Recaps

Xu Huo used a gang’s raid on his lodgings to track a scarred man who was trafficking a young girl, then rescued her from pursuers and let her stay the night. After she fell asleep, Xu Huo injected her with an Evolution Potion.

• Xu Huo paid his neighbor to clean his trashed lodgings, then slipped out while four men came to search for him.
• Xu Huo lured drunk thugs to his building, where they fought the four intruders; he helped one intruder escape and followed him to a cellar where a girl was being held captive.
• Xu Huo overturned the scarred man’s vehicle, allowing the girl to escape, and a Rebel Army member killed the scarred man when he chased her into an alley.
• Xu Huo drove off the men pursuing the exhausted girl and offered her a safe place to stay for the night.
• Xu Huo gave the girl food and a blanket, then injected her with an Evolution Potion after she fell asleep.

After attacks killed more Surveillance Department officers, Li Song led a sweeping search of the West District that escalated into a deadly clash at Heyue Winery. His warning prompted many players to gather in Xu Huo’s neighborhood before nightfall.

• Xu Huo shared breakfast with the girl and urged her to choose a safer place to go while it was still daylight.
• The Surveillance Department received approval to search the West District and use weapons of Tier Three or higher against local power groups.
• After a gang member stabbed an officer, the captains confronted the gang leader at Heyue Winery, where a knife killed Captain Jiang.
• The Surveillance Department stormed the winery, and Wang Kai killed its owner as armed robots and aircraft hunted down fleeing players.
• Li Song warned that he would request a special investigation team if the three-day search found no results, and many players appeared in Xu Huo’s neighborhood before nightfall.

After the sweep sparked suspicion that an Outer District Player was manipulating the conflict, Xu Huo and Han Cong worked through a brutal night of interrogations at the Surveillance Department. They were sent home at dawn, while the department’s suspicions and the West District’s tensions remained unresolved.

• Criminal organizations brought in Players to guard their territories, while inspectors questioned the sweep and suspected an Outer District Player had provoked the violence.
• The Surveillance Department shifted much of the inspection work to armed robots and aircraft, and Wang Kai, Xu Huo, and Han Cong faced suspicion over the killings.
• Li Song ordered the inspectors to work overtime, and the department detained two Rebel Army members during the sweep.
• Han Cong and Xu Huo interrogated prisoners, where inspectors beat suspects and killed two people within half an hour.
• Lin Guang told Han Cong and Xu Huo that Brother Tong had reasons for hating people from the West District, but did not explain further.
• After a night of escorting prisoners and removing bodies, Xu Huo and the other new recruits were sent home at dawn.

Xu Huo let the mute girl stay with him and investigated the growing tensions between the West District, the Surveillance Department, and the Rebel Army. He went with the girl to find the scarred man, only to discover that his home had been taken over by two threatening men.

• Xu Huo invited the mute girl inside, offered her food, and let her stay in exchange for helping clean and shop.
• Xu Huo suspected the Rebel Army was fomenting conflict in the West District and wondered whether the coming upheaval was connected to White Blood.
• A Rebel Army member recovered a hidden note revealing the meeting address for a planned weapons deal with the Frozen Processing Plant.
• Xu Huo learned that the mute girl's parents had been killed and offered to bury them, prompting her to lead him to the scarred man's home.
• Xu Huo noticed suspicious activity at the Frozen Processing Plant, then found the scarred man's home occupied by two fierce-looking men.

Xu Huo helped the mute girl bury her parents, uncovered suspected Rebel Army badges, and sold jewelry to ease their financial strain. Meanwhile, the knife boss arranged a weapons deal with Manager Dian, and a Rebel Army ambush redirected a woman to the Frozen Processing Plant, where failed Evolvers began attacking people.

• Xu Huo drove off four men with his gun and the Surveillance Department drone, then helped the mute girl bury her parents in the courtyard.
• Xu Huo and the mute girl uncovered several buried bodies and found a box containing jewelry and two possible Rebel Army badges.
• The mute girl took Xu Huo to a pawnshop, where they sold the jewelry and then shared a meal.
• Manager Dian agreed to buy weapons from the nightclub boss and accepted women and boys arranged by the knife boss.
• The Rebel Army ambushed the knife boss's people and took a woman to the Frozen Processing Plant.
• Grotesque failed Evolvers burst from the plant and attacked people, prompting its alarm to sound three minutes later.

The Rebel Army exposed the Frozen Processing Plant’s organ harvesting operation, then destroyed the Factory in an explosion that killed and injured many people. While helping with the cleanup, Xu Huo learned Wang Kai had died and considered how the East District might control Players, leaving him questioning the purpose of the shadow wall.

• Manager Dian discovered that captives had escaped the Factory and tried to hide the boxes of human organs, but a Rebel Army member exposed them and scattered leaflets accusing the East District of harvesting West District residents’ organs.
• An East District Player killed the Rebel Army member, and the Factory exploded, destroying the building and damaging nearby homes while killing and injuring Players, officers, and residents.
• Xu Huo caught a leaflet, crumpled it, and returned with the mute girl as the blast’s leaflets spread through the area.
• Lin Guang told Xu Huo that Wang Kai had died after attacking East District Players who questioned him about his identity.
• While cleaning up, Xu Huo reasoned that the East District might have powerful Players, specialized control methods, or spatial instruments, then wondered whether the shadow wall truly separated the districts.

After the Frozen Processing Plant investigation ended, Xu Huo returned home and confronted the danger and hardship facing people in the West District. The chapter left him restraining a young boy who lunged at his abusive father with a knife.

• Xu Huo learned that the Surveillance Department had arrested the nightclub boss and the middleman linked to Manager Dian, while East District players used spatial restraints and sonic devices during arrests.
• Han Cong and Lin Guang warned Xu Huo against helping a woman in the West District, and Xu Huo learned that Brother Tong’s family had been murdered by a boy he once rescued.
• Xu Huo returned home with food, found that the mute girl had not cooked, and asked her to prepare fresh meat.
• After hearing a neighbor beat his child, Xu Huo kicked in the man’s door, dragged him into the hallway, and beat him.
• The boy came at his father with a notched knife, and Xu Huo stopped and restrained him as the father insisted the child was dangerous.

Xu Huo explored the East District through a virtual reality game, learned that the district might launch an operation in the West District, and turned the rival criminal groups against each other. He left an address with a Rebel Army member preparing to relocate.

• Xu Huo broke the abusive man's leg and hand, then fed the boy and took the mute girl out.
• Xu Huo created a new game account, chose the East District, and briefly worked as a teacher before exploring the district's streets and museum.
• Xu Huo decoded a flower-language message, attended a gathering of code enthusiasts, and learned that the East District might conduct a major operation in the West District.
• Xu Huo removed the money and precious metals from the nightclub boss's safe, leaving the ruby fragment behind and prompting the rival groups to accuse the knife boss and fight.
• Xu Huo placed a slip of paper bearing an address on the table of a Rebel Army member who was preparing to move.

Xu Huo fed a boy from downstairs and warned him not to underestimate his abusive father. At work, Xu Huo learned that the Rebel Army had defeated an East District raid, and he heard that inspector training could offer a chance to enter the East District.

• Xu Huo invited the hungry boy inside, fed him, and told him to come back for meals and look out for the mute girl.
• Xu Huo learned that the Rebel Army had repelled a failed East District crackdown, killing two High-level Players and escaping without losses.
• Lin Guang explained that the East District's D2 vibration interference device could incapacitate Players and ordinary people, but did not affect East District Players.
• A veteran inspector said inspectors might have a chance to enter the East District through training, prompting Han Cong to ask about it.
• Xu Huo stayed quiet about what he knew, while his colleagues mistook his demeanor for evidence that he had connections.

After the Frozen Processing Plant was exposed, the Surveillance Department reviewed old cases while its inspectors questioned the meaning of their work. A media outlet then revealed the East District’s Western District Cleanup Plan, leaving residents, inspectors, and players fearing the West District would be destroyed.

• Xu Huo dismissed the branch’s rushed review of old cases, while Han Cong lamented that inspectors had little prospect of a better future.
• A media outlet published evidence that East District companies abducted West District residents for organ harvesting and human experiments.
• The outlet revealed a secret East District proposal called the Western District Cleanup Plan, which aimed to kill West District residents and rebuild the area.
• Li Song and the other inspectors debated whether the plan was real and feared that the East District viewed them as disposable resources.
• The inspectors went out among residents who had heard the news, while Xu Huo suspected the Rebel Army had helped spread it.

Xu Huo tried to calm the people of the West District after rumors spread that the East District planned to exterminate them, while arguments over the districts’ history and responsibility intensified. The chapter ended with an East District account blaming the West District for past violence and questioning whether its people deserved to live.

• Xu Huo returned to his neighborhood and reassured the frightened residents that the rumored cleanup plan was probably false.
• The mute girl could not find the boy or his father, so Xu Huo told her to save some food for the boy.
• Xu Huo visited the game arcade, where Players argued over the cleanup plan and spread rumors about protests in the East District.
• People in the East District debated whether the West District deserved help, with some citing past uprisings and violence as justification for its exclusion.
• An East District speaker accused the West District of refusing to work, demanding the city’s resources, and killing nearly a hundred thousand people, then asked whether its people deserved to live.

A player exposed Agor Company’s role in Yuquan City’s oppression, sparking a riot in the game square that forced Xu Huo offline. Later, a dying boy told Xu Huo about his parents’ deaths, and Xu Huo tried to save him with Self-Healing Agent.

• A female player challenged a defender of the East District and argued that Agor Company had slaughtered civilians while seizing control of Yuquan City.
• West District residents rallied around her account, and the game square erupted into violence as players were kicked out.
• Someone stabbed Xu Huo from behind, forcing him offline, and he later noticed the Rebel Army member who had escorted the mute girl.
• The wounded boy returned to Xu Huo’s door and confessed that he had killed his father after learning he had abused and sold the boy’s mother.
• The boy said he wanted everyone killed, then collapsed in the mute girl’s arms, and Xu Huo injected him with three doses of Self-Healing Agent.

Xu Huo arranged for the Holy Sword Society to take a mute girl and a boy to safety, and learned that the West District cleanup rumors were false. After they left, a Rebel Army member confronted him about a note he had left in one of their homes.

• The boy thanked Xu Huo for saving him, asked to become a Player, and injected an Evolution Potion Xu Huo gave him.
• Xu Huo contacted Uncle Guan, who sent Morning Mist to help escort the mute girl and boy out of District 035.
• Morning Mist told Xu Huo that the cleanup plan was false, explained how East District residents countered the D2 vibration interference device, and warned that inspectors sent there for training rarely survived.
• Xu Huo told the mute girl and boy to choose their own futures, and Morning Mist sent them away on non-Player trains.
• A Rebel Army member climbed into Xu Huo's apartment and asked whether Xu Huo had left a note in one of their member's homes.

Xu Huo learned that the Rebel Army wanted him to let one of its members replace him during inspector training, which they suspected was a cover for experiments by the East District. After questioning a Rebel Army supporter, he investigated their contact points and found them inactive, leaving him to wonder whether something had gone wrong within the group.

• A Rebel Army member asked Xu Huo to let one of their people take his place at inspector training, warning that the East District might be experimenting on inspectors.
• Xu Huo pretended to consider the offer and agreed to signal his decision by opening both windows.
• Xu Huo followed the rebel through a hidden passage and overheard him tell a snack shop owner that the group planned to switch identities after entering the East District.
• Xu Huo used the sound of dripping water to question the owner, learning that Dove led the Rebel Army, a strategist arranged its operations, and Qiao Ruxin might know their identities.
• Xu Huo checked several Rebel Army contact points through a gaming device and found that some had stopped updating while others were empty.

Xu Huo investigated Qiao Ruxin and uncovered the Rebel Army’s preparations and a covert struggle with East District players. After the East District players tracked down a hideout, Xu Huo intervened and found that they were well equipped to detect spiritual Super Evolvers.

• Xu Huo found Qiao Ruxin, who was secretly raising funds and weapons for the Rebel Army, and learned the rebels were preparing a major operation in the East District.
• A tattooed player followed Qiao Ruxin’s contact, captured two ordinary people, and killed them after failing to learn Dove’s identity.
• Xu Huo encountered the injured tattooed player being pursued by two East District players, who captured him and took him back to their hideout.
• At the hideout, Xu Huo used “Harmonious Atmosphere” to stop the East District players from using artifacts, then attacked them when a Mutated Plant reacted to his presence.
• Xu Huo found that the East District players had stocked multiple Mutated Plants and kept detailed instructions for using them to detect spiritual Super Evolvers.

After discovering that the East District had been alerted, Xu Huo left the hideout and tried to blend into the West District crowd. An East District player then launched a mass slaughter, and more inspectors arrived to surround him as residents fled.

• Xu Huo found that the Stinger bracelet could inject poison and destroyed the alarmed work-log device before leaving the hideout with the captives and Mutated Plant.
• Xu Huo entered a restaurant and pretended to fight with two drunks while East District players searched the area.
• An inspector in uniform appeared, and frightened West District residents began fleeing and accusing the East District of planning to kill them.
• The inspector unleashed swordlight, slaughtered dozens of people, and destroyed buildings while the Rebel Army and local inspectors tried to intervene.
• After killing the people who challenged him, the East District player turned toward another crowded area, where several more inspectors formed a circle around him.

An East District Inspector slaughtered civilians until a masked Player intervened, prompting the East District players to accuse the Rebel Army of disguising itself as Inspectors. After the masked Player escaped their pursuit, he passed through a door into an unfamiliar basement, where a mysterious figure told him he was safe.

• A masked Player swapped Artifacts with the crazed Inspector, causing an explosive slime Artifact to blind him, while East District players moved to stop both men.
• The long-haired East District Player killed the Inspector, revealed his changed face, and accused the Rebel Army of disguising its members as Inspectors to slaughter civilians.
• The East District players attacked the masked Player with a shock-wave Artifact, but interference let him teleport away and flee.
• The long-haired Player tracked the masked Player to an old neighborhood, but the trail stopped as the masked Player used a Decoy Prop to mislead his pursuers.
• The masked Player unexpectedly passed through a door into a basement several miles away, climbed toward the exit, and threw his blade at a figure who said the place was safe.

Xu Huo trapped a Mask player and questioned him about the East District’s devices and the Rebel Army. After warning that the Rebel Army might be walking into a trap, Xu Huo offered to cooperate and revealed he knew the Mask player had not killed the East District players.

• Xu Huo trapped the Mask player in the basement and questioned him about why East District players concealed their physical information.
• The Mask player explained that East District devices were difficult for the Rebel Army to acquire and modify because they had unique serial numbers and remote deactivation systems.
• Xu Huo showed the Mask player the corpse of an East District player and asked whether East District players had gone berserk before.
• Xu Huo warned that claims of widespread secret support for the Rebel Army could be a ploy or a trap, then revealed that several listed contacts had ties to inspectors and safe houses might have been infiltrated.
• The Mask player asked whether Xu Huo would help the Rebel Army, and Xu Huo offered mutual assistance before shattering the player's Mask and helmet.

Xu Huo offered the Mask player a supposed weakness shared by East District Players to bring the Rebel Army into a deal, then left as unrest spread through the West District. The black-market groups surrounded the Surveillance Department, demanding to know whether the district would be razed, while Xu Huo asked why Han Cong was absent.

• Xu Huo told the Mask player he could trade knowledge of a weakness shared by East District Players, then vanished and left contact information.
• The Mask player relayed Xu Huo’s offer through Dimension Below and waited for a reply; after a call with his brother, he confirmed that one of three sealed seeds had not sprouted.
• News and footage of the East District Players’ massacre spread, causing West District residents to flee, sell their belongings, or fear for their safety.
• Black-market organizations and their recruited players surrounded the Surveillance Department, demanding an answer about plans to raze the West District.
• Inspectors at Xu Huo’s branch panicked over the lack of a response from headquarters, and Xu Huo asked why Han Cong was missing.

Xu Huo and the other West District inspectors were selected by East District players for compulsory training and taken from the besieged Surveillance Department building. As they left under threat of tracking bracelets, a child threw a pebble at the ponytail inspector.

• Li Song told Xu Huo that Han Cong had disappeared after leaving the Surveillance Department, while the inspectors waited inside as a hostile crowd gathered outside.
• Two East District inspectors arrived in a flying vehicle and demanded the list of people selected for training.
• The ponytail inspector chose Xu Huo, Lin Guang, two other inspectors, and two team leaders, using black lines to restrain them and silencing one team leader who objected.
• The East District inspectors fitted the six chosen West District inspectors with Poison Thorn tracking bracelets that could kill them if they broke the rules.
• The two East District inspectors led the six West District inspectors out through the crowd, and a child emerged and threw a pebble at the ponytail inspector.

Xu Huo and the other West District inspectors were taken to the shadow wall checkpoint, where an East District inspector threatened those who protected their own people. As the group underwent screening, several people tried to break through, and East District players killed the rebels.

• East District inspectors took Xu Huo and the others aboard an aircraft, and the ponytail man ordered his colleagues to deal with people who protected the next generation.
• Xu Huo watched the crowd outside the Surveillance Department vanish, frightening one of the inspectors accompanying them.
• At Gate 3, Xu Huo spotted a Rebel Army member and signaled that he agreed to their proposed exchange inside the East District.
• A player broke through the checkpoint inspection gate and fled toward the East District, prompting guards to control and rescan the remaining inspectors.
• Three more people tried to force their way through the checkpoint, and an East District player killed one and crushed his head.

Xu Huo and the West District inspectors entered the East District, where the sights and the Gate No. 3 incident left them uneasy. During a traffic shutdown, Xu Huo met a Rebel Army contact, took a new identity, and left with a woman who offered to explain life in the East District.

• An East District player killed three people who had tried to force their way through Gate No. 3, and the inspectors continued into the East District.
• Xu Huo and the other inspectors admired the East District’s clean, advanced city while questioning the residents’ reaction to the killings.
• A factory explosion shut down nearby roads, and Xu Huo and Lin Guang discussed their fears over the East District and the Rebel Army.
• Xu Huo met a Rebel Army contact in a restroom, received East District identity documents and a Mask, then left the rest area with a middle-aged woman.

Xu Huo stayed in the East District under Sister Yan’s protection after losing his West District identity. As the Rebel Army monitored him and promised to arrange legal identification, he learned about the district and the dangers surrounding his temporary identity.

• Xu Huo got off a bus with Sister Yan in a residential area where Rebel Army members watched him.
• Sister Yan took Xu Huo shopping, brought him to her apartment, and secretly replaced the detector’s chip before checking the room for dangers.
• Xu Huo explained that he could no longer return to the West District because his identity would be invalidated, and Sister Yan offered to find him a job and legal identification.
• Sister Yan warned Xu Huo to stay inside while she worked and explained that automated aircraft could scan his apartment, while his Mask’s identity would not last forever.
• After Sister Yan left, Xu Huo watched television and explored the apartment, aware that the Rebel Army was monitoring him because his skills as an inspector made him valuable.

Xu Huo asked the Rebel Army to investigate East District player modification and Agor Company's psychotherapist, then arranged a replacement identity card and left his lodging after engineering a reason to go outside. He evaded the public safety office and rode a city bus toward the heavily guarded city center, while the person following him got off.

• Xu Huo proposed that the Rebel Army investigate East District player modification and Agor Company's psychotherapist, and they asked him to wait while they looked into it.
• Xu Huo sent Bai Kou an East District player's identity card and Access Card and asked her to forge a replacement.
• Xu Huo knocked paint from an upstairs neighbor's rack, then left his room amid the dispute and ensuing fight over compensation.
• Xu Huo slipped away from the crowd before reaching the public safety office and boarded a city loop bus.
• The bus detoured around the sealed area, the Rebel Army member following Xu Huo got off, and Xu Huo continued toward the city center past heavy patrols.

Xu Huo entered the East District’s city center during preparations for Agor Company’s fiftieth anniversary and investigated the district’s population policies. He discovered that Agor controlled its hospitals and research, while an unusually high miscarriage rate remained unexplained in public records.

• Xu Huo entered the city center without disguising himself and passed East District Players who watched him coldly.
• Residents promoted Agor Company’s anniversary raffle as the mayor announced the slogan, “The future of Yuquan City is yours to create!”
• Xu Huo used a Jixin Terminal to read about the East District’s annual program for raising and training children to become Players.
• Xu Huo found a study attributing the district’s high miscarriage rate to genetic self-selection and learned that Agor Company owned the laboratory behind it.
• Xu Huo discovered that nearly every licensed hospital belonged to Agor Company and that public records contained no pre-division policies about population growth.