Recaps

Xu Huo and the painted woman avoided joining the Giant Eyed Fish Player’s group and entered an occupied room on the Ninth Floor, where they learned about a Player called Tattoo Master. Their rest was interrupted when five Players burst into the room.

• The Giant Eyed Fish Player tried to recruit Xu Huo and the painted woman, but Xu Huo refused and noticed that the group had captured a Mermaid Player.
• Xu Huo and the painted woman entered a room on the Ninth Floor, where two badly injured Players cautiously let them stay and shared food with them.
• The painted woman learned that Tattoo Master had inflicted the flower-shaped wounds with a fast, autonomous artifact and said she wanted to find him.
• The painted woman collected the injured Players’ blood to color her paper animals, but Xu Huo refused to let her experiment on them.
• Five Players forced their way into the room, drove the injured occupants back, and noticed Xu Huo sitting on the battered sofa.

Xu Huo fought the Giant Eyed Fish Player and his companions after they trapped everyone in the room, using the clash to test his growing physical strength. The Giant Eyed Fish Player tried to escape, but Xu Huo’s door ability stopped him at the threshold.

• The Giant Eyed Fish Player and his companions trapped Xu Huo, the painted woman, and two injured Players inside rings formed by an Artifact.
• Xu Huo cut through the barriers, and the ensuing fight ended with the Giant Eyed Fish Player killing both injured Players.
• Xu Huo repeatedly overpowered the Giant Eyed Fish Player in close combat, while the painted woman kept another opponent occupied.
• The Giant Eyed Fish Player called two companions to help, but Xu Huo held all three off and grew faster as the fight continued.
• The Giant Eyed Fish Player tried to flee through the door and ran into a sharp clang.

Xu Huo defeated the Giant Eyed Fish and his companions, then questioned the wounded Players about Feaster. He killed the Giant Eyed Fish when he recognized the name, gathered useful items, and settled in to rest with the painted woman.

• Xu Huo trapped the Players with mental interference, cut off the Giant Eyed Fish's hand, and forced him to kneel.
• The Giant Eyed Fish seized the painted woman as a hostage, but she stabbed him and broke his hand while the other two Players fled.
• Xu Huo asked the Giant Eyed Fish about Feaster and killed him when he appeared to lie; the painted woman then helped finish off another wounded Player.
• Xu Huo collected useful items, upgraded their Masks, and decided they would rest in the room for the night.
• Xu Huo discussed the painted woman's improved Ability and her paper frog, suggesting she try making a paper ball instead.

Xu Huo and the painted woman ate at a restaurant, where a player in a formal suit stopped a fight and told them about the building’s Carnival Day. The painted woman asked how to become a Whale, and the formal-suited player explained that the boss’s rules allowed a Whale to draw only one mask at a time.

• Xu Huo took the painted woman to a restaurant, where a ravenous player’s eating drove some diners away.
• A player in a formal suit threw out three players who tried to start a fight with the ravenous diner.
• The painted woman teased the formal-suited player about his unpleasant food while he struggled to finish it.
• The formal-suited player told Xu Huo and the painted woman that Carnival Day was happening that night and that a hidden maze on the twentieth floor could shelter them.
• The painted woman asked how to become a Whale so she could draw masks and make them fight, and the formal-suited player said the boss’s rules allowed only one mask to be drawn at a time.

Xu Huo and the painted woman explored the fish feast and learned about its mask hunts and a hidden Easter egg. Xu Huo bought information about the player in formalwear and the fish feast, but ended with only a lead about a powerful visitor.

• The painted woman learned how players could collect thirteen masks to become a whale, though finding the rare thirteenth mask was difficult.
• Xu Huo and the painted woman went to the fifteenth floor, where players openly bet on Carnival Day hunts and drew lots for masks to target.
• Xu Huo heard about an Easter egg hidden somewhere between the tenth and twentieth floors that could be redeemed for a high-level item.
• Xu Huo paid the round-faced player for information about the player in formalwear, who was a frequent visitor known for sudden violent outbursts.
• The round-faced player said he knew of a high-level Wormhole Point player whose defensive barrier activated from inside his body.

Xu Huo learned that a mysterious player might possess powerful, always-active defensive items, then took the painted woman away from hostile onlookers and killed a player who followed them. They reached the Sixteenth Floor, where players were gambling to avoid eating a revolting dish.

• Xu Huo paid a round-faced player for information about a player who seemed protected by an unending defensive device and learned where they usually stayed.
• On Carnival Day, a Server told Xu Huo there would be no new draws and that the previous day's selected mask remained the main hunting target.
• The painted woman threatened to dig out the eyes of players staring at her, and Xu Huo hurried her away from the recreation room.
• Three players followed Xu Huo and the painted woman to the stairs, where Xu Huo attacked and killed one of them, then took his belongings and removed his item devices.
• Xu Huo and the painted woman bypassed the Fifteenth Floor and found a gambling game on the Sixteenth Floor in which players competed to cut the largest piece of skin from a bound player.

Xu Huo and the painted woman encountered cruel players at a carnival rest area, where an A-class player named Ma intervened when a group of youngsters was threatened. Xu Huo defended the painted woman from harassment and killed a black-toothed player's poisonous insects with bug spray.

• Xu Huo learned that players were wagering by cutting pieces from a bound victim until the carnival began.
• A young player challenged the crowd, and Uncle Ma killed the player who grabbed him before escorting the youngsters away; three more players then collapsed from poison.
• Xu Huo tried to leave with the painted woman, but a black-toothed player harassed her and demanded to rent her for a night.
• Xu Huo repelled the black-toothed player's attack with his Spiritual World and demanded that he pull out his teeth.
• The black-toothed player released poisonous insects, but Xu Huo sprayed them with bug spray and killed them.

Xu Huo and the painted woman learned that Fish Banquet Tower concealed dangerous beings and that its hosts could secretly turn players against targets during a drawing. Xu Huo continued searching for information about the Diner, while the chapter ended with a player suggesting they question a Server about the past purge of Cannibal Players.

• Two players stopped the Black-Teeth Player from releasing more poisonous insects, and Xu Huo left with the painted woman.
• A player warned Xu Huo and the painted woman that hidden monitors watched the Fish Banquet and that conspicuous people sometimes disappeared.
• An information trader told Xu Huo that the tower contained Dungeon Boss-like beings and described a drawing that had once turned players against masked targets for rewards.
• Xu Huo considered whether the drawing was connected to the Diner and continued seeking information about him.
• A short female player said the drawing had been organized to deal with Cannibal Players who had gone too far, then suggested Xu Huo ask a Server for more details.

Xu Huo and the painted woman were caught up in the Fish Banquet Tower Carnival, where Players were forced out of their rooms and into fights. After Xu Huo escaped a restraint artifact and defeated its owner, he rescued the painted woman, who had fought off an attacker by clinging to him and smashing his head against a wall.

• A female Player spread word that Xu Huo was a suspected Cannibal Player, and Xu Huo decided not to ask Servers for information.
• The Carnival began, forcing Players out of their rooms and triggering fights across the tower.
• Xu Huo was trapped inside a restraint artifact with two fighting Players and joined forces with one to defeat the artifact's owner.
• The painted woman warned approaching Players away, but one attacked and knocked her into a wall.
• The painted woman grabbed the attacker's knife, tore through his defensive barrier, and clung to him until his artifact stopped working and his face was bloodied.
• Xu Huo escaped the barrier, finished off the artifact's owner, and picked up the injured painted woman.

Xu Huo and the painted woman were dragged through a Space Portal into a dim corridor by a fleeing middle-aged player. As they explored the strange space, the man opened a small window and found a bloodied head staring back at them.

• Xu Huo escaped the players pursuing him and the painted woman, then disguised her as a B-class player.
• A middle-aged player pretending to be a Super Evolver drew the anger of several female players and repeatedly used Xu Huo as a shield while fleeing.
• The middle-aged player dragged Xu Huo and the painted woman into greenery, where a Space Portal pulled all three inside.
• Xu Huo sensed at least five concealed people in the dim corridor and continued along it with the painted woman and the middle-aged player.
• The middle-aged player opened one of the corridor's small windows, revealing a head bleeding from its eyes, nose, mouth, and ears.

Xu Huo and the painted woman fled a pursuing mass of white threads with the middle-aged man, escaping the corridor’s breach only to find an endless sea of clouds outside. After the threads withdrew, the middle-aged man explained that Fish Banquet Tower held dangerous dungeon props and that its hidden spaces might form a vast special space.

• A severed head fell from a miniature opening, and the middle-aged man denied knowing what was inside or why he had pulled Xu Huo through it.
• White threads burst from the opening and dragged at the middle-aged man, but Xu Huo cut them while the painted woman shut the opening.
• The threads pursued the group down the corridor, targeting only the middle-aged man, and Xu Huo used oil to make him slip as he dodged them.
• Xu Huo and the middle-aged man broke through a window and found only clouds outside, so Xu Huo pulled the man back behind a defensive barrier as the threads cracked it.
• The threads abruptly retreated, and the middle-aged man told Xu Huo that Fish Banquet Tower’s dungeon props could remain deadly outside their original dungeons.
• Xu Huo asked about the tower’s portals, and the middle-aged man said its spaces seemed to extend endlessly like a special space made of multiple dungeon grounds.

Xu Huo and the other Players fled through an expanding maze as white threads poured from its windows and trapped them. With the corridors blocked, they debated entering the windows, and Xu Huo suspected a huge item inside was keeping the space sealed.

• Shi Shuai rushed to greet a female Player, who ran past him as white threads chased her and Xu Huo's group.
• Xu Huo, the painted woman, Shi Shuai, and several other Players fled through corridors that kept appearing, while the threads pursued them and tangled at junctions.
• Tang Xian gathered the group and proposed entering a window to find the source of the threads, but Zuo Lei opposed the idea.
• Xu Huo suggested that a large item inside might be preventing them from finding an exit, and the girl called MamaNaiLaolao said her bombs had all become duds when thrown through the windows.

Xu Huo and the others were trapped in a corridor by living white threads after Shi Shuai spilled corrosive Potion on them. They found a loom and a distant door inside the sealed opening, but the group had not yet decided whether to enter or take the item.

• Shi Shuai poured Potion on the white threads, causing them to snap and surge violently toward the group.
• Xu Huo and the others dodged the threads and one another until Zuo Lei trapped everyone behind a large defensive barrier.
• Xu Huo sent miniature recorders through the sealed window opening and saw that the threads inside hung loosely and a door stood in the distance.
• The group spotted an old loom beneath the threads, and Shi Shuai suggested stealing it.

Xu Huo and the others entered a loom-filled room in search of an Easter Egg, but a Giant Eyed Fish Mask Player opened a Cabinet containing two pouches that released hostile item fish. The fish pursued whoever had last touched a pouch, and the chapter ended with the group fleeing through the corridor as the fish hunted them.

• The young girl sent a robot toward the loom's door, but it could not open it, and the white threads sealed the group's window opening.
• Shi Shuai and the young girl shouted for help, and a Player entered the room, damaged the loom, and opened the door to a Cabinet.
• The Player took a pouch labeled as an Easter Egg, releasing a flying item fish that attacked him.
• The Player threw the pouch through the window, and the item fish targeted Shi Shuai, who had touched it.
• The Player took the second pouch and tried to pass it to Xu Huo's group, but Ai Jiangping's attempt to throw it outside failed when the Player pulled it back.
• Xu Huo's group split up and fled as item fish pursued them, while Tang Xian's defensive artifact struck the Player aside.

Xu Huo and his companions escaped the fish’s mouth back into Fish Banquet Tower and climbed toward the higher floors amid the Carnival Day slaughter. On the twenty-fifth floor, they encountered a gang of killers, and Xu Huo used his Spiritual World to isolate their leader.

• Shi Shuai was swallowed by the growing fish, which pulled the girl and the painted woman along with him before Xu Huo fell into its mouth too.
• Xu Huo, the girl, the painted woman, and Shi Shuai emerged from the fish on the Twelfth Floor, where Xu Huo rescued the round-faced Player from attackers.
• The round-faced Player warned Xu Huo that groups were hunting people across the floors, but he followed Xu Huo upstairs along with Shi Shuai and the others.
• The girl and the painted woman made Shi Shuai walk ahead of them to face any danger as the group climbed toward the higher floors.
• On the twenty-fifth floor, a crew-cut killer ordered his gang to keep the women alive and kill the rest, so Xu Huo released his Spiritual World and pulled the man in front of him.

Xu Huo's group fought a three-way battle in a corridor until the buzz-cut man's side began to lose ground. Xu Huo pinned the buzz-cut man and demanded to know what he knew about the Mermaid Mask.

• A player attacked Xu Huo's group as soon as he emerged from the Space Portal, and the clash escalated into a corridor fight.
• The little girl, painted woman, and Shi Shuai joined the battle, while Shi Shuai's flash artifact left everyone fighting with their eyes closed.
• A third group joined the melee, but the newcomers and some of the buzz-cut man's allies eventually retreated.
• Xu Huo held off the buzz-cut man as both sides reached a stalemate, then caught him when he tried to escape.
• Xu Huo pinned the buzz-cut man against the wall and asked him about the Mermaid Mask.

Xu Huo learned how the Mermaid Game worked and obtained two Mermaid Masks from Qiu Ping. A female player asked him to help rescue her friend, who had been brought to Fish Banquet Tower as a mermaid, and offered to enter the game with him.

• A round-faced player explained that the Mermaid Game took place on certain floors during Carnival Day and required a Mermaid Mask to enter.
• Qiu Ping offered Xu Huo a favor and A-class items as collateral, but Xu Huo refused a contract and let him go after taking two Mermaid Masks and an invitation.
• The round-faced player described the game’s high-stakes gambling, while Xu Huo’s companions warned that its wealthy players and bodyguards made it dangerous.
• A female player offered three high-level items for a Mermaid Mask and explained that her friend had been captured and might be taken into the Mermaid Game.
• Xu Huo said the game required someone to bring a mermaid inside, and the female player offered to wear the mask and accompany him.

After Carnival Day ended, Xu Huo and his companions found a safe room and prepared to enter the Mermaid Game. Xu Huo, Hua Sisi, and the round-faced Player opened a door to a recreation room where eight screens awaited the players and the Fair Dealer began explaining the game.

• Xu Huo and his companions searched nearby rooms until Hua Sisi opened an empty one, where the Painted Woman agreed to stay with the group.
• Shi Shuai, the little girl, Hua Sisi, and the round-faced Player settled into the room with Xu Huo and fended off two players who tried to enter.
• That evening, Xu Huo took Hua Sisi and the round-faced Player to a room on the twenty-third floor, while the Painted Woman stayed behind.
• Xu Huo opened the door and found a recreation room divided by eight screens around a round table, then took a seat as the screens lit up.
• A floating puppet introduced itself as the Fair Dealer, joked that it could not see the players' true appearances, and began explaining the rules.

Xu Huo joined a wager at Fish Banquet Tower, where players gambled with mermaids and valuable items. He successfully called a multiple of the chosen number, keeping his stake as the winnings began to accumulate.

• The puppet explained the wager rules and introduced the spinning wheel and dice game.
• Women and one man emerged from behind the screens as mermaid stakes, and Hua Sisi joined them with a control chip on her forehead.
• The players rolled dice to decide who would wager first, and Xu Huo matched the young man's wager with two B-class items.
• The young man stopped the bead on 4, and Xu Huo waited before calling a correct multiple, keeping his stake.
• Two players called the wrong numbers, losing fifteen items that were divided among the players who matched the wager.

Xu Huo played the Mermaid Game at Fish Banquet Tower and learned that callers and bettors risked their stakes, with the game rewarding accurate dice calls. When a quiet player behind Screen No. 5 won the draw to call the second round and raised the base stake to an A-class instrument, Xu Huo added two A-class items, setting off a high-stakes round.

• Xu Huo learned that he could not change his base stake in the first round and that Hua Sisi had been rated a low-value C-class Mermaid.
• Xu Huo called a number correctly, and five players won bets in his round as the first eight rounds ended.
• The fair croupier introduced a new rule in which it chose callers, and the first player to stop the dice correctly became the caller.
• Xu Huo and the quiet player behind Screen No. 5 stopped the dice at the same time, and a random draw gave the other player the call.
• The player behind Screen No. 5 put up an A-class instrument as the base stake, and Xu Huo added two A-class items as the first bettor.
• The young man matched Xu Huo's two A-class items, while someone behind Screen No. 7 questioned whether the players could keep raising their stakes.

Xu Huo and the other Players gambled increasingly valuable items in the Mermaid Game, with Xu Huo becoming one of the biggest winners. As the game continued, Number 6 proposed betting an Instance Authorization Letter, and Xu Huo answered by offering a Perfect Potion.

• Xu Huo and the other Players raised their stakes to A-class items, and Xu Huo, Number 6, and Number 8 won the first game of the second round.
• Xu Huo and Number 5 emerged as the biggest winners by consistently guessing the multiplier correctly, while Numbers 4 and 7 lost heavily and left the game.
• As the one-hour Mermaid Game wore on, Players became distracted and only six remained.
• Number 6 proposed betting an authorization letter for a D-level Random Instance, and Xu Huo responded by tossing out a Perfect Potion.

Xu Huo offered a Potion said to be perfect as a wager at Fish Banquet Tower, drawing interest from the other players and the Fair Dealer. No. 1 called with a valuable mineral vein, while the Potion’s true nature remained uncertain.

• Xu Huo explained that the Potion had been given to him as a Perfect Evolution Potion, though he could not verify its contents.
• No. 1 questioned why Xu Huo would risk a Potion that could be worth a fortune, while Xu invited the players to wager against it.
• The Fair Dealer offered to buy the Potion for Fish Banquet, and No. 5 warned Xu that selling it could expose him to trouble if it proved fake.
• Xu kept the Potion on the table, and No. 1 called with a mineral vein producing about 1.5 billion White Cash in annual net profit for seven years.
• Xu cautioned the round-faced Player that the Potion’s high potential price did not mean anyone could be sure it was genuine or realize its full value.

Xu Huo joined a wager over the suspected Perfect Potion, but repeated interference kept the dice game from producing a winner. He collected his Potion and left the venue with Hua Sisi and the round-faced Player, disguising them as they hurried away.

• No. 1, No. 6, and No. 8 placed stakes, and the four participants agreed to take turns calling the dice numbers while the Fair Croupier oversaw the game.
• Someone interfered with No. 6’s dice, so the Fair Croupier voided the round and restarted it despite No. 8’s objections.
• After several rounds ended without a winner, Xu Huo realized Nos. 2 and 5 were also sabotaging the dice to prevent anyone from winning the Potion.
• Xu Huo deliberately interfered with the others’ dice in the final round, then collected his Potion and settled the game.
• Xu Huo disguised himself and hurried through the venue with Hua Sisi and the round-faced Player as the Mermaid Game’s deadline approached.

Xu Huo and his companions were trapped by Players seeking his Perfect Potion, and No. 1 and No. 6 pressured him to sell it. A man wearing a shark Mask arrived on Miss Zhai’s orders, forcing the two rivals to leave and escorting Xu Huo to meet her.

• Xu Huo, Hua Sisi, and the round-faced Player found the routes off their floor sealed and confronted the group blocking them.
• No. 6 offered Xu Huo twice his gambling-table price for the Perfect Potion but wanted a sample to verify it.
• No. 1 arrived and offered the same price without inspecting the Potion, while he and No. 6 argued over their rivalry.
• The round-faced Player suggested throwing the Potion to make the others fight over it, but Xu Huo faced pressure to choose a buyer.
• A man wearing a shark Mask announced that Miss Zhai wanted to see Xu Huo, prompting No. 1 and No. 6 to withdraw.
• The shark Mask removed the barriers, gave Xu Huo No. 6’s contact information, and led Xu Huo away.

Xu Huo confronted Fish Banquet Tower’s owner, rejected her offer to work for her, and used Time Power against her and her Players. Fish Banquet Tower displaced the room to escape, but the exchange opened a deadly pit, forcing Xu Huo to flee as shadows dragged people inside.

• The woman welcomed Xu Huo, punished him for speaking out of turn, and offered him a job at Fish Banquet Tower.
• Xu Huo rejected the offer and tried to seize the woman with his Time Ring, but it initially failed to affect anyone in the room.
• Xu Huo unleashed a torrent of Time Power that froze the attacking Players and rapidly aged the woman.
• Fish Banquet Tower shifted the room to escape the Time Power, causing the space to collapse into a bottomless pit.
• Xu Huo activated the Water Rubik's Cube barrier and fled down the tower as black shadows dragged Players into the pit.