Players from across the region gathered in Ember City.
• Xu Huo used his Jixin Terminal to contact his remaining companions after many who distributed mannequin Ambers had been arrested.

Xu Huo waited under government guard as District 019’s mining groups and District Government faced mounting scrutiny over the century-old disaster. Mattelidoreti came to meet him privately, and the chapter ended as he asked Xu Huo to come down and talk.

• A female Player warned Xu Huo that District 019 was not descending into chaos and urged him to escape, but Xu Huo said he had only one goal.
• As records and accusations surfaced, public attention shifted from Xu Huo to the District Government and mining groups, while Tian Tian Zai Gou Li and several Storm Factors exposed officials’ and companies’ misconduct.
• Xu Huo refused supplies from the government Players and told them not to let District 019 Players approach him.
• After a day of deliberation, Mattelidoreti arrived at the Small Building and arranged a private meeting with Xu Huo.
• Mattelidoreti took a seat at the table while his Players hid around the building, then asked Xu Huo to come down and talk.

Xu Huo confronted former Chief Executive Mattelidoreti about District 019’s human-bone gemstone project and pressed the government to take responsibility for the mining disaster. After leaving their meeting, he announced he would reveal the truth and the Enbel Maiden publicly, as a massive explosion struck the lockdown zone.

• Xu Huo met Mattelidoreti and asked whether he had opposed the human-bone gemstone project a hundred years earlier; Mattelidoreti admitted he had not.
• Mattelidoreti explained that the government had sacrificed a few people to support millions of children, while acknowledging it could never atone for the dead.
• Xu Huo argued that Xia Xi Duolai Ti had been targeted because she was weak like the nameless mining victims, then demanded greater sincerity from the government.
• Mattelidoreti accused Xu Huo of pursuing his own goal and recognized that he was stalling, while Xu Huo said he would consider revealing his purpose.
• Xu Huo left and announced he would reveal the truth and the Enbel Maiden in front of the District Government building as a powerful shock wave and mushroom cloud erupted in the lockdown zone.

Xu Huo exposed the century-old mining disaster by scattering photographs of Master Suolan’s painting, “Enbel Maiden,” across the District Government plaza. As the painting’s victims and the officials’ faces drew public scrutiny, government Players attacked Xu Huo, leaving him in danger but making his death look like an attempt to silence him.

• After disabling the city’s Space Artifacts with the Little Mushroom Cloud, Xu Huo teleported to the District Government plaza and was pinned down by its gravity defenses.
• Xu Huo opened portals and sent photographs of “Enbel Maiden” flying across the plaza, revealing two bound women and faces among the gemstones.
• Residents recognized Fragrance and shared how she had disguised herself as a man to work in the mines after her husband died, while the identities of the other faces became a public concern.
• Government Players attacked Xu Huo, disrupting his Mental Portal and slamming him into the plaza as his defensive artifacts failed to stop them.
• Xu Huo used “The Strength of Writing” and “Important Notification” to draw people’s attention and briefly make his attacker pause, while the painting’s widespread publication made killing him look like a cover-up.

Xu Huo escaped the District Government players’ pursuit when the angry crowd protected him, forcing the government to retreat. Zheng Shijiu calmed the protesters and offered to protect Xu Huo, then proposed broadcasting their conversation district-wide as Xu Huo hinted that the government’s real concern lay elsewhere.

• Xu Huo used the special item “Hard-to-Refuse Request” on a government player, then broke free and escaped into the crowd as the player performed backflips.
• Ordinary people shielded Xu Huo and confronted the government players, demanding that they return to the Government Building and bring Mattelidoreti out.
• A District 019 military officer stopped a player from secretly attacking the crowd, then introduced himself as Zheng Shijiu and promised a clear explanation.
• The crowd recognized Zheng Shijiu as a Heroic Figure, and a player told Xu Huo about his history of rescuing people and his prosthetic limbs.
• Zheng Shijiu offered Xu Huo protection if his claims were true, and Xu Huo hinted that the gathered A-class players had another reason to be inside the Government Building.
• Zheng Shijiu proposed using a Jixin Terminal to broadcast their conversation to the entire district in real time.

Xu Huo questioned Mattelidoreti in a public conversation about the District Government’s acknowledgment of Master Suolan’s painting and the deaths tied to the mining disaster. Mattelidoreti confirmed most of the figures’ identities but maintained that Suolan’s father died in an earthquake-triggered landslide, leaving Xu Huo’s accusations unresolved.

• Zheng Shijiu cleared the plaza for the public conversation, and the government arranged security and a live broadcast.
• Xu Huo asked whether the District Government acknowledged the Enbel Maiden as authentic, and Mattelidoreti confirmed that eighty-one of the ninety depicted people had been identified.
• Xu Huo connected the people in the painting to the mining disaster and related deaths, but Mattelidoreti said the government lacked enough evidence to confirm those claims.
• Xu Huo played Pu Hui’s confession and asked whether Suolan’s father had died after witnessing the mining disaster’s fabrication.
• Mattelidoreti said Government Players were searching for Pu Hui, questioned the reliability of his confession, and stated that Suolan’s father died in an earthquake-triggered landslide that killed or injured 137 mine workers.

Xu Huo challenged District 019 to investigate the mining disasters and explained his theory of how Master Suolan witnessed Xia Xi Duolai Ti’s kidnapping and murder. He ended by questioning why Suolan had waited a hundred years to reveal the truth, leaving the reason unresolved.

• Zheng Shijiu demanded evidence for Xu Huo’s claim that the District Government had caused the mining disasters, and Xu Huo urged the government to investigate the concealed deaths and Hels Group’s cemetery.
• Xu Huo returned to the “Enbel Maiden” and said he would present his personal theory of Master Suolan’s perspective before the District Government could respond.
• Xu Huo explained that Suolan may have visited her father’s mine accident site, encountered Old Mrs. Mei in Funiu Village, and witnessed part of what happened to Xia Xi Duolai Ti.
• Xu Huo reasoned that Suolan must have seen Xia Xi Duolai Ti’s body and later researched the mining disasters, which may explain why she stayed silent and left her painting at the burial site.
• Xu Huo questioned why Suolan revealed the truth only before her death, a hundred years after the events, and left the question unanswered.

Xu Huo argued that Master Suolan had concealed the mining disaster to protect the living and District 019, then revealed the truth when the district could bear it. He presented excavation footage and proposed using his Dungeon rating to verify his reconstruction, as Master Suolan’s eldest son arrived to ask why she had painted Xia Xi Duolai Ti and Fragrance.

• Xu Huo explained why Master Suolan had hidden the mining disaster and why she later chose to reveal it, then asked Mattelidoreti why she had painted two women.
• Mattelidoreti challenged Xu Huo’s claims as speculation and denied that the government had evidence connecting Old Mrs. Mei to the kidnapping.
• Xu Huo showed footage of the excavation and the discovery of the painting and Xia Xi Duolai Ti’s corpse, then said his final Dungeon rating could verify his theory.
• A Player from District 019 volunteered to join Xu Huo in the Dungeon to test the theory, and more Players followed.
• Xinhe, Master Suolan’s eldest son, arrived with two Players and asked Xu Huo why his mother had made Xia Xi Duolai Ti and Fragrance the subjects of the painting.

Xu Huo confronted Mattelidoreti over District 019’s exploitation of the weak and the deaths buried beneath the mine, then tried to clear the Dungeon despite a warning that the government had used a Super Artifact to keep him from leaving. Government players trapped and attacked him, but a robot uprising gave him an opening to activate his Spiritual World before a powerful mental force brought him to his knees.

• Xu Huo argued to Xinhe and Mattelidoreti that strength and weakness were relative and questioned whether a civilization that exploited the weak could be called civilized.
• A female player warned Xu Huo that the District Government had used a Super Artifact on him, revealing a chain attached to his heart that would kill him if he left District 019.
• Zheng Shijiu and more than a hundred A-class government players attacked Xu Huo, confined him to a fifty-meter radius, and inflicted severe injuries.
• Xu Huo used a substitute artifact to survive a fatal blow and damaged one corner of the government building with Space Rays.
• Armed robots burst from the government building and attacked the government players, allowing Xu Huo to activate his Spiritual World.
• Xu Huo searched for Mattelidoreti, but a powerful mental force crushed down on him and drove him to his knees as blood poured from his nose.

Xu Huo fought his way into the District Government while Zheng Shijiu stopped the rogue government players and took control of the situation. Then a massive rocky mountain suddenly appeared above the city, and Zheng Shijiu opened a huge Space Portal to catch it as Xu Huo realized his Justice from Above had summoned it.

• Xu Huo used the Magician Person, combat robot butler No. 11, and a decoy to escape into the government building, where he wounded an A-class player but was stabbed in the shoulder.
• Zheng Shijiu ordered the attackers to stand down, restrained the players who had led the assault, and announced they would face a public trial.
• The Chief Executive and Mattelidoreti watched from the top floor without objecting, signaling that the government had resolved its internal conflict and Zheng Shijiu had gained the upper hand.
• A huge rocky mountain appeared directly above the city, bypassing its defenses and threatening to crush the District Government.
• Zheng Shijiu activated a spatial device and connected it to underground metal pillars, opening a giant Space Portal between the government and the falling mountain.
• Xu Huo walked out of the building and realized that his Justice from Above had summoned the mountain.

Xu Huo helped stop the space portal crisis, then fought off players who tried to capture him. As District 019’s forces confronted him, a powerful man in a windbreaker intervened and declared Xu Huo his junior.

• Zheng Shijiu evacuated the square as Xu Huo’s rocky mountain crashed into the space portal, damaging its supports and triggering an energy storm.
• Zheng Shijiu sliced the mountain into pieces and sent them through the portal, stabilizing the crisis while Xu Huo returned to the government building to escape the players targeting him.
• Mining-group players trapped Xu Huo in a smoke-ring barrier that drained his moisture, but he cut through their attacks and used the Big Scissors to weaken the barrier.
• As more aggressive players approached, a man in a windbreaker appeared and froze four attackers with a gesture.
• Zheng Shijiu arrived with twenty A-class players and confronted the man, who said Xu Huo was his junior and criticized them for bullying him.

The man in windbreaker intervened when Zheng Shijiu’s players tried to detain Xu Huo, forcing the District Government to acknowledge its wrongdoing and offer compensation. Xu Huo accepted restitution for his losses and asked Zheng Shijiu to bring the captured players to him so he could take them through the game.

• The man in windbreaker killed the player controlling the chain and took the Super Artifact, then restrained Zheng Shijiu’s group.
• Zheng Shijiu admitted the District Government had broken its promise and acted unjustly, and offered to compensate Xu Huo.
• After a government player insulted the man in windbreaker, the man forced him to stab out his own eyes before Zheng Shijiu pleaded for mercy.
• Xu Huo listed the items and robots he had lost, and Zheng Shijiu agreed to return or replace them and cover his injuries.
• Xu Huo asked Zheng Shijiu to bring over the players the District Government had captured so he could take them through the game.

Xu Huo cleared the Enbel Maiden dungeon with an SSS-class rating after rescuing the C-class players and securing compensation from District 019. He left the painting with Zheng Shijiu and traveled with the man in windbreaker to District 011, where he inferred the man had come to save him because of his connection to He Pu.

• Xu Huo asked Zheng Shijiu to let the other players join the dungeon clear and accept replacements for the items District 019 owed him.
• The crew cut woman, the bald big man, and the other C-class players gathered, agreed to surrender their team rewards, and joined Xu Huo's team.
• Xu Huo revealed the real Enbel Maiden, and the group cleared the dungeon; he received an SSS-class rating and extra rewards.
• The other players gave up their rewards and departed, while Xu Huo handed the painting to Zheng Shijiu and left District 019 with the man in windbreaker.
• On the train to District 011, Xu Huo reasoned that the man in windbreaker had tracked and rescued him because of his connection to He Pu.

Xu Huo recovered on a train under the Magician’s protection and questioned him about how Time Rewind worked. The Magician explained that time could flow backward, but not in a way that allowed players to travel freely into the past.

• The Magician told Xu Huo to finish absorbing the Potion and improve his Evolution rate while he recovered on the train.
• The Magician prepared to leave before District 011 and warned Xu Huo not to risk his life recklessly.
• The Magician offered to make Xu Huo another Magician Person and explained how time-rewind items interacted with death, Stations, and teleportation.
• Xu Huo asked whether time could truly be reversed, and the Magician confirmed that it could while explaining that backward time travel was difficult.

After the Magician left, the Golden-eyed Player approached Xu Huo and invited him to team up for a B-class retrieval instance involving a Super Player’s missing item. Xu Huo declined and, suspecting the Golden-eyed Player could not be trusted, prepared a defense after he left.

• The Magician vanished from the train after telling Xu Huo not to look for him for a long time.
• The Golden-eyed Player thanked Xu Huo for helping him and said he was willing to give up the bounty for the box.
• The Golden-eyed Player invited Xu Huo to join him in a B-class instance to retrieve an item lost by a deceased Super Player.
• Xu Huo declined because he preferred to level up without taking unnecessary risks.
• The Golden-eyed Player left Xu Huo his contact information, and Xu Huo set up a simple defense, deciding not to trust him or take on the instance with him.