Chapter Summaries

Xu Huo entered the Reflection World to find Wang Xiaohui and discovered that her Reflection Person was hidden in the observation tower. When he tried to remove her from the past, the Reflection World collapsed, and Ms. Yao's Reflection Person appeared in his core Spiritual World.

• Xu Huo spoke with Wang Xiaohui in the Reflection World and learned that she could not leave because her Reflection Person was hidden in the observation tower.
• Wang Xiaohui told Xu Huo that Wei Mang had asked him to find her, and she asked him to look for Wei Mang first.
• Xu Huo entered the observation tower and discovered a Reflection World beneath Ms. Yao's Spiritual World, where he could observe and interrupt past events.
• Xu Huo pulled Wang Xiaohui from the past a second time and reached for her with his Glove, causing her shadow to vanish and the Reflection World to freeze.
• The Reflection World collapsed in towering waves that swept away Ms. Yao's Memory Fruits, and Ms. Yao's Reflection Person appeared inside Xu Huo's core Spiritual World when he summoned the Book Tower.

Xu Huo drove Ms. Yao out of his core Spiritual World after hiding his core Manifestation in a newly created Reflection World. Back in the manor, Ms. Yao attacked him again, and Xu Huo and the child personality seized her as her face changed into Xu Huo's.

• Ms. Yao attacked Xu Huo's core Spiritual World, and he realized that letting her inside exposed his Mental Defense Line.
• Xu Huo hid his core Manifestation beneath the Mirror World, while Ms. Yao chased his three personalities through the Book Tower.
• Xu Huo unleashed a torrent of mental power that wiped out Ms. Yao's Reflection People and carried her to the spiral staircase.
• Ms. Yao failed to break into Xu Huo's new Reflection World, so Xu Huo shut down the Book Tower and expelled her.
• Ms. Yao's bloodlust-driven personality attacked Xu Huo in the manor, where he destroyed Wang Xiaohui's shadow and reunited Wang Xiaohui with Wei Mang.
• Xu Huo and the child personality grabbed Ms. Yao, whose face changed until it became Xu Huo's.

Xu Huo cleared the A-class instance "Reflections" and returned home exhausted, having gained new insight into his Mental Defense Line. In a dream, he saw countless versions of himself and realized that they represented the Mental Defense Line made tangible.

• Xu Huo erased his Reflection Person, cleared "Reflections" with an S rating, and left the instance with Wang Xiaohui and Wei Mang.
• The Xiang siblings told Xu Huo that District 014 had stabilized, and Wang Xiaohui explained that Aunt Yao had been moved from the Nursing Home because her health was worsening.
• Xu Huo returned to his family and said he might help the Enforcement Department, then went to rest after the strain of the instance.
• Xu Huo told his childhood personality that it could not enter the new Reflection Space, and both of them fell asleep.
• Xu Huo dreamed of countless versions of himself along a path and realized that the Mental Defense Line had become tangible.

After waking from a two-day sleep, Xu Huo rejoined his family and their guests, then learned that an armed spacecraft from another district had arrived over District 014. He ordered the visitors to leave within thirty minutes while the sub-district fusion was underway.

• Xu Huo woke after sleeping for two days and told the painted woman to inform his family.
• Xu Huo joined a gathering with Old Master Wei, Wei Xing, and Wei Yue, who had come to visit Old Master Xu.
• Wei Xing admitted that he recognized Xu Huo and had been studying him out of professional habit, and Xu Huo warned him not to provoke other Players.
• Xiang Yao told Xu Huo that a spacecraft from another district had appeared over District 014 and ignored their warning.
• Xu Huo ordered that the spacecraft be given thirty minutes to go home unless its occupants represented the Game Government.

Three unidentified warships entered District 014 and demonstrated their destructive power, leaving the District Government to consider how to confront them. While negotiators and officials waited for Xu Huo’s response, the government prepared its energy weapons for a possible war.

• The warships fired an energy cannon that destroyed buildings and sent District 014’s players retreating, then disabled nearby jamming devices with a pulse.
• Officials at District Government headquarters debated whether to attack, negotiate, or ask Xu Huo to intervene, while technicians identified the vessels as a standard warship model without special markings.
• Nie Xuan argued that Xu Huo’s strength did not make fighting the best option, and Deputy Minister Ji reported that a negotiating team was on its way.
• Team Leader Ming said Xu Huo had given the warships half an hour, while the government transported energy weapons to the site and prepared for a possible battle.

Xu Huo destroyed three threatening ships over District 014 with his Super Artifact, then confronted the District Government after sensing their surveillance. He ordered Zong Lanzhi and Xiao Yue to gather their core members for a Mental-type Dungeon, leaving them fearing his growing murderous intent.

• After waiting through Xu Huo’s half-hour deadline, the Enforcement Department evacuated players from around the ships and prepared ground defenses.
• Xu Huo activated Two Hundred Halves, slicing the three ships apart with Spatial Cutlines, and a spatial passage swallowed their wreckage before they could hit the ground.
• The cutlines also killed several players caught in their range and left matching cuts across distant peaks, ending the crisis over District 014.
• Xu Huo entered the District Government conference room, ordered Zong Lanzhi and Xiao Yue to bring their core members into a Mental-type Dungeon the next morning, and asked Nie Xuan for their complete List.
• After Xu Huo left, Zong Lanzhi warned Xiao Yue that refusing would risk their positions and provoke Xu Huo, whose murderous intent he had sensed.

Zong Lanzhi and Xiao Yue led their people into the Seventeenth Hospital Dungeon, where Xu Huo was nowhere to be seen and the group began learning its rules. The chapter left them inside the hospital, facing a notice warning Players to distinguish themselves from the patients.

• Zong Lanzhi and Xiao Yue received an address from Xu Huo and brought their people to an empty tourist town before dawn.
• Zong Lanzhi, Xiao Yue, and the others entered the Dungeon and found themselves outside the Seventeenth Hospital.
• Xiao Yue warned her group to be cautious in the mental-type Dungeon, while Zong Lanzhi decided they should explore without waiting for Xu Huo.
• Zhuang He pushed the hospital door, causing figures to appear throughout the grounds and revealing a Metal Cage around the Third Hospital Building.
• A nurse directed the group to register, explained the hospital kept duplicate records, and Zhuang He pointed out a notice telling Players to distinguish their identities from patients.

Zong Lanzhi and the other players registered at the decaying hospital, learned its rules and layout, and were assigned beds in the First Hospital Building. They saw violent patients subdued and marked for possible transfer to the sealed Third Hospital Building.

• Zong Lanzhi asked the nurse about hospital accidents, and the players registered under aliases after she warned them to remember their names.
• The nurse said the players needed family members to tour the hospital and explained that doctors would examine them before assigning their conditions and wards.
• Zong Lanzhi studied the floor plan and decided to focus on investigating the man-eating monster and escaping the morgue.
• Xiao Yue stopped another player from speculating about the nurses’ appearance, warning that the players’ thoughts could affect the instance.
• The nurse assigned the players across the First Hospital Building, where security guards restrained violent patients and the nurse recorded one for increased medication and possible transfer to the Third Hospital Building.

Zong Lanzhi and the Players searched the hospital for the morgue, but its sealed door and the disappearance of Xiao Yue’s group suggested that the hospital held hidden dangers. They decided they needed to learn its rules before attempting a rescue.

• The Players split into groups to search the hospital buildings while others watched the staff and looked for hidden characters.
• Zong Lanzhi’s group entered the General Building, endured exposure to unknown bacteria, and found a sealed morgue door on Underground Level 1 that they could not open.
• Zong Lanzhi’s group returned to find that Xiao Yue’s group had not come back from the Third Hospital Building, and their Communicators could not reach them.
• Zong Lanzhi considered that Xiao Yue’s group might be trapped in an invisible prison and warned the Players not to enter the Third Hospital Building blindly.
• Zhao Ze urged the Players to rescue Xiao Yue’s group, but Jiang Ke argued that they should first figure out the hospital’s rules.

Zong Lanzhi and the other players returned to the First Hospital Building and avoided taking the sleeping pills, while Xiao Yue’s group remained trapped in the Third Hospital Building. Xu Huo revealed that he had caused their predicament through mental interference, then experimented with planting an anchor in Zhuang He, with dangerous results.

• Zong Lanzhi and the others returned to the First Hospital Building, where the nurses ordered them to eat in their rooms and take sleeping pills.
• Zong Lanzhi’s group hid the pills from themselves and gave them to their sleeping patients, while Zong Lanzhi watched the Third Hospital Building and worried about Xiao Yue.
• Xiao Yue told her trapped companions to stay calm and reasoned that the hospital buildings might reflect escalating mental interference, then urged them to contact the players outside.
• Xu Huo explained that he had used the dungeon’s support and his improved mental power to trap Xiao Yue’s group, and reflected on how breaking the Mental Defense Line made mental interference easier.
• Xu Huo planted an anchor in Zhuang He and instructed him to swat a mosquito, but the anchor went out of control and nearly made Zhuang He pass out.
• The other two players trapped with Xiao Yue began to feel dizzy and suffer nosebleeds.

After an attack in the Third Hospital Building, the players regrouped, learned that strange patient fantasies were becoming real, and prepared to investigate the morgue and the nighttime man-eating monster. During their search, a player vanished while passing through a fire door, and Zong Lanzhi asked whether anyone had seen the night guards.

• Xiao Yue told Zong Lanzhi and the others about the attack in the Third Hospital Building, and the group discussed the possibility that the invisible prison had selected that building.
• Zong Lanzhi reported that the players had found the morgue, and Xiao Yue urged everyone to wear helmets before they investigated it at night.
• The patients’ conversations turned into real events, including people jumping from the top floor, room numbers changing, and bodies appearing on the Fence.
• After dark, Zong Lanzhi and Xiao Yue split the players into teams, sending Xie Xiaoan and Xiang Min with others to inspect the morgue while the rest searched the hospital.
• A player disappeared after passing through a fire door in the main building, and Zong Lanzhi asked whether anyone had seen the night guards.

Zong Lanzhi and the Players faced nighttime guards, a worsening attack that left several people ill, and dangerous ghosts in the First Hospital Building. After the ghosts drained two Players’ strength, Zong Lanzhi gave them Syringes and expected them to recover.

• Three nighttime guards searched the building, and Zong Lanzhi’s group avoided being seen.
• Several Players who stayed behind developed headaches, dizziness, and nosebleeds, so Zong Lanzhi urged everyone to travel in groups of at least six.
• Zong Lanzhi could not contact Xie Xiaoan, and the morgue door would not open, so Xiao Yue stayed behind while Zong Lanzhi returned to the First Hospital Building with five Players.
• Zong Lanzhi’s group encountered ghosts that attacked them, leaving two Players weak and pale after the ghosts passed through them.
• Jiang Ke slapped an unconscious Player awake, and Zong Lanzhi injected him with a Syringe.
• Zong Lanzhi gave two more Syringes to the Players who felt cold after the ghosts drained their strength.

Zong Lanzhi and the others waited for news from the morgue, then learned that players returning from their assessments had unexplained surgical scars and spoke of something missing from them. They suspected Xu Huo was running the Dungeon as its Director and using it to teach them a lesson.

• Zong Lanzhi's group endured a night of disorienting screams while waiting for Xie Xiaoan and the others to emerge from the morgue.
• The nurses sent the players to the Cafeteria and warned them not to drink the soup before their doctors assessed them.
• Xiao Yue's exhausted group returned, and the players worried that Xu Huo had not appeared and might have led them into the Dungeon deliberately.
• A player returned from an assessment, said something was missing from him, and revealed a hand-length surgical scar on his abdomen.
• Zong Lanzhi and the others suspected Xu Huo was the Dungeon's Director and was using the assessments to lecture them about benevolence, righteousness, propriety, wisdom, and trustworthiness.

Players in the First Hospital Building grew increasingly disturbed as people went missing and patients acted as if their organs or virtues had been removed. After Jiang Ke’s team explored the Office Building and suffered severe psychic attacks that erased their memories, Xiao Yue warned that Xu Huo might be a dangerous mental patient.

• Meng Junyan defended Xu Huo as a hero of District 014, while Zong Lanzhi urged the hostile player to show him respect.
• Players returning from assessments began claiming they were missing virtues or organs, and guards transferred the most disturbed patients to the Second Hospital Building.
• Zong Lanzhi discovered that two more people had vanished from the First Hospital Building and sent Jiang Ke’s team to investigate the Office Building.
• Jiang Ke and the other Mental Evolver led their team into the Office Building, where psychic attacks incapacitated most of them and left the survivors with memory loss.
• Xiao Yue connected Xu Huo’s changed behavior to Wang Family Manor and warned that he might be a dangerous mental patient who would not spare them.

The players debated Xu Huo’s apparent loss of control and split into groups to search the hospital while avoiding the man-eating monsters. As Xiao Yue’s group discussed a possible fake duty roster, Meng Junyan vanished inside an empty hospital room, leaving them unsure what they could trust.

• The players worried about Xu Huo and District 014, then decided to rely on their own abilities and split into Zong Lanzhi’s group and Xiao Yue’s group.
• The groups set aside the task of identifying the man-eating monsters and searched the hospital for the invisible prison or the missing person.
• Sun Hexiao told Xiao Yue that he had obtained a new duty roster and suggested using a fake one if Zong Lanzhi’s group turned against them.
• Zheng Zhixuan warned that provoking the other players could lead to a dangerous fight and might displease Xu Huo.
• Meng Junyan entered an apparently empty hospital room and disappeared, while the nearby players sensed only a faint spatial fluctuation.

Meng Junyan and Pan Bufan found themselves trapped together in the empty Invisible Prison, cut off from the game and searching the hospital for an exit. After they spotted a mysterious figure, Zeng Guangyao also saw something strange in the First Hospital Building.

• Xiao Yue identified the Invisible Prison as a random space that could swallow people, and her group continued through the hospital rather than wait for it to open.
• Meng Junyan entered the empty prison, failed to find Xu Huo, and reunited with Pan Bufan in the Office Building.
• Meng Junyan discovered that his Personal Panel was gone, while Pan Bufan showed him a Nutrient Agent and urged them to search for an exit.
• Meng Junyan and Pan Bufan searched the hospital repeatedly, then rested in the outpatient lobby when they found no way out.
• Pan Bufan spotted a figure at the end of a corridor, and Zeng Guangyao suddenly pointed at the ceiling and shouted about something he had seen.

Zong Lanzhi’s group struggled with the hospital’s strange effects and encountered a painted woman, whom Zong tried to lure with a false claim about knowing her secret. Xu Huo explained the deception, warned her about other dangers in the hospital, and reviewed the valuable rewards he received for clearing Wang Family Manor.

• Zeng Guangyao reported seeing a human-bodied monster with a scaly tail, while Zong Lanzhi recalled the hospital’s unexplained shadows and its effects on their judgment.
• A sleeping Player woke after being slapped and asked Zong Lanzhi what he was missing before falling back asleep.
• The group found a Player kissing a quilt; Zeng Guangyao used his Spiritual World and whip to bring him back to his senses.
• Zong Lanzhi chased a shadow to Third Hospital Building, where the painted woman slapped him and escaped.
• Xu Huo told the painted woman that Zong Lanzhi had lied to lure her, then warned her about other spaces and statues in the hospital.
• Xu Huo reviewed his Dungeon-clearance rewards, including Intracranial Ringtone, Puppet Strings, cloaking devices, and an Ability upgrade.

Xu Huo tested his upgraded Lucky One ability and new defensive items, then watched the Seventeenth Hospital’s patients face strict evaluations and medication rules. As the players’ items failed and patients began losing control, the painted woman remained unusually unaffected and took charge of slapping a hallucinating player.

• Xu Huo confirmed that his defensive items worked well and that Lucky One could bring good fortune and make opponents suffer bad luck.
• After two more patients collapsed, the hospital summoned everyone for evaluations and repeatedly gave them medication, which the players discovered had been distributed according to shifted room numbers.
• A nurse threatened to classify disobedient patients as serious cases, while the painted woman arranged to move into Zong Lanzhi’s room and gave the nurse a Lollipop.
• Jiang Ke attacked the nurse, but a table overturned by Zong Lanzhi’s group distracted her long enough for him to escape; the nurse ordered harsher medication for those who had caused trouble.
• The players realized their items had stopped working, and the painted woman volunteered to slap a hallucinating player, who said he was missing benevolence, righteousness, propriety, wisdom, trustworthiness, or a conscience.

Players tried to use the painted woman to reach Xu Huo, but her demands and powerful paper attack kept them from gaining control of the situation. That evening, Zong Lanzhi tried to recruit her by offering money and influence, while she remained loyal to Xu Huo.

• Xiao Yue and the other Players asked the painted woman to contact Xu Huo, and she demanded that they let her slap them first.
• The painted woman spent the day slapping Players who went mad, while the others repeatedly tried to question her about Xu Huo.
• When the stabbed Player tried to attack the painted woman, the Dream Lover bit him and the painted woman used flying paper to fend off the Players.
• Zong Lanzhi calmed the confrontation, but the painted woman refused to forgive the stabbed Player and fed dried meat to the Dream Lover.
• That evening, Zong Lanzhi asked why the painted woman followed Xu Huo and offered her money and other rewards to go out on her own.

Zong Lanzhi revealed a dark childhood memory in a nightmare, then organized the Players to investigate the hospital’s spatial fluctuations and manipulate the patrol schedule. As a nurse entered a Player’s room, the group’s attempt to track the invisible prison and the man-eating Monster remained underway.

• The painted woman lied about knowing Mr. Xu’s secret, and Zong Lanzhi dreamed of killing his father’s murderer as a child.
• The painted woman admitted she had secretly slept in Xu Huo’s bed, and Zong Lanzhi told her Xu must have noticed and was deceiving her.
• Zong Lanzhi learned Jiang Ke had disappeared, while Liao Na explained that spatial fluctuations had grown frequent at night and might indicate passages between spaces.
• Zong Lanzhi ordered Zeng Guangyao to alter the outpatient building’s night patrol roster so the Players could compare fluctuations with the man-eating Monster’s appearances.
• Zong Lanzhi warned the Players about the hospital’s crumbling buildings, then a disheveled nurse entered a Player’s room.