Chapter Summaries

Xu Huo and Yan Jiayu learned that clearing the amusement park Dungeon required collecting the correct Little Hats from fixed and hidden Quiz Game locations. After a player was killed for harming a Plush Bear and destroying a hat, Tang Xiao explained how extra hats and rule violations could trap players.

• Two players tried to sell Xu Huo an upgraded Play Guide, but Tang Xiao drove them off and warned Xu Huo that they were scamming newcomers.
• Tang Xiao explained that players needed hats from fifteen Quiz Game locations, including five whose locations could appear anywhere, and that extra hats required completing additional sets.
• A player who had answered incorrectly attacked a Plush Bear, and killing it scattered hats across the ground; when he crushed one beneath his foot, the game killed him.
• A Plush Monkey collected the hats and gave them to a female player, whom Xu Huo recognized as having arranged for the player to destroy a hat.
• Tang Xiao explained that players could not destroy, discard, or force others to destroy hats, and advised Xu Huo and Yan Jiayu to buy hats from a Plush shop for protection.

Xu Huo and Yan Jiayu entered the Mirror Tent after buying hats and candy and declining a pair of Players’ offer to team up. Inside, they met a Clown who presented no quiz question before the chapter ended.

• Xu Huo and Yan Jiayu bought Pink Hats and expensive candy, and the Plush Pigs gave them a Bubble Machine.
• A pair of Players offered to team up, but Xu Huo declined and asked a Plush Pig whether he could give extra Little Hats to someone else.
• Xu Huo and Yan Jiayu paid to enter the Mirror Tent and discovered that its floating stars were moving mirror shards.
• A Clown appeared in a blank mirror, and Yan Jiayu wiped candy residue from the glass before she and the Clown silently exchanged looks.

Xu Huo and Yan Jiayu won the Mirror Tent quiz and left the camp before it vanished, then lured pursuing Players into the jungle and fought them. Xu Huo exposed a hidden attacker with fire, but his sword struck only a phantom as the Player appeared several meters away.

• Yan Jiayu chose a quiz question, and Xu Huo correctly answered what the rabbit at stall number five had sold; they received Pink Little Hats and a lighting-tool hair clip.
• A Plush Bear led Xu Huo and Yan Jiayu out of the Mirror Tent, where the camp began disappearing as the sky darkened.
• Xu Huo and Yan Jiayu deliberately headed away from Bear Bear Small Building, and several Players, including Tang Xiao, followed them.
• Yan Jiayu smashed a bubble trap and attacked the pursuers while Xu Huo cut through their thrown balls and used Sword Qi to fend off the Tattooed Man.
• Xu Huo ignited dry trees with a Lighter, pulled the line-controlling Player from hiding with his Strings, and slashed at him, but the sword hit a phantom as the Player appeared three meters away.

Xu Huo and Yan Jiayu fought off players trying to exploit the Little Hat rules, but the Tattooed Man and the Remote Player escaped. Tang Xiao offered to trade information about the Dungeon’s Game Points for their method of clearing them, and Xu Huo tested his truth-verifying mask with a startling claim.

• Xu Huo discovered that the String Controller’s evasive movement followed a fixed pattern and killed him, while Yan Jiayu sent the Rope Player flying into the Remote Player.
• The Remote Player raised a vine barrier and escaped with the Tattooed Man, leaving Xu Huo and Yan Jiayu to discuss how their enemies had planned to use the hat rules against them.
• Tang Xiao approached Xu Huo and Yan Jiayu, explaining that his group knew most Game Point rules but still lacked the final Quiz Game location’s key step.
• Tang Xiao used a Red Mask to demonstrate that it revealed whether statements were true, and Yan Jiayu tried it with a claim about candy.
• Xu Huo told the mask, “I’m a woman,” and the bead moved upward, shocking Tang Xiao and Yan Jiayu.

Xu Huo and Yan Jiayu rejected Tang Xiao’s offer to join his group and went to Bear Bear Small Building to investigate its game. Yan Jiayu began a toe-stepping match with Uncle Bear and scored her second stomp before the chapter ended.

• Xu Huo declined to join Tang Xiao’s nearly thirty-player group because he suspected they had misunderstood how to clear the games.
• Tang Xiao warned Xu Huo and Yan Jiayu that the bears’ attack power doubled after four in the afternoon, so they hurried to Bear Bear Small Building.
• Xu Huo and Yan Jiayu entered the building and learned that Uncle Bear’s game gave him ten chances to step on their toes for every one chance they got to step on his.
• Yan Jiayu stomped on Uncle Bear’s paw, dodged his pursuit across the springy floor, and landed a second stomp.

Yan Jiayu and Xu Huo escaped Uncle Bear’s game after Yan Jiayu stepped on its paw three times, then headed toward a nearby camp. On the way, they met the two Players from the Mirror Tent again, and Yan Jiayu confronted them after sensing something suspicious.

• Yan Jiayu dodged Uncle Bear’s attacks, but sticky floor goo trapped her feet until Xu Huo helped her break free.
• Xu Huo distracted Uncle Bear with candy, allowing Yan Jiayu to land on its paw for the third time and win the game.
• Uncle Bear accepted their departure after Xu Huo offered it candy, and the pair left the Wooden Cabin through a window.
• Yan Jiayu told Xu Huo she had broken a toe, and they decided to stay at a nearby amusement-park camp before visiting the third Game Point the next day.
• The two Players they had met outside the Mirror Tent claimed the third Game Point was closed and recommended a mountain cabin, but Yan Jiayu questioned their appearance and accused them of smelling of blood.

Yan Jiayu and Xu Huo fought two Players in the woods, and Xu Huo outmaneuvered Senior by using the battlefield and his items against him. Senior was left convulsing after a Skin-Retaining Worm burrowed into his body.

• Yan Jiayu attacked the female Player while Xu Huo used a Thin Thread to stop Senior from helping her.
• Senior unleashed a sandstorm with a Paper Pinwheel, but Xu Huo escaped its range and stomped the item into the mud to end the storm.
• Xu Huo fought Senior with his sword and Strings while Senior attacked with hammers, spikes, and District 013's Skin-Retaining Worms.
• Xu Huo trapped Senior with the Strings and revealed a Skin-Retaining Worm crawling onto his shoe from the ashes of his clothes.
• Senior failed to cut out the worm after Xu Huo shot his wrist with a Flying Arrow, and the worm burrowed beneath his jaw as he collapsed in agony.

Xu Huo and Yan Jiayu dealt with Cannibal Players and Skin-Retaining Worms, then followed a map to a Lodging Camp in the amusement park. They settled into the Castle and wondered where the missing children had been taken.

• Yan Jiayu killed a Skin-Retaining Worm that attached itself to her, and Xu Huo finished off Xuege after a Flesh Worm emerged from his body.
• Xu Huo and Yan Jiayu agreed not to let the Skin-Retaining Worms harm anyone and dug up and crushed five of them.
• Xu Huo dismissed a female Player's unreliable map, and Yan Jiayu killed her when she attacked.
• Xu Huo and Yan Jiayu reached a fairytale Castle Lodging Camp, paid for a room, and learned that the amusement park did not welcome guests buying meat.
• Yan Jiayu asked where the missing children were, and Xu Huo suggested they could be anywhere in the vast amusement park before proposing to divide their items.

Xu Huo and Yan Jiayu divided the items they had collected, and Yan Jiayu traded the Gentleman of Light Medal for Xu Huo’s Big Scissors. Xu Huo then studied a map and concluded that its changing Quiz Game locations made it only partly useful.

• Yan Jiayu described the items she had taken from the female Player, and Xu Huo showed her the items he had obtained from the String Controller and Cannibal Player.
• Yan Jiayu explained that some items were born naturally through changes caused by Wormholes, and she and Xu Huo divided the items they had collected together.
• Yan Jiayu chose the Bread Clip and Sharp Table Knife, while Xu Huo took the Non-Knotting Thread and Big Belly Bottle.
• Xu Huo offered Yan Jiayu his Big Scissors, and she agreed to trade them for her Gentleman of Light Medal after explaining that she was a Professional Monk.
• Xu Huo studied the map and realized that its fixed Game Points were useful, but its Quiz Game locations could change.

Xu Huo and Yan Jiayu reached the Cube Maze, where Yan Jiayu accidentally caused a chain reaction that toppled many floating Magic Cubes. They fled into the giant question cube, and Xu Huo suspected the amusement park’s Plushes shared a single identity or vision.

• Xu Huo watched fireworks with a Plush Rabbit, which told him that the Castle’s Great Bell matched the clock at C9’s Clock Tower.
• Xu Huo and Yan Jiayu cleared three amusement-park Game Points and reached the Cube Maze’s Quiz Game venue.
• Yan Jiayu touched a floating Magic Cube, causing it to fall, and Xu Huo identified the cubes’ movement as magnetic levitation.
• Yan Jiayu threw a small Magic Cube, triggering a chain reaction that toppled several large cubes, so she and Xu Huo ran toward the maze’s center.
• Yan Jiayu entered the giant Magic Cube, and Xu Huo followed after explaining that the Plushes could share information; he suspected they might all be the same person.

Xu Huo and Yan Jiayu entered the Magic Cube’s dark maze and learned its rules from the quizmaster Smiley: Players had to occupy illuminated Cube Pillars to answer questions, while falling into Otherspace meant disappearing into the unknown. After several Players died or claimed pillars, Xu Huo tested his sword’s limits and fought for a new Cube when the lights shifted.

• Xu Huo and Yan Jiayu entered the Magic Cube and discovered that the ground beneath them split into separate, shrinking pillars.
• Smiley explained that Cube Pillars lasted three minutes, new lights and Cubes appeared every thirty seconds, and Players who answered a quiz question correctly could pass while those who failed stayed in the Dark Space.
• Xu Huo asked how many Players could participate, and Yan Jiayu asked whether the Cubes stayed floating; Smiley answered both questions and vanished.
• Seven Players rushed toward five illuminated pillars; one Player killed a rival to claim a pillar, while another fell from a sharp-cornered Cube into Otherspace.
• A bearded Player warned Xu Huo and Yan Jiayu that more Players were hiding in the dark, and Xu Huo found that his Bright Red Sword’s Sword Qi vanished beyond the light.
• When the lights shifted, Xu Huo dashed toward a nearby Cube, dodged a sledgehammer, and attacked another Player, who blocked with a bracer and spat a hidden weapon at him.

Xu Huo fought off a Player who attacked him with candy while Players competed for Cube Pillars in the darkness. The Clown returned early with a question about the total number of floating cubes, and one Player answered correctly before the next round began.

• Xu Huo watched a Player use a Mechanical Fly to drive another contestant off a Cube Pillar, then learned that voices and items worked wherever the beams of light reached.
• When a Player attacked Xu Huo with deadly candy, Xu caught and threw the pieces back with a Glass Jar, stopping the attack temporarily.
• Xu retaliated with more candy, causing the attacker to stumble onto a Cube Pillar, and an apple thrown by an unknown Player knocked him off it.
• The Clown appeared and announced that ten minutes had passed, then explained that his inaccurate clock had brought the question round early.
• A young Player correctly answered that there were one hundred floating cubes, received a Little Hat, and vanished as the Clown summoned new lit Cube Pillars.

Xu Huo survived the Cube Maze by using Cleaning Agent to defeat a Player, then answered the Clown’s question and escaped with Yan Jiayu. After they collected their reward, Jin Zhao approached them and explained that time could flow differently across Dungeons and Otherspaces.

• Xu Huo used Cleaning Agent to dissolve a chef Player’s Sticky Dough, causing the Player to fall, and caught the Mechanical Fly he spat out.
• Yan Jiayu helped a long-haired Player hang onto a pointed cube, while Xu Huo waited for the next position change.
• Xu Huo correctly answered the Clown’s question about the number of floating cubes, and he and Yan Jiayu appeared outside the maze.
• Xu Huo paid the Plushes candy and White Cash, then Yan Jiayu gave him the Magnetic Cube reward.
• Jin Zhao introduced himself and proposed that they team up, explaining that time flowed differently in some Dungeons and Otherspaces.

Xu Huo and Yan Jiayu joined Jin Zhao and Peng Ru at the amusement park, where they discussed the Plush figures’ behavior and the rules governing Little Hats. Xu Huo realized the Dungeon task’s Route Map conflicted with the Play Guide, leaving them unsure which information was false and where a hidden Game Point might be.

• Jin Zhao introduced his companion Peng Ru, whose Preschool Teacher profession seemed to make the Plush figures refuse to sell her candy.
• Xu Huo and Yan Jiayu wondered why the Plush figures disliked Peng Ru and discussed whether the Dungeon Boss controlled them.
• Xu Huo reasoned that the Little Hat rules might allow players to trade or steal hats outside the Plush figures’ sight, though he had not tested the idea.
• Xu Huo noticed that the Dungeon task’s Route Map listed ten Game Points while the Play Guide required fifteen Little Hats, and he and Yan Jiayu questioned which information was misleading.
• Xu Huo concluded that at least one Game Point had to be difficult to find and considered whether a hidden route might exist in the Castle in Fairytale City.

Xu Huo challenged a bear at Coin Guessing to learn where the hidden Quiz Game was, and won two rounds by tricking it. The bear accepted his wager for a third round, then changed the game by swallowing all sixty boxes and three coins.

• Yan Jiayu and Xu Huo agreed to search for the Quiz Game by learning more about the Plush.
• Peng Ru warned them that the bear in the tent was strong, and Jin Zhao explained the Coin Guessing game.
• Xu Huo won two rounds by grabbing the coin before the bear could stop him.
• Xu Huo bargained with the bear for the Quiz Game’s location, while another player was killed after trying to take his place.
• The bear accepted Xu Huo’s terms, transformed, and swallowed all sixty boxes and three coins.

Xu Huo defeated the giant bear, recovered a coin, and learned the location of the fifth Quiz Game from a Plush. He arranged a rule-bound trade and sold the time-sensitive information to players in the camp.

• Xu Huo killed the giant bear, retrieved a coin from its stomach, and turned its corpse into a Plush Bear with a pile of Little Hats.
• Yan Jiayu stopped two players from leaving while Xu Huo spoke privately with the Plush Bear.
• Xu Huo hired the Plush Bear as a referee and invited other Plushes to oversee a game trading information for candy.
• Xu Huo announced that players could buy the fifth Quiz Game's location for three thousand White Cash, with a Little Hat included for one thousand more.
• Players paid Xu Huo for the location information, and he returned to the tent with the Plushes.

After selling the location of the fifth challenge’s Random Location, Xu Huo and Yan Jiayu were ambushed by six players who wanted to learn how he had obtained the information. The Twins trapped them with their space-influencing Ability, but Yan Jiayu’s Stone Staff broke the barrier, revealing that it contained the Space Element.

• Xu Huo told Peng Ru and Jin Zhao when the Random Location would appear, then shared half the money from selling the information with Yan Jiayu.
• Xu Huo and Yan Jiayu left the camp, but six players caught up with them and demanded to know how Xu Huo had gotten information from the Plush.
• Xu Huo explained that he had persuaded the Plush to accept a wager and won, prompting Brother Tu and the others to decide to keep him around.
• The Twins used their space-influencing Ability to trap Xu Huo and Yan Jiayu between translucent slices of air.
• Yan Jiayu smashed one slice with her Stone Staff, and the taller Twin claimed the staff contained the Space Element and demanded it.

Xu Huo and Yan Jiayu escaped six players, losing the Desert Windmill, while Xu explained that he had spread information about Black Maple Valley to test the Play Guide. He suspected the Dungeon’s true objective was to find ten genuine Game Points and decided to investigate the remaining points before going to Black Maple Valley.

• Xu Huo summoned a Yellow Sandstorm with the Desert Windmill and fled the woods with Yan Jiayu, leaving the item behind for the six players.
• Brother Tu and the others discussed pursuing Xu Huo and Yan Jiayu, then decided to wait for them at Black Maple Valley.
• Xu Huo told Yan Jiayu that he had spread the Black Maple Valley information to help verify how the Dungeon could be cleared.
• Xu Huo reasoned that the real task was to visit ten Game Points and that one of the apparent points might be fake or hidden.
• After Yan Jiayu suggested the Dungeon Boss might have hidden a Game Point, Xu Huo decided to visit the remaining Game Points and then go to Black Maple Valley.

Xu Huo and Yan Jiayu entered Black Maple Valley disguised as Plush, where the Twins pursued them through the ruined castle. Xu Huo killed one Twin with help from Jin Zhao and Peng Ru, then the group discovered a hidden door while trying to reunite with Yan Jiayu.

• Xu Huo and Yan Jiayu entered the castle disguised as Plush after spotting the Twins near the broken bridge.
• The tall Twin chased Xu Huo upstairs and attacked him with an Air Slice, but Jin Zhao and Peng Ru encountered the attack in the corridor.
• Jin Zhao and Peng Ru fought the tall Twin with their Laser Pointer and Paper Planes, and Xu Huo killed him with a translucent barrier.
• Xu Huo cleaned up the body and joined Jin Zhao and Peng Ru, explaining that Yan Jiayu was on the other side of the castle.
• Jin Zhao pressed a decorative painting and revealed a small hidden door in the wall.

Xu Huo and Jin Zhao explored the Ancient Castle’s hidden passages until the Hide and Seek game began, turning the castle into a dark, dangerous maze filled with Plush. Xu Huo used a corpse as bait to draw out the Twins, and the surviving shorty rushed into the room to seek revenge.

• Peng Ru proposed splitting up to search the castle’s passages, and Xu Huo warned her that the two men pursuing Yan Jiayu were twins who might share an Ability.
• The castle changed as the game began, and Xu Huo and Jin Zhao fled through the passages while avoiding the attacking Plush.
• Xu Huo observed that dormant Plush became active when the Living Bear entered a room, then placed a corpse by a doorway and hid.
• The shorty Twin and a woman found his brother’s headless corpse, and she warned him that Xu Huo might be using it as bait.
• The shorty ignored her warning, put away his brother’s body, and pushed open the door to pursue the killers.