Chapter Summaries

Ming entered a carriage compartment, while Xu, Chen, and Li appeared amid movements, transformations, and violent actions around vehicles. Xu later went down, and a body grew taller near the end.

• Ming followed the carriage and appeared in its compartment.
• Xu and Chen joined together.
• Li opened the compartment and urged the others.
• Xu paused and later went down.
• A body transformed and grew taller.

Xu and a woman appeared amid a violent confrontation involving blades, gunfire, and bloodshed. The fragmented account left the sequence of actions and the outcome unclear.

• An unidentified speaker directed strength toward Wenshan Mountain.
• Xu appeared amid fighting involving blood, ice, and electrical force.
• A woman survived danger and attempted to rescue herself.
• Xu appeared again as the confrontation continued among wounded people and corpses.

Xu and several others traveled in a car amid warnings about danger and exchanges about the compartment. Xu later looked toward a tense woman beside the car, while the passengers continued discussing where to go.

• San Fei sat up in the vehicle.
• Han looked up as a woman returned to the door.
• Xu looked toward a woman beside the car who had clenched her fists.
• A speaker told the others to wait in front.

The chapter follows a disjointed series of events involving Xu, Zhao, Nian, and others trapped amid strange dangers, hunger, and changing surroundings. They reach a crowded city, but the group remains in danger and struggles to understand what is happening.

• Xu and the others stayed in the car while they waited for help, despite hunger, injuries, and a failing machine.
• The group encountered strange changes involving smoke, water, an altar, and objects that attacked or shifted.
• Nian and the others headed toward the city, where guards were overwhelmed and people reported that a family was trapped.
• Xu and his companions faced further dangers, including an ambush, while trying to gather supplies and keep the group together.
• Zhao held Xu's hand as they realized that someone had framed him and leaked his name.

Xu Huo interacted with passengers amid arguments and disturbances in a train carriage. The passengers remained caught up in disputes inside the train.

• Xu Huo said that something rose higher the more someone cursed.
• Xu Huo examined a woman and approached her.
• Passengers argued as disturbances continued inside the carriage.

Xu and the other Players fought to survive a dangerous journey in a car haunted by a Taoist woman and a child, while the rules and the identities of the people inside remained unclear. The car finally reached its destination, but the group was left facing further danger and unanswered questions.

• Xu and the other Players gathered in the car and tried to understand the review’s rules as the Taoist woman and child threatened them.
• The Players fought the apparitions and struggled to keep the car and its passengers safe as the journey grew more violent.
• Chen and the others worked with Xu to defend the group, but the car jolted and the danger continued to escalate.
• The Taoist woman’s presence and the shifting situation confused the Players, who tried to identify who was real and who was a threat.
• The car reached its destination, and the survivors climbed out while remaining wary of the Taoist woman and the dangers ahead.

Xu Huo investigated Liang Shuang’s belongings after the card game, hoping to learn why Liang Shuang had brought him to the Dungeon. He found Liang Shuang’s records for a fortune-reading item and concluded that game items could offer limited glimpses of the future, though their reliability depended on the user.

• Li Cheng killed the unconscious Player, then traded cards with Mu Yan to become a member of the Black Faction.
• Xu Huo questioned why Liang Shuang had invited him to the Dungeon and suspected Liang Shuang had planned to exploit a conflict before the game ended.
• Li Cheng handed over Liang Shuang’s belongings, and Xu Huo found the special item A Thread of Fate Across a Thousand Miles.
• Xu Huo read Liang Shuang’s diary, which described how the item’s changing line colors had predicted benefits and dangers, and found detailed records about Xu Huo.
• Xu Huo concluded that the item’s predictions were limited and that game items could briefly predict the future.

Xu Huo and the others escaped the maze after Jiang Zifeng and Ye Bingxin opened the door marked 1, while Chen Chou remained trapped in the dungeon. Xu Huo told Chen Chou where to find him after the dungeon and entered the passage himself.

• Xu Huo divided the stored items and supplies among Li Cheng and Chen Chou, who accepted only two bags of compressed biscuits.
• Jiang Zifeng opened the door marked 1, and he and Ye Bingxin entered as their playing cards disappeared.
• Xu Huo concluded that Jiang Zifeng and Ye Bingxin had cleared the game, and Mu Yan and Li Cheng left the maze.
• Xu Huo told Chen Chou to hide for the remaining five days and said he would stay at Yongxing Hotel after leaving the dungeon.
• Xu Huo promised to return Chen Chou's Dead Heart if Chen Chou came to find him, then entered the passage marked 1.

Xu Huo cleared the maze dungeon by drawing the Crown Card and received an S-rank rating with a set of rewards. He examined his new abilities and items, including a combat card crafted by the Magician.

• Xu Huo chose the middle of three cards and revealed the Crown Card, which lit up above the maze as Card City's residents celebrated.
• The maze declared that Xu Huo had cleared the dungeon with an S-rank rating and awarded him the hidden Crown Card, a B-class item, and a grand prize pack.
• Xu Huo received an upgrade to his forgetting ability, renamed Forget Switch, and gained the extended ability Talented at Playing Dead.
• Xu Huo inspected his B-class Fireworks and Nail Clippers and confirmed they were not trap items.
• Xu Huo examined the maze's extra reward, Magician Person, a card that could summon a combat figure to fight for one minute each day.

After winning the maze Dungeon, Xu Huo returned to Card City during the crown card celebration and prepared to search for what He Pu had left behind. He sold unwanted items at the Spade Five Exchange and began looking for a suitable defense artifact.

• Xu Huo emerged from a restaurant in Card City, where monitors began converging on him.
• A passerby explained that the crown card's appearance marked a maze victory and brought a week of free maze produce and citywide discounts; Xu Huo watched the festivities before leaving the crowd.
• Xu Huo told Jiang Zifeng that he had a free pass, and Jiang agreed to meet him at Yongxing Hotel with Ye Bingxin.
• Xu Huo sold unwanted maze Dungeon items at the Spade Five Exchange and deposited thirty million White Cash to browse A-level items.
• Liu Ye and Huai Ye introduced themselves as Exchange staff, and Xu Huo described the kind of defense item he wanted.

Xu Huo visited the Exchange to buy equipment capable of countering spacetime attacks. He left with a jamming device and several advanced artifacts, having spent 145 million White Cash and retaining 25 million.

• Liu Ye explained that artifacts combining spacetime and physical defense were rare, then showed Xu Huo jamming devices that could weaken and reveal spacetime forces.
• Xu Huo chose a coin-shaped advanced jamming device and ordered it made into a bracelet engraved with a Wormhole Flower.
• Huai Ye presented newly stocked Defense Artifacts, and Xu Huo bought the A-class Flower Bloom.
• Xu Huo bought the A-class saber Unbreakable and the B-class Snow Dagger to strengthen his collection of Attack Artifacts.
• Xu Huo spent 145 million White Cash on the new equipment and had 25 million left.

Xu Huo settled into a complimentary suite at Yongxing Hotel and reviewed Liang Shuang’s notes. Elsewhere, Xue Lang and a woman in a black windbreaker argued over whether to target Xu Huo, and the woman watched his hotel from an entertainment airship before disappearing as Xu Huo sensed her presence.

• Xu Huo arrived at Yongxing Hotel, where the manager showed him the luxurious suite and its complimentary services.
• Xu Huo studied Liang Shuang’s detailed notes about items, potions, and Sub-district prices, then rested.
• The woman in a black windbreaker told Xue Lang that Xu Huo was staying at Yongxing Hotel, but refused to help with his personal grudge.
• Xue Lang and the woman fought briefly after he suggested she had feelings for Xu Huo, then agreed to leave the next day.
• The woman in a black windbreaker watched Yongxing Hotel from an entertainment airship and vanished as Xu Huo looked toward it.

Xu Huo browsed District 001 news about Carroll Field, the Field family's missing Super Artifact, and the politics of higher-level Wormhole Points. He learned more about Carroll's family and the harsh treatment of ordinary people in technologically advanced Sub-districts.

• Xu Huo read rumors about Carroll Field's new beauty and his eight wives, along with reports that the Field family had failed to recover the components of the Combat Angel.
• Xu Huo considered the functions of the Angel's Teeth and wondered whether the Paper Puppeteer and the Suitcase Man had resolved their contest.
• Xu Huo read speculation that Carroll Field's move to E27 followed a family power struggle over the Super Artifact.
• Xu Huo learned that Carroll's eighth wife, Kim Seol, came from a D-class Wormhole Point and had replaced the bride originally meant for E27.
• Xu Huo read that powerful Wormhole Points carried out human 'pest control' and that technologically advanced Sub-districts had little patience for ordinary people.

Xu Huo hosted Jiang Zifeng and Ye Bingxin at Yongxing Hotel, where they used his seven-day voucher to book an extravagant night of entertainment. During an aerial tour of Card City, they discussed government defenses and Evolution Aftereffects before spotting a delivery of high-grade instruments to Stellar Machinery Branch Company.

• Xu Huo welcomed Jiang Zifeng and Ye Bingxin to his hotel floor and explained that a Dungeon reward had given him a free seven-day voucher.
• Jiang Zifeng booked a range of hotel performances and activities, and the three friends took a sightseeing ship over Card City.
• Jiang Zifeng described how energy barriers, interference devices, and machines protected government bases and Stellar Company branches.
• Ye Bingxin and Jiang Zifeng discussed Evolution Potions and Aftereffects, and Xu Huo said his Evolution rate was over forty while theirs were a little over fifty.
• Jiang Zifeng pointed out black crates of high-grade instruments being delivered to Stellar Machinery Branch Company, but Xu Huo showed little interest.

Xu Huo helped two injured hotel guests evade their pursuers and learned they had stolen an encrypted file exposing human experiments in District 001. The pair stayed at the Yongxing Hotel to decrypt and publicize it, while the woman took a troubling call.

• Xu Huo encountered a high-ponytailed woman and her wounded companion fleeing pursuers in the Yongxing Hotel elevator.
• Xu Huo warned them that their pursuers were waiting outside and invited them to shelter in his top-floor room.
• The woman explained that they had stolen an encrypted file detailing human experiments and their clients, and that it would self-destruct after a time limit or if taken outside the sub-district.
• The pair said they had avoided the District Government because the people behind the experiments had official connections, and the injured man claimed he could decrypt the file.
• Xu Huo warned that the pursuers would find another way to capture them, then the woman received a call and answered it with a sound-canceling item.

Xu Huo helped two Players escape the hotel, then learned they had misled him about the stolen files and questioned the District Government’s explanation. After receiving his interference device, he left for Flower City, where travelers discussed the city’s flowers and the dangers facing Mutated Plants cultivators.

• The hotel manager warned Xu Huo that District Government Players would arrive, so he urged the two Players with the high ponytail to leave before their pursuers arrived.
• Xu Huo found a discarded metal carrier and handed it to the hotel staff to pass on to the District Government.
• District Government Players examined Xu Huo and claimed the two Players had stolen important medical papers, but Xu Huo remained doubtful about their account.
• The Exchange delivered the Wormhole Flower interference device, and Xu Huo tested how it weakened his control of Cube Space.
• Xu Huo left a message for Jiang Zifeng and Ye Bingxin and boarded a public flying vehicle to Flower City, listening to passengers talk about its flowers and Mutated Plants cultivators.

Xu Huo witnessed passengers harass a mother and child identified as residents of Flower City, then offered the sick child a potion that the mother refused. Later, the airship’s medical alert brought robots to the pair, and the woman resisted their approach.

• Passengers recognized the mother and child as Flower City residents, pulled off the mother's cloak, and mocked them while she stayed silent and moved away.
• Xu Huo offered the mother a potion, but she carried her child away, and a nearby old man explained that Flower City households received government potions.
• Six Players secretly boarded the airship, including the pair Xu Huo had seen chased at the hotel, who blended into a nearby crowd.
• An airship medical alert sounded, and surveillance cameras revealed weapon ports as the robots responded.
• Xu Huo saw that the mother and her breathless child had triggered the alert, and she watched the robots warily while refusing to let them approach.

A mother’s sick child was diagnosed with regression and taken to a regression hospital, leaving her devastated as the airship’s passengers accepted the government’s intervention as routine. Xu Huo reflected on how society had made families of those who regressed into sinners, while a mustached Player tried to stop the mother from killing herself.

• Passengers argued over whether the mother should let a medical robot examine her child, and one suspected the child was regressing.
• The mother refused to trust anyone, but a tranquilizer dart incapacitated her and the robot examined the child.
• The robot diagnosed Subject 0931 with regression and transported him to a regression hospital, while another robot found the mother healthy.
• Xu Huo observed the passengers’ acceptance of the child’s removal, and a mustached Player explained that families of people who regressed had become a social class blamed by others.
• The mustached Player stopped the mother from climbing out of the observation window, then upset her by suggesting she have another child, and she slapped him.

Zhang Yuanqing woke after a troubled night and thought about his worsening condition, which had previously been controlled by special medicine. He joined his family for breakfast, where Jiang Yu'er offered to take him shopping, but his grandmother forbade him from going.

• Zhang Yuanqing recalled that his condition had once been controlled by medicine and worried that the medicine was losing its effect.
• Zhang Yuanqing got up after his maternal aunt threatened to splash him awake.
• Zhang Yuanqing remembered that his mother had left him in his grandparents' care while she pursued her career.
• Zhang Yuanqing joined Jiang Yu'er and his grandmother for breakfast and asked where his grandfather was.
• Jiang Yu'er offered to take Zhang Yuanqing to the Mall to buy clothes, and his grandmother threatened to break his legs if he went.

Xu Huo explored Flower City and used the Game Government Library to search for a likely place connected to He Pu’s Diamond Key. He narrowed the possibilities to old buildings in the jurisdiction and discovered that one of his previous candidates had escaped regular renovation.

• Xu Huo arrived in Flower City’s central commercial district and asked a robot for a Play Guide to locate the Game Government Library.
• A short man tried to borrow Xu Huo’s library card with a supposed information-altering device, but a library visitor warned him that it was a theft item.
• Xu Huo entered the library and used a Jixin Terminal to research Flower City’s history and building renovations.
• Xu Huo learned that the city underwent minor renovations every five years and major ones every ten, while buildings in the jurisdiction had largely remained unchanged.
• Xu Huo identified several possible locations for He Pu’s Diamond Key and found that one of his existing candidates had not been regularly renovated.