Recaps

Xu Huo survived a train experiment that blurred reality and intensified his Mental Evolution Aftereffect, then returned to Rose Castle and became involved with District 011’s noble families. He settled into a life in the district while remaining concerned about his shadow personality, and Yan Jiayu arrived at the castle.

• Xu Huo discovered that the box contained White Blood, broke its spatial container, and later helped contain the toxin outbreak in Yuquan City with Antidote-treated water.
• Xu Huo left District 035 for District 011, gained new items and abilities, and began suffering worsening Aftereffects as his Mental Evolution progressed.
• On the train, Xu Huo and the passengers faced apparent drownings, mental disturbances, and attacks by an Alien, only for the events to be revealed as a forcibly interrupted experiment that had created a shared false reality.
• Xu Huo returned to Rose Castle and reviewed the train incident, realizing that the passengers’ differing thoughts had shaped their shared experience while his shadow personality continued to evade him.
• Xu Huo attended a Werner family banquet, found a hidden black key during the family’s hunt, and chose the black box as his gift.
• Xu Huo decided to live in District 011 and focused on managing his Mental Evolution Aftereffect, while Lady Lily explained the district’s noble customs and the Werner family’s interest in him.
• Xu Huo continued investigating District 011’s Super Player and worrying about his shadow personality before Yan Jiayu arrived at Rose Castle and changed her appearance at his warning.

Xu Huo questioned his approach to Temporal Evolution, then left District 011 with the painted woman and entered the Doll instance. The players found a dead participant and a doll bearing his likeness as the Castle’s dangers began to emerge.

• Xu Huo expanded his mental space and visited Huahan Werner, whose account of Time Power made him question his approach to Temporal Evolution.
• Xu Huo investigated the Time Box, concluded he needed to perceive differences between Time Power from different spaces, and left District 011 with the painted woman.
• Xu Huo and the painted woman traveled by train, where he confronted a thief and investigated two mysterious deaths.
• Xu Huo arrived in Xicheng amid conflict between the Shadow Eater sect and other Players, then traveled to Ye City and entered the Doll instance.
• Xu Huo and the painted woman joined the other players in the Castle, where they learned they had to obtain a doll that satisfied its maker.
• Zuo Yu recognized an A-class Player among the dolls, and the players found a dead participant on the dining table after a night of unexplained attacks.
• The painted woman revealed she had injured a huge black cat and moved the dead player’s body, while Xu Huo found a doll resembling the high-ponytail woman.

Xu Huo survived the Puppet Dungeon’s deadly doll rules, cleared it alongside the painted woman, and then entered a Random Instance in a city distorted by fog and time. He joined Wang Ling and the sweet girl in investigating the unreal city before meeting a group whose records mysteriously stopped each night.

• At dinner, the Castle’s owner killed the middle-aged man and the high-ponytailed Player, and Xu Huo began investigating how the doll maker’s rules worked.
• After dolls appeared with missing parts, the sweet girl destroyed Zuo Yu’s doll, the long-clothed man planted fake dolls and fought the others, and the Players struggled to keep their dolls intact and avoid provoking the doll maker.
• Xu Huo urged the Players to cooperate, but the long-clothed man’s schemes led to a group attack, and the sweet girl struck him down, and the short man later died when the puppet rule crushed him.
• The Players survived a night of attacks by artifact beasts emerging from paintings, and the painted woman received puppets from the Paper Puppeteer while Xu Huo tested the scripture’s power.
• Xu Huo proposed that three satisfactory dolls would appear by the seventh day, killed a Player who attacked him, and returned his defective doll to the servant.
• Dove tattoo, the sweet girl, and Fluorescent Powder killed the glasses player, whose puppet appeared in a display case, and Xu Huo and the painted woman then collected their belongings and cleared the Puppets Dungeon.
• After shopping with the painted woman, Xu Huo entered a restaurant in Cockscomb Flower City, where Players vanished and a grieving woman asked whether they had seen her missing son.
• Xu Huo investigated Dr. Wu’s abandoned laboratory and a factory linked to him, then entered a fogbound city where he met Wang Ling and learned not to eat its food.
• The sweet girl joined Xu Huo and Wang Ling at the Time Tower, where they compared clocks and marked their progress before splitting up to explore.
• Xu Huo met Feng Hui, Hong Chen, and Yue Rui after spotting Meng Wenguang, and learned from their notebook that their records stopped after 9:10 each night.

Xu Huo investigated Pumpkin City’s nightly resets and the murders of Dr. Wu’s family, uncovering a city shaped by Curved Time. He reached Dr. Wu and began using Time Power, while the unstable city was set to disappear in ten days.

• Xu Huo and the Players found that their records vanished after 9:17 p.m., then returned to investigate Pumpkin City when Wang Ling restarted the Time Tower and the city reappeared.
• Xu Huo’s group investigated Little Star Company and learned that Players were being purged by Time Power, while Shen Liang connected Pumpkin City’s unusual streets to Curved Time.
• Xu Huo joined forces with Tang Ming and other Players, who revealed that Dr. Wu’s wife and daughter were murdered at Sunshine Tree No. 12 at 9:17 p.m.
• Xu Huo and the others stopped a robber from killing Dr. Wu’s family, but the events still appeared in the city’s news report, and they discovered that clocks on different streets showed different times.
• Xu Huo concluded that Pumpkin City’s streets followed Curved Time, then disturbed the Time Rays and realized that Three Seconds of Life could capture and manipulate them.
• Tang Ming attacked the group, but Xu Huo rewound his strike and drew Curved Time toward 12th Street, where Tang Ming disintegrated in a stream of Time Power.
• Xu Huo met Dr. Wu, who explained that Curved Time could return someone to an earlier state, gave him a P5S potion, and warned that Pumpkin City would disappear in ten days.
• Xu Huo took the Time Ring from Lu Miaomiao, helped Yue Rui perceive the Time Rays, and began using nearby Curved Time through items while recognizing that he had not mastered it.