Chapter Summaries

After winning the One-Third Game, Xu Huo returned with his memory of the game erased but suspected that a second game awaited players before they could leave the Dungeon. He discovered that the experience had greatly strengthened his spatial and temporal powers, then learned that Mi Qiaonan and other players had come to see him.

• Xu Huo returned from the One-Third Game and remembered leaving Buliu City, but the game itself was missing from his memory.
• Tang Yu and Qiao Jieping welcomed Xu Huo, who released the Wanted Criminals and had them post the players’ List of Wanted Criminals on the GG board.
• Xu Huo checked his belongings and found Portrait Paintings that recorded his Super Evolution path, while his items remained unused.
• Xu Huo tested his enhanced Spatial Evolution and created unstable polyhedral constructs of compressed Space Rays that triggered chain reactions when they collided.
• Xu Huo drew on Time Power from a thousand meters away, immobilizing a player and nearby objects across a growing range of nearly ten meters.
• Tang Yu told Xu Huo that Mi Qiaonan and several other players had come looking for him.

Xu Huo and the players discussed the One-Third Game and gathered Wanted Criminals, while Zhu Xiaojin returned with items from the game and news of Cheng Zhongzhi’s death. After Xu Huo gave Zhu Xiaojin the remaining Wanted Criminals, Zhu Xiaojin suddenly realized he had cleared the game.

• Xu Huo explained the second game to Mi Qiaonan, Ban Yuan, and the other players, who worried about what would happen to those who lost the first game.
• Xu Huo continued accepting applications from players seeking to cooperate and use the city government’s channels to find Wanted Criminals.
• Zhu Xiaojin emerged from the game and reported that Cheng Zhongzhi and Shen Fu were dead, though he could not remember what had happened inside.
• Xu Huo gave Zhu Xiaojin the remaining Wanted Criminals after confirming his account on Dimension Below.
• Zhu Xiaojin began killing the Wanted Criminals, then froze and announced that he had cleared the game.

Zhu Xiaojin cleared the Buliu City instance, and Xu Huo realized that Wanted Criminals gathered in the One-Third Game could count toward the clearance requirement. As players began hunting for city-authenticated Wanted Criminals, Lou Zigui revealed that she had won the game before disappearing three days later.

• Zhu Xiaojin said he had cleared the instance and brought out thirty-six items, matching the number of Wanted Criminals he needed to kill.
• Xu Huo asked Zhu Xiaojin to test whether he could use his ticket, then learned that Zhu Xiaojin wanted to stay and help the others clear the instance.
• Xu Huo had the painted woman announce Zhu Xiaojin's clearance while keeping the One-Third Game secret, and the players raced to capture Wanted Criminals.
• Xu Huo explained that people accumulated in the One-Third Game could count toward clearing the instance, while other Wanted Criminals could unlock areas without adding to the total.
• Xu Huo told Lou Zigui about the One-Third Game and asked about the player who had only forgotten the game; Lou Zigui admitted that she had won before disappearing three days later after someone shouted, "Magic Cube."

Xu Huo met Ding Dong Bleeding, a former municipal government Player, who revealed that a man inside Buliu City's city center brought the One-Third Game there. She asked Xu Huo to destroy the game's carrier so the city could return to normal.

• Lou Zigui told Xu Huo that the water Rubik's Cube had brought two people into the game, and Xu passed the painted woman his Communicator to submit Wanted Criminals.
• Xu Huo met Ding Dong Bleeding at a bar with the painted woman and Zhu Xiaojin, and she asked whether Zhu Xiaojin had cleared the game.
• Xu Huo deduced that Ding Dong Bleeding needed his help to enter the city center and challenged her to explain what she wanted.
• Ding Dong Bleeding revealed that a former municipal government employee brought the One-Third Game to Buliu City and was trapped inside it.
• Ding Dong Bleeding showed Xu Huo coded messages from the man and asked him to destroy the game's carrier in the city center.

Xu Huo negotiated with the tattooed woman over help clearing the game, then revealed that he had come prepared to seize control of the meeting. He trapped her and confronted the bartender, while the people hidden in the private room remained silent.

• The tattooed woman offered to help Xu Huo accumulate Wanted Criminals through the city government in exchange for his help reaching the One-Third Game's vessel.
• Xu Huo questioned the deal and warned that he could remain in Buliu City and hunt down the people opposing him.
• Xu Huo used his ability to make the tattooed woman fall through the bar and lose the ability to touch objects.
• The painted woman blocked the doorway as the tattooed woman tried to escape, and Xu Huo warned the bartender not to use his item.
• Xu Huo mocked the bartender and the tattooed woman, then ordered Zhu Xiaojin to open the private-room door after nobody inside responded.

Xu Huo questioned the tattooed woman about the One-Third Game and rejected her offer to cooperate after she admitted her group had no practical way to destroy its vessel. He left with Zhu Xiaojin and the painted woman, suspecting that the game itself might prevent information about it from reaching the outside.

• Xu Huo used Still Time to immobilize the Players in the private room while he questioned the tattooed woman and the bartender.
• The tattooed woman said her group believed a water Rubik's Cube in Buliu City's center was the One-Third Game's vessel, but they knew little else about the game.
• Xu Huo released the immobilized Players and refused to help because the group planned to destroy the vessel by force without a workable method.
• Xu Huo left the bar with Zhu Xiaojin and the painted woman, and Zhu Xiaojin worried the group might obstruct their Wanted Criminal review.
• Xu Huo suggested the One-Third Game might block information from escaping Buliu City and questioned whether its vessel truly existed.

Xu Huo discussed the One-Third Game and Super Evolution with Old Cai, who wanted guidance about the city center. Old Cai left without agreeing to provide enough wanted criminals, while Xu Huo hoped he might still bring useful news.

• Xu Huo told Zhu Xiaojin that the One-Third Game vessel might be hidden and that the group heading to the city center could not easily claim it.
• Old Cai visited Xu Huo to ask about the One-Third Game and explained that he wanted to risk finding a path to Super Evolution.
• Xu Huo suggested that Old Cai seek safer playing fields elsewhere, but Old Cai said he had already tried many places and could not enter the city center.
• Old Cai offered to hand over wanted criminals in exchange for Xu Huo's guidance, but Xu Huo said he needed over a thousand and Old Cai had too little time to gather them.
• Old Cai declined Xu Huo's offer of dinner and left, and Xu Huo said he hoped Old Cai would bring good news.

Xu Huo continued collecting approved wanted criminals while helping Old Cai understand Space Power and observing the painted woman’s devoted local admirers. After a resident invited him to stay, Xu Huo agreed to explore the neighborhood that afternoon, hoping to learn why the One-Third Game had appeared there.

• Xu Huo accepted a hundred approved wanted criminals from Old Cai and demonstrated basic control of Space Rays in exchange for guiding Old Cai in Spacetime Evolution.
• Local residents brought food to the painted woman, whom they adored, and Xu Huo asked one of the visiting women to stay with her.
• The woman thanked Xu Huo for making the area safer and invited him to visit her neighborhood, saying the residents hoped he would stay.
• Xu Huo agreed to look around the neighborhood that afternoon with Zhu Xiaojin and invited Old Cai to come along.
• Xu Huo told Old Cai he wanted to investigate why the One-Third Game had appeared there, and Old Cai readily agreed.

Xu Huo and the others visited an old residential complex with a local woman, where the residents welcomed them before vanishing when a sudden downpour began. The complex transformed into a dark, seemingly enclosed place, and the group suspected a powerful interference item was trapping them.

• Xu Huo, Zhu Xiaojin, Tang Yu, and Old Cai followed the local woman to her residential complex and met elderly residents who thanked Xu Huo and complained about their needs.
• After the woman went upstairs to fetch umbrellas during a sudden heavy rain, she failed to return, and Zhu Xiaojin noticed that the residents had disappeared.
• Xu Huo doubted the visit had been a deliberate trap, while Old Cai tried to use a teleportation item to leave.
• The sky turned dark, a clock announced it was 8 p.m., and Xu Huo found that the complex's gate opened onto an identical complex instead of the street.
• Tang Yu spotted old women burning joss paper, and Old Cai suggested that a Player in the complex might be using a powerful interference item.

Xu Huo and his companions became trapped in a residential complex where time and space seemed to reset, and they followed an old woman to her apartment for shelter. Zhu Xiaojin discovered a coffin and a corpse in the old woman’s grandson’s room, and Xu Huo cut them apart, provoking an inhuman scream.

• Xu Huo searched the complex for the vanished woman, while the group found that an invisible spatial barrier kept them from leaving.
• An old woman warned the group to go home before dark and offered them a room in her apartment.
• Zhu Xiaojin bombed Building 1, but after the lights went out, the building and the complex returned to their earlier state.
• Xu Huo agreed to stay at the old woman’s apartment, where she told them about her late husband, her estranged grandson, and her family.
• Zhu Xiaojin discovered a coffin and a corpse in a talisman-covered room, and Xu Huo sliced them apart, triggering a shrill, inhuman scream.

Xu Huo and the others confronted the old woman’s reanimated grandson in apartment 603 and discovered that the corpse could recover from severe injuries. After Tang Yu killed the old woman, the apartment’s lights and ceiling collapsed, and all three bodies began showing signs of moving again as Xu Huo prepared to burn them.

• The old woman invited Tang Yu to sleep in her room and refused to let anyone enter her grandson’s room.
• A ghost tried to enter apartment 603, then retreated when something frightened it.
• Xu Huo and Zhu Xiaojin fought the reassembled corpse, removed its head, and decided to burn it.
• The old woman rushed out to protect the corpse, and Tang Yu restrained her before snapping her neck.
• The lights burst and the ceiling collapsed to reveal red talismans as the corpse, its head, and the old woman began moving again.
• Xu Huo dragged the three bodies into the living room and prepared to cremate them.

Xu Huo and his companions entered Building Five to find a powerful female player, encountering hostile ghosts and a space-warping stairwell along the way. After an old woman warned that a murderer had returned, a wary young man appeared and asked whether they were residents.

• The painted woman captured a female ghost, and Xu Huo forced her to reveal that a powerful woman was in Building Five.
• Old Cai sealed Building Five, and the group entered with the ghosts as guides.
• Xu Huo caught a child in a red dress, and Tang Yu and Zhu Xiaojin restrained her with items.
• A stairwell trap swallowed Tang Yu and Old Cai, but Xu Huo pulled them back through the Mental Portal.
• Zhu Xiaojin restrained an old woman who warned that a murderer had returned on the seventh night.
• A young man peered out of a nearby doorway and asked whether Xu Huo's group were residents.

Xu Huo and his companions searched the haunted neighborhood for their missing companion while heading toward a rumored exit beneath Building 7. They found the passage was dangerous, but Xu Huo entered it anyway.

• A young man told Xu Huo's group that a murderer who died days earlier might rise at midnight and said Building 7's underground garage had a special exit.
• Xu Huo's group fought off spirits and a reanimated corpse as they climbed through the building, while Xu Huo briefly pursued a roaring creature that escaped into Building 7.
• The young man led the group to a locked passage in Building 7's underground garage, where the child in the red dress vanished after Old Cai threw it inside.
• Xu Huo entered the passage despite the danger, while the young man urged the others to retreat.

Xu Huo and the others discovered corpse doubles in Building 7 and tracked a strange time current between Buildings 5 and 7. They caught the female player responsible for the apartment complex’s distortions, and the sky brightened as the power of time shook.

• The group found corpse doubles of themselves in a morgue beneath Building 7, and the painted woman’s knife revealed that the doubles could trigger a lethal trap.
• Xu Huo tested another numbered corpse and found no sign that it was alive, then sensed brief, alternating waves of time in Buildings 5 and 7.
• Xu Huo tracked the time current to Building 5 and intercepted the female player as she tried to flee toward Building 7.
• Zhu Xiaojin and Old Cai stopped the female player’s attempts to escape, and the painted woman caught her with the Manifestation.
• The apartment complex’s power of time shook violently after the female player was caught, and the sky grew bright again.

Xu Huo captured the Player behind the residential complex’s horror movie and took her Best Director item. He restarted the movie to test its effects, trapping Old Cai, Zhu Xiaojin, Tang Yu, and the others in a new round of events.

• Xu Huo interrogated the captured female Player and learned that Best Director created an enclosed horror movie with dangerous stand-ins.
• The female Player explained that she had been caught because being captured ended the movie, then surrendered Best Director to Xu Huo.
• Xu Huo inspected the item and decided to test it, letting the young man leave while asking Old Cai, Zhu Xiaojin, Tang Yu, and the others to participate.
• The residential complex darkened again, and Old Cai and the others found a mirrored complex outside its gate where a funeral was taking place.
• The group followed an old woman into a building, where Tang Yu and Zhu Xiaojin saw disgusting food and later suffered hallucinations that nearly made them fight.

Old Cai and Zhu Xiaojin struggled through escalating ghosts and doubles while trying to find Xu Huo and rescue their companions. They reached the upper floors, where a double of Zhu Xiaojin appeared and attacked them.

• Old Cai and Zhu Xiaojin fought and burned the empty-bodied living corpse, but the red-dressed child dragged Tang Yu into the floor.
• The pair encountered a funeral procession and found the bound female Player in a coffin before being trapped inside coffins themselves.
• In Building 7’s underground garage, Old Cai and Zhu Xiaojin found rows of their doubles, and a double replaced Old Cai in a refrigerated cabinet.
• Zhu Xiaojin freed the real Old Cai from the cabinet, and they rescued the female Player from a living corpse before heading upstairs to find Xu Huo.
• The red-dressed child appeared with Tang Yu, and Zhu Xiaojin sealed them in a spatial barrier while the group fought through ghosts and repeating floors.
• After blowing up the building to reach the upper floors, the group encountered a murderer double who looked exactly like Zhu Xiaojin.

Xu Huo used a special item to end the illusion-filled battle in Buildings 5 and 7, then questioned the captured Player about how she had evaded the One-Third Game in Buliu City. The group learned she claimed she could leave the city and avoid the game, and Xu Huo began recording her visits to investigate the method.

• Xu Huo explained how his item let him move between parallel streams of Time Power in Buildings 5 and 7, then put it away and ended the battle.
• Zhu Xiaojin confronted Xu Huo, and Xu Huo captured the female Player, removed her disguise, and recognized her from a previous train encounter.
• The female Player admitted she had used the One-Third Game as cover to kill people and take items when she needed money.
• The female Player claimed that entering an unfinished Dungeon let her leave Buliu City without being pulled into the One-Third Game.
• Tang Yu and the others doubted her claim, so Xu Huo began recording details of her visits to Buliu City to test whether she could serve as a pathfinder.

Xu Huo questioned a female Player about Buliu City, its deadly city center, and the One-Third Game, then pressured her into obtaining classified District Government records. He left her under guard with until ten the next morning to bring him useful files, while the city government’s offer to help him enter the city center remained unanswered.

• The female Player admitted that her luck-related Ability did not let her safely travel through Buliu City or protect her from the water Rubik's Cube, and said many Players who came to investigate or take over the city had died.
• Xu Huo returned the female Player to the area with the setting prop, where he found a message from Ding Dong Bleeding offering Wanted Criminals and city government Players as collateral in exchange for help entering the city center.
• Xu Huo questioned the female Player about the District Government's records on the One-Third Game, and she said that records existed but that she knew of no one who had retained memories related to the game.
• Xu Huo offered to spare the female Player if she obtained substantial classified files, and she agreed to bring them by ten the next morning.
• Xu Huo ordered the painted woman to keep the female Player in the room and left without responding to her complaint about the deadline.

Xu Huo learned that Players who cleared the One-Third Game could leave Buliu City, then traded twelve Wanted Criminals for a notebook documenting the water Rubik's Cube. The records traced the Cube to the city center, leaving Xu Huo to question the purpose of the meticulously designed game.

• Zhu Xiaojin argued that he had cleared the One-Third Game, and Tang Yu challenged him before they left together for two hours.
• Mi Qiaonan and Ban Yuan told Xu Huo that a woman had tracked the water Rubik's Cube to the city center and wanted Wanted Criminals in exchange for her records.
• Xu Huo traded the woman twelve Wanted Criminals, and she confirmed that she had cleared the game and left Buliu City using her Ticket.
• The woman warned Xu Huo that the city center held powers beyond Players' understanding and advised him to stay away.
• Xu Huo opened the notebook and found reports that water Rubik's Cubes emerged from the city center at night, followed different routes, and made people disappear on contact.
• Xu Huo suspected the Cube was targeting people who had escaped the game's rules and wondered why the site had been designed so carefully.

Xu Huo reviewed classified records about the One-Third Game, learning how its first round wagered Players’ memories and what the District Government suspected about the game’s origins. The files left him questioning why the game blocked Players from reporting its details after they left.

• Xu Huo discussed the water Rubik’s Cube and the risks of entering another round with Zhu Xiaojin and Old Cai.
• Xu Huo questioned the captured female Player about the promised files, and she handed him a recorder containing photographs of classified documents.
• Xu Huo read that the first round wagered Players’ past, present, or future, with losses affecting their memories in different ways.
• Xu Huo learned that the District Government suspected the One-Third Game was either an advanced super-device or a special Dimension Rift experiment.
• Xu Huo realized Players could not properly record information about the game on the bounty platform or Dimension Below and wondered who had created it and why.