Chapter Summaries

Lin An considered how to earn the points needed for the SSS-grade skill Death Natural Disaster, then encountered Tyre, who mistakenly believed he and Fiona lacked points and offered to help. The chapter ended with Lin An accepting Tyre’s offer and asking him for points.

• Lin An resolved to obtain Death Natural Disaster and weighed forcing the Awakened to complete the hardest mission against using his Fool talent to manipulate someone into giving him points.
• Tyre, a Third Order representative of the Soviet Russia War Zone, greeted Fiona and thanked her for sharing information during the trial.
• Tyre assumed Lin An had survived by hiding and offered to lend him points and advised him to avoid the upcoming trials.
• Zhang Tie and the others reacted in the Team Channel as Tyre continued advising Lin An.
• Lin An agreed that he lacked points and asked Tyre to lend him some.

Lin An tested his Fool skill on Tyre, lowering his intelligence enough to trade fourteen of Tyre’s points for food. Tyre returned to his war zone convinced the cans were mysterious System items and began obsessing over their secrets.

• Lin An secretly activated Fool on Tyre repeatedly, while nearby Awakened mistook the attack for a fight over Fiona.
• After twenty-three uses, Lin An stopped when Tyre became vacant and drooled, and Fiona pleaded with him to spare Tyre.
• Lin An tried to obtain Tyre’s points, but Tyre’s attachment to them resisted the skill until Lin An offered canned food.
• Tyre traded fourteen points for three cans and a self-heating hot pot, then returned to his war zone puzzled by the exchange.
• Tyre decided the System had traded his points for mysterious items and erased his memories, and he vowed to uncover the cans’ secrets.

While preparing for the Agility Trial, Lin An planned how to secure enough points for the SSS Grade reward, but he rejected his allies’ offers to give him their points. The trial began with its difficulty unexpectedly increased, revealing the challenge called Weeping Angels.

• Lin An planned to earn points by taking Awakeners through difficult missions and borrowing points during trials, with intimidation as a last resort.
• Fiona, Zhang Yong, and Bear Dunce offered Lin An their points and support for the upcoming trials.
• Lin An rejected their point transfers and told them to exchange their points for attributes, leaving open whether they might help later.
• The System announced that the Agility Trial was beginning and that its difficulty had increased for unknown reasons.
• The participants were transported to a gray, maze-like palace, where the trial content was announced as Weeping Angels.

The Awakened entered the Agility Trial, where they could earn points by staying in rooms but were given no clear explanation of the dangers within. Lin An suspected Weeping Angels were inside and led his group through the labyrinth, while Chen Yangtian led another faction through the passages.

• The System announced that Trial Takers would retain their Agility and neural reaction speed, and earn one point for every ten seconds spent in a room.
• Chen Yangtian gathered Awakened around him and warned them to observe the labyrinth passages and avoid touching anything in the rooms.
• Chen Yangtian wondered whether Lin An and a mysterious tattooed man were participating in the trial.
• Zhang Tie, Zhang Yong, Fiona, and others followed Lin An as he judged that Weeping Angels were likely inside the rooms and that escaping the labyrinth might be part of the Perfect Grade Trial.
• More than twenty Awakened from the Turkey War Zone found a carved stone door as cold air seeped through its cracks.

The Turkey War Zone entered Secret Chamber No. 00277 to earn points and discovered a Weeping Angel disguised as a Stone Statue. The angel slaughtered the entrants, while Bear Dunce and Team Leader Lin noticed blood near the sealed chamber.

• The Turkey captain led fifteen Awakened into Secret Chamber No. 00277 after the System announced its point reward and entry limit.
• The Turkey team found a Stone Coffin and a shadowy figure, which they identified as a Stone Statue after bringing a torch closer.
• An Awakened tried to turn the Stone Statue around, and it uncovered its face, twisted its head, and revealed itself as a Weeping Angel.
• The Weeping Angel transformed its back into wings and killed the Turkey entrants with attacks faster than sound as the others fled.
• Bear Dunce smelled blood outside the sealed chamber, and Team Leader Lin observed its blurred number, 00277.

Lin An led his group into a secret room after detecting blood and noticing that deaths in the trial were steadily rising. The room had a ten-person limit, and after nine entrants gained points without incident, Lin An ordered them to proceed cautiously toward a wall that might conceal a special item.

• Lin An smelled blood by the sealed Stone Gate and saw that the trial's death count kept fluctuating upward.
• Fiona warned Lin An about the Weeping Angels, and he decided to enter the secret room to investigate.
• The System announced a maximum of ten entrants, so Lin An considered possible dangers and entered first with eight others.
• The wall torches ignited automatically, and the group received one point after ten seconds without any danger appearing.
• Lin An ordered Bear Dunce to guard the front as they moved farther into the room to investigate the wall.

Lin An’s team encountered a stone coffin and a statue that turned out to be a deadly Weeping Angel. They escaped the secret room after Bear Dunce used his death-immunity talent to hold off the monster, but its threat remained uncertain.

• The team saw a stone coffin that drew their attention, and Lin An sensed another presence hiding nearby.
• Lin An’s sword failed to damage the stone sculpture, and he realized the room’s apparent safety was suspicious.
• As the Third Round reward arrived, Lin An ordered everyone to leave, but the sculpture turned and instantly attacked Bear Dunce.
• Bear Dunce’s death-immunity talent activated, and he held the sculpture back while Lin An used Flash to escape with Zhang Tie and the others.
• The team hid in the corridor until they heard a door close, and Fiona checked the passage with a mirror and saw that the Weeping Angel had vanished.

Lin An struggled to understand the Weeping Angel trial and considered how to survive it, but the Second Will warned that using Causality Reversal could erode his identity. Six hours later, the North America War Zone’s leader claimed to know how to complete the trial and began sharing the discovery.

• Lin An and Zhang Yong discussed whether the secret room’s monster and 30-second timer would reset, while Lin An weighed the risks of trying again.
• Lin An considered surviving alone by dodging the Weeping Angel and using Causality Reversal, but realized his stamina and skill limits would restrict how long he could last.
• The Second Will warned Lin An that Causality Reversal transmitted his past self’s thoughts and could gradually dissolve his consciousness.
• Lin An silently held the silver-white hourglass after the Second Will vanished.
• Six hours later, the North America War Zone’s leader told the group channel that their region knew how to complete the trial and offered to explain the Weeping Angel.

Lin An analyzed the North America War Zone’s report about the Weeping Angels and realized its advice to farm points in nearby chambers was intended to keep other teams on the maze’s outskirts. He concluded that North America planned to search deeper chambers with higher numbers, and Bear Dunce urged the group to head inside first.

• Fiona asked Lin An about the North America War Zone’s report, which described the Weeping Angels’ abilities and the danger of staying too long in the maze.
• Zhang Yong asked Lin An whether they should follow the report’s advice to farm points in nearby secret chambers and withdraw quickly.
• Lin An said the report was not false, but that the North America War Zone was concealing its real strategy by emphasizing nearby chambers and limited point gains.
• Lin An explained that higher-numbered chambers deeper in the maze might offer longer Safe Times and more points, and that North America wanted to reach them before other teams.
• Bear Dunce urged the group to head into the maze quickly so the North America War Zone would not claim the deeper chambers first.

Lin An doubted the North America War Zone’s theory that the Agility Trial rewarded speed by searching for higher-numbered chambers, and used the Sand of Time to investigate what he had seen inside Chamber No. 277. While Chris led the China and North America War Zones deeper into the maze, Lin An entered the chamber alone again to uncover the trial’s real danger.

• Lin An agreed that the thirty-second Safe Time deduction was correct but suspected North America’s solution was too simple, and recalled a gap in the stone coffin and the Weeping Angels’ waiting period.
• Chris led nearly six hundred people from the China and North America War Zones toward Chamber No. 851, believing that higher-numbered chambers would yield more points.
• Chen Yangtian praised Chris’s speed theory, then told him that Lin An was not secretly backed by China and claimed Lin An’s previous perfect clear might have exploited a loophole.
• Chen Yangtian privately resolved to further damage Lin An’s reputation so that other war zones would not help him.
• Lin An rejected Zhang Tie’s suggestion to wait for his talent to recover and decided to reenter Chamber No. 277 with the Sand of Time.
• Lin An opened the Stone Gate and stepped into the dark chamber alone.

Lin An used Scene Replay to investigate the stone coffin and discovered that the first group of entrants had been mentally influenced into behaving irrationally. As the replay approached the moment of their deaths, a cracking sound came from the chamber around him.

• Lin An concluded that the Speed Trial’s maze tested reaction and thought rather than navigation, and he suspected its clues were designed to mislead the North America War Zone.
• Lin An reached the stone coffin, resisted its pull on his gaze, and used his remaining Sand of Time to replay the first entrants’ deaths.
• Lin An saw that fifteen Awakened Ones had entered Secret Chamber No. 277, despite his own entry notification setting a maximum of ten.
• At twenty-two seconds into the replay, the group’s attention shifted to a stone statue, and they then allowed one Awakened One to inspect it alone.
• Lin An realized the entrants’ thoughts had been affected, much like those of his own group, and he prepared for an attack as the replay neared thirty seconds.
• As the Awakened One struggled with the statue in the replay, Lin An heard a faint cracking sound in the chamber.

Lin An fought a Weeping Angel while studying the Replay of the first group’s deaths, discovering that the monster’s speed scaled with the strength of those who entered. He finally spotted a pair of bluish-white eyes inside the stone coffin and realized a second monster had been watching him and stealing his power.

• Lin An dodged the Weeping Angel at Limit Value speed while examining the Replay of the first group’s deaths.
• Lin An noticed a faint silver light and other details in the Replay, but could not determine what had triggered the Weeping Angel to move.
• Lin An used Causality Reversal and Teleportation to recover and continue comparing the Weeping Angels’ speed across different encounters.
• Lin An concluded that the Weeping Angel’s speed depended on the strength of the people who entered the room.
• Lin An replayed the moment he saw the stone coffin and discovered bluish-white eyes watching through its gap.
• Lin An realized a second monster inside the coffin had been watching him and stealing his power.

Lin An escaped the Weeping Angels and pieced together how the Agility Trial’s time-related mechanics might work. He warned his companions that the monsters’ altered traits meant their current point-farming strategy would eventually get them killed.

• Lin An used his final Flash and threw a Black Dragon at the pursuing Weeping Angels, then fled as the Stone Statue smashed the dragon apart.
• Six hours later, Lin An rejoined Bear Dunce, Fiona, Zhang Tie, and Zhang Yong near Secret Chamber No. 277 after escaping the Stone Statue through two passages.
• Lin An asked what speed represented, and Fiona suggested that the fastest speed might be time.
• Lin An explained that the Trial must reflect changes in time and argued that the Weeping Angels’ original traits had not simply disappeared but might be altered or not yet revealed.
• Lin An warned the group that continuing to farm points in the same way would lead to everyone’s death.

Lin An explained that the Weeping Angels were secretly building strength and that dead Awakened might become additional monsters, turning the maze into a trap. He led his group toward the maze’s interior to gather allies and prepare to farm points, while warning the China and North America War Zones to leave the chambers.

• Lin An explained that a second Weeping Angel inside each stone coffin had been charging its power based on the strongest Awakened in the chamber.
• Lin An warned that the dead Awakened could transform into Weeping Angels and that the monsters could pursue people beyond the chambers.
• Lin An told the group to race toward the maze’s interior, ordered Fiona to warn nearby War Zones, and asked Zhang Yong to get the Capital Military Region’s coordinates.
• Lin An instructed the group to cripple anyone who refused to leave the chambers and said he had figured out how to kill the Weeping Angels.
• At Secret Chamber No. 1875, a North American leader saw Lin An’s warning in the Trial Channel as the China and North America War Zones prepared to enter.

Awakeners debated Lin An’s warning to leave the secret rooms and gather in the maze’s inner ring, where he claimed the Weeping Angel had to be killed to resolve the trial. Chen Yangtian dismissed the warning as a ploy by Lin An to exploit the crowds, and he ordered Chris to keep securing secret-room entrances.

• Lin An’s message urged Awakeners to head for the inner ring and declared that the trial could only be resolved by killing the Weeping Angel.
• Awakeners in the Caucasus War Zone doubted the monster could be killed but set out for the inner ring to claim its higher-numbered secret rooms.
• Chen Yangtian ordered Chris to speed up replacements and secure secret-room entrances despite Lin An’s warning.
• Chen Yangtian told Chris that Lin An was trying to stir up the maze’s Awakeners so he could farm points and escape amid the chaos.
• Chris agreed that Lin An’s actions could raise his reputation and encourage smaller war zones to oppose the North America War Zone.

Lin An realized that repeated point farming would drive the chambers’ entry limits to zero and unleash the monsters, so he hurried toward the North America War Zone’s chamber. He revealed that he could weaken himself and use special powers to kill the Weeping Angels, while concluding that the trial had been prepared for him and everyone else was merely a supporting character.

• Chris proposed that Chen Yangtian surround and kill Lin An, but the vice-captain argued that the China War Zone could not attack one of its own.
• After Awakeners emerged from Secret Chamber No. 1875 with 18 points each, Chris split the available places between the North America and China War Zones.
• Lin An noticed the rising death toll and inferred that chambers could be farmed after one hour, with their entry limits eventually reaching zero and unleashing another monster.
• As Lin An’s group hurried through the maze, Fiona asked how they would defeat the Weeping Angel, and Lin An explained that it copied the strength of the strongest person it encountered.
• Lin An revealed that he could reduce his strength to beginner level while using special powers, and said that killing the angel monsters would be easy.
• Lin An concluded that the trial had been prepared for him and that everyone else was merely a supporting character.

As war zones converged on the maze’s inner ring, Chen Yangtian and Chris kept farming points from Secret Chambers despite Lin An’s warning that danger was coming. Lin An reached Chamber No. 1875 with allies as the last five entrants went inside and the countdown to Restricted Zeroing continued.

• Chen Yangtian secretly decided he could sacrifice everyone else if monsters appeared, believing he could survive by being faster than his companions.
• Chris told Chen Yangtian that only five entry slots remained in Chamber No. 1875 and that Lin An’s allies were approaching, so Chen Yangtian gave the final slots to other members.
• Zhang Yong told Lin An that ten minutes remained, and Lin An’s group continued toward the chamber alongside the Soviet Russia War Zone.
• Lin An warned that Restricted Zeroing would release unrestricted Weeping Angels, but Chris dismissed his warning and ordered the chamber’s remaining slots filled.
• The Secret Chamber’s stone door opened and announced that the entrant limit was five.

Lin An broke through the North America War Zone’s interception and raced toward the secret room, while Zhang Tie’s group attacked the guards behind him. Chris remained focused on the room’s entry limit until Lin An arrived and its counter changed to ∞.

• The North America War Zone’s guards prepared to ambush Lin An, but he burst through their formation at more than the speed of sound and knocked their captain unconscious.
• Zhang Tie and the allied Awakened confronted the North America War Zone guards, and Zhang Tie charged them with Rampage Charge.
• Chen Yangtian received news that Lin An’s group had entered and assumed the interceptors had simply failed to stop them.
• Chris dismissed the report and waited for the last team to leave the secret room, wondering whether the entry limit reaching zero would let them keep farming points.
• Lin An appeared in the distance as Chris turned to look, and the secret room’s counter changed into the symbol ∞.

Lin An arrived at the Stone Gate too late to stop Chris and the others from exhausting the secret-room entries, then escaped as the Weeping Angels emerged. He regrouped with his team and headed for the next secret room, planning to draw out a weakened Weeping Angel.

• Lin An spotted the red symbol at the Stone Gate and realized Chris and the others had used all the secret-room entries.
• Chris tried to have the group surround Lin An, but screams sounded from inside the gate and its number changed as Lin An fled.
• The China War Zone's Deputy Commander ordered everyone to run after a Weeping Angel appeared in the opening Stone Gate.
• Lin An told his team through the Team Channel to head to the next four-digit secret room instead of coming to him.
• Zhang Tie and the others regrouped with Lin An's team, while Fiona told the Soviet Russia War Zone leader that they did not know Lin An's true strength.

Lin An raced toward Secret Chamber No. 1996 as the Weeping Angels slaughtered Awakened across the maze, prompting the survivors to flee after him. Zhang Yong guessed that Lin An planned to lure monsters away so people could farm points safely in emptied chambers, and that the Speed Trial tested both speed breakthroughs and survival strategies.

• Lin An sped through the panicked crowd toward Secret Chamber No. 1996, and Awakened who remembered his warning began following him.
• The Weeping Angels tore through the China and North America War Zones, while a dying China War Zone Awakened realized too late that Lin An had been right.
• Awakened across the outer maze reported that Weeping Angels were closing in and shrinking their safe space, as Zhang Tie and Bear Dunce gathered people behind Lin An's companions.
• Lin An sent a message saying he would draw the Weeping Angels out, leaving Bear Dunce confused about why he would attract even more monsters.
• Zhang Yong theorized that Lin An intended to lure weakened Weeping Angels away so others could enter the empty secret chambers, farm points, and unlock Gene Locks.