Recaps

Xu Huo escaped the Fog Zone’s mental contamination, survived a struggle over his unconscious body, and uncovered a plot by Hou Song to kill him. After confronting the shifting balance between Players and the Special Defense Department, he entered a new instance alone.

• Xu Huo discovered that the hospital was an unstable space formed from overlapping imaginations, reclaimed his Spiritual World from invading personalities, and rescued the trapped Players from their separate mental prisons.
• Xu Huo refused the offer to become the Dungeon’s Instance Authority Holder, then escaped the fading Fog Zone with Yan Jiayu and the others.
• While Xu Huo remained unconscious in Flower City, Yan Jiayu protected him from officials and rival Players, and Xu Huo emerged from the shadows to reunite with Zhou Ning’s group and confront Tan Yang’s Player Association.
• Xu Huo regained consciousness, returned toward Ting City, and helped defeat Players sent to kill him after learning that Hou Song had hired them to take his body.
• Xu Huo’s group lured Hou Song to a factory, where they ambushed him, but a hidden shooter killed him before Sima Xiao Er could decide his fate.
• Nie Xuan told Xu Huo that the Fog Zone had cost the Special Defense Department many Players and warned him about rising ambition, cults, and foreign interference.
• Xu Huo and his companions formed the Sunflower Squad, while the Special Defense Department debated whether civilian Players should receive Evolution Potions and official support.
• Xu Huo left his bank card with the painted woman and entered Garden Castle Station, where he found two emaciated people gnawing on a corpse.

Xu Huo survived a deadly train journey, reached Garden Castle, and entered Rose Castle to investigate its vanished guests. As the castle’s mysteries and Players’ conflicting agendas surfaced, he learned that the Chen Twins had killed Fang Min and confronted the Ma couple.

• Xu Huo boarded the train, endured a storm and a Train Slayer’s attack, and helped Shi Youzhi’s team capture the creature and its infant.
• Xu Huo reached Garden Castle, bought supplies from Deng Xuan, and entered a dungeon at Rose Castle to find a missing guest and uncover the truth.
• Xu Huo hunted and killed the qipao woman known as Human Skin Umbrella, then arrived at Rose Castle and met its guests and staff.
• Xu Huo investigated He Pu’s absence and the castle’s history while the guests formed a contract to share information about the Vanishing Guest.
• At a dinner hosted by He Pu, Xu Huo suspected the castle’s invitation sender and later fought a Human-Spider in his room as Fang Min was found dead.
• Xu Huo concluded that Hu Shan had turned part of Fang Min’s body to porcelain, while the guests argued over the murder and the flooded river cut off the castle.
• Xu Huo explored the Garden Maze as Fly and Li Chao formed an alliance, then fought the Chen Twins when they ambushed him in his room.
• Chen Tu admitted killing Fang Min, and the brothers revealed their plan to steal Tickets from Cannibal Players, and Xu Huo identified the Ma couple as Cannibal Players before confronting them outside his room.

Xu Huo exposed Fake He Pu as a wanted criminal and escaped the collapsing Rose Castle with the other players. After collecting his rewards and obtaining a citizen ID, he explored District 011 and arranged to buy potions from Deng Xuan, unaware that Brother Zhao’s group had sent someone to follow him.

• Xu Huo fought and killed Mr. and Mrs. Ma, then joined the other players in investigating the disappearances and targeting Mr. Dong.
• Xu Huo found Yu Shuai hidden in a wall and learned the missing guests’ preserved bodies were in a wardrobe in He Pu’s bedroom.
• At the Music Appreciation Session, Xu Huo revealed Fly as a non-mission player and exposed the players’ competing theories about the Vanishing Guest.
• Xu Huo identified He Pu as a wanted criminal impersonator and led the players in attacking him, while Liu Zheng Ping used a Return Ticket to leave.
• As Rose Castle collapsed, Xu Huo used the Five or Five Open Air Window to carry Fake He Pu to a Government facility, where the Enforcement Department captured him.
• Xu Huo received his game rewards, obtained a citizen ID, and bought defensive items after arriving in District 011.
• Xu Huo explored District 011 with Ran Ying’s help, then met Deng Xuan and arranged to buy potions in five days.
• Brother Zhao sent a man to follow Xu Huo, who noticed the pursuer at Yongxing Hotel and decided to give him a chance.

Xu Huo investigated the attacks on District 011’s Stations while reconnecting with Madam Butterfly at Rose Castle and uncovering He Pu’s hidden records. Madam Butterfly left him responsible for investigating Rongxin Group’s weapons, and Xu Huo turned to the base as he learned more about dangerous Dimensional Train routes.

• Xu Huo trapped the pursuing Player in World in the Painting, then disguised himself and traveled to Rose Castle, where he questioned Mr. Dong about He Pu.
• Xu Huo followed Deng Xuan and a Rongxin-linked group into a simulation game, where he witnessed Vison Meny’s hunt and ritual before tracing one of the Players to Zheng An.
• Xu Huo joined Shi Youzhi’s team repairing desert Station tracks, fought off attackers targeting the Repair Device, and withdrew with the team after the device was destroyed.
• Xu Huo investigated damage to District 011’s Stations and Rongxin Group, accepted a base job offer, and returned to Rose Castle as Duke Tar and Madam Butterfly arrived.
• Madam Butterfly sought Rongxin Group’s Class A Weapons and attacked Xu Huo in the Maze Garden, but retreated when he produced the Stopwatch.
• Xu Huo and Madam Butterfly discovered He Pu’s hidden room, where he found records of bombings and fires marked V and a Diamond Key bearing an address.
• Madam Butterfly revealed that she had come to steal weapons and challenged Xu Huo to locate Rongxin Group’s shipment, while he investigated He Pu’s illness and faced her inside his Spiritual World.
• Madam Butterfly left Xu Huo with the weapons investigation, and Xu Huo went to the base, where She Ping confirmed that some Dimensional Train routes connected to high-risk Dungeon worlds.