Recaps

Xu Huo left District 001 and the Platinum Eye, then entered the B-class Dungeon Hidden Friend with the painted woman. As the village’s warnings and the dwindling player count deepened the mystery, Bubble Bean and the Yin Yang Master turned on Xu Huo and searched the fog for him and his supposed sister.

• Xu Huo traced the kidnapped women’s captivity to a Factory, rescued them, and destroyed the building before Wu Xing explained Fish Banquet Tower’s local connections.
• Xu Huo discussed the old Holy Sword Society’s plans with its white-haired elder, but rejected joining them and left with the painted woman.
• Xu Huo returned home, arranged a possible Mechanical Castle deal for the Xin family, and lent Bai Kou Angel’s Eyes in exchange for her authorization and a portable energy bomb.
• Xu Huo prepared to leave the Platinum Eye as news spread that Shi Shuai, the Gourmand, had become an S-class Wanted Criminal, then boarded a train for District 020 with the painted woman.
• Xu Huo entered the B-class Dungeon Hidden Friend at C31-020, met a village family in the fog, and heard warnings about a figure that called people outside and made them disappear.
• Xu Huo encountered Bubble Bean and the Yin Yang Master, questioned villagers about the hidden friend, and reasoned that its calls targeted one person at a time as the player count fell.
• Bubble Bean and the Yin Yang Master pursued Xu Huo and the painted woman through the fog, attacked them, and tried to force Xu Huo to help them.
• Xu Huo blocked their attacks and withdrew while the painted woman disguised herself and followed the pair, who failed to teleport away and suspected she was nearby.

Xu Huo investigated the forest’s disappearances and the hidden friend while Players vanished and villagers shared conflicting accounts. He concluded the forest could replay past sights and sounds, then trapped Bubble Bean in his Spiritual World, where Bubble Bean collapsed after his weapon pierced his chest.

• Xu Huo rescued Grandma Yi’s granddaughter from an underground tree hollow, and she said Sister Toto had called her into the forest.
• Xu Huo found carnivorous plant seeds beneath Tuo Tuo’s grave while the Players argued over whether to provoke the hidden friend.
• Players became unnaturally sleepy at night, and Yang Tian disappeared before You Daqian found him poisoned in the forest.
• Xu Huo deliberately fell behind a mushroom-picking group and discovered that he had been trapped in a repeating area of the forest.
• Xu Huo seized a gaunt woman hiding in a tree, learned that impostors had killed Players, and reunited with missing villagers and Players.
• The Players formed groups to watch one another, but a voice lured the painted woman into the woods and she returned with a broken robot repeating her name.
• After a funeral trip caused more Players to vanish, the remaining Players split up, and Xu Huo questioned Grandma Yi about out-of-season plants.
• Xu Huo reasoned that the forest recorded and replayed sights and sounds, then drew Bubble Bean into his Spiritual World, where Bubble Bean’s weapon pierced his chest.

Xu Huo cleared the Hidden Friend Dungeon, then entered a new Dungeon where he and his companions traveled from Cat Fruit Town while investigating the Wan family and facing attacks meant to delay their journey. He gathered a group of Players to push ahead, but a Jammer forced their aircraft down and another fight began.

• Xu Huo lured Bubble Bean through a forest illusion, found him among the Dungeon’s memories, and cleared the Hidden Friend Dungeon without killing anyone.
• Xu Huo took the Dungeon’s Instance Authorization Letter and suspended it, then left with the painted woman and met Bubble Bean aboard the train.
• Xu Huo began the Cat Whiskers Fruit Journey, researched Cat Fruit Town and Cat Eye City, and brought Bubble Bean and Ling Ling into his investigation.
• Xu Huo visited the Wan family, received a Cat Whisker Fruit, and later agreed to escort Old Mrs. Gui on her delivery journey.
• Hidden attackers ambushed Ling Ling’s group and repeatedly struck Xu Huo’s party aboard the train, prompting Xu Huo to pursue and wound a disguised Conductor.
• Xu Huo switched the group to an aircraft and fought six Players waiting in the woods, using his artifacts and abilities until they vanished.
• Xu Huo met Ling Ling and other intercepted Players in Xiao'an City, recruited a group including Wen Xin, and set out to travel beside the track.
• A Jammer forced the aircraft down, and Xu Huo, the painted woman, Wen Xin, and the others jumped out to fight before regrouping and moving on.

Xu Huo followed the cat-whisker fruit delivery through a political struggle in District 001 while surviving attacks tied to an underground betting pool. After Mr. Valen withdrew from the election and the Wan family was abducted, Xu Huo traced evidence toward the Mi family and prepared to confront them.

• Xu Huo investigated Old Mrs. Gui’s delivery, fought attackers who targeted the group, and learned that she was seeking her grandson’s killer and a cat connected to him.
• Xu Huo bought tracking devices and detonators, then the group entered Pharmaceutical City, where jamming devices trapped them and Bubble Bean began acting strangely.
• Xu Huo joined Wen Xin’s group to disrupt the betting pool targeting traveling Players, drawing the wager’s participants and the enforcement squad into a clash at a medicinal field.
• Xu Huo followed cats carrying Old Mrs. Gui’s messages to an elderly woman, who read the secret writing and said the matter had ended.
• After Mr. Valen withdrew from the election, Xu Huo discovered that the Wan family had been abducted and identified Mrs. Valen Shera as Mr. Valen’s mother.
• Xu Huo questioned witnesses and examined surveillance footage, finding evidence that the Wan family had been taken and that Wan Dong was dating Mi Fei.
• Old Mrs. Gui reported that Mi Fei was under house arrest, and Xu Huo planned to use a witness to draw the Mi family’s attention while he negotiated over the kidnapping.