Chapter Summaries

Xu Huo was targeted by A-class Players hunting Mental Evolvers aboard the train, but he fought back using Space Power, Artifacts, and his Manifestation. As the battle escalated, he trapped both carriages in his Manifestation Space and pinned one attacker to the wreckage.

• The A-class Players chased Yong An, then realized Xu Huo was the other Mental Evolver and sent three attackers back to confront him.
• The attackers sealed the carriage and used interference devices to shield themselves from Mental Power, while their Artifacts were restricted by Xu Huo's abilities.
• Xu Huo repelled the female Player's charge with Space Power, then broke through her barrier and sent her flying between the carriages.
• Xu Huo used Cube Space to assimilate some of the attackers' defensive Space Rays, but his Mental Power could not overwhelm their interference devices.
• When Harmonious Atmosphere wore off, Xu Huo spread cutting lines through both carriages and drew them into his Manifestation Space, where his attacks severed one Player's arm and pinned him to the wreckage.

Xu Huo fought two A-class players aboard the train, using his Artifacts and poison to withstand their attacks and dismantle their weapons. He used mental interference to force one woman to turn her blade on herself, but her companion saved her and was pierced by Xu Huo’s attack, leaving the wounded woman retreating and wondering why Xu Huo was unaffected by the poison.

• Xu Huo broke through the two A-class players’ barriers and fought off their knives, cage, and poison using the Ring of Time and his Artifacts.
• Xu Huo filled the carriage with poisonous mushrooms, then used the eye lamp to make the two women dizzy before attacking them again.
• Xu Huo destroyed or seized several of their Artifacts while the fight continued between their defenses and his Space Orb.
• Xu Huo combined “Call the Roll” with “The Realm of Thought” and ordered the female Player to commit suicide.
• The female Player’s companion knocked her blade away, but Xu Huo pierced the companion’s heart and drove the woman back into the Transfer Carriage.

Xu Huo killed the remaining A-class attackers on the train and joined Tong Wei's group for the night. After a violent explosion wrecked the train's tail, the passengers regrouped, and Xu Huo spoke with the injured Yong An as the train continued toward its stops.

• Xu Huo killed the female player with Three Seconds of Life, then opened the carriage to find Yong An still fighting two surviving A-class players with help from the passengers.
• Xu Huo returned to the first carriage, where Tong Wei, Yuan Youming, Xie Shanjun, and Gao Xiucheng sealed the door and exchanged contact information with him.
• Xu Huo told Tong Wei's group that he was heading to the B37 wormhole point to avenge the dead, then declined their invitation to watch the competition.
• A carriage near the rear exploded, damaging the train's tail and nearly knocking the train off the tracks.
• The passengers cleared the poisonous creatures from the second carriage and gathered in the front, while Tong Wei's group got off at their stop.
• Yong An sat beside Xu Huo and admitted he had not dared sleep; Xu Huo told him he could rest during the day.

Xu Huo searched the three Players’ belongings and assessed their Artifacts, supplies, and unusual meteorite. He found a lucrative bounty for a B-class Mental Evolver among their plans just as he reached his stop.

• Xu Huo examined the three Players’ A-class and B-class Artifacts, noting Cocoon World, Divert Disaster Eastward, and I Can Discharge Electricity as the most useful.
• Xu Huo found that the Players had little White Cash or spare supplies, but they had kept a meteorite that retained heat and toxic powder ground from it.
• Xu Huo discovered a bounty from a Sub-district at B37 wormhole point offering one hundred million White Cash and two high-grade Artifacts for a B-class Mental Evolver’s corpse or related records.
• Xu Huo set aside the question of whether the bounty was connected to the Tian Family in District 008 and arrived at his stop.

Xu Huo returned to the Chongming Bird Administrative Region, retrieved the Time Tower from Chongming Bird Pharmaceutical, and thanked Dr. Dian with a Perfect Evolution Potion. He prepared to take the painted woman home after dinner, while Dr. Dian tried to keep the visit moving.

• Xu Huo asked locals about the Wanted Criminal and then went to Chongming Bird Pharmaceutical to meet Dr. Dian.
• Xu Huo thanked Dr. Dian for helping him leave the Sub-district, but Dr. Dian denied knowing about the Dungeon declaration they discussed.
• Xu Huo gave Dr. Dian a P0S Perfect Potion, and Dr. Dian eagerly agreed to take him to retrieve the Time Tower.
• Dr. Dian escorted Xu Huo into the Warehouse, where Xu Huo retrieved the Time Tower without trouble.
• The painted woman greeted Xu Huo at Dr. Dian's home and described how she had helped around the house and looked after Dr. Dian.
• Dr. Dian told the painted woman she could go home with Xu Huo after dinner, then urged them to eat.

After parting from Dr. Dian, Xu Huo went after the Tian Family, attacking their laboratory and cemetery before laying siege to their ancestral residence. He left the family scrambling to protect itself and, rather than pursue its departing groups personally, arranged bounties against them and two important family members.

• Dr. Dian gave the painted woman the belongings he had bought for her, and she gave him a notebook of useful contacts before they parted.
• Xu Huo set out to target the Tian Family, while the painted woman agreed to buy a ticket home and meet him later.
• Xu Huo blew up a Tian Family laboratory and cemetery, then waited outside the family’s ancestral residence as its leaders escaped through a portal.
• The Tian Family failed to get the District Government to identify or protect them, so it sent three groups out as bait to draw in its enemy.
• Xu Huo gave a player with a grudge information about one group, offered bounties on the other groups, and posted two fifty-million-White-Cash bounties on important Tian Family members.

Xu Huo attacked the Tian Family through bounties, targeted raids, and sabotage, then used robots to scout the family’s heavily guarded estate. Unable to break through the defenses alone, he heard the painted woman propose a scheme to frame the Tian Family by kidnapping a government official’s family member.

• Xu Huo placed bounties on members of the Tian Family and Players working for them, drawing hunters into attacks on the family’s groups.
• Xu Huo raided Tian Family personnel and businesses in Station City, paying bounty hunters for their reports and leaving hidden hazards in the family’s residential complex.
• Xu Huo borrowed two unarmed scouting robots from Dr. Dian and sent them to investigate the Tian Family estate.
• The robots located high-level Players guarding the estate’s barrier, but they could not identify the family members at its center.
• The painted woman proposed kidnapping a District Government official’s family member and framing the Tian Family, then volunteered to act as the kidnapper.

Xu Huo left the Tian Family’s residence after stirring up rumors about his supposed Super Artifact and traveled to Lake Bay City. There, the Tian Family’s Third Master demanded that the family continue its human experiments, just as Xu Huo’s arrival brought a powerful force down on the villa.

• Xu Huo spread conflicting rumors about whether the Tian Family had stolen his Super Artifact, then left the city for Lake Bay City.
• The Tian Family’s Third Master told the Secretary that the family must continue its human experiments to secure the Antidote he needed.
• The Third Master accused the Old Master and the family of profiting from the experiments and demanded they open another laboratory or kill him.
• Five A-class players arrived to guard the Third Master, who dismissed their protection and said no one would find the villa.
• The villa’s defensive barriers vanished, and an extraordinarily powerful force descended upon the room.

Xu Huo used the Time Power to kill Third Master and the Tian Family’s guards, leaving a warning and evidence of their experiments. He secured all sixteen Angel’s Teeth, placed two in District 008, then rested with Old Mrs. Lu’s family before finding Tu Xiaoxiao fortune-telling on Two-Fifths Avenue.

• Xu Huo’s Time Power aged Third Master and four A-class guards to death, while one A-class player survived and heard Xu warn the Tian Family against further wrongdoing.
• Xu Huo left a container marked Kesi Biology at the Mountain Villa and concluded that Granny Bai had killed the Fairytale City passengers before her own death.
• Xu Huo considered the Angel’s Teeth’ teleportation abilities and guessed that Granny Bai had given them up because she was ready to abandon her artifact and her life.
• Xu Huo traveled to the Chongming Bird Administrative Region and placed two Angel’s Teeth near the city and near Lichuan before using a Ticket to reach the Platinum Eye.
• Xu Huo visited Old Mrs. Lu, learned that Xiao Yuan and Tan Qi were doing well at school, and gave the painted woman a mineral-classification book when she asked to learn artifact-making.
• After resting with Xiao Yuan and Tan Qi, Xu Huo went to Two-Fifths Avenue and found Tu Xiaoxiao telling a local girl that love was near.

Xu Huo learned that Yan Jiayu had been unreachable since entering a possible amusement park Random Instance, then left Platinum Eye to enter a Dungeon. On the train, he declined a woman’s offer to team up and watched her recruit a bearded Player for the One-Third City Dungeon.

• Xu Huo asked Tu Xiaoxiao about Yan Jiayu, and she said Yan had stopped contacting her after mentioning an amusement park Random Instance.
• Xu Huo returned to Old Mrs. Lu’s residence, said goodbye to Xiao Yuan and Tan Qi, placed two Angel’s Teeth near Platinum Eye, and boarded a train with the painted woman.
• Xu Huo reviewed guides for a Dungeon where Players had to kill a required number of wanted criminals to gain access to more of the Sub-district.
• A female Player tried to recruit Xu Huo, but he refused and moved to another seat.
• The woman persuaded a bearded Player to take her into his Dungeon in exchange for becoming his lover, and she said they were headed to One-Third City.

Xu Huo entered One-Third City and found himself confined to a tiny unlocked area while local players attacked him. As he tried to identify criminals to fulfill his mission, he discovered that wanted posters could be manipulated and began asking nearby people whether they were wanted.

• Xu Huo was forcibly transported into One-Third City and attacked by more than ten players as soon as he arrived.
• Xu Huo used his powers and artifacts to defend himself, then realized his unlocked area was only a ten-foot circle.
• Xu Huo observed that players across the city were targeting newcomers while ordinary residents watched, and he saw two other players arrive with larger unlocked areas.
• Xu Huo pulled a player whose face appeared on a wanted poster into his area and used an artifact-removal item to reveal that the man had been disguised.
• Another player killed the revealed man with a sharp attack, and Xu Huo decided he could not trust the wanted posters or available records.
• Xu Huo randomly selected about twenty nearby people and asked whether they were in the wanted catalog.

Xu Huo explored One-Third City, learned how its districts and local rules worked, and asked residents why the city had acquired its name. He accepted a young woman’s invitation to dinner but heard someone snoring inside her home.

• Xu Huo killed nineteen Wanted Criminals in his unlocked area, causing it to expand across several nearby streets.
• Xu Huo saw residents die after smashing a Game Points sign, then studied a map showing the city’s fifty districts and their separate resources.
• Xu Huo paid a middle-aged woman for information and learned that locals called the city One-Third City because players often got stuck one-third of the way through its Dungeon.
• A young woman warned Xu Huo that the middle-aged woman was a con artist, then invited him upstairs for dinner.
• Xu Huo heard someone snoring in the bedroom when he reached the young woman’s door.

Xu Huo discovered that the woman who hosted him and her father had poisoned his food and set a trap for him, then used a robot to test how nearby Players reacted to someone being thrown into the street at night. He confronted the pair and demanded an explanation, leaving them to choose whether to talk or face his Syringe.

• Xu Huo learned from the woman that the city was controlled by a Player organization and that many residents were criminals or their descendants.
• After nightfall, the woman tried to persuade Xu Huo to stay, and he accepted when she warned that the streets were unsafe.
• Xu Huo realized the woman and her father had poisoned his food and set a spring-loaded trap beneath his bed, while Players watched from nearby buildings.
• Xu Huo sent his housekeeping robot outside in his place, and nearby Players attacked it until it landed on the street, then stopped when they recognized it as a robot.
• Xu Huo summoned the woman and her father, accused them of trying to hurt him, and placed a Syringe on the table to make them choose whether to confess.

Xu Huo questioned a father and daughter about Buliu City’s One-Third Game, but their memories of its rules and contents had been erased. He learned the basic ways to avoid triggering it and weighed those restrictions against his Dungeon objective to kill 1,000 criminals.

• Xu Huo interrogated the woman, who explained that entering the game could be triggered by going out at night or leaving an unlocked area.
• After Xu Huo injected and hypnotized the woman and her father, they recalled losing their memories but knew nothing about the game itself.
• The father and daughter said a rumor claimed that more people entering the One-Third Game made everyone safer, and they described the city’s Game Point signs and area restrictions.
• Xu Huo learned that players could enter the game by suddenly disappearing and that people disagreed about whether anyone could leave Buliu City.
• Xu Huo decided to stay within his unlocked area and avoid going out at night while considering how the game might interfere with his objective to kill 1,000 criminals.

Xu Huo investigated how Buliu City handled wanted criminals and secured temporary enforcement officer status from the city government. He returned to reclaim a nearby enforcement building, where the Players occupying it challenged his authority.

• Xu Huo questioned a breakfast shop owner about reporting criminals and learned that Players had occupied a nearby enforcement office.
• Xu Huo obtained a booklet explaining the old criminal-reporting process and reviewed complaints about the city government’s unreliable enforcement.
• Xu Huo applied to become a temporary enforcement officer, offering equipment in exchange for official certification and access to internal information.
• The city government granted Xu Huo temporary status after he agreed to donate flight recorders connected to Buliu City's main terminal.
• Xu Huo showed his work ID at the enforcement building, and its machine confirmed his identity as temporary enforcement officer No. 239.
• A bald Player and seven others confronted Xu Huo and demanded that he lend them his ID.

Xu Huo used his temporary law-enforcement authority to clear Players who had occupied Buliu City's law enforcement building, killing all but one. He hired the two guards as temporary workers and left the surviving attacker free to bring back more enemies.

• Xu Huo sent armed robots after the Players occupying the law enforcement building and warned them that they were breaking the law.
• Xu Huo killed an attacking Player, recorded the death, and used the terminal to issue wanted notices for the remaining intruders.
• Xu Huo fought and killed a long-haired woman after she damaged an armed robot and tried to escape through his defensive barriers.
• Xu Huo and the other Players killed everyone in the building except the bald man, whom Xu Huo allowed to flee.
• Xu Huo issued temporary work permits to the two guards, and Shen Fu remarked that they could start their own city government.

Xu Huo and the others questioned Shen Fu and Shi Meng about the One-Third Game, which had erased parts of their memories and left their dungeon progress uncertain. They prepared ways to record their memories and planned to investigate further before the dungeon time limit expired.

• Shen Fu explained that he and Shi Meng had nearly run out of time to clear the dungeon, though they had forgotten their task progress after playing the One-Third Game.
• Shi Meng revealed that he had forgotten his identity as a player and even basic information about Dimension Games, while Shen Fu could not remember the game or much of his life before age thirty-five.
• Xu Huo asked whether they still had their belongings, and Shen Fu said some items and Potions were missing; Zhu Xiaojin suggested their memories might have been taken as stakes too.
• Shen Fu described possible triggers for entering the game, including killing people, going out at night, and crossing the borders of unlocked areas, but he could not identify what had caused it.
• Xu Huo suggested the bald man and the others might belong to another overlapping dungeon, and the group began recording their memories and preparing to question more people.

Xu Huo and his group sheltered in the law enforcement building and prepared to establish order in Zone 5 by registering residents and issuing permits. They planned to investigate the city government and the Player organization while pursuing their clearance tasks.

• Xu Huo moved a broken armed robot outside the building with warnings that it was government property and needed repairs.
• Xu Huo sent collected documents to the city government's internal network to verify whether their statutes were authentic, but Players soon shot down the recorders he had donated.
• Xu Huo announced that his group would register Zone 5 residents the next morning and issue permanent and temporary residence permits.
• Xu Huo drew a map of Zone 5, assigned streets to his companions, and told them they would go out in pairs to register residents.
• Zhu Xiaojin agreed to sound out influential Players as the group discussed how to identify Wanted Criminals for their clearance tasks.
• Xu Huo handed out temporary residence permits and told his companions not to change their attached photos without permission.

Xu Huo and his allies began registering District 5 residents and Players while investigating the memory-erasing One-Third Game and its water Rubik's Cube trigger. After registering only about twenty Players, they returned to find the law enforcement building wrecked, and Xu Huo used a street recording to apply to have the perpetrators wanted.

• Xu Huo sent proposed temporary city-management regulations to the city government and organized a registration campaign with Cheng Zhongzhi and the others.
• Xu Huo enforced the new rules against uncooperative Players, killing twelve who refused to comply and attacked law enforcement.
• Ruan Hong and another stranded Player told Xu Huo's group that the One-Third Game could be triggered randomly by a water Rubik's Cube and could cause memory loss or death.
• Xu Huo and Cheng Zhongzhi discussed rumors that the city government was involved in the game and decided to wait for more information.
• Xu Huo's group registered about twenty Players, then found the law enforcement building reduced to rubble.
• Xu Huo retrieved a street-corner video of the attackers and submitted a Wanted Criminal application.

Xu Huo used his city-government authorization to establish stricter public safety regulations and a legitimate process for certifying Wanted Criminals, while seeking allies to help manage the city. The chapter left Players divided over whether revealing the One-Third Game’s trigger conditions would make the Dungeon harder to clear.

• Zhu Xiaojin told Xu Huo and the others that Players entering the city center did not return, while the city government still appeared able to communicate with the outside.
• Xu Huo decided to post the approved public safety regulations and have the group gather evidence against Players who broke the law.
• Xu Huo and his companions posted the regulations, wanted notices, and requests for information around the law enforcement building.
• Xu Huo publicized the three ways to trigger the One-Third Game and invited Players to contribute, drawing objections from those who relied on Wanted Criminals to clear the Dungeon.