Recaps

Xu Huo traced the Black Snake tattooed Player to Chang Shoujie and learned more about District 010’s collapse and the Sand Sea Safe Zone’s abuses. At the Polar Safe Zone, he found that Dr. Joyce had gone to CK22, leaving his connection to Melissa unresolved.

• Xu Huo helped the underground camp and its starving residents, gave a Potion to a dying child, and learned how famine and Black Thorn Disease had devastated District 010.
• Xu Huo followed the lead about the Black Snake tattoo to a walled town, then fought the Sand Sea Safe Zone’s Players after they attacked the town.
• Xu Huo killed Brother Lou and Ao Quan, freed captured townspeople, and learned from Chang Shoujie that a Stellar Pharmaceutical researcher had gone to the Polar Safe Zone.
• Chang Shoujie told Xu Huo how Cannibal Players, Alien hordes, disease, and shortages had brought District 010 to ruin, and Xu Huo took him toward the Polar Safe Zone.
• Xu Huo and his companions witnessed a battle between the Polar and Sand Sea Safe Zones over chained Aliens, then joined the Polar Players against the Sand Sea attackers.
• At the Polar Safe Zone, Xu Huo learned about Sand Sea’s forced reproduction experiments and secretly followed Fei Xian, who reported his questions about Dr. Joyce to Mr. Yuan.
• Xu Huo discovered that Dr. Joyce had left for CK22 and found his abandoned laboratory, while the Polar Safe Zone held a funeral and vowed to protect District 010.

Xu Huo searched CK22 and CK12 for Dr. Joyce, uncovering evidence of experiments that created human-Alien hybrids and finding a living child he used to draw out clues. After District 010’s Safe Zones gathered to learn about the Newborn, a struggle over a box presented as the child broke out.

• Xu Huo led his group through CK22, fought off Aliens and Players, then joined forces with six black-jacketed Players to search for Dr. Joyce.
• A sandstorm separated the group, and Chang Shoujie urged Gao Dawei to find Dr. Joyce and protect District 010 before Xu Huo returned to save them from the hostile Players.
• Xu Huo traced Dr. Joyce’s locator to buried CK12, found the remains of four people, and recovered a tracking chip embedded in an Alien’s leg.
• Xu Huo discovered that the Newborn was real and brought the child, whom he called Pink Hat, to the Polar Safe Zone while seeking information about Dr. Joyce and CK12 survivors.
• Dr. Deng identified Xu Huo’s samples as human children, and Xu Huo’s investigation of Dr. Joyce’s files revealed artificial-womb experiments that produced human-Alien hybrids.
• Players from across District 010 gathered to see Pink Hat, and Chang Shoujie confirmed she was from District 010 as Xu Huo pressed them for information about CK12.
• A Sand Sea Safe Zone attack scattered the Players, and Xu Huo followed a pink-haired Player to Juan Er, who threw him a large box that prompted Players to fight over it.

Xu Huo found Melissa in a buried hibernation pod and brought District 010 together to raise her, clearing the dungeon as the players accepted responsibility for her future. He then entered the Sand Sea Safe Zone to investigate its Aliens and uncovered a notebook pointing to Stellar Pharmaceutical Group laboratories.

• Xu Huo exposed the impostor among the players attacking the newborn and discovered that the child was not Melissa when she died without triggering dungeon failure.
• Xu Huo traced Dr. Joyce’s clues with Chang Shoujie, searched the desert, and found Melissa alive in a buried hibernation pod.
• Xu Huo revived Melissa, learned about her genetic condition, and brought her to District 010 while the Sand Sea Safe Zone attacked its neighbors.
• Xu Huo helped defeat the Sand Sea Players at Radiant Safe Zone, but Liao Xiaoyi initially refused to take responsibility for Melissa.
• After Melissa collapsed, Liao Xiaoyi explained her condition to District 010, and an anonymous vote showed that most players wanted to raise her.
• Xu Huo entrusted Melissa to Liao Xiaoyi and cleared the dungeon with an S rating, advancing from C-class to B-class Player.
• Xu Huo entered the Sand Sea Safe Zone to investigate its Aliens, fought Brother Xia’s group, and interrogated a Super Evolver who carried notes on Stellar Pharmaceutical Group Laboratories.
• Xu Huo followed the notebook’s lead to the southeastern city and found that the relocated Alien was still alive.

Xu Huo helped District 010 reclaim the Sand Sea Safe Zone, then investigated a strange time-bound estate and his visions of danger to Xiao Yuan. He left Xiao Yuan and Tan Qi in Bai Kou’s care before bringing them to the Platinum Eye, where a Clown welcomed them to the Strange Animal Show.

• Xu Huo rallied District 010’s players around their flag, helped them retake the Sand Sea Safe Zone, and encouraged the pink-haired man to turn his hatred toward the Game Government.
• Xu Huo left District 010 after giving Melissa a dagger and protective pendant, then discovered a used syringe that Natural Curl claimed might contain a rare S-version potion.
• Xu Huo fought Natural Curl aboard the train until an Alien migration forced a truce, and later arrived in District 011 with a vision of Xiao Yuan bloodied and surrounded by yellow flowers.
• Xu Huo decided to move Xiao Yuan and Tan Qi to the Platinum Eye, taught Tan Qi and Xiao Yuan how to defend themselves, and learned that the Rose Knight Medal had earned him standing among District 011’s Noble families.
• Xu Huo followed Noble scions into a sealed estate where rooms shifted between different states, and used Angel's Eyes to perceive and connect the Time Rays until he found a way out.
• Xu Huo learned that the Platinum Eye’s engagement with the Lang family had collapsed, then asked Bai Kou to help arrange for Xiao Yuan and Tan Qi to study under Madam Lu.
• Bai Kou warned Xu Huo that moving the children might not prevent the danger foretold by his visions, and Xu Huo left Angel's Eyes with her in exchange for a platinum badge and Yan Fang’s help.
• Xu Huo took Xiao Yuan and Tan Qi to the Platinum Eye, where a Clown welcomed them to the Strange Animal Show.