Recaps

Xu Huo and Yan Jiayu survived District 009’s violence and a dimensional storm, then learned about spaces with curved time while stranded with other Players. Back at the Ancient Castle, Xu Huo faced Bai Kou’s questions and a Black Shoulder Badge investigation into Dr. Deng and the Perfect Potion.

• Jiang Jiang combined her ring and pendant, destroying the Book Tower, then vanished after asking Xu Huo to find her in District 009.
• Xu Huo reunited with Yan Jiayu, and they endured District 009’s escalating violence, rescued survivors from a collapsed government building, and escaped by train.
• Xu Huo and Yan Jiayu survived an E3 dimensional storm that destroyed much of their train and left the passengers stranded in unstable space.
• Xu Huo and Yan Jiayu investigated poison-fueled violence among the stranded Players, while the Rail Supply Department eventually arrived to take them aboard a repair train.
• Xu Huo learned that curved-time spaces could distort time but offered no easy way to change the past, while Yan Jiayu and the other Players discussed their lives and the game.
• Xu Huo returned to the Ancient Castle, where Bai Kou challenged him about Fan Xiao and He Pu, and he arranged for Xiao Yuan to attend school in District 011.
• Ran Ying brought Black Shoulder Badge agents to Rose Castle to question Xu Huo about Dr. Deng, but the Duchess intervened and ordered them to withdraw.
• Xu Huo confronted Dr. Deng about the missing Syringe and the Perfect Potion, and Dr. Deng denied tampering with Potions and offered to improve ordinary ones for supplies.

Xu Huo survived the destruction of Base City, returned to Rose Castle, and began probing Super Evolution and the Perfect Potion. As District 011 recovered, Lady Lily’s brother was taken in for questioning, leaving her to seek Xu Huo’s position on the nobles’ dispute over trade.

• Mr. Dong buried his dying spider, then Black Shoulder Badges were attacked by a giant spider at Rose Castle and Ran Ying received the message, “Only this once.”
• Xu Huo attended a banquet with Yan Jiayu, where Jin Feixue attacked the guests and the Ghastly Sound Knights’ assault warped the city around them.
• Xu Huo was trapped in a Safe House and returned to District 011 with Bai Kou, where they found Base City devastated by the Ghastly Sound Knights and the Holy Sword Society.
• Xu Huo encountered the masked Holy Sword Society player with Wan Tingfang and Ran Ying, then fled the fighting as black gas and a Super Player’s Still Time struck the city.
• Xu Huo returned to Rose Castle and used Completed Script to witness the emerald theft, while Bai Kou demonstrated object control and helped him begin practicing spatial perception.
• Xu Huo recovered childhood memories of a Doctor testing him, wrote Bai Kou a will in exchange for her instruction, and examined Dr. Deng’s research on Perfect Potions and Wormhole Flowers.
• Xu Huo visited the children he had sponsored and brought Qing Cai to Rose Castle after she reported that her belongings and emerald had been stolen, and her tracking disk traced an experimental box to a laboratory in Lincheng.
• Asis searched Lady Lily’s mansion for Leyton Miller, but Leyton surrendered for questioning and Lady Lily stopped the Miler Players from rescuing him before asking Xu Huo which nobles he supported.

Xu Huo carried out Lady Lily’s assignment before boarding a train where Players were killed amid strange visions. He then entered the Friendship Lasts Forever Dungeon, completed its first task, and began the second round still seeking a way to clear it.

• Xu Huo infiltrated the courthouse to reach the captured Holy Sword Society Player, but the plan exposed him and led him to the middle-aged woman’s hidden room as killings spread through Xiang City.
• Xu Huo returned to Rose Castle, was sent to the Station by Bai Kou, and boarded a train where he investigated mass deaths that struck the passengers overnight.
• Xu Huo arrived in the Great World at Sea and entered the Friendship Lasts Forever Dungeon, where the host paired guests and introduced the Three-Color Showdown.
• Xu Huo completed his Reptile Appreciation task in the jungle and returned to Friendship Garden, where he and Xiao Xianglin considered how friendship might satisfy the Dungeon’s requirements.
• Shaja completed his operating-room task by killing the medical staff, while Xu Huo and the others watched distrust and violence spread among the contestants.
• Xu Huo, Shaja, and Gan Yi experienced a vision involving a spiraling staircase and a door after Gan Yi read their fortunes with gold cards.
• Xu Huo tested the Enclosure Wall after Xiao Xianglin returned wounded, but their exchange of friendship did not clear the Dungeon.
• The host announced that 274 guests survived the first round, and Xu Huo chose the white ball before drawing the task of painting a mutated man-eating shark.

Xu Huo survived the Friendship Garden competition, uncovered clues about the Holy Sword Society, and left for a new instance aboard the C171 train. In the abandoned city, he joined forces with Shangguan Xi and a young survivor while investigating the route to W37 Base Station and the city’s history.

• Xu Huo and Xiao Xiao completed the yellow-ball task together, earning a Double S Rating and clearing the Friendship Garden trial.
• Xu Huo killed Gan Yi after learning of the Holy Sword Society’s hostility toward him, then gave Xiao Xiao a Ticket and money before leaving for the C171 train.
• Xu Huo merged and upgraded his items aboard the train, met Shangguan Xi, and survived an Alien attack that severely damaged three carriages.
• Xu Huo killed a Cannibal Player who attacked him and returned to Car 16, where the short-haired female player suggested they team up.
• Xu Huo entered an abandoned city and learned he had to deliver a live specimen to W37 Base Station, with W19 across the desert.
• Xu Huo rescued a young survivor from an Alien and carrion beetles, then reunited with Shangguan Xi, who said Ding Wei had abandoned him.
• Xu Huo and Shangguan Xi sheltered with the boy, and Xu Huo offered food in exchange for finding a guide to W19.
• Xu Huo set out with Shangguan Xi and the boy, then entered a pristine library and learned that W37’s leaders planned to build more safe zones by driving people out.