Chapter Summaries

Xu Huo entered a round hall where four Players had to draw numbered slips and find the sole correct door, while opening the wrong one meant elimination. After a chaotic fight left him facing one female Player, Xu Huo proposed they settle the contest quickly.

• Jiang Zifeng entered a Dungeon first, and Xu Huo later entered one through Gate No. 1 in the square.
• Xu Huo and three other Players arrived in a round hall, where the rules required them to draw slips and open the matching doors until someone found the correct entrance.
• The Players fought over the slips, and one switched his slip before opening a wrong door; Cowhair Vine dragged him inside, eliminating him.
• A male Player attacked Xu Huo, but Xu Huo used Inviolable Territory to block him and killed him with Holder's Death.
• Xu Huo faced the remaining female Player and suggested they settle the contest quickly, while she backed away and let him act first.

Xu Huo entered the Poker Card Maze dungeon and learned its rules, including the faction-based card game and the race to reach the maze’s end. After Players began drawing their first cards, a Mutated Plant erupted from the wall and attacked the group.

• Xu Huo entered the maze, tested its seemingly endless walls, and introduced himself to Big Tiger as Xu Zhi.
• Big Tiger explained that Players would gather at maze entrances, and two more Players arrived before the dungeon began.
• The game announced the rules of The Last Card: Players joined factions based on their first card, collected cards with special properties, and competed to reach the maze’s end within ten days.
• The maze revealed its projected deck, and Players began touching the walls to receive their first cards.
• The first Player drew a White Faction 10 card with a leaf symbol, then touched another wall and triggered a huge Mutated Plant that attacked Xu Huo and the others.

Xu Huo, Big Tiger, and Lin Qian navigated the maze, triggered their first cards, and discussed the faction rules and ways to collect more cards. They continued toward the finish, aware that the maze contained more traps than expected and that Players would compete for cards.

• Big Tiger triggered Black Card 17, while another Player activated a living wall and disappeared into its mass of plants.
• Xu Huo inferred that the missing Player had received White Card 21, and Lin Qian explained which Players could see one another's cards.
• Xu Huo and Lin Qian triggered their first cards, receiving Black Card 1 and Black Card 5, then introduced themselves to Big Tiger.
• The trio backtracked from dead ends and discussed how faction numbers might change and how cards could be gained and used.

Xu Huo, Lin Qian, and Big Tiger navigated the maze while discussing the deceptive card rules and searching for other players. A fight erupted when a white-clad man and his pursuers burst through a wall, and Xu Huo and Lin Qian split from Big Tiger and the white-clad man after suspecting they had taken a dead end.

• Xu Huo reasoned that the game's card rules concealed dangers and that the maze was too vast for their small group to map quickly.
• Xu Huo, Lin Qian, and Big Tiger walked cautiously through the maze, wary that they might have to take cards from another player to learn their effects.
• A maze wall opened, releasing a white-clad man and three others; one person was trapped as two pursuers attacked the white-clad man with aggressive plants and explosive bubbles.
• Big Tiger's wind-producing item was destroyed, and the white-clad man scattered corrosive droplets that forced the pursuers and Xu Huo's group to retreat.
• Big Tiger and the white-clad man ran down a dead-end passage, while Xu Huo led Lin Qian along a different route.
• The pursuers blocked the dead-end passage with a massive barrier as Big Tiger and the white-clad man approached.

Xu Huo learned that players had to collect cards to survive the game and followed Big Tiger to a room where other players held flower cards. The chapter ended when Xu Huo received a “Mutant Plant Friend” card.

• Xu Huo dodged the white-clad man's sword and persuaded him to explain that collecting cards improved their chances of survival.
• The white-clad man told Xu Huo that the cards had different suits and could help or harm their holders.
• After a noise and a scream came from outside, Lin Qian joined Xu Huo, and he told her what he had learned.
• Big Tiger led Xu Huo and Lin Qian through the corridor to a room where several people held flower cards.
• Xu Huo received a “Mutant Plant Friend” card.

Xu Huo navigated the maze’s dangerous passages while trying to understand how its playing cards worked. He encountered He Xiaoxiao, who proposed they travel together and take the next Player’s card.

• Xu Huo, Lin Qian, and Big Tiger crossed a passage as the burning plants recoiled, then fled separate ways when Flame Flowers sprayed explosive pollen.
• Xu Huo found that the plants stopped attacking after he doubled back, and he opened a safe passage using Black Card 20.
• Xu Huo continued through the maze, enduring attacks and finding no other cards or shortcuts while questioning whether his route led toward the center.
• He Xiaoxiao emerged from a safe passage opened by White Card 12 and asked Xu Huo whether it was the right way.
• He Xiaoxiao suggested that she and Xu Huo travel together and consider taking the next Player’s card.

Xu Huo and He Xiaoxiao changed direction through the Poker Card Maze, fighting Mutated Plants as they searched for clues. After seven passages, He Xiaoxiao obtained a clue pointing east, but neither knew which way east was.

• He Xiaoxiao found a Restroom after Xu Huo showed her how to reveal its hidden entrance.
• Xu Huo decided they had likely taken the wrong route and led He Xiaoxiao down a different passage.
• He Xiaoxiao sent a rubber cat ahead to find nearby Players, and it dodged the maze’s attacking vines.
• Xu Huo warned He Xiaoxiao that his bad card might provoke more attacks, and green spiked balls immediately burst from the wall.
• He Xiaoxiao used sticky liquid to defeat the balls and obtained a projected Scroll clue.
• Xu Huo and He Xiaoxiao fought through seven passages before He Xiaoxiao read that the maze’s endpoint lay due east, though they could not identify east.

Xu Huo and He Xiaoxiao followed a passage through the maze and encountered a Cannibal Player who attacked them. Xu Huo protected He Xiaoxiao and cut off the attacker’s feet with his razor-sharp lines.

• Xu Huo and He Xiaoxiao continued through the maze despite the Mutated Plants offering no reliable guidance.
• He Xiaoxiao’s rubber cat detected nearby players, and they found two dead players and a Cannibal Player.
• He Xiaoxiao attacked the Cannibal Player, but he seized her mallet, broke through her defenses, and pursued her through the passages.
• The Cannibal Player shattered He Xiaoxiao’s passive barrier and wrist crystal before Xu Huo intervened with cutting lines that sliced through the attacker’s weapons.
• The Cannibal Player sent exploding mechanical hummingbirds at Xu Huo, but they failed to damage his barrier, and Xu Huo severed the attacker’s feet.

Xu Huo cornered He Xiaoxiao in the shifting maze after discovering the Cannibal Player had lied about his cards. He forced her to reveal her cards, and she began by naming her clue card.

• The Cannibal Player told Xu Huo that he had White Card 8, Black Card 14, and White Card 19, then died after He Xiaoxiao's rubber cat attacked him.
• He Xiaoxiao revealed that White Card 19 did not make people lose their way, and the maze walls began shifting as she fled.
• Xu Huo pursued He Xiaoxiao through the changing maze, broke through her traps and rubber cats, and blocked her escape.
• Xu Huo used mental interference to pin He Xiaoxiao in a chair and demanded that she explain her five cards.
• He Xiaoxiao said her first card was White Card 12 and identified Black Card 11 as the clue card, insisting she had genuinely wanted to team up.

Xu Huo killed He Xiaoxiao after she tried to escape, then examined the cards he had taken from her and discovered that some cards’ effects changed hands. He drew White Card 6, which pointed toward a black Flower Card, and continued considering how the dungeon’s cards worked.

• He Xiaoxiao revealed that White Card 8 was a trap card, then attacked Xu Huo’s apparent double and tried to escape through a black vortex.
• Xu Huo stabbed He Xiaoxiao from behind before she could be teleported away, then took her player spoils and cards.
• Xu Huo discovered that White Card 8 could cancel cards, Black Card 11 gave a different clue in his hands, and White Card 12 teleported him to a dead end.
• Xu Huo concluded that some cards’ effects or contents changed when they changed hands, while noting that cancellation and draw cards might behave differently.
• Xu Huo used Black Card 14 to draw White Card 6, which indicated that a black Flower Card shaped like pure gold boots was a two-hour walk away in the ten o’clock direction.

Xu Huo searched the maze and found Jiang Zifeng sheltering inside a mass of Mutated Plants. As they shared a meal, Jiang Zifeng explained that a clue had led him away from the finish, and Xu Huo questioned whether it had been genuine.

• Xu Huo reasoned that more than fifty-four players might be needed to keep the poker cards circulating, then continued toward the finish using his clue card.
• Xu Huo found another Black Card 9 corridor and photographed the maze’s strange plants as he traveled.
• At night, Xu Huo encountered Jiang Zifeng trapped inside a huge ball of Mutated Plants and watched him destroy it with weed killer.
• Jiang Zifeng prepared poisonous mushrooms to eat and told Xu Huo that a clue had pointed him away from the finish.
• Xu Huo asked Jiang Zifeng how he knew the clue was real.

Xu Huo and Jiang Zifeng shared information and competed in a race through the maze before finding a badly injured Player emerging from a wall. After learning she was Black Card 12, they used an enhanced truth serum to question her, discovering she wanted to kill them and asking how she planned to do it.

• Xu Huo and Jiang Zifeng compared their maze clues and discussed the cards and possible ways to score well.
• Jiang Zifeng poisoned himself and Xu Huo with mushroom soup, but they ate it and later recovered.
• Jiang Zifeng challenged Xu Huo to a race, and the two sprinted through the maze while touching its walls.
• Xu Huo and Jiang Zifeng encountered a badly injured female Player emerging from a maze wall, and she identified herself as Black Card 12.
• Jiang Zifeng gave the female Player a Potion and injected her with enhanced truth serum.
• Xu Huo asked whether she wanted to kill them, and she admitted that she did before he asked how she planned to do it.

Xu Huo and Jiang Zifeng questioned a wounded female player about the maze’s cards and learned that cancellation cards could remove most cards from a player’s slots. Later, as thick fog covered the maze, Xu Huo discussed its Mutated Plants with the woman and realized they were unreliable for finding direction.

• The female player admitted she had planned to separate Xu Huo and Jiang Zifeng, attack one of them, and escape if necessary, and she explained that she held a Black Card 12 whose effect she had learned from another player.
• She told Xu Huo and Jiang Zifeng that cancellation cards could remove any card except a player’s first card, and that suit cards affected the final clearance rating.
• Jiang Zifeng and Xu Huo agreed to rest, while the injured female player stayed nearby; after thick fog rose that night, Xu Huo and Jiang Zifeng arranged to take turns keeping watch.
• Xu Huo asked the female player about the Mutated Plants in his photos, and she explained that many came from District 001 Laboratories and could grow rapidly with Nutrient Agent.
• Xu Huo realized that the maze’s plants, which changed size and had short lifespans, could not serve as reliable reference points for finding their direction.

Xu Huo questioned a former Mutated Plants researcher about using maze plants to track Players, then joined Jiang Zifeng in confronting a strange Player who tried to flee with an invisibility item. Jiang Zifeng exposed and captured the small man in a latex suit.

• Xu Huo guessed that the female Player had used changing plants to identify routes through the maze, and she admitted she had been a Mutated Plants researcher.
• The female Player spoke about losing her country and feeling that survival in the game had no meaning, while Xu Huo suggested she pursue Mutated Plants cultivation.
• Xu Huo and Jiang Zifeng took positions when a Player approached through the fog and called out the names of playing cards.
• The Player fled after Xu Huo and Jiang Zifeng attacked, but Xu Huo blocked his escape with a spatial barrier and Jiang Zifeng stopped him in the passage.
• Jiang Zifeng pulled the invisible Player into view and kicked away his invisibility item, revealing a small man in a latex suit.

Xu Huo and Jiang Zifeng encountered a Player who attacked with nearly invisible threads, but the attacker escaped before they could catch him. The threads reappeared around their shelters near dawn, leaving them trapped and watched.

• A frail Player attacked Jiang Zifeng with poisoned needles, but a silver thread from the fog pierced and killed him.
• Xu Huo and Jiang Zifeng examined the corpse before another attack shredded the area around them.
• Xu Huo stopped Jiang Zifeng just before he walked into a dense wall of threads, which vanished before Jiang Zifeng could strike them.
• Xu Huo and Jiang Zifeng returned to find Jiang Zifeng's tent burned, then settled in for the night.
• Near dawn, Xu Huo warned the female Player about threads above her shelter and noticed the expanded thread barrier surrounding them.

Jiang Zifeng and Xu Huo tracked the Player who controlled the walls of lines, but five Players ambushed them along the way. After being separated from Jiang Zifeng, Xu Huo confronted two attackers and concluded that all five were being controlled by the Player using the lines.

• Jiang Zifeng and Xu Huo broke through the walls of lines and tracked the Player who had laid them.
• The pair encountered five Players, and a long-haired female Player attacked them with a Space Artifact bow.
• Xu Huo fought a bald Player, using his artifacts to counter the man's attacks and destroy the artifact on his fist.
• A crew-cut Player used an artifact to transport Xu Huo, the bald Player, and himself to another maze passage, separating them from Jiang Zifeng.
• Xu Huo questioned the two Players and concluded that the Player using the lines was controlling all five attackers.

Xu Huo fought the Bald Player and his companions in the maze, using his items and combat skills to gain the upper hand. After the Bald Player asked whether Xu Huo was a Cannibal Player, Xu Huo pressed his attack as the injured man began to retreat.

• Xu Huo deduced that the Bald Player's group had been coerced before entering the dungeon, then dodged the man's charge and countered with gravity and barrier items.
• The Bald Player and the buzz-cut Player combined their attacks to pin Xu Huo against the maze wall, but Xu Huo used Identity Swap, leaving the buzz-cut Player trapped inside it.
• The Bald Player pulled Xu Huo toward him and attacked with two axes, but Xu Huo used Backstab and Speed Damage Ice Ball to injure him and freeze his legs.
• The Bald Player caught Xu Huo's knife and flung him toward the maze wall, where the wounded buzz-cut Player tried to grab him; Xu Huo escaped and resumed fighting.
• Xu Huo and the Bald Player clashed for thirty seconds before the Bald Player retreated and asked if Xu Huo was a Cannibal Player.
• Xu Huo attacked again, and the Bald Player lost his nerve and fled while throwing items; Xu Huo used a space passage to get behind him.

Xu Huo and Jiang Zifeng fought off an ambush, then were separated by a maze trap. Xu Huo teamed up with Mu Yan and considered how players might collect six face cards to clear the dungeon.

• Xu Huo killed the Bald Player, while the buzz-cut player escaped after freezing Xu Huo with his Ability.
• Xu Huo returned to find Jiang Zifeng fighting two opponents; they fled using teleportation items, and the two men suspected their unseen attacker knew one of them.
• Xu Huo and Jiang Zifeng resumed their journey, but a maze wall swallowed Jiang Zifeng through a random teleportation door.
• Xu Huo asked Mu Yan to team up with him, and she agreed as they continued through the maze together.
• After seeing a clue about counterfeit cards canceling a player's first card, Xu Huo and Mu Yan discussed whether the faction card could be changed and whether someone might already have collected six face cards.

Xu Huo and Mu Yan reached one-third of the maze and were transported into a card-swapping game, where Xu Huo won a flower card and manipulated his opponent into taking a trap card. As another pair’s card draw triggered a fight, an unseen force halted and deflected their weapons.

• Xu Huo and Mu Yan found clues suggesting the maze’s exit might move and continued through the maze.
• After they traversed one-third of the maze, the game transported them into a room with four other players and explained the card-drawing rules.
• Xu Huo drew the Gem Cloak from his opponent and tricked him into taking a trap card, then stopped him from attacking with a spatial barrier.
• A braided player drew a blank card, prompting the gloomy player to attack him with an umbrella-shaped item.
• The braided player deployed a metal column packed with hidden weapons, but a force stopped the umbrella and deflected the weapons.

Xu Huo and Mu Yan completed the card-swapping game, compared their cards, and found a place to shelter as fog filled the maze. They joined three players at a furnace, where conversation turned to Flower City and Mu Yan’s possible ties to District 001.

• Xu Huo stopped two players from disrupting the card draw, and the remaining pairs completed the card-swapping game.
• Mu Yan told Xu Huo she had Black Card 19 and a blank card, while Xu Huo revealed several trap cards and listed the five cards he held.
• Xu Huo and Mu Yan searched for shelter as the fog thickened, and Mu Yan warned that it could affect them through hallucination-causing Mutated Plants.
• Xu Huo and Mu Yan joined three players cooking beside a furnace in a wrong passage.
• The players discussed the maze’s Artificer and Flower City, and the big-bellied player asked Mu Yan whether she came from District 001.