Recaps

Xu Huo navigated the Special Defense Department’s crackdown on Cannibal Players and used his upgraded Seventeenth Hospital to trap Players in a mental Dungeon. Inside, he tested its rules, guided his allies through its shifting reality, and met A Yi and A Ying searching for a pathogen sample.

• Xu Huo killed Young Master Qiu, confronted Team Leader Song’s officers, and declared himself separate from the First Association as Nie Xuan took control of the investigation.
• Xu Huo announced he would visit Special Defense Department headquarters, posted advice for civilian Players, and discussed the Fog Zone and the game’s origins with Nie Xuan.
• The Special Defense Department prepared for Xu Huo’s visit, while Xu Huo traveled to Capital City and learned that Dai Wenqian wanted Tang Guangbo killed.
• Xu Huo gathered Gu Yu, Zheng Liang, and Wen Xue Lin to draw Cannibal Players away from headquarters, then entered a Dense Fog Zone and activated Seventeenth Hospital to trap ten Players.
• Seventeenth Hospital upgraded to D-class, expanded its grounds, and imposed new rules as Gu Yu, Zheng Liang, and other Players struggled through the hospital’s dangerous routines and imagined creatures.
• Xu Huo explained the Dungeon’s workings to Gu Yu’s group, while the Players woke in a seemingly ordinary hospital where their panels and abilities no longer worked.
• Xu Huo restrained a scarred Player and showed Zheng Liang photos of Xu Zhi visiting him, but Zheng Liang refused to leave the hospital.
• Xu Huo joined A Yi and A Ying in searching the sealed sample storage room, found it empty, and explained that blocking the Dungeon’s medium could reduce its influence.

Xu Huo ended the hospital Dungeon, then helped uncover and counter the source of the poisonous black rain as Aliens overwhelmed the city. After learning that Country Y had kidnapped Tongtong, he raced to a sealed building and joined the search there.

• Xu Huo completed the hospital Dungeon, killed Bentley Abe, escaped the Special Defense Department, and warned Zheng Liang’s group that the black rain was poisonous.
• Xu Huo discovered that an Antidote Syringe could cure Alien poison, rescued two children, and went to investigate the rain’s source near Wenshan Mountain.
• Xu Huo fought Country Y’s Players at the depression, where Code Name B activated a device and the white spiral staircase appeared before Big Scissors attacked him.
• Xu Huo killed Code Name B and recovered a cube-like electronic item from an Alien, then realized the item was connected to the rain and the Aliens heading toward Capital City.
• Xu Huo had the painted woman throw the cube into the rain clouds, stopping the rain and reversing the Black Water into Country Y’s temporary base.
• Xu Huo and the painted woman traveled toward Gu Yu, but Xu Huo discovered an attacker was following him and learned that Country Y had kidnapped Tongtong.
• Xu Huo sent the painted woman into a sealed building to protect Tongtong, then joined a Special Defense Department team searching the building as hidden Players attacked them with illusions and dolls.

Xu Huo rescued Tongtong, struck Y Country’s Safe Zones, and returned to investigate the Sifang Palace instance. The players uncovered clues linking disappearances to local religious customs, mirrors, and hotel peepholes, and Xu Huo prepared to test the danger directly.

• Xu Huo fought through the Ninth Floor and rescued Tongtong, then entrusted him to Team Leader Wu and the Special Defense Department.
• Xu Huo gathered supplies and support before entering Y Country with Lichun, but he crossed the border alone after detecting poison aboard Nix’s plane.
• Xu Huo and the painted woman caused the metal structures in Y Country’s Safe Zones to crumble, and Y Country’s leaders later accused the Special Defense Department while Minister Fan’s team protected Xu Huo’s family.
• Nie Xuan investigated the Seventeenth Hospital Random Instance as Xu Huo entered the Sifang Palace instance with other Players and learned that they had to find lodging before midnight.
• After You Jun and other Players vanished from the hotel, Xu Huo searched the woods and discovered a broken stone carving that conflicted with the instance briefing.
• Xu Huo and Yi Pei questioned locals and the hotel manager, learning that residents avoided mirrors and that people who disrespected the gods or opened wooden cabinets had disappeared.
• Xu Huo learned from Cao Dong that hotel wall carvings seemed to come alive at night, then reasoned with Yi Pei that reliefs, mirrors, and peepholes might be connected to the disappearances.
• Xu Huo proposed testing the hotel peephole when the manager knocked that night, and Yi Pei agreed to help.

Xu Huo uncovered the Eye Offering’s influence and led the Players into Sifang Palace City, where they fought its machines, monsters, and hidden Dungeon Boss. After escaping the ruined city and clearing the dungeon, he returned to District 011 and resumed investigating his items and next destination.

• Xu Huo investigated the eye’s influence, discovered the submerged road to Sifang Palace City, and survived the town’s growing attacks and disappearances.
• During the Eye Offering Festival, Xu Huo and the Players crossed the drained pond with the procession and entered Sifang Palace City.
• Xu Huo fought the black-armored robots, learned they were puppets made by the Suitcase Man, and joined a plan to burn the city and target its eye totems and drum.
• Xu Huo entered Sifang Palace, resisted the giant eye, and battled a hidden monster while the others fled and the city burned.
• Xu Huo escaped the palace, but Xiaoyun became an Alien and died, while Fang Penghui and others were killed, and Xu Huo rescued Yi Pei and Bian Jin and left the county with them.
• Xu Huo and Wei Xian opened the sluice gate, exposed the Stone Bridge, and later Xu Huo left a Bone-Corroding Worm and a taunt in the palace before escaping the Dungeon Boss’s attack.
• The Suitcase Man entered the ruins and was attacked by Xu Huo’s paper crane as his Leather Case spread a colorful world through the city.
• Xu Huo returned to District 011, met Mr. Dong at Rose Castle, arranged a place and identity for the painted woman as Xu Chun, and considered his next leads, including the Diamond Key’s destination and news from District 001.