Chapter Summaries

Xu Huo stayed away from Whale Garden while players followed him, then returned when a battle broke out between Madam Ruo and a group seeking revenge for her past killings. The white-haired elder’s One-Time Item struck Madam Ruo, but the group’s preparations overwhelmed the enforcement team as Xu Huo slipped into the untouched garden.

• Xu Huo traded Gong Ying a B-class item called Charm That Works on Men and Women for her promise to return and help Madam Ruo.
• Xu Huo wandered across the islands as players followed him, then a shock wave struck at noon and half of his pursuers vanished.
• Xu Huo returned to find Madam Ruo facing a group that accused her of massacring their hometown and demanded answers about missing people.
• Madam Ruo denied knowing the people on the white-haired elder’s List and offered to reveal where she had rescued survivors.
• The white-haired elder used a One-Time Item to pierce Madam Ruo with Space Power, while protective barriers and repeated shock waves defeated the enforcement team.
• Xu Huo slipped into the grounds of Whale Garden while the battle continued.

Madam Ruo fought the Holy Sword Society Players while Xu Huo intervened and learned that she had helped the Game Government carry out a district-wide massacre. The confrontation remained unresolved as Madam Ruo defended the massacre and law-enforcement Players closed in.

• Gong Ying tried to help Madam Ruo escape, but Madam Ruo attacked her and tore out her organs.
• The white-haired elder repeatedly stabbed Madam Ruo with Spatial Cutlines, while the red-haired woman gave Gong Ying an Antidote that failed to stop her wounds from turning black.
• Xu Huo refused to leave and demanded to know whether the group belonged to the Holy Sword Society; Madam Ruo’s container artifact and the other artifacts then stopped working.
• Law-enforcement Players ambushed the island, and Xu Huo blocked the white-haired elder’s escape to demand that the Players show their badges.
• The white-haired elder identified himself as a student of Gong Ying’s Teacher, and Xu Huo accused Madam Ruo of lying about her weakness and motives.
• Gong Ying revealed that Madam Ruo had helped the Game Government carry out a district-wide massacre, and Madam Ruo replied that the Holy Sword Society members deserved to die.

Madam Ruo and the enforcement team battled the Holy Sword Society after exposing their ambush, while the white-haired elder used powerful spatial weapons and explosions to turn the fight chaotic. Xu Huo rescued the badly wounded Gong Ying, who revealed that targeting Madam Ruo was only one part of their plan.

• The white-haired elder accused Madam Ruo and the enforcement team of massacring a sub-district, but Madam Ruo rejected his threats and ordered her team to attack.
• The white-haired elder broke through one containment barrier, but Gong Ying and the others discovered that a second simulation device still restricted their items.
• Madam Ruo split up the attackers, and the enforcement team captured Gong Ying and other Holy Sword Society members with Spider Locks.
• The white-haired elder disabled the Spider Locks and attacked Madam Ruo and the enforcement team with spatial threads, while Xu Huo dodged the attack.
• The white-haired elder sent a signal that triggered explosions across the island, and the battle spread as attackers escaped and the enforcement team scattered.
• Xu Huo rescued the injured Gong Ying and helped her evade the enforcement team; she told him that going after Madam Ruo was only one of their plans.

Xu Huo gave Gong Ying maps that might lead to a base of the new Holy Sword Society, then faced Madam Ruo and District 022’s enforcement team after the old Holy Sword Society withdrew. He tore Madam Ruo’s mechanical heart from her body, but used the Ring of Time to restore it and negotiate.

• Xu Huo questioned Gong Ying about the old Holy Sword Society’s goals, and she revealed they were searching for a base of the new Holy Sword Society.
• Xu Huo gave Gong Ying maps he had taken from members of the new Holy Sword Society, and she withdrew with her companions when signals flashed from a nearby island.
• District 022’s players confronted Xu Huo, and he argued that he had only spoken with Gong Ying and had not interfered in their affairs.
• Madam Ruo attacked Xu Huo, but his dark matter and spatial abilities countered her moves and killed a quarter of the enforcement team’s players.
• Xu Huo pierced Madam Ruo’s chest with a Space Ray and removed her metallic heart, then restored it with the Ring of Time and tried to negotiate.

Xu Huo negotiated a temporary truce with Madam Ruo, left Lake City, and traveled toward Snow Valley with two families. At a forest park, he watched visitors admire a giant blooming flower before a child asked him to help sneak snacks past her parents.

• Xu Huo proposed that District 022 let him clear his Dungeon without interference, and Madam Ruo accepted the compromise after posing for his travel-log photo and giving him a mechanical heart.
• Madam Ruo ordered her team to stop pursuing Xu Huo and report to the District Government before she was taken to the hospital.
• Xu Huo left Lake City on a private aircraft and joined two families traveling to Snow Valley.
• At a forest park, Xu Huo and the families rode flying skateboards and watched the giant fairy's veil flower release drifting pollen.
• A little girl offered to buy Xu Huo a snack if he would help conceal it from her parents.

Xu Huo teased children with vegetable-shaped sugar figurines and discussed child-rearing, morality, and genetic screening with Bu Chunfeng, the founder of the Xiang Shan Cult. Bu Chunfeng revealed that he had once set fire to his family’s flower garden and had spent years making amends by planting greenery.

• Xu Huo bought sugar figurines and handed them to children, who refused the vegetable-shaped sweets except for Xiao Qing.
• Xu Huo gave Xiao Qing a trinket to make up for teasing her, and Bu Chunfeng criticized him for setting a poor example.
• Xu Huo and Bu Chunfeng debated children’s moral education, genetic screening, and whether upbringing could prevent adults from doing evil.
• Bu Chunfeng said he had founded the Xiang Shan Cult and confessed that, as a teenager, he had set fire to his family’s flower garden.
• Bu Chunfeng explained that he had spent years planting flowers and plants to make amends, then sighed as he looked toward the forest.

Xu Huo learned that the intelligent Aliens were supplied by a notorious information broker known as Bookworm. He contacted Bookworm to ask for the location of a Stellar Pharmaceutical Group laboratory.

• Xu Huo spent the day talking with Bu Chunfeng, then explored the glowing forest at night and posted a monkey photo to his travel log.
• Xu Huo visited the biological company Chai Sheng had mentioned and obtained internal documents by targeting employees with high-level access.
• Xu Huo discovered that the company’s supplier of intelligent Aliens used the alias Bookworm and researched the broker’s history as a notorious information trader.
• Xu Huo found Bookworm’s alternate account and messaged him to request the location of a Stellar Pharmaceutical Group laboratory.

Xu Huo investigated Bookworm’s demand about AS-01CL ore, then traveled through District 022 to gather information and a visitor’s pass. He ended his trip at Tusangbao, a castle complex that housed the District Government’s tourism department.

• Bookworm told Xu Huo to get AS-01CL ore banned at B11 Wormhole Point in exchange for addresses of three Stellar Group laboratories, and Xu found a company that bought the ore.
• Xu Huo traveled with Bu Chunfeng to Snow Valley, attended a Xiang Shan Cult sermon, and received a Recommendation Letter for a temporary visitor’s pass.
• Bu Chunfeng offered to use a government contact to help Xu Huo obtain a higher-level visitor’s pass.
• Xu Huo went to Capital Prefecture’s Science and Technology Museum and examined a colossal inter-wormhole-point teleportation device.
• Xu Huo toured District 022, exchanged souvenirs with Players, and reached Tusangbao, the final stop on his trip.

Xu Huo went to the tourism headquarters for his final travel stamp and met a player who looked like Leijie Lian, her older sister, in Building 17. She trapped him with a poisoned web and demanded his game item, while he questioned whether the District Government of District 022 had sent her.

• Xu Huo received a stamp at the tourism headquarters and was directed to Building 17 for his final stamp.
• The clerk in Building 17, who looked like Leijie Lian, revealed that she was Leijie Lian's older sister and wanted the dark matter Xu Huo had taken.
• The girl contracted the crystal hall and attacked Xu Huo with items designed to counter dark matter and Spatial Evolution.
• Xu Huo used dark matter to appear behind the girl, but she ensnared him in a super A-class web coated with poison.
• The girl offered Xu Huo an Antidote in exchange for his game item, and he asked whether her actions represented the will of the District Government of District 022.

Xu Huo captured Sandy after she tried to trap him, then negotiated compensation with District 022’s government. He cleared his route, checked into Yongxing Hotel, and ended his trip by posting a mocking travel log.

• Sandy tried to capture Xu Huo, but he dismantled her spatial barrier and used Time Power to age and immobilize her.
• The short-haired woman negotiated with Xu Huo on behalf of District 022, offering compensation in exchange for Sandy.
• Xu Huo demanded eight or ten good A-class items and accepted the District Government’s offer to cover his stay at Yongxing Hotel.
• Xu Huo stamped his Tourist Route Map, cleared the route, and checked into the hotel.
• Xu Huo posted a final travel log about his free stay, prompting Jixin Terminal users to ask whether the District Government was chicken.

The District Government settled with Xu Huo and invited him to the District Founding Celebration, while he waited for information about its dealings with Stellar Pharmaceutical and Bookworm. After Lei Xiaohe came to the Eternal Star Hotel, he told Xu Huo that Players from different places had heard a major event was about to happen in District 022.

• The District Government gave Xu Huo three A-class items and three A-class instruments, then agreed to investigate his questions about its business with Stellar Pharmaceutical and Bookworm.
• Zhou Juanjuan and Zhan Erliu arrived at the Eternal Star Hotel while they waited to finish their Dungeon clearances.
• Lei Xiaohe asked Xu Huo to help secure government stamps for a group of Players, but Xu Huo refused and told a government employee he did not know Lei Xiaohe.
• Lei Xiaohe visited Xu Huo in person and revealed that at least three unconnected Players had heard a major event concerning the entire Sub-district would soon happen in District 022.

Xu Huo learned that a large-scale Attack Incident might soon hit District 022, and that someone was deliberately leaking information to draw Outer District Players into the conflict. After the government refused to evacuate players, Xu Huo began looking into buying heavy weapons as the threat loomed.

• Lei Xiaohe admitted he wanted information about the coming turmoil and hoped to profit, while Xu Huo refused to pay him for document-stamping arrangements.
• Lei Xiaohe brought one player to meet Xu Huo, and the man said a government employee's family member had revealed that District 022 might soon face an Attack Incident targeting officials and other areas.
• The man offered to share more information in exchange for help clearing the level, but Xu Huo declined to cooperate and contacted a diplomat about evacuating players.
• The diplomat refused to send away the players, and Zhan Erliu warned that the Sub-district Government might use the crisis to control or punish them.
• Lei Xiaohe left to look for more news, while Xu Huo browsed District 022's heavy-weapons listings for equipment he might buy.

Xu Huo reviewed his Dungeon rewards and the District Government’s compensation, including upgraded Abilities and several defensive items. As Capital Prefecture prepared for a celebration amid rumors of an attack, Levi asked Xu Huo for coupons so they could go out and enjoy themselves.

• Xu Huo received his Dungeon clearance rewards, including new items, upgrades to his Abilities, and a larger Storage Compartment.
• Xu Huo examined the District Government’s compensation, which included the Sheep Pen, From Point to Surface, Green Moss, and three A-class instruments.
• Zhou Juanjuan, Zhan Erliu, and Levi discussed the risk of an attack on Capital Prefecture during the upcoming celebration.
• The Server told the group that the hotel was giving out celebration coupons, and Levi asked Xu Huo for some so they could go out.

During Capital Prefecture’s celebration, a vast upside-down city emerged in the sky and began falling toward the district. Xu Huo realized the authorities were using the crisis to occupy hidden attackers, leaving the city full of residents as bait.

• Xu Huo walked through the crowded celebration with Zhou Juanjuan and Levi, while a pale Outer District Player spoke strangely about his prosperous hometown.
• A huge upside-down city appeared above Capital Prefecture, and enforcement players rushed to slow its descent and remove falling sections.
• Interference disabled the district’s defensive equipment, so Super Evolvers intercepted buildings while other players restored protection and cut apart the falling city.
• Bu Chunfeng urged the enforcement team to evacuate children, but the authorities kept residents in place and ordered everyone not to move.
• Xu Huo told Zhou Juanjuan that other places were likely under attack and Capital Prefecture was keeping its residents in danger to distract hidden attackers.

As attackers struck the Capital Prefecture, a pale Survivor shattered the remaining suspended city and attacked the crowds, claiming District 022 had destroyed his homeland. Xu Huo stopped a collapsing hotel from crushing people and challenged the man, who said the attackers were Survivors persecuted by District 022.

• People across the Capital Prefecture demanded evacuation as news spread that other core cities in District 022 had also been attacked.
• Xu Huo warned Zhou Juanjuan and Levi that the attackers had arrived when a wave of air swept through the city and the pale man caused the remaining suspended buildings to shatter.
• The Law Enforcement Team raised a vast Metal Protective Shield, but attackers launched assaults across the city, causing explosions, collapses, and ground ruptures.
• The pale man cut through the shield with a sword, severed Yongxing Hotel, and landed on its roof, making the building tip toward the crowd.
• Xu Huo halted the hotel’s fall and asked why the pale man was killing ordinary people; the man blamed District 022 for destroying his homeland and family.
• The pale man said the attackers were Survivors persecuted by District 022, and an injured middle-aged man accused them of inventing the claim.

As fighting spread through the Capital Prefecture, Xu Huo tried to lead Bu Chunfeng and nearby families to safety, but they chose to wait for government rescue. Xu Huo, Zhou Juanjuan, and Levi then navigated the city as they considered District 022’s history of exploiting people, and Xu discovered that the city’s defensive barrier devices had been destroyed.

• The attackers and law enforcement officers clashed again, while a teleportation artifact failed and Super Evolvers moved pieces of the collapsing Yongxing Hotel to safety.
• Xu Huo offered to take Bu Chunfeng and the nearby children to a Safe Zone, but Bu Chunfeng and the families decided to stay and await rescue.
• Xu Huo, Zhou Juanjuan, and Levi traveled through the city and discussed reports that District 022 had trafficked people and used them in experiments.
• A wounded attacker exploded among law enforcement officers, killing several, and Xu Huo used Forced Flashback to escape with two Players as officers attacked passersby.
• Xu Huo found that the large devices installed around the Capital Prefecture had been destroyed, leaving the city unable to raise its protective barrier.

During the attack on the Capital Prefecture, Xu Huo went to Punishment City to question Leijie Lian about District 022’s dealings with Stellar Pharmaceutical. Leijie Lian revealed a possible shipment site in B11-003 and offered to tell Xu Huo where to find a Perfect Potion.

• Xu Huo headed to Punishment City with Levi and Zhou Juanjuan as Players attacked government sites across the Capital Prefecture.
• Xu Huo found Leijie Lian in a staff room on Underground Level 3 and asked what she knew about District 022’s business with Stellar Pharmaceutical.
• Other prisoners offered scattered information, including an address for a Stellar Pharmaceutical factory, but Xu Huo found little of it useful.
• Under pressure from Xu Huo, Leijie Lian said a shipment was being delivered to a Station in B11-003.
• Leijie Lian offered to reveal the location of a Perfect Potion, and Xu Huo listened without agreeing to help her.

Xu Huo and his companions took Leijie Lian to a research institute in District 022 in search of a Perfect Potion, traveling through a Capital Prefecture devastated by attacks. They found the institute destroyed, and Leijie suspected that the researchers who knew about the Potion had been captured.

• Leijie Lian offered to lead Xu Huo and his companions to a Perfect Potion in exchange for being taken along, and Xu Huo agreed.
• The group crossed a heavily damaged Capital Prefecture, where Leijie learned that the District Government appeared to have abandoned the city.
• Xu Huo, Zhou Juanjuan, Levi, and Leijie traveled through a devastated city and helped trapped people when they could.
• The group reached the research institute, but found it had vanished, leaving a huge crater behind.
• Leijie gave Levi the contact details of researchers who had studied the Perfect Potion, but none answered, so she guessed they had been captured.

Xu Huo learned that District 022 wanted him to hold off a powerful Player from an A-class wormhole point, while Leijie warned that the District Government was likely trying to make him take the blame. At the scene, Xu Huo discovered District 022 had deployed its Super Dimensional Instrument and realized the apparent attack was centered on the man they wanted him to confront.

• The District Government offered to meet Xu Huo’s conditions and share confidential information if he held off a Player, so Xu Huo agreed to inspect the situation before deciding.
• Leijie suspected District 022 was exploiting Xu Huo’s Time Power and warned him that the government would try to shift blame and seize valuable items.
• Leijie revealed that District 022 had obtained a Super Dimensional Instrument through questionable means and urged Xu Huo to disguise himself and take whatever he could.
• Xu Huo spotted the Super Dimensional Instrument’s barrier above the city, which was suppressing the artifacts and instruments carried by the attackers.
• Xu Huo saw a man surrounded by floating artifacts pushing Players and objects away with shock waves, and realized he was the real focus of the incident.

Xu Huo learned more about Super Dimensional Instruments as a powerful figure from an A-class wormhole point attacked District 022 and moved to seize one. When District 022 asked Xu Huo to stall him, Xu Huo refused and suggested they give up the instrument instead.

• Levi explained that Super Dimensional Instruments could cause instant destruction and that A-class wormhole bullets used Transdimensional Space Power.
• Xu Huo examined the unguarded shield-like instrument and chose to leave the city rather than steal it, despite Leijie's urging.
• The powerful man shattered the city with a strike, killing civilians and forcing players to flee, then sent a spherical robot toward the Super Dimensional Instrument.
• Enforcement Team players tried to drive the man away from the instrument, but his counterattack killed or injured many of them.
• District 022 contacted Xu Huo and asked him to stall the man, but Xu Huo declined and told them to give the instrument back.