Chapter Summaries

Xu Huo pursued the Cannibal Player into a warehouse, where he met a Gentleman Player who owed Bauhinia Restaurant’s Boss a favor and learned where to find Chef Feng. After investigating Chef Feng’s room from the doorway, Xu Huo was suddenly pushed inside by an unseen person.

• Xu Huo used Flower Bloom to withstand the Cannibal Player’s attacks, then countered with Snow Dagger and drove him and Zhou Donghe to teleport away.
• Xu Huo chased the Cannibal Player to a warehouse, where he found Guest No. 198 bound and being drained of blood by the Gentleman Player.
• The Gentleman Player immobilized the Cannibal Player with musical-note lines and told Xu Huo he had come to repay a favor owed to the Boss of Bauhinia Restaurant.
• The Gentleman Player directed Xu Huo to Chef Feng’s room and left to return to the restaurant.
• Xu Huo noticed a dangerous, drowsiness-inducing effect in Chef Feng’s room and inspected its numbered furnishings from the doorway.
• An unseen person placed a hand on Xu Huo’s back and pushed him into the room.

Xu Huo escaped a mind-altering room after exposing its filthy true appearance, then joined Li Kun in discovering a valuable Stellar Group water-making machine in the Raincoat Cleaner's room. Li Kun planned to dismantle and sell it, while Xu Huo left the machine's fate unresolved.

• Xu Huo recognized that the gentleman player had pushed him into a room that interfered with the mind, then closed its curtains and revealed its decayed interior and hidden passageways.
• The gentleman player tried to reach the curtains but lost sight of Xu Huo, then fled when an invisible person wearing oversized high heels entered the room.
• Xu Huo checked his Communicator, learned that Li Kun had found an employee's room, and hurried to meet him.
• Li Kun showed Xu Huo the Raincoat Cleaner's collection and a Stellar Group water-making machine that could produce clean water from polluted air.
• Li Kun proposed dismantling the bulky machine and selling it for a large sum, arguing that Sub-districts would pay to learn its technology.

Xu Huo helped Li Kun dismantle the water purifier while keeping the Raincoat Cleaner distracted, but the Limping Butcher attacked Li Kun before he could escape. Xu Huo got Li Kun to safety with his belongings, and Li Kun offered him a share of the proceeds.

• Li Kun began dismantling the water purifier while Xu Huo examined the badge-covered wall and photographed the room.
• Xu Huo kicked Zhou Donghe into the garbage room to draw the Raincoat Cleaner away, then distracted her while Zhou hid.
• The Raincoat Cleaner noticed more of her belongings were missing and went toward Door 172, where the large pair of high heels also appeared.
• Li Kun forced the purifier's central section into his Storage Compartment, but the Limping Butcher caught him and injured him as he tried to flee.
• Xu Huo brought Li Kun to safety in Room 201 with his belongings, and Li Kun offered him another ten percent of their sale proceeds.

Xu Huo and his companions discussed how to clear the Dungeon through a fair vote and planned to win ordinary people over. After a deadly night left the restaurant nearly empty, they regrouped and tried to learn more about the Dungeon’s dangers, but Maris’s question about the remaining injured Players went unanswered.

• Xu Huo, Li Kun, and Players 201 and 202 discussed testing a voting strategy the next day and considered gaining ordinary people’s support.
• After dawn, Xu Huo’s group returned to find that fewer than fifty of the roughly 180 people from the previous day remained.
• Maris told Xu Huo that High Heels had injured him, and Xu Huo asked what High Heels looked like.
• Xu Huo confronted Zhou Donghe, who insisted he would stay in the restaurant and refused to share what he knew about the Dungeon.
• Xu Huo explained that the Cannibal Players controlled the restaurant at night, and Maris asked what was happening with the injured people.

Xu Huo stopped players from attacking three women and helped them join his group in the restaurant. As the newcomers ordered and sampled food, Li Ya and her companions’ professional reviews drew everyone’s attention to the secret-recipe roast meat.

• Xu Huo knocked out the player leading the attackers and ended the standoff, after which 201 invited Li Ya, Wang Jie, and Pan Tongtong to sit with the group.
• Several ordinary people and injured players moved closer to Xu Huo’s group, seeking safety.
• 202 reassured the women and explained the Dungeon’s voting task, while Li Ya said she and her companions worked in the food industry.
• 201, 202, and Li Ya ordered dishes, and nearby diners followed their example.
• Li Ya praised the secret-recipe roast meat and described its ingredients and preparation, prompting Xu Huo to applaud and other diners to order it.

Xu Huo used Li Ya’s food critic expertise and coordinated voting to clear the Bauhinia Restaurant instance by getting diners to choose the round beef roast as the best dish. After escaping, he learned Li Kun had a Ticket and was considering selling their equipment, while Xu Huo suspected Li Kun could profit by keeping its core component.

• Xu Huo organized the players and Li Ya’s group to guide diners toward a coordinated vote, and Li Ya revealed that she came from E25 wormhole point Zone 002.
• Li Ya named the round beef roast as the best dish, and Xu Huo and the others recorded the choice and voted for it.
• At closing time, Xu Huo, Dai Song, and Li Kun cleared the instance and found themselves on the street as the restaurant disappeared.
• Li Kun offered Xu Huo a Ticket and mentioned a buyer for their equipment, prompting Xu Huo to point out that Li Kun held the core component and could profit by keeping it.

Xu Huo and his companions traveled toward the new District Government city, but a robot convoy ambushed them on the road. After Xu Huo cut open one of the trucks and exposed its cargo of multicolored ore, explosions destroyed much of the convoy, while tracking bullets continued to pursue him.

• Xu Huo reviewed his Bauhinia Restaurant Dungeon rewards while Dr. Dorr admitted that he did not expect to live much longer.
• A robot vehicle crashed into the Sole Entrance, and three more robots entered and opened fire on Xu Huo, Li Kun, Dai Song, and Dr. Dorr.
• Xu Huo escaped the robots' explosions, spotted three trucks guarded by robots, and sliced the lead truck open, spilling multicolored ore across the road.
• Li Kun used metal balls to disrupt nearby robots, then an explosion destroyed the robots attacking Xu Huo and damaged the second truck.
• Tracking bullets pursued Xu Huo through the smoke, and Li Kun called out for him to use a Jammer.

Xu Huo and Li Kun defeated a robot convoy and sold its ore to fund Dai Song and Dr. Dorr’s medical research. As they neared the new District Government city, they learned it was under partial lockdown after an attack by Outer District Players, though Xu Huo suspected something else had happened.

• Li Kun’s Jammers failed against the robots, so Xu Huo and Li Kun fought back while the robots collected data and used explosives and spatial interference devices.
• Xu Huo destroyed the nearby robots, caught the fleeing transport vehicles, killed their drivers, and overturned the vehicles, spilling their ore.
• Li Kun blocked the robots’ bait scent and sold the ore for thirty million White Cash, while Xu Huo gave Dai Song twenty million to support medical research.
• Dai Song warned that the District Government might pursue them, but they saw no Player squads on the way to the city.
• A passing Player told Dai Song that Outer District Players had attacked the new District Government city and that its gates were under partial lockdown; Xu Huo suspected the attack was not the whole story.

Xu Huo and Li Kun entered the new District Government city and witnessed mechanical men slaughtering residents as a mysterious singer used aircraft and a powerful sonic attack to cripple the city. After the infant Xu Huo rescued died from the attack, he put on soundproof headphones and followed a group of District Government Players.

• Xu Huo and Li Kun entered the city, where mechanical men massacred residents and destroyed buildings while aircraft spread accelerant and fires engulfed much of the area.
• Xu Huo caught an infant after knocking a mechanical man away, then planned to hand the child over to District Government Players.
• A mysterious man broadcast from an aircraft, but Players destroyed it before he could finish speaking.
• The man used hundreds of aircraft to announce an explosion at a metal Factory and threatened to destroy a laboratory containing contaminated items.
• The man began singing, and his sonic attack overwhelmed Players despite their preparations; the infant Xu Huo had rescued died, so Xu Huo put on soundproof headphones and followed the District Government Players.

Wang Xuan entered a secret mental space and met powerful immortals who warned him to protect his spirit with a treasure. Meanwhile, Beautiful Young Lady fought Cao Wei by repeatedly redirecting his attacks, leaving the outcome unresolved.

• Wang Xuan questioned Yan Que's connection to the paper people, then followed the paper cat's instructions into a classified mental space.
• Wang Xuan recognized An Hong, Hong Teng, and Qi Miao as they arrived in the forms of a mechanical pig, a pitch-black owl, and a red lotus.
• Yan Que introduced Wang Xuan to the gathered Second Limit Breakers and advised him to lodge his spirit in a spiritual treasure when he returned.
• Beautiful Young Lady used the Heavenly Feather and Mysterious Circle of Heaven to evade Cao Wei's attacks and wear him down.

The chapter followed Wang Xuan as he entered a secret mental space and met Swallow and several powerful allies housed in spiritual treasures. Meanwhile, Beautiful Young Lady used the Heavenly Feather to evade Cao Wei and appeared to be trying to outlast him.

• Wang Xuan asked Swallow about his connection to the paper people and learned that incense could guide him into a secret mental space.
• Hong Teng and Qi Miao arrived in the space, and Swallow warned Wang Xuan to entrust himself to a spiritual treasure for protection.
• Swallow introduced Wang Xuan as Qin Cheng, prompting An Hong's displeasure over his reputation for winning scriptures and bankrupting others.
• Beautiful Young Lady deflected Cao Wei's attacks with Mysterious Circle of Heaven and kept her distance, drawing the fight into a battle of attrition.

Wang Xuan joined Yan Que and other powerful prodigies in a secret mental space, where Yan Que warned him to use a spiritual treasure as a vessel for protection. Meanwhile, Beautiful Young Lady used the Mysterious Circle of Heaven to evade Cao Wei and wear him down in their fight.

• Xu Huo agreed to meet Qiu Ming and Cao Qinglin at the city entrance if they chose to help Gemini City's people.
• Yan Que guided Wang Xuan into the secret mental space, where he met An Hong, Hong Teng, and Qi Miao.
• Yan Que warned Wang Xuan to use a spiritual treasure as his vessel the next time he entered the mental space.
• Beautiful Young Lady deflected Cao Wei's saber attack and avoided his follow-up ability by shifting position.
• Beautiful Young Lady kept evading Cao Wei's attacks, apparently aiming to exhaust him.

Xu Huo confronted the Gentleman Player in a pharmaceutical factory and revealed footage implicating the new District Government in the exploding-head fireworks. The mayor ordered the aircraft destroyed, but two massive blasts struck the city, and he ordered the Players to seize as many targets as possible and flee Zone 023.

• The Gentleman Player trapped Xu Huo with a musical staff, but Xu Huo stopped him with a remote-like object and challenged him over their earlier conflict.
• Xu Huo deduced that the Gentleman Player had been given a powerful instrument and a mission by the restaurant owner, while the Gentleman Player mocked Xu Huo's supposed heroics.
• Xu Huo showed the Gentleman Player footage of people being killed by exploding-head fireworks in a prosperous city.
• The mayor ordered his Players to shoot down every aircraft, and the aircraft exploded as Players advanced toward the pharmaceutical factory.
• A massive blast shook the city, followed by blue flames erupting from a distant facility; the mayor ordered his Players to seize as many people as they could and flee Zone 023.

The Ya tribe people discovered that the new District Government was using their rapid-growth genes to cultivate clones, and they attacked the clone factory, but the battle shifted when the space transporter and city robots were disrupted. Meanwhile, Xu Huo fought the gentleman Player inside the Enclosed Space and escaped through a cut doorway, leaving his opponent trapped between two incoming attacks.

• The Ya tribe people learned the government was cloning them for their rapid-growth genes and launched a suicide attack that destroyed the space transporter.
• The Ya tribe people suffered heavy casualties as the new District Government Players fought to clear the factory and restart the transporter.
• The transporter stopped working, the city robots halted, and the Players' Controllers began reconnecting as control of the city shifted.
• The gentleman Player attacked Xu Huo with the musical staff and a destructive sonic blast, while Xu Huo used Artifacts and Space Power to hold him off.
• Xu Huo cut a door into the wall and escaped into a pitch-black space; when the gentleman Player followed, two attacks converged on him.

Xu Huo confronted the Gentleman Player inside the Factory and tried to learn why he was connected to Bauhinia Restaurant. After stalling long enough to create a mental space, Xu Huo sent the Magician Person to attack, but the Gentleman Player quickly shattered the illusion.

• Xu Huo warned the Gentleman Player not to use his robots against the hostages, then explained he had come to investigate the people behind the fireworks killings and their connection to Zone 023.
• Xu Huo asked what Bauhinia Restaurant's owner had to do with the Factory, and the Gentleman Player proposed they finish their work before talking.
• The Gentleman Player realized Xu Huo had been stalling and activated a device that disrupted mental powers, destroying Xu Huo's illusion.
• Xu Huo sent the dual-blade-wielding Magician Person to fight while he supported it, drawing on what he had learned about the Gentleman Player's five-line staves.

Xu Huo fought the gentleman player in the pharmaceutical factory, trying to keep him from destroying the facility and releasing its poisonous organisms. As the gentleman player trapped him with vibrating musical lines, Xu Huo opened the Seventeenth Hospital instance and pulled most of the battle into it.

• Xu Huo used Holder's Death to strike the gentleman player, whose mask slipped and whose face twisted; the player then tore off his false skin and attacked in animal form.
• Xu Huo watched for signs that the unprotected gentleman player was being poisoned, but saw none, while the fight threatened the factory and its poisonous organisms.
• The gentleman player used Single Note to shatter Xu Huo's Goalkeeper barrier and cage him in vibrating musical lines.
• Xu Huo endured the shock waves with spatial barriers and blades as the gentleman player prepared to intensify his attack.
• Xu Huo opened the Seventeenth Hospital, drawing himself, the gentleman player, and most of the new District Government fighters into the instance; the gentleman player dismissed it as a D-class instance.

Xu Huo opened the Seventeenth Hospital instance to capture the gentleman Player, but a District Government group and twelve children entered as well. The Magician made the gentleman Player disappear, while the other Players searched the hospital and the children were taken upstairs as the hospital’s darkened buildings loomed behind them.

• Xu Huo left the lobby, and the hospital’s Magician appeared to perform for the Players gathered there.
• The Magician selected the gentleman Player as number 19 and vanished with him during a trick.
• A B-class Player ordered the District Government Players to search the hospital, and they entered several buildings, including the sealed third building.
• A nurse told the twelve children they were only passing through the hospital and led them upstairs to wash their hands and eat.
• A worried Player questioned whether the hospital contained bugs, then saw the buildings behind him swallowed by shadows.

Xu Huo and Moth Art used Seventeenth Hospital to wear down the gentleman player, while Xu Huo arranged psychological counseling for the twelve children he had found. The chapter ended with the oldest child calling himself 77 and repeating what the Laboratory uncle had told him.

• The gentleman player fought Moth Art through a shifting magic-stage illusion and pushed deeper into the hospital.
• Xu Huo and Moth Art discussed weakening the gentleman player with the instance’s germs, and Moth Art left to confront him.
• Xu Huo had the nurse bring the twelve children for psychological counseling while staff took precautions around contaminated Building Three.
• Xu Huo offered the oldest child a discharge certificate, and the child said his name was 77 and that the Laboratory uncle had said they were sick.

Xu Huo and Moth Art trapped the gentleman Player inside Moth Art’s pyramid, then used the City Sandbox to strip away his musical-stave item. Xu Huo exposed him to an A-class pathogen, leaving his fate uncertain as he boasted that reinforcements would arrive.

• Xu Huo infected a Player with the pathogen and sent him out of the Dungeon to buy time.
• The gentleman Player escaped Moth Art’s Spiritual World, but Xu Huo trapped him in the Book Tower and Moth Art enclosed him in a pyramid.
• Xu Huo used the City Sandbox to move the gentleman Player into the sealed pyramid and took his musical-stave item.
• Xu Huo revealed that the metal box contained an A-class pathogen, and the gentleman Player crushed it while trapped.
• The gentleman Player insisted that reinforcements would save him, and Xu Huo gestured toward his hand as he told him to say his last words.

Xu Huo defeated the Gentleman Player after bacteria overwhelmed his immunity, then took the S-level Jammer and prepared to rescue children from the laboratory beneath the pharmaceutical Factory. The Gentleman Player died hoping Xu Huo would eventually seek out the Bauhinia Restaurant owner, whom he suspected was connected to the Platinum Eye.

• The bacteria in the pyramid rapidly covered the Gentleman Player and defeated his attempts to stop them with Antidotes.
• The Gentleman Player offered Xu Huo the Antidote, an S-level Jammer, and information about the Bauhinia Restaurant owner in exchange for help, but Xu Huo refused and explained why he doubted the Gentleman Player knew the owner's identity.
• The dying Gentleman Player gave Xu Huo the Jammer and speculated that the restaurant owner might be from the Platinum Eye, urging Xu Huo to pursue him.
• Xu Huo received confirmation that he had killed the Black Player, while Moth Art recovered a time bomb from the corpse and Xu Huo took the Jammer.
• Xu Huo asked Moth Art to find the Laboratory beneath the pharmaceutical Factory so they could rescue children, and to redirect the city's mechanical people toward the Government Players and clones.