Recaps

Xu Huo survived the Little Flower Red Red Building by leading the remaining players against its Mutated Plants and Mutants, then returned home with a Purple Flower and new rewards. After learning that District 014 was rapidly changing, he entered the Hundred People Art Museum instance with Fan Shiji, where the search for a fake painting turned dangerous after lights-out.

• Xu Huo and Dai Wenqian investigated the elevators, discovered a Mermaid in an iron box, and devised a plan to use an overloaded elevator as bait for the attacks.
• Xu Huo led volunteers into the elevator, where a Giant Man-Eating Flower captured them, and the survivors fled through the Glass Greenhouse as flowers and Mutant Animals attacked.
• Xu Huo reunited with Gu Yu’s survivors, helped defeat Tie Ge’s faction, and discovered that the Thirteenth Floor’s danger came from the flower’s roots and poisonous pollen.
• Xu Huo organized preparations against the Man-Eating Flower, but Mutants and Aliens climbed into the building, killing many survivors before the group retreated to the fifteenth floor.
• Xu Huo returned to the Thirteenth Floor, retrieved the Purple Flower, received his Dungeon rewards, and left the Instance while the painted woman warned him that his stepfather was waiting by the car.
• Xu Huo learned that Zhang Biao and another player had died after leaving the Dungeon early, then returned to Ting City with the painted woman and heard Yuan Yao’s account of surviving a Dungeon by selling his flesh.
• Xu Huo entered the Hundred People Art Museum instance with Fan Shiji, where the Players began searching for a fake painting and encountered strange artwork and a violent, mute Player.
• After the museum lights went out, Xu Huo secured his room and fought Ni Tian when she tried to attack him.

Xu Huo cleared the museum dungeon, advanced to D-class, and returned to a world where he trained with Zhou Ning and investigated the vanished Seventeenth Hospital. The arc left him seeking answers from the hospital’s former staff and patients.

• Xu Huo uncovered how the museum’s Living Paintings trapped players, survived the Statue Monster, and completed the dungeon’s three tasks with Wei Da, earning an S Super Rating and D-class status.
• Xu Huo returned to District 014, fought off kidnappers, and declined Nie Xuan’s invitation to join the 014A Foreign Special Defense Department.
• Yu Qingqing moved in with Xu Huo after passing the Preliminary Train, and Zhou Ning told him that her friends from the Holy Sword Society clash had not survived.
• Xu Huo sparred with Zhou Ning, learned how her Medusa Abilities affected her judgment, and advised her to set limits so she could retreat from danger.
• Xu Huo visited Professor Lin and learned that Seventeenth Hospital had vanished from records, while several child patients and their families had disappeared or died years earlier.
• Professor Lin recalled that Chang Bei had hyperthymesia and warned him that another child was collecting pills to poison him.
• Xu Huo gave Professor Lin money and urged him to move somewhere safer, then visited the former doctor’s son, Liao Xu, and asked the doctor how many people had worked at Seventeenth Hospital.

After exposing the Yang family’s abuses and escaping the Special Defense Department, Xu Huo entered an amusement-park Dungeon with Yan Jiayu. They survived its games, uncovered clues about its shifting rules, and ended by bargaining with a bear for the location of a Quiz Game.

• Xu Huo killed Yang Chao, exposed the facilities holding Evolvers, and escaped the Special Defense Department after refusing to join it.
• Xu Huo found Yan Jiayu at a puppet Dungeon entrance, and they entered the amusement park together as Player Passerby A and Player abbot.
• Xu Huo and Yan Jiayu cleared Rabbit Bear Happy Park games, bought hats, and discovered that players faced strict rules about the hats and the park’s games.
• Xu Huo and Yan Jiayu fought off Players who tried to exploit the hat rules, then defeated Uncle Bear by using candy to help Yan Jiayu win its toe-stepping game.
• Xu Huo and Yan Jiayu fought Senior and other Players, crushed Skin-Retaining Worms, divided the items they collected, and continued through the amusement park’s Game Points.
• Xu Huo and Yan Jiayu survived the Cube Maze’s shifting pillars and quiz, then met Jin Zhao and Peng Ru and considered how to find the missing Quiz Game location.
• Xu Huo won two rounds of Coin Guessing against a bear and bargained for the Quiz Game’s location, while another Player died trying to take his place.

Xu Huo cleared the amusement park game and then became trapped in a hospital where he had no access to his abilities or the game panel. As he investigated the hospital’s strange transformations and the patients’ fading grasp on reality, he began exploring a spiral staircase and the Dungeon’s hidden spaces.

• Xu Huo uncovered the hidden tenth Game Point in the Lighthouse, collected the Little Hats with Yan Jiayu and Tang Xiao, and cleared the game.
• Xu Huo left the amusement park with Yan Jiayu, questioned the Abstract Man about Super Evolution, and upgraded several items into Heavy Steps.
• Xu Huo and Yan Jiayu encountered a fog-bound area and a horde of Aliens, after which Xu Huo woke in Seventeenth Hospital with his abilities and game panel gone.
• Xu Huo learned that the hospital treated Players’ memories as delusions, met Sima Xiao Er, and joined the other patients’ search for a way out.
• Xu Huo found a hidden door leading to a spiral staircase and descended for twelve hours until he reached a Round Tower containing a table and three objects.
• With a key from Xu Zhi, Xu Huo returned to the Round Tower, faced three shadowy figures, and used the White-Covered Book to spread white through the darkness.
• Xu Huo explored the Fourth Floor with Sima Xiao Er and explained that Spiritual Contamination let patients’ imagined dangers affect the hospital, before entering the Treatment Room alone.