Chapter Summaries

Xu Huo and the others returned to the dining room for a third meal, where Ms. Yao’s attack on two employees triggered a confrontation with the Reflection People. Xu Huo failed to stop one employee from being pulled away, and the Reflection People drew everyone in the dining room into the Reflection Space.

• After resting in a covered corridor, Xu Huo led the Wang family employees to the dining room when they were summoned for another meal.
• Wang Chengren and Ms. Yao appeared, and Ms. Yao berated a timid female employee and the person who tried to comfort her.
• Two Reflection People tried to drag the employees away, but Xu Huo’s spatial barrier blocked them until Wang Chengren unleashed reflected light that pulled one employee into the Reflection World.
• Xu Huo covered reflective surfaces with black matter and attacked Wang Chengren while Sutton, Wei Mang, and the others went after Ms. Yao and the other Reflection People.
• The Reflection People used light sources and overlapping Reflection Spaces to escape and pull everyone in the dining room into the Reflection Space, where Xu Huo landed in an empty dining room.

Xu Huo investigated ways to move between the manor’s reflective spaces while preparing the lake as a place to catch shadows. He pulled Xiao Yang and two Wang family employees from the water, then learned their reflections had lured them into the lake.

• Xu Huo reasoned that the Reflection People could be trapped only by sealing an area and removing reflective objects, and considered forcing a shadow to open a passage between spaces.
• Xu Huo used Dark Space to check whether he could pass through a mirror into the Reflection Space, then removed mirrors around the manor and set up fishing rods by the lake.
• Xu Huo caught Xiao Yang and two Wang family employees in the lake and verified their identities before pulling them ashore.
• The employees explained that they had fallen into the lake while fleeing the dining rooms, while Xiao Yang said his reflection in a puddle had winked at him before he began falling.

Xu Huo theorized that Reflection People could kill players once their imitations became complete, then attacked Ms. Yao at dinner. Her dispersal revealed Reflection Worlds across the restaurant, and Xu Huo’s own Reflection Person appeared before him.

• Xu Huo explained that a Reflection Person’s successful imitation could leave its original vulnerable, and he advised Xiao Yang to kill his reflection when it appeared.
• Xiao Yang and the others made cloth bags to cover reflective surfaces, then went with Xu Huo to dinner after Wang Chengren and Ms. Yao summoned them.
• At the restaurant, the group found severed body parts belonging to a player and felt the Reflection People’s growing pressure.
• Xu Huo bound Ms. Yao with Black Manifestations and struck her with his Glove, causing her to disperse into energy.
• Reflection Worlds flickered across the restaurant as another Xu Huo emerged from the floor and faced him.

Xu Huo entered the deepest layers of the Reflection World while Sutton warned the other Ticket Players that imagining the reflections could make them more dangerous. A painted woman emerged from the Reflection World carrying a photo of Xu Huo and asked Sutton’s group if they had seen him.

• Xu Huo crossed through layers of the Reflection World and disappeared into its deepest darkness.
• Sutton and four other Ticket Players searched the manor and discussed how the reflections’ powers and appearances could be shaped by the True Men’s minds.
• Sutton warned the group not to imagine the reflections or recall their pasts, and told them to avoid Xu Huo if they encountered him.
• A painted woman was pushed out of the Reflection World by her own reflection, which then fled through a back door.
• The painted woman showed Sutton’s group a photo of Xu Huo and asked whether they had seen him.

Sutton and the other Players encountered Xu Huo’s powerful Reflection Person, which dragged them into the Reflection World and killed nearly everyone. Xu Huo rescued Sutton, who learned that only he and one female Player survived.

• Sutton misled the painted woman about Xu Huo’s whereabouts, and she later confronted him and his companions.
• Xu Huo’s Reflection Person appeared, split into copies, and pursued the Players through reflective surfaces into the Reflection World.
• The Reflection Person trapped Sutton in a shifting fall through a well and a dark space, nearly crushing his body and consciousness.
• Xu Huo revived Sutton beside the well and told him that the other Players had died, except for one female Player.
• Sutton thanked Xu Huo and told him that a mute woman had been looking for him.
• Xu Huo explained that his Reflection Person had rapidly evolved and could use the Dungeon’s power and split into copies.

Xu Huo examined how the Reflection Person breached Mental Defense Lines and used the injured Players to test his ideas. Sutton discovered that part of the rescued female Player’s brain had gone dormant, leaving Xu Huo to suspect her independent consciousness was being killed gradually.

• Xu Huo reasoned that mental anchors might take effect by breaking through a target’s Mental Defense Line, as the Reflection Person had done to Sutton and the others.
• Xu Huo probed Sutton with mental power, and Sutton warned him that testing on a weaker opponent would reveal little.
• Xu Huo asked Sutton to examine the rescued female Player, whose sluggishness and bleeding suggested a mental attack had injured her.
• Sutton used a device to find that a small part of the female Player’s brain was dormant rather than dead.
• Sutton explained that dormant brain cells could neither function nor regenerate, and Xu Huo suspected the condition was gradually killing her mental entity.

Xu Huo and the others examined the effects of the Dungeon’s mental interference, then questioned Wang Chengren about the Reflection People and Wang Xiaohui. Wang Chengren revealed that Wang Xiaohui’s Reflection Person had become a physical, faceless Monster, and Xu Huo set out to investigate the room where the couple had lived.

• Sutton examined a corpse and found that its brain had suffered severe trauma, while a recovering female Player asked how the victims had died.
• Wang Chengren surfaced from the lake, and Xu Huo used a Space Ray to pull him out.
• Wang Chengren said he had seen several copies of himself and encountered Wang Xiaohui’s faceless, physical Reflection Person.
• Xu Huo questioned Wang Chengren about his unusual luck and learned that he had not yet been invited to the dining room.
• Xu Huo asked whether Wang Xiaohui had left any personal belongings in the manor, and Wang Chengren said their former Master Bedroom had become a Study Room.
• Xu Huo gestured for Wang Chengren to lead him to the Study Room.

Xu Huo and the others investigated Wang Xiaohui’s Study, finding evidence of her efforts to heal her legs and unusual research into the mind. Wang Chengren’s memories of Ms. Yao suggested she had targeted Wang Xiaohui for a reason, and Xu Huo pressed him for more details about their relationship.

• Xu Huo and the others discovered anatomical diagrams of Wang Chengren and Ms. Yao among Wang Xiaohui’s medical books, while Sutton explained why Wang Xiaohui might have wanted revenge.
• Xu Huo found books and notes about spiritual cultivation and concluded that Wang Xiaohui’s unusual self-image had made her mental power and Reflection Person especially strong.
• Xu Huo suggested Ms. Yao might be key to clearing the Dungeon because she appeared during Meal Time despite not entering it, and asked Wang Chengren what was unusual about her life at the estate.
• Wang Chengren recalled that Ms. Yao insisted on moving into the estate and drove Wang Xiaohui out, even though the property would not belong to them if Wang Xiaohui died.
• The female Player questioned whether Ms. Yao had been attracted to Wang Chengren’s looks, and Xu Huo asked how she had gotten along with Wang Xiaohui’s mother.

Xu Huo captured a shadow containing Wang Xiaohui and Ms. Yao, but Ms. Yao dragged him and the painted woman into the shadow before escaping underground. Xu Huo emerged in the Wang Family Manor as it had been years earlier, where he saw a young Wang Xiaohui with her mother and Ms. Yao.

• Wang Chengren admitted he had wanted the Wang family's inheritance but denied intending to force Wang Xiaohui to her death, and he revealed he had barely visited Ms. Yao in the Nursing Home.
• Xu Huo questioned Wang Chengren about Ms. Yao's illness and considered whether she had developed a special ability, while Wang Xiaohui remained missing.
• The painted woman dragged Wang Xiaohui's Reflection Person from the lake, and Xu Huo restrained it before its head changed from Wang Xiaohui's face to Ms. Yao's.
• Ms. Yao escaped into a black shadow with Xu Huo, and the shadow swallowed Wang Chengren before surging toward Sutton and the female Player.
• Xu Huo and the painted woman passed through Reflection Worlds and arrived at the Wang Family Manor from years earlier, where they saw young Wang Xiaohui with her mother and Ms. Yao.

Xu Huo and the painted woman watched a past scene revealing Ms. Yao's dealings with Xiaohui's parents and Wang Chengren. After seeing Ms. Yao secretly give Wang Chengren a fake bid file, Xu Huo questioned why she later left the company and targeted Wang Xiaohui.

• Ms. Yao received a call about money she had sent to her family and discussed the situation with Xiaohui's mother, who urged her to focus on her own family.
• Ms. Yao confronted Xiaohui's father in his study about an alleged affair, and he warned her to stay away from the study.
• Xiaohui's parents discussed Ms. Yao's talent and unpredictability after she left the study.
• Ms. Yao gave Wang Chengren a fake minimum-bid file and persuaded him to pass it to the other party as a way to help the company and secure their standing.
• The painted woman pulled the real Wang Chengren from behind a screen, and he reminisced about Ms. Yao's past kindness.
• Xu Huo wondered why Ms. Yao had left the company and become a housewife focused on Wang Xiaohui despite her apparent influence and abilities.

Xu Huo learned that Yao Nan had secretly retaliated against her abusive family, then followed Wang Xiaohui’s memories of Ms. Yao’s cruelty and the young gardener’s attempted assault. The memory ended with Ms. Yao and Wang Xiaohui standing together as the gardener bled to death.

• Wang Chengren described Yao Nan’s strained relationship with her family, and Xu Huo heard her demand that her parents choose between money and caring for their injured son.
• Xu Huo concluded that Yao Nan was decisive and ruthless, while Wang Chengren could not say whether she or Wang Xiaohui had been involved in Wang Xiaohui’s parents’ deaths.
• Xu Huo followed Wang Xiaohui’s shadow into a memory where Ms. Yao mistreated her, isolated her, and taunted her about her disability and parents.
• Years later, a young gardener offered to help Wang Xiaohui escape, then tried to abduct and assault her when she refused to trust him.
• Wang Xiaohui stabbed the gardener with a Fruit Knife, and Ms. Yao joined her as they watched him die.

Xu Huo and his companions investigated Yao Nan’s past at the manor, learning that her harsh treatment of Wang Xiaohui may have been meant to prepare her for a dangerous world. They found two terrified employees who had witnessed the Reflection Person’s killings and saw Yao Nan’s apparent cruelty continue, but Wang Xiaohui remained missing.

• Xu Huo questioned Wang Chengren about whether Yao Nan had changed, and Wang Chengren recalled that she had grown quieter and seemed gentler toward Wang Xiaohui.
• Xu Huo, Wang Chengren, and the painted woman searched the manor for Wang Xiaohui but found two employees hiding inside a cabinet.
• The employees described the Reflection Person brutally killing a man and serving dumplings that contained a tooth.
• The employees said Yao Nan had thrown utensils and had people dragged away during a meal, including an A-class Player who had tried to resist the Reflection Person.

Xu Huo led Wang Chengren and two employees through a stronger Reflection Space, protecting them from a Reflection Person and taking them to the dining hall. There, the gathered survivors faced a platter of severed heads, and a repair worker was attacked by his Reflection Person after trying to strike Ms. Yao.

• Xu Huo asked the two employees about their experiences with reflections, and they described seeing distorted versions of themselves in windows and mirrors.
• A Reflection Person tried to drag the two employees into the wet grass, but Xu Huo caught them with his mental power and destroyed the shadow with Mirror Space.
• Xu Huo brought Wang Chengren and the employees to the dining hall, where Players, estate workers, and their Reflection People had gathered.
• The dining hall’s serving cart revealed ten familiar human heads arranged on a platter, and the sight made Sutton and a female Player turn pale.
• A repair worker lunged at Ms. Yao, but his Reflection Person shoved him into the tableware and attacked him in another dining hall.

Xu Huo was pulled into the Reflection World with his Reflection Person, where he destroyed two shadows and cleared the Dungeon. The other Players realized his success when a waiting Player vanished from the manor.

• Xu Huo provoked the Reflection People, and their powerful mental force made the dining room collapse in pain as their faces peeled away to reveal Xu Huo’s own Reflection Person.
• Xu Huo vanished with his Reflection Person, and the other Reflection People retreated into the Reflection World.
• The remaining Players discussed the Dungeon’s growing danger and waited for Xu Huo, while Wei Mang urged them to share clues and work together.
• Xu Huo summoned his Book Tower to break through the Reflection World and used black Manifestations to seal nearby reflective surfaces.
• Xu Huo trapped two shadows and destroyed them with his right hand after removing his Glove.
• A Player waiting outside vanished, and the others realized that Xu Huo had cleared the Dungeon.

Xu Huo explored the deepest part of the Reflection World, while Wei Mang entered it from the manor. A reflection resembling Xu Huo returned to the dining room, killed the people there, and opened another passage into the Reflection World.

• Xu Huo followed a Reflection Person into the past of the manor and reached the black space beneath Ms. Yao's Small Building.
• Xu Huo studied a glass flower that resisted his mental power as he investigated the Reflection World's concentrated mental energy.
• Players used a device to open a passage into the Reflection World, and Wei Mang went through while Xiao Yang stayed behind with the others.
• A figure resembling Xu Huo entered the dining room and knocked Xiao Yang unconscious before killing the Wang family's employees and repairers.
• The figure ignored the fleeing survivors, opened the Reflection World through a plate, and walked inside.

Xu Huo struggled to break the colored-glass flower in the Reflection World while his Reflection Person hunted the fleeing players. The chapter ended with Xu Huo’s childhood personality breaking off one of the flower’s petals with a gentle touch.

• The players became separated among Reflection Worlds, and Xu Huo’s Reflection Person pursued them through reflective surfaces.
• A dark-skinned female player hid in an underground exchange space, but Black Water reached her and killed her.
• Xu Huo’s Reflection Person gathered its eight versions together as an Enforcement Department player watched from an ancient tree.
• Xu Huo failed to damage the flower, even after covering it with Mirror Space.
• Xu Huo’s childhood personality gently touched the flower and broke off a petal.

Xu Huo explored the memory fruits in Ms. Yao’s Spiritual World and uncovered her unusual attachments, mental abilities, and a buried family secret. The chapter left him suspecting that Ms. Yao’s memories might have been altered and revealed that her younger brother had tampered with Wan Yajun and Wang Can’s car.

• Xu Huo examined Ms. Yao’s memory fruits and saw her family mistreating and manipulating her from childhood onward.
• Xu Huo found memories showing that Ms. Yao had admired Wan Yajun since school and later chose to marry Wang Chengren partly because he would listen to her.
• Xu Huo noticed that Wan Yajun’s image grew unusually vivid in Ms. Yao’s memories and wondered whether those memories had been altered.
• Xu Huo found that Ms. Yao’s memories of Wang Xiaohui remained softened, reflecting how deeply Ms. Yao cared for her.
• Xu Huo traced Ms. Yao’s ability to read emotions and breach Mental Defense Lines to her changing perception after Wang Xiaohui became a Player.
• Xu Huo discovered that Ms. Yao’s younger brother had once tampered with Wan Yajun and Wang Can’s car.

Xu Huo explored Ms. Yao’s fragmented memories and learned how her mental Evolution led to memory loss, murderous episodes, and efforts to contain herself. He concluded the memory fragments were not her Spiritual World, though the flower might be its core, and considered studying her method of attacking minds.

• Ms. Yao’s memories showed that her brother had tried to sabotage Wan Yajun and Wang Can, but their deaths were caused by a falling tree.
• After her mental Evolution, Ms. Yao tormented her family and began experiencing memory gaps during which another consciousness took control of her body.
• Ms. Yao lost control at the manor, where she killed every employee while Wang Xiaohui fell into a coma, then moved into a reinforced house and later a Nursing Home to manage her condition.
• Xu Huo searched deep underwater and found Ms. Yao’s memories preserved as chaotic, fragmented scenes.
• Xu Huo judged that Ms. Yao’s condition likely combined dissociative identity disorder and schizophrenia, and he suspected the flower was the core of her Spiritual World.
• Xu Huo considered studying Ms. Yao’s memories because they showed how she breached victims’ Mental Defense Lines and destroyed their minds.

Xu Huo explored Ms. Yao’s hidden memories as eleven Ticket players destabilized the dungeon while searching its Reflection Worlds. He uncovered Ms. Yao’s murderous personality and her efforts to contain her illness, then realized she had used a technique to bypass Mental Defense Lines that he still could not understand.

• Eleven Ticket players entered the mental dungeon, activated linked instruments, and made the Reflection Worlds fluctuate as they searched for people and items.
• Xu Huo sensed the players’ activity and found that the dungeon’s instability made Ms. Yao’s stored memories tremble.
• Xu Huo discovered that a hidden personality had tried to replace Ms. Yao and had killed two of her other secondary personalities.
• Ms. Yao tried to eliminate her personalities through the Mental Defense Line, then recognized that harming them would amount to suicide.
• Ms. Yao repeatedly hypnotized herself and recorded the triggers for her episodes, leading to the Nursing Home plan.
• Xu Huo watched Ms. Yao bypass a Mental Defense Line through technique and realized he should understand how she did it.

Xu Huo absorbed Ms. Yao’s memories and gained insight into how she read emotions and weakened mental resistance. He persuaded her to let him meet Wang Xiaohui, who appeared in a garden pavilion after Xu Huo and the other Players followed the Reflection People.

• Xu Huo touched the flower and absorbed Ms. Yao’s memories, learning how she sensed emotional colors and assessed others’ resistance.
• Xu Huo returned to the dining room and found the Players eating with Ms. Yao, Wang Chengren’s Reflection People, and many lifelike copies.
• Xu Huo saw a platter of fingers and suspected that most of the Players who had entered earlier had met with disaster.
• Xu Huo told Ms. Yao he was Wang Xiaohui’s friend, and Ms. Yao agreed to let him meet her.
• Xu Huo, the painted woman, and the other Players followed Reflection People into a garden, where Wang Xiaohui appeared in a wheelchair in a pavilion.