Chapter Summaries

Xu Huo arranged a two-pronged operation to distract the authorities and enter the Mi family's home to find Mi Fei. The group reached the house at the appointed time, where three Mi family players came to meet them.

• Xu Huo persuaded the buzz-cut man to recruit players for a plan to extort the Mi family and use a jamming device to escape.
• Xu Huo assigned Bubble Bean and Old Mrs. Gui to approach Mi Fei, while the bruised man agreed to draw the enforcement squad and military district underground with the painted woman.
• The buzz-cut man returned with three players, and they agreed to share whatever they took from the Mi family.
• At eight fifty-four, Xu Huo knocked on the Mi family's gate and said they had information about the Wan family.
• At eight fifty-five, Xu Huo and his group entered the living room, where three Mi family players came to meet them.

Xu Huo and his companions confronted the Mi family for compensation, but an explosion and the release of photos exposing a possible witness to the Wan family attack disrupted their escape. The military captured the battered man beneath the Wan estate, while the painted woman escaped through the underground pipes and headed for the Mi family estate.

• Xu Huo and the buzz-cut man demanded items from the Mi family, and the oldest Mi Player offered them a box before insisting they provide evidence.
• The buzz-cut man produced a storage device he claimed held video of the Wan family attack and demanded three more items; the oldest Mi Player handed them over.
• A crash and town-wide alarms prompted the Mi Players to attack, but Xu Huo, Player One, Player Three, and the buzz-cut man fought their way out and fled.
• Explosions at the Wan family estate scattered photos showing Wan Dong with a masked man at the time of the attack, drawing the crowd's attention to the underground passage and prompting the military to order a live capture.
• Military Players disabled the battered man's Defense Artifacts, captured him, and searched the cave, while the painted woman escaped through a small hole into the town's underground pipes and ran toward the Mi family estate.

Bubble Bean failed to get information from Mi Fei, while Xu Huo deduced that the Mi family, military, and law enforcement were concealing the truth about the Wan family’s kidnapping. The military surrounded Xu Huo and his companions, and Xu Huo accused them of staging the kidnapping to serve political schemes.

• Bubble Bean sneaked into the Mi residence, but Mi Fei refused to answer his questions, so Bubble Bean left Old Mrs. Gui behind and escaped with the painted woman.
• Bubble Bean realized the disturbance at the Wan residence had not drawn the Mi family’s attention and suspected Xu Huo’s real objective was not Mi Fei.
• More than ten military Players surrounded Xu Huo and his companions outside Cat Fruit Town, revealing that the military had anticipated their route.
• Xu Huo deduced that the Mi family had alerted the military and that the authorities were allowing news to spread while suppressing the truth about the Wan family’s kidnapping.
• As the military attacked and disabled the Players’ equipment, Xu Huo accused them of sacrificing the Wan family for a political scheme and named Madam Shera and Mr. Valen as possible participants.

Xu Huo escaped the military district’s lockdown and reviewed Bubble Bean’s recording of Mi Fei, concluding that the Wan family’s abduction involved a wider agreement. He sent Bubble Bean back to question Mi Fei while he and the painted woman pursued Old Mrs. Gui, but the military district moved her away before they could find her.

• Xu Huo provoked the military district’s people, broke through their lockdown, and escaped after shaking off his pursuers.
• Bubble Bean gave Xu Huo a recording of his meeting with Mi Fei, whose agitation over Wan Dong suggested he knew more than he admitted.
• Xu Huo reasoned that the Mi family, Madam Shera, law enforcement, and the military district were working together, and suspected the affair concealed a larger scheme.
• Xu Huo sent Bubble Bean to ask Mi Fei where the head of the Mi family had gone, while he and the painted woman went after Old Mrs. Gui.
• The military district moved Old Mrs. Gui away using spatial teleportation, leaving Xu Huo and the painted woman with only fading traces.

After failing to learn where the Wan family was being held, Xu Huo took Bubble Bean and the painted woman to United Capital to approach Valen. They were unexpectedly escorted toward him, but Xu Huo sensed danger just as the painted woman reached for a doll offered by their guide.

• Bubble Bean reported that Mi Fei had decided to help the Wan family, leaving Xu Huo with no leads from either him or the Mi family.
• Xu Huo proposed going to United Capital to seek Valen, and the three arrived there late at night.
• The group reached the District Government amid protests and media attention over Valen’s withdrawal from the election, but every public and private channel to him was jammed.
• Xu Huo hypnotized a staff member and instructed him to go to Valen’s residence and say “Wan Dong”; shortly afterward, a player arrived to escort the group to Valen.
• The painted woman asked for the guide’s thumb-sized doll, and Xu Huo stopped her as he released Time Power through a crack in space.

Xu Huo met Mr. Valen and deduced that District 001’s government had orchestrated the Wan family incident to target outside forces. Mr. Valen offered him a chance to obtain a Super Player’s relic in exchange for bringing it to them, leaving Xu Huo poised to negotiate.

• A District Government player led Xu Huo, Bubble Bean, and the painted woman to meet Mr. Valen after Xu Huo slowed time around their confrontation.
• Xu Huo questioned Mr. Valen about the Wan family incident and argued that it was a coordinated move against outside forces.
• Mr. Valen offered the cat-whisker fruit pit as an alternative way to clear the level, but Xu Huo refused to change his chosen course.
• Xu Huo offered to help Mr. Valen, reasoning that District 001 must need something he possessed.
• Mr. Valen asked whether the group wanted a Super Player’s relic and offered a valuable exchange for anyone who could bring it to him.

Xu Huo learned that District 001’s conflict with Outer District forces was an attempt to take over the district through political coercion, hostage-taking, and influence. Mr. Valen revealed his plan to sacrifice himself and provoke resistance, while the players trapped in the Super Player’s relic remained a crucial part of the crisis.

• Xu Huo refused to risk helping Mr. Valen for the relic alone, and Mr. Valen explained that District 001 needed someone to rescue players trapped in a time-powered relic area.
• Bubble Bean questioned why District 001 was suppressing Outer District Players, and Mr. Valen said the opposing forces had seized hostages and refused peaceful resolution.
• Xu Huo inferred that another district was trying to take over District 001, and Mr. Valen confirmed the threat by describing how officials’ families and elite players had been taken hostage.
• Mr. Valen explained that the Wan family kidnapping was intended to halt the Outer District forces and turn public opinion against them.
• Mr. Valen revealed his plan to return as a public victim, be murdered and framed as a suicide, and leave the resulting resistance to the next generation.

Xu Huo rejected Valen’s offer to enter the relic zone after realizing the District Government had concealed information and would not let him meet the Wan family members. As he left the United Capital with the painted woman and Bubble Bean, a spatial passage opened beneath them and dropped them into an unknown gray landscape.

• Xu Huo deduced that Valen had withheld information about the Super Player’s time-related relic zone and refused to help retrieve the trapped players.
• Valen warned Xu Huo that leaving the District Government alone would be dangerous, but Xu Huo refused an escort and left with the painted woman and Bubble Bean.
• Xu Huo told Bubble Bean they would stay near the District Government and follow the parade to find a place to stay.
• A spatial passage opened beneath Xu Huo, the painted woman, and Bubble Bean, and they fell through as the Player who had escorted them cut off black lines reaching from the passage.
• Bubble Bean used a parachute item while Xu Huo’s robot carried him and the painted woman down into a vast gray landscape, where they landed in a steel forest.

Xu Huo and Bubble Bean were trapped in a metal forest after Valen’s group dumped them into a relic zone. They fought off several metal beasts, and Xu Huo suspected the forest might be connected to a Super Player’s Dungeon.

• Xu Huo realized he, Bubble Bean, and the painted woman had been dumped into a relic zone, then a giant metal beast charged at them.
• Xu Huo used his Spiritual World to evade the beast while Bubble Bean trapped it in a sticky web, but the noise drew three more beasts.
• Xu Huo erased one beast with the Life Core and noticed that a nearby tree made of a different metal remained intact.
• Bubble Bean was overwhelmed by the remaining beasts, so Xu Huo and Bubble Bean fought them off with Xu Huo’s black knife and “Everything Wants to Cut Everything.”
• Xu Huo tested a fallen beast and found its armor was A-Grade superhard metal, while the lack of a drive chip suggested the creatures were items.
• Bubble Bean wondered if they were inside a Super Player’s Dungeon, and Xu Huo considered whether elite A-Grade Players might be trapped there.

Xu Huo and Bubble Bean searched the metal forest for other players and a way out, but their journey repeatedly brought them back to where they started. They remained trapped in the Cat Whisker Fruit Dungeon, with no explanation yet for the forest’s strange layout.

• Xu Huo and Bubble Bean headed cautiously through the metal forest, hoping to find District 001 players near the exit.
• They traveled for hours in Bubble Bean’s item boat but found neither the forest’s edge nor anyone else, and Bubble Bean’s Ticket still did not work.
• Xu Huo realized they had returned to their starting point after Bubble Bean’s drone spotted the metal beasts they had killed earlier.
• Xu Huo and Bubble Bean marked their route on the ground and trees, but twelve hours later they ended up near their first marker again.
• Bubble Bean wondered whether the forest was spherical, while both realized that repeated returns to the starting point might mean there was no exit.

Xu Huo and his companions searched the metal forest for a way out and captured a wounded stranger. The man hinted that they were inside District 001’s Super Dungeon, and Xu Huo suggested it still lacked a suitable successor.

• Bubble Bean worried that the group was trapped in a sealed space, and Xu Huo said a cross-dimensional teleportation device would be difficult to use there.
• The painted woman appraised Bubble Bean as a potential meal, chased him through the forest, and then made him row toward the others.
• A wounded middle-aged man entered the metal forest and tried to slip past the painted woman, but Xu Huo and his companions caught him.
• Bubble Bean restrained the man while the painted woman marked his face, and Xu Huo offered him truth serum and medical help in exchange for cooperation.
• The middle-aged man said he had three people to take down with him, and Xu Huo inferred that they were in District 001’s Super Dungeon, which still lacked a suitable successor.

Xu Huo persuaded the injured District 001 player to take him and his companions out of the metal forest, but the group was immediately attacked in an empty metal city. After the player turned against them, Xu Huo recognized that metal objects were being targeted and escaped the collapsing building.

• Xu Huo stopped Bubble Bean from attacking the middle-aged man and argued that they should cooperate to find the Super Dungeon.
• Xu Huo healed the middle-aged man, who agreed to take them out and see whether they could claim the Dungeon.
• The middle-aged man used an item to transport Xu Huo, Bubble Bean, Painted woman, and himself to a city, where a metal ball and a storm of arrows attacked them.
• Xu Huo and the middle-aged man took separate buildings for cover, and the middle-aged man used an ability to make Xu Huo fall.
• Xu Huo shielded himself with the Space Orb and saw the middle-aged man hide after removing his metal possessions.
• Xu Huo put away his metal items and jumped from the building just before an invisible force crushed it.

Xu Huo and Bubble Bean tried to survive a citywide assault by flying arrows and metal objects that crushed buildings, while the painted woman helped rescue Bubble Bean. They hid together in a wooden Cabinet, and Xu Huo explained the attack’s apparent limits before Bubble Bean asked about the Player from District 001.

• The metal assault caught Bubble Bean’s leg and forced him to flee as Xu Huo moved him toward a high-rise.
• Xu Huo discovered that vibrating Flying Arrows helped the attacker locate people, escaped a metal trap, and hid in a wooden Cabinet.
• Bubble Bean endured repeated arrow barrages and metal crushes until the painted woman dragged him from a compressed building and into the Cabinet.
• Xu Huo told Bubble Bean that the arrows reached only about two hundred meters, that metal could reveal their location, and that the controller was likely far away.
• Bubble Bean asked Xu Huo about the Player from District 001.

Xu Huo and Bubble Bean reasoned that the city was likely only one part of the Super Dungeon and that the middle-aged man had brought them there for another purpose. As they pursued the injured man through attacks from metal and paper, Xu Huo realized the metal might recognize people and headed alone toward the city center.

• Xu Huo explained that the city’s metal-controlled attacks made the dungeon unusually dangerous and suspected it was not the main arena.
• Xu Huo and Bubble Bean considered whether the dungeon contained a Super Artifact or Instance Authorization Letter, then went searching for the injured middle-aged man.
• Metal attacks forced Xu Huo, Bubble Bean, and the painted woman to keep moving, while the middle-aged man’s control over the city seemed to track Xu Huo in particular.
• Xu Huo found the middle-aged man hiding in a wooden Cabinet, and the man attacked as the painted woman retaliated with flying paper.
• Xu Huo noticed the metal did not attack the middle-aged man and suspected it could recognize people before heading alone toward the city center.

Xu Huo tried to reach the city center but was driven back by the metal-controlling opponent, then questioned the captured middle-aged man about the Holy Sword Society and his mission. He concluded the man needed an Artifact from the Super Dungeon to escape and asked to examine his cross-dimensional Artifact.

• Xu Huo used his Defense Artifacts to push toward the city center, but unusual metal attacks warped his barrier and forced him to retreat.
• Xu Huo found the painted woman, who had captured the middle-aged man, and the three hid in the same Cabinet.
• Xu Huo taunted the middle-aged man and learned that the Holy Sword Society wanted something in District 001.
• Xu Huo questioned the man about the Holy Sword Society and asked to see his cross-dimensional Artifact.
• Xu Huo deduced that the man needed an Artifact from the Super Dungeon to escape and offered to try it.

Xu Huo learned Bubble Bean planned to use balloons and chemical solvents to destroy the landmark tower and draw out the metal-controlling force. The middle-aged man revealed he was searching for the original of a Space Artifact called the Little Inversion Ring, which might help them escape the sealed area.

• Xu Huo and the painted woman watched balloons with metal attached get attacked, while balloons without metal floated safely away.
• Xu Huo found Bubble Bean preparing Artifact balloons and chemical solvents to carry them toward the landmark tower and destroy it.
• Xu Huo told the middle-aged man about Bubble Bean’s plan and threatened to destroy the city if necessary to find the force controlling the metal.
• The middle-aged man warned that the intelligent Artifact would kill them, then admitted he was searching for a Space Teleport Artifact.
• The middle-aged man showed Xu Huo the Little Inversion Ring and explained that its spatial exchanges were random and it could not work in a space sealed off from the game’s entry channels.

Xu Huo questioned the middle-aged man about District 001’s plans for the Super Dungeon and learned that the man’s Spatial Evolution had rapidly advanced inside it. Unable to force his way past the metal-controlling little boss, Xu Huo considered how to reach the original Inversion Ring as the man demanded help escaping in return.

• Xu Huo reasoned that the Super Player had given District 001’s players Little Inversion Rings to explore spaces where Tickets could not be used and possibly inherit the Dungeon.
• The middle-aged man explained that different teams had received different information, and he denied knowing where the Dungeon’s Artifacts were kept.
• Xu Huo prompted the middle-aged man to reveal that he had begun developing Spatial Evolution after entering the Dungeon and had learned to control space at a distance in two months.
• The painted woman slapped the middle-aged man after he used his limited Spatial Evolution to tug at her trousers, then marked his leg with a stamp fruit calling him an idiot.
• Xu Huo judged that the little boss’s power made a direct assault too dangerous, while the middle-aged man offered to help if Xu Huo obtained the original Inversion Ring and warned that District 001 could publicize his Super Artifact.

Xu Huo followed the middle-aged man's route toward the city center and entered a low-rise building where he witnessed Space Power compress into an extraordinary form. He realized the formation resembled a world, but when he tried to control it, the water Rubik's Cube barrier appeared and the gossamer thread flew toward him.

• Xu Huo questioned the middle-aged man's claim about a Super Artifact, then accepted the map's route toward the city center.
• Bubble Bean agreed to let Xu Huo try the middle-aged man's plan while continuing to prepare her own approach.
• Xu Huo entered a low-rise building through a Mental Portal and found himself trapped in a different version of the surrounding space.
• Xu Huo watched countless spatial forms compress into a threadlike structure and named the vision a Kaleidoscope World.
• Xu Huo tried to control the Space Rays, but the water Rubik's Cube barrier appeared, and the gossamer thread suddenly flew toward him.

Xu Huo was trapped inside a building in the ghostly Metal City after mysterious threads disabled the water Rubik's Cube barrier, and he studied the space's demonstration of advanced Space Power. After two days of practice and a brief message to Bubble Bean, he tried to rest, but Space Power suddenly began fluctuating violently.

• Two threads pierced Xu Huo's defenses and entered his body, making the water Rubik's Cube barrier disappear and preventing him from summoning it.
• Xu Huo discovered that every attempt to leave the building returned him to his starting point and that he could control Space Rays only inside it.
• Xu Huo studied the displayed transformations of Space Power and repeatedly practiced creating and controlling spatial bodies.
• Xu Huo tried manipulating physical objects, but he could only move light objects or deform and destroy heavier ones.
• After practicing for two days and two nights, Xu Huo contacted Bubble Bean, told her he was fine, and asked her to wait patiently.
• As Xu Huo lay down to rest, the Space Power around him began fluctuating violently.

Xu Huo learned to control and dismantle complex spatial structures inside a sealed building, then was struck by a powerful unseen attack after escaping. He rested and trained in a marked furniture store, where he later found someone in the first building on the map.

• Xu Huo practiced taking apart and reassembling a Super Space Body, then used the skill to loosen a Space Gate in the black passage.
• Xu Huo dismantled the barrier around the low-rise building and crawled out, but an invisible force hurled him through several buildings and injured him.
• Xu Huo discovered the furniture store was sealed by more advanced spatial walls, took Potions, and slept for six hours.
• Xu Huo spent two days studying Spatial Evolution materials and practicing, and the black passage reappeared with the gate slightly loosened.
• Xu Huo rested, escaped through a hole by the entrance, and went to the first building marked on the map, where he found someone inside.