Chapter Summaries

Xu Huo investigated the deaths in the carriage and suspected that the Chef’s pudding or a Player’s power had caused the mass hallucinations and killings. He sought out the surviving Players in the fourth carriage and asked whether anyone there had eaten the pudding.

• Xu Huo examined the bodies and concluded that one Player had eaten himself to death while the others had died amid apparent hallucinations.
• Xiao Xianglin and the other surviving Players left the blood-soaked carriage, and Xu Huo shut its door without fully closing it.
• Xu Huo asked the Conductor for a meal like the Chef’s special birthday dish, but the Conductor did not return with an answer by noon.
• Xu Huo considered whether the pudding, a dangerous Player, or an unusual phenomenon had caused the train’s deaths and decided to avoid crowds.
• Xu Huo went to the fourth carriage, where a Player said its passengers had narrowly avoided the same disaster, and Xu Huo asked whether anyone had eaten the pudding.

Xu Huo survived another night on the train and entered the Great World at Sea, where he was assigned the D-class Dungeon "Friendship Lasts Forever." The Dungeon’s announcement explained that newcomers seeking to settle in the city would face a test of friendship.

• Xu Huo returned to Carriage Six as the Players argued over who had killed people and made Xu Jinfeng hallucinate.
• You Si broke through the female Player’s barrier and metal spikes to reach the Restroom, then returned and warned the others that lights-out was near.
• Xu Huo moved to Carriage Five, placed Emergency Shelter No. 101 inside, and spent the night without incident while testing his blood.
• Xu Huo emerged in the morning and saw that only four Players remained alive in Carriage Six, while an injured female Player and Brother Sha were in his carriage.
• The train brought Xu Huo to the Great World at Sea, where the game assigned him to the D-class Dungeon "Friendship Lasts Forever."

Xu Huo and Xiao Xianglin arrived at Friendship Garden with other participants for a deadly Dungeon requiring them to gain pure friendship. The host introduced the reality show’s special anniversary rules, but had not yet revealed what they were.

• Xu Huo learned that the Dungeon mission was to gain friendship within seven days and observed the frightened passengers traveling with him.
• Xiao Xiao panicked and tried to leave, but her partner comforted her and promised they would face the danger together.
• A passenger disparaged the women’s relationship, prompting a crew-cut man to challenge his assumptions.
• The vehicle arrived at Friendship Garden, where the host announced that 381 participants had gathered for the show.
• Xiao Xianglin suggested that he and Xu Huo team up, but the host began announcing changes to the show’s rules.

Xu Huo and the other guests learned that Hello, Me Too would pair strangers for dangerous friendship challenges, with survival and rankings determining who became a legal resident of the Great World at Sea. The chapter ended as the guests realized the competition had a limited number of places.

• The host announced that guests would be randomly paired and explained the Three-Color Showdown, where choices determined the danger of challenges for teammates.
• The host said guests who lost their partners might miss a round, and that the names of those who found true friendship would appear above Friendship Garden.
• Xu Huo wrote “Yu Cong” on his screen, while Xiao Xianglin used the name “Xiao Yong.”
• Xu Huo spotted acquaintances from the bus, including You Si, Zhuang Mengtian, Gan Yi, Shaja, and Pu Donghai, and saw their varied reactions to him.
• Xiao Xianglin questioned why anyone would endanger a teammate, and players revealed that only a limited number of high-ranking guests would become legal residents of the Great World at Sea.

Xu Huo and the other participants learned that killing in the Three-Color Showdown brought a deadly punishment from the plaza and the ocean below. After six guests died, the host began the first choice between two contestants, leaving their decision unresolved.

• Xu Huo received teammate number 64, while Xiao Xianglin went to find teammate 117.
• A guest who had received a bye was killed, and the plaza swallowed nearby people, exposing a piranha-filled ocean below.
• The host explained that the plaza punished those who violated the show's rules of friendship, and the underwater player was killed by a creature from the depths.
• Zhuang Mengtian asked whether guests who returned after being driven out would be welcomed back, and the host said they would if they stopped ruining friendship.
• The host randomly selected contestants 164 and 73 and presented them with black, white, and yellow balls to choose whether to end, offer, or share hardship in a potential friendship.

Xu Huo watched the first pair choose different balls, setting Number 73 up for a deadly task in the Botanical Garden. After Number 73 died, a Player and an ordinary person prepared to choose their balls together.

• Number 73 urged Number 164 to choose white, but Number 73 chose yellow and Number 164 chose black at the last second.
• Number 73 and Number 164 argued over their choices, and the host announced that the next task would fall to whoever remained in the plaza.
• The audience increased Number 73’s task difficulty, and the host assigned him to plant a hand-holding tree in the Botanical Garden.
• Number 73 sank into the ground and was swallowed by a giant python, failing his task.
• Number 229 and a refined-looking Player agreed to choose yellow and complete their task together.

Xu Huo and Player No. 64 both chose white, and Xu Huo was selected for a zoo task requiring close observation and photographs of three kinds of living reptiles. He entered a dense jungle and faced a rapidly approaching python.

• No. 91 and No. 229 entered the Golden-backed Lizard breeding zone, where lizards attacked them and prevented them from completing their task.
• Xu Huo learned that contestants could not forfeit their tasks and considered how the program’s friendship ratings might differ from the game’s requirements.
• Two women began a task assembling a skeleton specimen from a piranha-filled pool.
• Xu Huo and Player No. 64 both chose the white ball, and Xu Huo was selected as the Lucky One.
• Xu Huo entered the jungle for the Reptile Appreciation task, and a python lunged at him.

Xu Huo searched the jungle for reptiles to document for his mission while evading poisonous plants and dangerous Mutant Animals. He captured a red venomous snake and escaped a giant camouflaged creature, then followed monkeys carrying buckets in search of water.

• Xu Huo killed a giant python, examined the surrounding carnivorous plants, and realized their toxin kept other animals away.
• Xu Huo found a large lizard, filmed it as a living reptile, and marked it with "①" before it wandered off.
• Xu Huo captured a red, four-eyed venomous snake and marked its cage with "②".
• Xu Huo escaped a green-skinned tiger and a massive plant-covered creature that swallowed the tiger.
• Xu Huo spotted monkeys carrying small buckets through the trees and watched them as he searched for water.

Xu Huo captured reptiles and negotiated with a troop of white monkeys to lead him to a cabin entrance. There, he found two injured players and agreed to travel with them, but one player abruptly killed the other.

• Xu Huo watched white monkeys fish with buckets and vines, then tranquilized a crocodile and dragged it ashore to identify it.
• Xu Huo failed to win the monkeys over with candy, so he strung them up and threatened to pull out their teeth until they led him toward a cabin entrance.
• Xu Huo found a destroyed cabin passage and two injured players hiding nearby; one carried a live rainbow ant for her task.
• Xu Huo agreed to travel with the two players, but the female player snapped the other woman’s neck after accusing her of trying to abandon her.

Xu Huo and the female Player crossed a forest where evolved ants attacked a leopard and threatened a troop of white monkeys. They followed the monkeys toward an entrance and exit pod, where another Player appeared to be setting a trap for them.

• The female Player defended killing someone during the mission, and Xu Huo continued traveling with her through the forest.
• Xu Huo spotted a panicked Mutant Animal and escaped above the trees as a swarm of evolved ants tore down a tree and chased the leopard.
• Xu Huo rescued a white monkey from the fallen tree, then watched the monkey leader point them toward a direction through the forest.
• Xu Huo and the female Player followed the monkeys and received an alert for an entrance and exit pod, where another Player claimed the hatch was broken.
• The female Player warned that the other Player might be dangerous, and Xu Huo teleported to the hatch while activating Like Repels Like.

Xu Huo returned from his task and discussed the meaning of pure friendship with Xiao Xianglin. Shaja was sent to watch a surgery, revealed that he could fight while restrained, and returned alive after killing the medical staff.

• Xu Huo overcame two players’ attempts to stop him, returned to Friendship Garden, and learned that Player 91 and You Si had also completed their tasks.
• A female player thanked Xu Huo for intervening and left after he suggested the Dungeon’s requirements might differ from the production team’s selection.
• Xu Huo and Xiao Xianglin discussed avoiding violence and seeking friendship with ordinary people as ways to complete the tasks.
• Player 29 switched from the yellow ball to the black ball after Shaja agreed to team up with him, leaving Shaja with the harder task.
• Shaja was taken to an operating room, where the doctors prepared to operate on him while he was restrained.
• Shaja opened his eyes, killed the medical staff with invisible blades, and returned to the plaza less than five minutes later.

Xu Huo watched the three-color competition and considered how its deadly rules might drive participants to kill one another. As Xiao Xianglin and Player 117’s attempt to cooperate collapsed into a fight, Xu Huo spoke with You Si and noticed the scarred man from the car.

• Player 29 challenged Shaja’s easy mission, then attacked a non-Player who provoked him before backing away from Shaja.
• Xu Huo considered how the competition’s lack of trust could lead participants to reduce the number of survivors.
• Xiao Xianglin and Player 117 agreed to work together, but their facial plastic surgery mission quickly turned into a fight over who would be the surgeon.
• Xu Huo greeted You Si, who said he was trying to quit drinking because his wife had threatened to divorce him if he did not.
• Xu Huo spotted the scarred man who had worn a raincoat in the car as the man stepped forward when his number was called.

Xu Huo and Shaja forced Gan Yi to draw one of his fortune cards, and the three were suddenly shown a dark staircase leading to a door and a red Wooden Fish. After a thunderous thud broke the vision, Gan Yi jumped up and backed away from them.

• The man in the raincoat chose a white ball alongside a frightened woman and was assigned an underwater task to catch an immature piranha.
• Xu Huo, You Si, Shaja, and Gan Yi gathered while waiting for the remaining participants to finish their tasks.
• Gan Yi offered to read fortunes with a deck of gold cards, and You Si tried a card before walking away on his hands.
• Xu Huo drew a card showing a door, and Shaja drew one showing a Wooden Fish.
• Xu Huo and Shaja made Gan Yi draw a card, which showed him a door opening to reveal a red Wooden Fish.
• Xu Huo, Shaja, and Gan Yi were transported into a vision of a spiraling staircase and a door before a thunderous thud ended it and Gan Yi backed away.

Xu Huo, Shaja, and Gan Yi ended their standoff without fighting, while the Players discussed the show’s task areas and the Great World at Sea’s possible preparations. As the first round neared its end, the host promised the remaining guests a “good environment for making friends” and hinted at what would happen next.

• Shaja proposed that she, Xu Huo, and Gan Yi avoid a fight, and Gan Yi left the standoff.
• You Si told Xu Huo that Gan Yi had teamed up with Zhuang Mengtian and suspected she had attacked passengers on the train.
• The raincoat-wearing man rejected You Si’s attempts to talk by raising a light barrier, posting a warning sign, and putting on headphones.
• Xu Huo, Shaja, and You Si discussed the late hour, the task areas, and the possibility that the Great World at Sea controlled where participants were sent.
• The host announced that 297 of the 381 guests remained and promised to create a good environment for making friends.

Xu Huo and the others debated how to earn the Dungeon’s pure friendship, while the first round left only 274 survivors. In the second round, Xu Huo chose the white ball again to show sincerity, then drew an aquarium task to paint a mutated man-eating shark.

• Xu Huo tested the nearly five-meter-thick Enclosure Wall, and Xiao Xianglin returned wounded and confirmed that the Players could not escape.
• Xu Huo asked Xiao Xianglin to share his friendship, but their exchange did not clear the Dungeon; the group speculated that helping another Player might be the key.
• Xiao Xianglin left after the group rested, while Players continued returning to the plaza until dawn.
• The host announced that 274 people survived the first round and began the second round of the Three-Color Contest.
• Xu Huo chose the white ball despite Player 64 choosing black, explaining that he wanted to show sincerity.
• Xu Huo drew the aquarium task: painting a mutated man-eating shark.

Xu Huo survived the aquarium challenge by poisoning a pack of mutated sharks, then returned to the Friendship Garden and insisted he would keep choosing the white ball unless he had agreed otherwise with a teammate. He left Zhuang Mengtian under suspicion after warning her about the hypnotic power he believed she had used on the train.

• Xu Huo entered the aquarium and used toxic bacteria to kill twelve mutated man-eating sharks before returning unharmed.
• The players grew wary of Xu Huo, and the host resumed the competition with Guest 124 facing Guest 75.
• Zhuang Mengtian asked Xu Huo whether he would choose Player 64 again, and Xu Huo said he would keep choosing the white ball unless he had discussed it with a teammate.
• Xu Huo told Zhuang Mengtian he suspected she had a powerful hypnotic item or Ability, and You Si accused her of pretending not to understand.

Xu Huo investigated the train hallucinations and watched the competition claim more lives, then helped Xiao Xiao after she received a bye. Xiao Xiao revealed that her home country forced women to bear children after massacres left the population critically short of women, and Xiao Xianglin went into the next round hoping to test Brother Yu’s plan.

• Xu Huo learned that Shaja and You Si had been little affected by the train hallucinations, while he suspected the Perfect Potion had made his own experience worse.
• Player 18 cut off Player 64’s arm and prevented him from escaping the water, where mutated fish and piranhas killed him.
• Thirteen people died across the three rounds of the team competition, and Xiao Xiao received a bye after her partner had died in the first round.
• Xu Huo gave Xiao Xiao food and a stamina Potion, and she told him and Xiao Xianglin that her country forced every woman to bear at least five children after two massacres.
• Xiao Xianglin entered the next round and told the others to try Brother Yu’s plan if she did not return.

Xu Huo and the others discussed the show’s unusual standards for friendship as the third-round showdown began. Paired with Zhuang Mengtian, Xu Huo entered a botanical garden transformed into a dense valley, where a vine seized her and she warned him that the ground was hollow.

• Xiao Xiao realized the show might have monitored her relationship with her lover before the contestants reached the Friendship Garden, and she broke down in tears.
• After the second round ended, the host announced a third showdown with contestants randomly paired, and Xu Huo warned that the game might continue until its seven-day limit.
• Xu Huo was paired with Zhuang Mengtian, and they agreed to choose yellow balls and complete a landscape-painting task together.
• The capsule brought Xu Huo and Zhuang Mengtian to a thickly overgrown valley in the botanical garden, where a vine dragged Zhuang Mengtian into the air.
• Zhuang Mengtian’s attempt to anchor herself failed as the vegetation moved beneath her, and she warned Xu Huo that the ground was hollow.

Xu Huo and Zhuang Mengtian fought their way through a predatory forest while completing a task to reach a designated location and paint a panoramic picture. After discovering that the plants shifted beneath the soil and sent them in circles, Zhuang Mengtian climbed above the forest to scout, but she did not return.

• Xu Huo and Zhuang Mengtian escaped a barrage of predatory vines by using Effective Range, incendiary agents, and fire.
• Xu Huo used Straight Line Distance to clear a path, helping them cross the valley and reach the mountain.
• Flesh Worms and a poisonous snake attacked Zhuang Mengtian, forcing her to use an Antidote and rest while Xu Huo recovered.
• Xu Huo and Zhuang Mengtian realized the mountain path looped around and found that shifting roots beneath the soil were moving them.
• Zhuang Mengtian fired a harpoon gun and climbed above the forest to scout, but she had not returned after a minute.

Xu Huo investigated the botanical garden’s shifting directions and repeatedly failed to locate its entrance and exit. He discovered that the garden was inside a large-scale item and that his Spiritual World was being suppressed, leaving the true nature and scale of the place uncertain.

• Xu Huo left a note for Zhuang Mengtian and continued toward the summit after he could no longer sense anyone nearby.
• As Xu Huo neared the summit, the mountain’s orientation changed, and he suspected the botanical garden or its surroundings were moving or fabricated.
• Xu Huo submitted the required landscape drawing and followed the electronic map’s changing directions in search of the entrance and exit, but each update led him elsewhere.
• Xu Huo used the Same Kind Retriever and learned that the botanical garden was inside a large-scale item.
• Xu Huo tested his Spiritual World and found that it could move him only from a tree to the ground beneath it, showing that his power was being suppressed.