Chapter Summaries

Xu Huo said goodbye to the Players leaving District 010, then took Melissa out for a walk and tested her cleverness and a protective device. He left District 010 after giving her the device, still unsure what had triggered his glimpse of the future.

• The pink-haired man gave Xu Huo his Dimension Below contact information before vanishing.
• Juan Er and the others left District 010, followed by Darkness Under the Lamp and Xiao Hui.
• Xu Huo took Melissa for a walk and watched her learn to climb and fall without hurting herself.
• Xu Huo gave Melissa a B-level Short Dagger and a pendant that created a protective barrier.
• Xu Huo used his Ticket to leave District 010.

On the train to District 011, Xu Huo inspected the items he had collected and discovered a P0S-labeled syringe that another Player believed might be the Perfect Potion. The Player tested it on a Wormhole Flower, and the chapter ended before Xu Huo tried it.

• Xu Huo sorted his collected items, kept useful gear, and sold surplus items in bulk.
• Xu Huo found a used syringe labeled P0S, and a naturally curly-haired Player offered to buy it for double the price.
• The other Players gathered around after learning the syringe might be the Perfect Potion, which was said to prevent devolution.
• Xu Huo asked how the potion could be verified, and Natural Curl claimed a Wormhole Flower would reveal whether it was genuine.
• Natural Curl tested the potion on his Wormhole Flower, and irregular spots appeared on a petal before he invited Xu Huo to try it.

Xu Huo refused to sell his Potion to Natural Curl after detecting an attack, and Natural Curl warned him that giving or taking things on the train was dangerous. A performer later sabotaged Players’ Artifacts, and a sudden brawl ended with Natural Curl attacking Xu Huo.

• Xu Huo tested the Potion and discovered it was not Perfect, then refused Natural Curl’s offer to buy it because he could not stand seeing others get rich.
• Xu Huo watched a B-class Player perform for tips in the dining car and later read Evolution notebooks.
• Natural Curl warned Xu Huo that exchanging things on the train was risky before quietly entering the room next door.
• The performer visited Players who had tipped him, vanished into paper scraps when confronted, and caused several Artifacts to burst into colored paper.
• Players from nearby carriages started a fight that spread through Xu Huo’s carriage and smashed the wall of his room.
• Xu Huo defended himself from hidden blades and attacked Natural Curl, who shattered his Space Ray blades and pinned his black knife against his chest.

Xu Huo and the other players halted their fight to survive an Alien migration that battered the train, then continued their journey through a prairie strewn with human heads. Natural Curl suggested the nearby tracks might be part of a high-risk Random Instance, leaving the players to wonder whether the Aliens were luring people from the train.

• Xu Huo and Natural Curl clashed until the train announced that a huge, dangerous Alien migration would cross the tracks, prompting the players to call a truce.
• The players reinforced the carriage and endured the train jolting beneath the Aliens, then waited until daylight to inspect the cracks and enormous footprints.
• Xu Huo's fellow passengers failed to find the marked player and gave up, while the train's occupants spent the day avoiding further conflict.
• At night, the players saw a prairie covered with human heads, all facing the tracks, and spotted goat-like Aliens lurking in the grass.
• Natural Curl suggested that the area might be part of a high-risk Random Instance and that the Aliens might have succeeded in catching track workers or other people before.

Xu Huo investigated the train’s stops and the unreachable spaces around its tracks, wondering whether Stellar Pharmaceutical might hide an undisclosed laboratory in one of them. Natural Curl confronted him over the Perfect Evolution Potion, and Xu Huo demanded two A-class items for it.

• After the magic-performing Player appeared beside the tracks, Xu Huo sensed that the figure was real, not an illusion.
• Xu Huo asked the Conductor about people leaving the train and track repairs, learning that some passengers could get off and that the Conductor sometimes had to detour.
• Xu Huo considered whether Stellar Pharmaceutical had hidden a laboratory in a Sub-district beyond the reach of Tickets.
• Natural Curl confronted Xu Huo about the S-version potion and offered to buy it, while Xu Huo demanded two A-class items.
• Natural Curl threatened to reveal that the potion was real, but Xu Huo challenged him by asking whether he was sure Xu Huo was the sitting duck.

Xu Huo returned to District 011 after clearing the Dungeon in District 010, bringing back ore, research materials, and an Alien for Dr. Deng to study. After resting at Rose Castle, he learned the painted woman had stocked up on medicine and then searched Dimension Below for information about foreseeing the future.

• Xu Huo arrived at the Station in District 011 and received a flyer for the district's image ambassador selection.
• At Rose Castle, Mr. Dong told Xu Huo that Bai Kou had left a message saying there would not be another time, and Xu Huo reported his research materials and Alien to Dr. Deng.
• Xu Huo went to sleep after thanking Bai Kou and Eats Three Bowls of Rice Every Meal, then woke the following afternoon to find the painted woman watching over him with a pile of medicine.
• Mr. Dong explained that Xiao Yuan had recovered from a mild illness, and Xu Huo told him to dispose of the medicines and check anything the painted woman gave the children.
• Xu Huo checked his Dimension Below messages and searched for information about foreseeing the future.

Xu Huo investigated reports of foresight, then saw a disturbing vision of Xiao Yuan and suspected it was connected to Dr. Deng’s Laboratory. After confronting Dr. Deng about his experiments and loyalty to Rose Castle, Xu Huo asked Xiao Yuan whether she wanted to visit somewhere else.

• Xu Huo found that most reports of future visions were vague and that the few Super Evolvers who replied could not explain their experiences.
• Xu Huo saw Xiao Yuan’s smiling face briefly become a dusty, bloodied face with tearful eyes, and noticed yellow flowers behind her.
• Xu Huo learned from Mr. Dong that Dr. Deng had replaced the flowers around his Laboratory with yellow ones and considered whether the Laboratory or Dr. Deng was connected to the vision.
• Dr. Deng served the others experimental sweets, and the painted woman and Xu Huo discovered that he had used far too much adhesive in the recipe.
• Xu Huo warned Dr. Deng to treat Rose Castle as his home, and Dr. Deng affirmed that he had chosen to stay.
• Xiao Yuan defended Dr. Deng, and Xu Huo asked her whether she wanted to visit somewhere else.

Xu Huo wrestled with whether his attempts to protect Xiao Yuan would cause the future he had glimpsed, but decided to take the children somewhere safer. He tested Tan Qi’s fighting skills and warned him about relying on tricks against Players, only for Tan Qi to reveal that he still had knives hidden away.

• Xu Huo agreed to take Xiao Yuan and the others out, while the painted woman asked to come along and was told she could join him another time.
• Xu Huo considered whether sending Xiao Yuan away might bring about the future he had seen at Rose Castle and decided he could only try to find her a safer environment.
• Xu Huo asked Mr. Dong to pack the children’s belongings and told Tan Qi that everyone was going.
• Xu Huo sparred with Tan Qi, disarmed him, and warned that his tricks would not let him fight Players on equal terms.
• Tan Qi attacked with poison powder and several blades, then revealed four more knives after Xu Huo asked what he would do once his weapons were gone.

Xu Huo trained Tan Qi and Xiao Yuan to rely on allies and protect themselves before traveling to the Platinum Eye, while investigating Temporal Evolution and building ties with District 011’s Noble families. He learned a rumor that District 011’s Super Player had temporarily left, apparently taking the owner of a Super Dungeon away with them.

• Xu Huo told Tan Qi to use other people's strength rather than trying to defeat a stronger opponent alone, and said he planned to send Tan Qi and Xiao Yuan to the Platinum Eye.
• Xu Huo taught Xiao Yuan basic self-defense and warned both children to run or seek help if they faced danger.
• Xu Huo researched Temporal Evolution but found no evidence that anyone could predict the future, and Lady Lily said she knew little about District 011's secretive Temporal Super Players.
• Lady Lily awarded Xu Huo the Rose Knight Medal, and Xu Huo hosted a banquet at Rose Castle and sent Visit Cards to higher-ranking Noble families.
• After attending Noble family banquets, Xu Huo heard that District 011's Super Player had temporarily left and that people had stopped entering a Super Dungeon the Player seemingly owned.

Xu Huo followed five Noble scions who planned to sneak into a restricted mountain area, hoping to find the Super Player’s residence and gain Evolution power. After they entered through an underground passage, they searched the dense forest and began doubting whether they had the right location.

• A Noble scion persuaded four others to explore the Super Player’s suspected residence and seek a chance to become Super Evolvers.
• Xu Huo learned that the rumored site was inside a restricted natural scenic area and followed the group there.
• The Noble scions used a family item to trace a staff member and discovered an underground passage into the restricted zone.
• Xu Huo slipped into the staff area and watched as the five scions avoided cameras and pressure sensors to enter the passage at night.
• The group emerged near a mountain, found no paths through the forest, and sent out a flying device that spotted nothing.
• The shortest scion asked their leader whether they had reached the right place.

Xu Huo crossed the hidden flower wall and discovered a vast, maze-like compound where doorways led into isolated spaces. He watched the Noble youths become separated as they tried to find one another, then suspected the compound’s doors concealed spaces hidden in cracks.

• Xu Huo flew over the flower wall, found himself trapped behind a barrier, and navigated a forest whose plants made him circle back until he damaged their roots.
• Xu Huo cut through a wall of Man-Eating Flowers and emerged onto a lawn beside a vast compound with no outer gate.
• A Noble youth stepped out of a building, and he and three companions discovered that each had entered the same door but emerged into separate spaces; Masai vanished when he went back inside.
• Luozi forced his way through a barrier and vanished, after which the two remaining youths decided to search for their companions separately.
• Xu Huo examined the doors with his mental strength and found that they concealed gaps opening into darkness, which reminded him of the chaotic intersections inside the Cube Space.

Xu Huo found that the estate shifted around him and prevented him from leaving, so he explored its repeating courtyards and rooms. As the furnishings changed and he followed marks and signs of prior visitors, he found a smashed bed and overturned table that suggested someone had recently passed through.

• Xu Huo saw the estate disappear into a forest, then reappear ahead of him as mist and lamps drew him back toward it.
• Xu Huo entered the estate and discovered that its courtyards were sealed spaces connected through doors, with no direct route out.
• Xu Huo explored the nearly identical rooms, testing doors and finding that routes behind him became blocked.
• Xu Huo tracked time and took objects from rooms as their furnishings gradually changed from tea-room furniture to more elaborate bedroom furnishings.
• Xu Huo found a short carved mark beneath a small basket and later came across a smashed bed and overturned table.

Xu Huo explored the residence’s shifting rooms, finding evidence that its routes and time behaved strangely. Unable to use his Ticket or open an instance, he continued following the children’s furnishings and numbered marks, with the residence’s rules still unclear.

• Xu Huo tracked changing rooms and found other travelers’ carved marks, concluding that the routes and dead ends could differ between visits.
• He entered a used tea room where the tea was still warm and suspected the room was connected to a preserved fragment of time.
• Xu Huo found that Complete Time behaved erratically and that his Ticket could not be used, while his authorization document could not open a Random Instance there.
• He searched Dimension Below and his Jixin Terminal for information about the residence or related Dungeons but found nothing.
• Xu Huo found children’s food and toys alongside changed number marks, then chose the room marked with an altered number and continued through the courtyards.
• After passing through three similar courtyards, Xu Huo reached another dead end and wondered whether the residence responded differently to people traveling together.

Xu Huo mapped the residence’s changing rooms and tested whether their states followed a pattern that could reveal an exit. He remained trapped, unable to find a way out or determine what had happened to the noble children and his robots.

• Xu Huo observed that room types and states changed in a repeating pattern across courtyards, with a different room appearing after every three courtyards.
• Xu Huo followed the doors on his right and found no noble children, damaged rooms, robots, or other signs of life.
• After spotting numbered furniture, Xu Huo marked rooms in the original state and labeled the four room states from 1 to 4.
• Xu Huo walked through several rooms in state 1 and carved numbers into their furniture, but no passage or exit appeared.
• Xu Huo sensed no differences in the doors and could not use his Ticket to escape, leaving him uncertain whether anyone had tried to rescue the noble children.

Xu Huo used Angel's Eyes to study the Time Rays linking the shifting rooms, but he could not determine which state lay behind each door. When Luozi appeared outside an invisible spatial barrier, Xu Huo realized the separation between them might reveal how space and time affected one another.

• Xu Huo used Angel's Eyes to perceive the Time Rays and found that pulling on them made nearby rooms vibrate together.
• Xu Huo tested doors in the third courtyard and discovered that opening one stopped the surrounding Time Rays from resonating, but he could not identify the room's state in advance.
• Xu Huo tried using Cube Space to read the space beyond a closed door, but the door blocked the connection between their Space Rays.
• Xu Huo considered whether the three courtyards formed a whole whose rooms exchanged Time Rays as they changed states.
• Luozi arrived and asked Xu Huo how to escape, but an invisible spatial barrier kept him from entering the courtyard.
• Xu Huo realized that the barrier separated their spaces and wondered whether having people on both sides could help him sense the Time Rays.

Xu Huo met Luozi in the shifting space and learned that Luozi suspected it was an incomplete time-based dungeon created by a powerful player. They compared the changing rooms and examined Luozi’s time-sensing instrument, but remained trapped.

• Xu Huo and Luozi discussed their missing companions, their inability to leave, and the possibility that the sealed space was an incomplete time-based dungeon.
• Luozi asked Xu Huo to open the door he could see, and the room beyond changed into a dining room from a different point in time.
• Luozi realized that the courtyard Xu Huo occupied counted among the courtyards he had passed through, even though he could not enter it.
• Xu Huo and Luozi rested and ate while Luozi explained that his time-sensing instrument used special Sub-class Stone to detect Time Power.

Xu Huo learned to connect his Time Rays through spatial barriers and use their vibrations to identify rooms and states, then searched the mansion’s shifting spaces for an exit. He emerged near the main entrance and found that his robot had waited safely after losing its command signal.

• Xu Huo used Angel's Eyes to connect Time Rays across a spatial barrier, bringing the rays in nearby rooms into his perception and confirming the connection by rewinding Luozi's watch.
• Xu Huo and Luozi moved through shifting rooms as Xu Huo tested their Time Ray vibrations and searched for the dining room's different states.
• Xu Huo eventually found the tidied dining room and opened a door that led him to the wall around the mansion's main entrance.
• Xu Huo encountered his robot, which explained that it had waited in place after the door closed and its command signal was lost.

Xu Huo returned to the Platinum Eye and learned that its planned marriage alliance with the Lang family had collapsed after an assassination attempt and a clash between the two sides. As speculation and public support for Bai Kou spread, the city turned its anger into a burst of technological innovation, and Xu Huo ended the chapter biting the head off a candy figure dressed like someone from the Lang family.

• Xu Huo left the strange courtyard, contacted Mr. Dong to take Xiao Yuan and Tan Qi to their train, and postponed dealing with the painted woman.
• Xu Huo learned aboard a ship that the Platinum Eye's engagement with the Lang family had been canceled after an intended betrothed survived an assassination attempt and the families fought for about ten days.
• Xu Huo read a popular post arguing that the alliance had collapsed over technology demands and that the conflict had ended in a costly stalemate.
• People at the Platinum Eye rallied around Bai Kou, while the mayor, his wife, and Bai Kou stayed out of public view and local Artificers and mechanics filed more patents.
• Xu Huo arrived near the mechanical Castle, bought a jam-filled candy figure dressed in Lang family clothing, and bit its head off.

Xu Huo asked Bai Kou to shelter Xiao Yuan and Tan Qi at Platinum Eye after foreseeing a serious danger, offering to lend her Angel's Eyes in return. Bai Kou explained that changing the children’s location might not avert their fate, and Xu Huo left with the danger still unresolved.

• Xu Huo visited Bai Kou in the Spiritual World, thanked her, and offered to lend her Angel's Eyes if she arranged for two children to study under Madam Lu.
• Bai Kou recognized Angel's Eyes as a Time Origin, and Xu Huo told her it could release Time Rays and that he had found it in a Dungeon.
• Xu Huo asked whether the Lang family would attack Platinum Eye and revealed that he feared a serious danger to the children, Xiao Yuan and Tan Qi.
• Bai Kou explained that Xu Huo’s premonition might resonate with Time Rays in other people, so moving the children could not guarantee their safety.
• Bai Kou recounted how a Super Player’s attempt to avoid a foretold family tragedy ended in the Carmen Field Defensive War, suggesting the children’s deadly trial might happen wherever they went.

Xu Huo discussed his Time Origin evolution and mental Aftereffects with Bai Kou, who gave him a platinum badge and arranged transportation. He reunited with Xiao Yuan and Tan Qi, then brought them into the lively Platinum Eye, where a Clown welcomed them to the Strange Animal Show.

• Bai Kou confirmed that Xu Huo had a Time Origin Stone and warned that his mental Aftereffects came from overusing his mental power.
• Xu Huo left Angel's Eyes with Bai Kou, and she gave him a platinum badge and assigned Yan Fang to help him.
• Xu Huo used the badge to enter a private waiting room at a non-Player Station and picked up Xiao Yuan and Tan Qi.
• Xu Huo took the children to explore the Platinum Eye, where they caught balloons during a parade.
• A Clown swooped down and welcomed Xu Huo, Xiao Yuan, and Tan Qi to the Strange Animal Show.