Recaps

Xu Huo entered the prison maze as a Guard and learned the game’s rules while the players scrambled to claim rooms. After going out on patrol, he found one of the memorized room numbers and opened the door, where a player attacked him.

• The two space-oriented Super Evolvers abandoned their companions and fled the prison’s core after Xu Huo warned them not to interfere with him.
• Players tried to impress Xu Huo during the countdown, while he faced their threatening stares and a kindly older player’s promise to take his key.
• At eight, room numbers appeared on the maze doors, and Xu Huo claimed an unnumbered room with his Guard key.
• Xu Huo read the Criminal Cleanup Plan and learned that Guards could patrol, use their Storage Compartment only for food and water, and risk being kicked out if they broke the rules.
• At 8:10, Xu Huo left his room, tracked down a memorized number, and opened the door to a player who hurled a toilet at him.

Xu Huo and a female Player hunted prisoners together while discussing how they might preserve memories and contact one another after leaving the One-Third Game. They exchanged personal tokens and set off together, with Xu Huo reaching his goal by midmorning as she killed five people.

• Xu Huo killed several Players, while another Player fleeing down the corridor was killed by a powerful second-Evolution guard.
• Xu Huo reunited with the injured female Player, who explained that she had avoided triggering the One-Third Game by killing people on a Wanted List.
• Xu Huo and the female Player exchanged a marked button and his business card as a way to remember their identities and cooperate after the game.
• Xu Huo and the female Player discussed whether the past, present, or future mattered most, choosing the past and present respectively.
• The pair hunted prisoners together, and Xu Huo reached his goal while the female Player killed five people; he gave her some of the items he carried.

Xu Huo studied the spatial prison’s giant cube, trying and failing to reproduce its shifting structure, then helped an injured guard and discovered a tiny water Rubik’s Cube containing Time Power. He left the source of the cube’s power unresolved.

• Xu Huo told the female Player to rest and went to examine the spatial prison’s giant cube.
• Xu Huo studied the cube’s shifting spatial forms and tried to construct a smaller cube inside it, but it vanished after a few seconds.
• Xu Huo gave recovery pills to a badly injured guard and offered him a name card before the guard disappeared from the corridor.
• Xu Huo found a tiny water Rubik’s Cube containing Time Power near the room matched to his key and wondered whether its power came from within itself.

Xu Huo studied the time force inside the water Rubik’s Cube in the space prison, then met Zhu Xiaojin among the new arrivals. He learned that less than an hour had passed since he left Buliu City and began explaining the game.

• Xu Huo examined the stable time force in the water Rubik’s Cube and discussed it with a guard who proposed working together after they escaped.
• At eight that night, the Players were forced out of the maze as their keys vanished, and a new group entered the space prison.
• Xu Huo recognized Zhu Xiaojin and asked about Cheng Zhongzhi and Shen Fu, but Zhu Xiaojin did not know whether they had entered.
• Zhu Xiaojin told Xu Huo that less than an hour had passed since he disappeared from Buliu City and asked him to explain the game.

Xu Huo and Zhu Xiaojin discussed surviving the Spatial Prison game and encountered Cheng Zhongzhi, who admitted accidentally killing Shen Fu. During the next round of One Third, Xu Huo gathered prisoner keys and offered them in exchange for guard keys, ending with Players bringing him the keys and claiming his stash.

• Zhu Xiaojin called for Cheng Zhongzhi and Shen Fu, but Cheng Zhongzhi arrived alone and admitted he had killed Shen Fu after mistaking him for someone else.
• Xu Huo urged Zhu Xiaojin to use the next few days to meet his Dungeon requirement, and Zhu Xiaojin promised to tell him if he cleared it.
• When the next One Third round began, Xu Huo searched the maze for keys while Zhu Xiaojin took the prisoner role and Xu Huo and the female Player became guards again.
• Xu Huo collected prisoner keys and offered them all to anyone who found a guard key, then used his mental power to take keys from nearby prisoners.
• Players found two people hiding guard keys, killed them, and brought the keys to Xu Huo, who gave away his prisoner-key stash as promised.

Xu Huo studied how Time Power affected Space Power inside the Spatial Prison and finally learned to sense its compressed state. That evening, he met Zhu Xiaojin and Mi Qiaonan, who believed they could complete the game after leaving, while Xu Huo remained calm about his own progress.

• Xu Huo left Mi Qiaonan to remember the prison guard numbers and went to observe the spatial core.
• Xu Huo watched a water Rubik’s Cube interact with Time Power and Space Power, then realized the forces could form a highly compressed state.
• Xu Huo tested his influence on Space Power, found that the giant cube could stabilize itself, and learned to sense the power by four in the afternoon.
• Xu Huo met Zhu Xiaojin and Mi Qiaonan that evening, and Zhu Xiaojin said he had gathered a third of the prisoners he needed.
• Mi Qiaonan said she could likely finish the game after leaving, and Xu Huo replied that he could complete it outside as well.

Xu Huo searched for the missing guard keys while other Players grew wary of him and considered stopping him. He returned to the giant cube to study its patterns, hoping to strengthen his Space Power.

• Xu Huo found one guard key, but the other two remained missing, and Zhu Xiaojin suspected someone had hidden them in the prison.
• Mi Qiaonan warned Xu Huo that the spatial prison's central area could be dangerous, and Zhu Xiaojin left with her while Xu Huo went to the giant cube.
• Other Players confronted Xu Huo about moving the spatial core, but he argued that they could not control the prison's powerful spatial and time forces.
• Xu Huo said killing all the Players would not be enough and focused on learning the giant cube's spatial patterns to improve his Space Power.
• A Player shouted that a water Rubik's Cube was rolling toward them.

Xu Huo faced streams of physical Time Power unleashed by the collapsing water Rubik’s Cube in the spatial prison. He discovered he could sense and redirect the streams across space, then pursued the player who had caused him to collide with another man.

• The water Rubik’s Cube shattered inside the giant cube, sending streams of Time Power ricocheting through the prison as players fled.
• Xu Huo realized the Time Power passed through spatial bodies and that the entire prison had become a passage for it.
• A burly player was shoved into Xu Huo, knocking him into the path of an approaching Time Power stream.
• Xu Huo raised spatial barriers, but the stream passed through them; at the last moment, he shifted it aside by manipulating the Time Power.
• Xu Huo sensed Time Power across the prison and redirected a stream toward the player who had fled after causing the collision.
• Xu Huo followed the fleeing player, using the traces of Time Power on people to locate him.

Xu Huo manipulated streams of Time Power in the spatial prison and helped the danger pass, impressing the Players around him. A short Player then explained that Super Players were not promoted by fixed rankings, but were selected according to hidden, potentially different requirements.

• A fleeing Player vanished after crossing two streams of time, while Xu Huo interfered with other streams and tested his ability to guide them.
• The streams of time stopped, became tiny water Rubik's Cubes, and disappeared, returning the spatial prison to normal.
• A short Player approached Xu Huo, asked whether Temporal Evolution could turn back time, and followed him when Xu Huo denied being able to do so.
• The short Player told Mi Qiaonan and Zhu Xiaojin that Super Evolution was necessary to become a Super Player, though it did not guarantee the title.
• The short Player explained that Super Players were outside the game's fixed Player rankings and could have different hidden qualification requirements.

Xu Huo searched the Space Prison maze for guard keys while refining his control over the Space Core, until he found a portrait identifying his Evolutions and began tracking down who had made it. By the next night, he had disguised himself and obtained a guard key through a trade.

• Shorty told Xu Huo that stronger Super Evolution might improve his chances of becoming a Super Player and exchanged Dimension Below contact details with him.
• As the hunt entered its third and fourth days, Xu Huo searched for guard keys while avoiding players who had begun sharing warnings and passing keys around to get him eliminated.
• After Xu Huo killed his sixteenth prisoner, he found a portrait of himself listing his Time and Space, Mental Power, and Body Evolutions, with a question mark beside Body.
• Xu Huo questioned prisoners about who had drawn the portrait and where they were, then covered his face and altered his appearance to limit the information players could gather about him.
• After leaving the maze that evening, Xu Huo stopped sticking with Zhu Xiaojin, and the next time he entered the maze he traded with a prisoner to obtain a guard key.

After winning the One-Third Game, Xu Huo returned with his memory of the game erased but suspected that a second game awaited players before they could leave the Dungeon. He discovered that the experience had greatly strengthened his spatial and temporal powers, then learned that Mi Qiaonan and other players had come to see him.

• Xu Huo returned from the One-Third Game and remembered leaving Buliu City, but the game itself was missing from his memory.
• Tang Yu and Qiao Jieping welcomed Xu Huo, who released the Wanted Criminals and had them post the players’ List of Wanted Criminals on the GG board.
• Xu Huo checked his belongings and found Portrait Paintings that recorded his Super Evolution path, while his items remained unused.
• Xu Huo tested his enhanced Spatial Evolution and created unstable polyhedral constructs of compressed Space Rays that triggered chain reactions when they collided.
• Xu Huo drew on Time Power from a thousand meters away, immobilizing a player and nearby objects across a growing range of nearly ten meters.
• Tang Yu told Xu Huo that Mi Qiaonan and several other players had come looking for him.

Xu Huo and the players discussed the One-Third Game and gathered Wanted Criminals, while Zhu Xiaojin returned with items from the game and news of Cheng Zhongzhi’s death. After Xu Huo gave Zhu Xiaojin the remaining Wanted Criminals, Zhu Xiaojin suddenly realized he had cleared the game.

• Xu Huo explained the second game to Mi Qiaonan, Ban Yuan, and the other players, who worried about what would happen to those who lost the first game.
• Xu Huo continued accepting applications from players seeking to cooperate and use the city government’s channels to find Wanted Criminals.
• Zhu Xiaojin emerged from the game and reported that Cheng Zhongzhi and Shen Fu were dead, though he could not remember what had happened inside.
• Xu Huo gave Zhu Xiaojin the remaining Wanted Criminals after confirming his account on Dimension Below.
• Zhu Xiaojin began killing the Wanted Criminals, then froze and announced that he had cleared the game.

Zhu Xiaojin cleared the Buliu City instance, and Xu Huo realized that Wanted Criminals gathered in the One-Third Game could count toward the clearance requirement. As players began hunting for city-authenticated Wanted Criminals, Lou Zigui revealed that she had won the game before disappearing three days later.

• Zhu Xiaojin said he had cleared the instance and brought out thirty-six items, matching the number of Wanted Criminals he needed to kill.
• Xu Huo asked Zhu Xiaojin to test whether he could use his ticket, then learned that Zhu Xiaojin wanted to stay and help the others clear the instance.
• Xu Huo had the painted woman announce Zhu Xiaojin's clearance while keeping the One-Third Game secret, and the players raced to capture Wanted Criminals.
• Xu Huo explained that people accumulated in the One-Third Game could count toward clearing the instance, while other Wanted Criminals could unlock areas without adding to the total.
• Xu Huo told Lou Zigui about the One-Third Game and asked about the player who had only forgotten the game; Lou Zigui admitted that she had won before disappearing three days later after someone shouted, "Magic Cube."

Xu Huo met Ding Dong Bleeding, a former municipal government Player, who revealed that a man inside Buliu City's city center brought the One-Third Game there. She asked Xu Huo to destroy the game's carrier so the city could return to normal.

• Lou Zigui told Xu Huo that the water Rubik's Cube had brought two people into the game, and Xu passed the painted woman his Communicator to submit Wanted Criminals.
• Xu Huo met Ding Dong Bleeding at a bar with the painted woman and Zhu Xiaojin, and she asked whether Zhu Xiaojin had cleared the game.
• Xu Huo deduced that Ding Dong Bleeding needed his help to enter the city center and challenged her to explain what she wanted.
• Ding Dong Bleeding revealed that a former municipal government employee brought the One-Third Game to Buliu City and was trapped inside it.
• Ding Dong Bleeding showed Xu Huo coded messages from the man and asked him to destroy the game's carrier in the city center.

Xu Huo negotiated with the tattooed woman over help clearing the game, then revealed that he had come prepared to seize control of the meeting. He trapped her and confronted the bartender, while the people hidden in the private room remained silent.

• The tattooed woman offered to help Xu Huo accumulate Wanted Criminals through the city government in exchange for his help reaching the One-Third Game's vessel.
• Xu Huo questioned the deal and warned that he could remain in Buliu City and hunt down the people opposing him.
• Xu Huo used his ability to make the tattooed woman fall through the bar and lose the ability to touch objects.
• The painted woman blocked the doorway as the tattooed woman tried to escape, and Xu Huo warned the bartender not to use his item.
• Xu Huo mocked the bartender and the tattooed woman, then ordered Zhu Xiaojin to open the private-room door after nobody inside responded.

Xu Huo questioned the tattooed woman about the One-Third Game and rejected her offer to cooperate after she admitted her group had no practical way to destroy its vessel. He left with Zhu Xiaojin and the painted woman, suspecting that the game itself might prevent information about it from reaching the outside.

• Xu Huo used Still Time to immobilize the Players in the private room while he questioned the tattooed woman and the bartender.
• The tattooed woman said her group believed a water Rubik's Cube in Buliu City's center was the One-Third Game's vessel, but they knew little else about the game.
• Xu Huo released the immobilized Players and refused to help because the group planned to destroy the vessel by force without a workable method.
• Xu Huo left the bar with Zhu Xiaojin and the painted woman, and Zhu Xiaojin worried the group might obstruct their Wanted Criminal review.
• Xu Huo suggested the One-Third Game might block information from escaping Buliu City and questioned whether its vessel truly existed.

Xu Huo discussed the One-Third Game and Super Evolution with Old Cai, who wanted guidance about the city center. Old Cai left without agreeing to provide enough wanted criminals, while Xu Huo hoped he might still bring useful news.

• Xu Huo told Zhu Xiaojin that the One-Third Game vessel might be hidden and that the group heading to the city center could not easily claim it.
• Old Cai visited Xu Huo to ask about the One-Third Game and explained that he wanted to risk finding a path to Super Evolution.
• Xu Huo suggested that Old Cai seek safer playing fields elsewhere, but Old Cai said he had already tried many places and could not enter the city center.
• Old Cai offered to hand over wanted criminals in exchange for Xu Huo's guidance, but Xu Huo said he needed over a thousand and Old Cai had too little time to gather them.
• Old Cai declined Xu Huo's offer of dinner and left, and Xu Huo said he hoped Old Cai would bring good news.

Xu Huo continued collecting approved wanted criminals while helping Old Cai understand Space Power and observing the painted woman’s devoted local admirers. After a resident invited him to stay, Xu Huo agreed to explore the neighborhood that afternoon, hoping to learn why the One-Third Game had appeared there.

• Xu Huo accepted a hundred approved wanted criminals from Old Cai and demonstrated basic control of Space Rays in exchange for guiding Old Cai in Spacetime Evolution.
• Local residents brought food to the painted woman, whom they adored, and Xu Huo asked one of the visiting women to stay with her.
• The woman thanked Xu Huo for making the area safer and invited him to visit her neighborhood, saying the residents hoped he would stay.
• Xu Huo agreed to look around the neighborhood that afternoon with Zhu Xiaojin and invited Old Cai to come along.
• Xu Huo told Old Cai he wanted to investigate why the One-Third Game had appeared there, and Old Cai readily agreed.

Xu Huo and the others visited an old residential complex with a local woman, where the residents welcomed them before vanishing when a sudden downpour began. The complex transformed into a dark, seemingly enclosed place, and the group suspected a powerful interference item was trapping them.

• Xu Huo, Zhu Xiaojin, Tang Yu, and Old Cai followed the local woman to her residential complex and met elderly residents who thanked Xu Huo and complained about their needs.
• After the woman went upstairs to fetch umbrellas during a sudden heavy rain, she failed to return, and Zhu Xiaojin noticed that the residents had disappeared.
• Xu Huo doubted the visit had been a deliberate trap, while Old Cai tried to use a teleportation item to leave.
• The sky turned dark, a clock announced it was 8 p.m., and Xu Huo found that the complex's gate opened onto an identical complex instead of the street.
• Tang Yu spotted old women burning joss paper, and Old Cai suggested that a Player in the complex might be using a powerful interference item.

Xu Huo and his companions became trapped in a residential complex where time and space seemed to reset, and they followed an old woman to her apartment for shelter. Zhu Xiaojin discovered a coffin and a corpse in the old woman’s grandson’s room, and Xu Huo cut them apart, provoking an inhuman scream.

• Xu Huo searched the complex for the vanished woman, while the group found that an invisible spatial barrier kept them from leaving.
• An old woman warned the group to go home before dark and offered them a room in her apartment.
• Zhu Xiaojin bombed Building 1, but after the lights went out, the building and the complex returned to their earlier state.
• Xu Huo agreed to stay at the old woman’s apartment, where she told them about her late husband, her estranged grandson, and her family.
• Zhu Xiaojin discovered a coffin and a corpse in a talisman-covered room, and Xu Huo sliced them apart, triggering a shrill, inhuman scream.

Xu Huo and the others confronted the old woman’s reanimated grandson in apartment 603 and discovered that the corpse could recover from severe injuries. After Tang Yu killed the old woman, the apartment’s lights and ceiling collapsed, and all three bodies began showing signs of moving again as Xu Huo prepared to burn them.

• The old woman invited Tang Yu to sleep in her room and refused to let anyone enter her grandson’s room.
• A ghost tried to enter apartment 603, then retreated when something frightened it.
• Xu Huo and Zhu Xiaojin fought the reassembled corpse, removed its head, and decided to burn it.
• The old woman rushed out to protect the corpse, and Tang Yu restrained her before snapping her neck.
• The lights burst and the ceiling collapsed to reveal red talismans as the corpse, its head, and the old woman began moving again.
• Xu Huo dragged the three bodies into the living room and prepared to cremate them.

Xu Huo and his companions entered Building Five to find a powerful female player, encountering hostile ghosts and a space-warping stairwell along the way. After an old woman warned that a murderer had returned, a wary young man appeared and asked whether they were residents.

• The painted woman captured a female ghost, and Xu Huo forced her to reveal that a powerful woman was in Building Five.
• Old Cai sealed Building Five, and the group entered with the ghosts as guides.
• Xu Huo caught a child in a red dress, and Tang Yu and Zhu Xiaojin restrained her with items.
• A stairwell trap swallowed Tang Yu and Old Cai, but Xu Huo pulled them back through the Mental Portal.
• Zhu Xiaojin restrained an old woman who warned that a murderer had returned on the seventh night.
• A young man peered out of a nearby doorway and asked whether Xu Huo's group were residents.

Xu Huo and his companions searched the haunted neighborhood for their missing companion while heading toward a rumored exit beneath Building 7. They found the passage was dangerous, but Xu Huo entered it anyway.

• A young man told Xu Huo's group that a murderer who died days earlier might rise at midnight and said Building 7's underground garage had a special exit.
• Xu Huo's group fought off spirits and a reanimated corpse as they climbed through the building, while Xu Huo briefly pursued a roaring creature that escaped into Building 7.
• The young man led the group to a locked passage in Building 7's underground garage, where the child in the red dress vanished after Old Cai threw it inside.
• Xu Huo entered the passage despite the danger, while the young man urged the others to retreat.

Xu Huo and the others discovered corpse doubles in Building 7 and tracked a strange time current between Buildings 5 and 7. They caught the female player responsible for the apartment complex’s distortions, and the sky brightened as the power of time shook.

• The group found corpse doubles of themselves in a morgue beneath Building 7, and the painted woman’s knife revealed that the doubles could trigger a lethal trap.
• Xu Huo tested another numbered corpse and found no sign that it was alive, then sensed brief, alternating waves of time in Buildings 5 and 7.
• Xu Huo tracked the time current to Building 5 and intercepted the female player as she tried to flee toward Building 7.
• Zhu Xiaojin and Old Cai stopped the female player’s attempts to escape, and the painted woman caught her with the Manifestation.
• The apartment complex’s power of time shook violently after the female player was caught, and the sky grew bright again.

Xu Huo captured the Player behind the residential complex’s horror movie and took her Best Director item. He restarted the movie to test its effects, trapping Old Cai, Zhu Xiaojin, Tang Yu, and the others in a new round of events.

• Xu Huo interrogated the captured female Player and learned that Best Director created an enclosed horror movie with dangerous stand-ins.
• The female Player explained that she had been caught because being captured ended the movie, then surrendered Best Director to Xu Huo.
• Xu Huo inspected the item and decided to test it, letting the young man leave while asking Old Cai, Zhu Xiaojin, Tang Yu, and the others to participate.
• The residential complex darkened again, and Old Cai and the others found a mirrored complex outside its gate where a funeral was taking place.
• The group followed an old woman into a building, where Tang Yu and Zhu Xiaojin saw disgusting food and later suffered hallucinations that nearly made them fight.