Recaps

Xu Huo survived the underground Sub-district’s illusions, claimed a powerful artifact, and returned to District 011 to confront the Werner family over their treatment of him. After Hua Han trained him in Time Power, Xu began taking control of the Herta family’s assets and inspected the Hand of Time and Space.

• Xu Huo resisted the underground mental interference, recovered memories of Xu Zhi’s death, and rebuilt his Spiritual World after merging with his younger selves.
• Xu Huo and Yan Jiayu discovered that the underground city and its people were hallucinations, then followed the Golden-eyed Player toward a cavern of ore and planted the Goddess Vine.
• Xu Huo cut an artifact from the scaled vines’ main plant, killed the Golden-eyed Players who tried to take it, and escaped with Yan Jiayu and the artifact.
• Unpolished Jade used Edwards’s nameplate to secure her inheritance, while Xu Huo sent Yan Jiayu away and returned to District 011 with the Goddess Vine.
• Xu Huo confronted Kag Herta and killed more than 120 players at a banquet before Hua Han stopped time, intervened, and took Xu Huo to Xiu City.
• Hua Han explained the Werner elders’ hostility and trained Xu Huo to control Time Power, while Xu Huo learned that the Herta family’s assets now belonged to him.
• Xu Huo selected managers for the Herta mines, businesses, and laboratories, accepted Kuintu Werner’s apology, and inspected the A-class Hand of Time and Space.

Xu Huo explored District 022’s attractions while collecting tokens and posting travel logs, then entered a manor dungeon where he confronted Mr. Wen and ended the killings. After surviving attacks and evading corrupt officers, he joined a group planning to enter Punishment City as a diversion.

• Xu Huo bought Old Mr. Xi’s Hand of Time and Space, examined the Werner family’s apology gifts, and uncovered a poisoned trap around an intact Origin Stone.
• Xu Huo entered District 022’s route-map dungeon with Zhou Juanjuan, Levi, and Zhan Erliu, collected souvenirs, and posted travel logs as he traveled through the cities.
• At Rosewood, Xu Huo investigated the red-feathered hummingbirds and the manor’s visitors before the estate became a dungeon called “Hero in Decline.”
• After players began dying in the manor, Xu Huo identified Mr. Wen as the likely target and learned of his abuse, cannibalism, and desperation to survive.
• Xu Huo fought Mr. Wen in the gardens and greenhouse, used the Time Tower to age him to death, and ended the dungeon.
• Xu Huo exposed impostor enforcement officers, killed two players who attacked an aircraft, and evaded a search while continuing his souvenir hunt.
• Xu Huo fulfilled the Bride’s Tears requirement by giving two B-level citizen identity privileges to newlyweds, then agreed to bring more Players into a Punishment City diversion plan with Hong Shi among the group.

Xu Huo exposed Punishment City’s experiments and later uncovered the Chief Executive’s daughter’s crimes, rescuing Gu Huifeng for Xin Qin. In Lake City, he met Madam Ruo, who revealed she had waited ten years for the man who once saved her.

• Hong Shi recruited Xu Huo and other Players to destroy devices in Punishment City, but Xu Huo sensed the plan might be a scam.
• Xu Huo and Chai Sheng discovered Punishment City’s underground experiments on degenerated Players, while Xu Huo reunited with the curly-haired woman and a burly Player amid attacks by Aliens.
• Xu Huo destroyed Punishment City and broke its barrier, while Black Sea Technology and local officials faced public outrage over the facility and its victims.
• Xu Huo investigated Gu Huifeng’s disappearance and learned that the Star City Chief Executive’s youngest daughter, Leijie Lian, had abducted him and killed people at the manor.
• Xu Huo forced Leijie Lian to transfer My Heart Is Gloomy, then exchanged her for Gu Huifeng and reunited the sculptor with Xin Qin.
• Xu Huo traveled to Lake City, heard local stories about Madam Ruo, and arranged to meet her through the Boss Lady.
• Xu Huo and Gong Ying visited Madam Ruo at Whale Garden, where she revealed that she had killed her family after becoming a Player and had waited ten years for the man who saved her.

Xu Huo uncovered Madam Ruo’s past, resolved his business in Lake City, and traveled through District 022 before its government and history came under attack. As the city collapsed, he discovered a Super Dimensional Instrument was central to the fighting and refused the government’s request to intervene.

• Xu Huo learned that Madam Ruo’s apparent siblings were personalities who had lived in her body, then helped her confront her past and drew portraits of her different selves.
• A group led by a white-haired elder attacked Madam Ruo over a massacre, and Xu Huo fought her before negotiating a truce that let him leave Lake City with a mechanical heart.
• Xu Huo traveled through District 022, investigated Stellar Pharmaceutical and Bookworm, and finished his tourist route after District 022’s government compensated him for Sandy’s attack.
• Lei Xiaohe and other Players warned Xu Huo that a major attack was coming, and the celebration in Capital Prefecture was interrupted by a suspended city and assaults on the district.
• Xu Huo and his companions survived the attack as the pale leader blamed District 022 for destroying his homeland, while reports accused the government of trafficking people and conducting experiments.
• Xu Huo questioned Leijie Lian about District 022’s dealings with Stellar Pharmaceutical and went with her to search for a Perfect Potion, but found the research institute destroyed.
• Xu Huo discovered that a Super Dimensional Instrument was suppressing the attackers’ equipment, then declined to steal it as a powerful man devastated the city and the government asked him to stall the attacker.