Recaps

Xu Lang’s Mad King Building fought off waves of military robots, whose Blood Hatred drew them into close combat and gave the building a tactical advantage. Xu Lang bought a Blood Hatred item and negotiated with Pandora to acquire the Jack of Spades, while Pandora angrily ordered her teddy bear to kill him.

• Xu Lang watched Mad King Building’s players retreat to their dormitories as military robots broke through the defenses and attacked in growing numbers.
• Zhen Lu, Cao Yaxuan, Shirley, and Gu Ya discussed how Blood Hatred redirected the robots’ attacks, and Xu Lang realized players’ Blood Hatred could stack.
• Xu Lang bought a basin of black dog blood that could give a dormitory intense Blood Hatred, then posted an offer seeking related items.
• Pandora offered Xu Lang the legendary Jack of Spades, which could increase a designated dormitory’s Blood Hatred concentration a hundredfold for one minute.
• After Pandora joked that she wanted to become Dusk Building’s Building Lord, Xu Lang offered five million Copper Coins, and she agreed to sell him the card.
• Pandora ordered her black-and-white-faced teddy bear, Killer Bear, to kill Xu Lang, but it protested that it could not kill just anyone.

Xu Lang and his companions rescued Dusk Building from the military robots, then learned that Act Six required them to protect ten scientists fleeing the mechanical army. The chapter left Xu Lang questioning whether the game’s stated objective was the only way to survive the act.

• Xu Lang refused to use the Jack of Spades card against the attack on Mad King Building, saving it for a critical moment and his collection.
• Xu Lang entered Dormitory 66 of Dusk Building with Cao Yaxuan and Wang Yazhi, replacing Zhou Ye as military robots opened fire.
• Protected by the Ultimate Crystal Shield, Xu Lang and the two women destroyed the robots converging on the dormitory floor.
• The Dormitory Survival Game announced Act Six, “Rescue,” in which players had to protect ten scientists from the mechanical army.
• Xu Lang and his companions considered whether they needed to follow the stated objective as ten exhausted scientists emerged from frozen Dawn City.

Xu Lang brought Zhang Shu and nine other scientists into the Mad King Building as the Black Emperor arrived with a vast force of military robots. After the Black Emperor’s troops killed the Mad Vanguards and entered the building, the players had retreated to their dormitories.

• Zhang Dahai guided Professor Zhang and nine other scientists to the Mad King Building, where Xu Lang assigned them to Zheng Kai’s Eighth Floor.
• Xu Lang spotted unusual enemy units approaching and ordered everyone back into the dormitories.
• The Black Emperor entered the Safe Zone, discovered his forces could operate there, and planned to destroy both Dormitory Buildings.
• The Black Emperor shot Zheng Kai and then killed a player who peeked out, while Zheng Kai survived after receiving Lesser Holy Spring Water.
• The Black Emperor sent ten squads of military robots toward the Mad King Building, and the Mad Vanguard wiped them out before the Black Emperor killed the Vanguard with electromagnetic bullets.
• More tactical squads entered the Dormitory Building after the players retreated to their dormitories.

Black Emperor tested the range that caused his military robots to lose control, then bombarded Mad King Building with thousands of robots. As the building held, Xu Lang and the others considered Black Emperor’s strength and waited to see how dangerous the attack became.

• Black Emperor confirmed that robots lost control within about one thousand meters of Mad King Building and changed his strategy.
• In Dormitory 159, Zheng Kai explained that Black Emperor was a fourth-generation war lord controlled by the Heart of Dawn, then restored Professor Chen’s Sanity with bread.
• Black Emperor positioned three thousand military robots at several distances and began firing artillery at Mad King Building.
• Players shared reports and Zhang Dahai posted Black Emperor’s information, revealing that he was a level 25 lord monster.
• Xu Lang judged Black Emperor’s individual combat power below the Lord of the Remnant Underworld and declined to launch an assassination before seeing how the bombardment progressed.

The Black Emperor bombarded Mad King Building and tried to infer how its players survived, while Xu Lang weighed how to respond. Xu Lang upgraded the Great Wilderness Dragon Eye to level 20 and chose the Dragon Star Summoning Device, a Mythic ballistic turret.

• The Black Emperor equipped some military robots with assault cannons, repeatedly attacked Mad Vanguards, and deduced that the players relied on powerful information and resource exchanges.
• After Dormitory 27's door was destroyed and no players appeared, the Black Emperor sent robots to guard the rear, concluded the players were weak, and estimated his chance of victory at 87.3%.
• The Black Emperor's army bombarded Mad King Building with shells, while Xu Lang rejected a rushed corridor assault and decided to strengthen the Great Wilderness Dragon Eye.
• Xu Lang spent 30,000 Nightmare Coins to upgrade the Great Wilderness Dragon Eye to level 20 and chose the Dragon Star Summoning Device.

Black Emperor’s robot army battered Mad King Building until a Dragon Meteor destroyed many of his forces, forcing him to hide and regroup. As the battle resumed, Zhang Shu offered to build weapons for the tenants, and Zheng Kai agreed to supply the components.

• Black Emperor changed his cannons’ attack rhythm and destroyed many dormitory doors without losing a soldier.
• A Dragon Meteor struck near Black Emperor, destroying many robots and a hover unit, so he armored himself and went into hiding.
• Xu Lang recognized that Black Emperor had survived and was preparing another offensive as the meteor’s aftershocks faded.
• Zheng Kai and the tenants celebrated the meteor strike, while Zhang Shu warned that such a weapon seemed to break the game’s balance.
• Zhang Shu asked to build mechanical weapons to fight Black Emperor, and Zheng Kai began purchasing components for him and the other researchers.

Kui Zi survived a Sequence loss of control and advanced to the True Spirit Stage, then left Dormitory 195 to face the crisis outside on her own. She demonstrated her new power by stopping incoming artillery and detonating the shells over the battlefield.

• Kui Zi’s Iron Armor triggered a dangerous loss of control, and she nearly succumbed to Sequence assimilation.
• Kui Zi awakened after declaring she did not want to call Xu Lang Dad, gathered the scattered armor into a white suit, and formed a metal sword.
• Kui Zi thanked the researchers and left Dormitory 195, determined to handle the outside crisis without relying on Xu Lang.
• Yan Xiaoli checked Kui Zi’s tenant information and discovered that her sequence had reached C-10, Mechanic, True Spirit Stage.
• Xu Lang and the others watched Kui Zi repel a shell and detonate every incoming artillery round above the building.

Kui Zi used her new power to hunt the scattered robots and judged Mad King Building to be weak and chaotic. Xu Lang’s companions warned that she could absorb most of the round’s resources, but Xu Lang chose to trust her and left her free to act; they then discussed whether they could defeat the Black Emperor.

• Kui Zi surveyed Mad King Building, criticized its players and Xu Lang’s lenient rule, and decided she had enough power to negotiate with him.
• Kui Zi flew off and destroyed robots, absorbing their mechanical power, materials, and information while searching for more targets.
• Cao Yaxuan reported Kui Zi’s actions, and Xu Lang said the robots’ resources were of little use to their dormitory and let her continue hunting.
• Shirley warned that Kui Zi’s Mechanic Sequence could absorb seventy to eighty percent of the round’s resources, prompting the women to worry about her growing strength.
• Xu Lang urged the women to cooperate with Kui Zi, and they discussed whether Tong Qi or Xu Ruyan could defeat the Black Emperor.

Xu Lang used the Strange Tales Magic Box to probe the curses connected to the Hundred Flowers Thought Emperor and Xia Xingyuan, triggering countermeasures in their buildings. Xia Xingyuan suppressed the curse and drew a painting intended to lure Xu Lang to the Heavenly Demon Building.

• Xu Lang surveyed the Magic Box Dreamscape and found that Song Fei had expanded the Doors of Curse through the breeding ground.
• Xu Lang tested the Earth door, infecting a young doctor who blamed his worsening condition on a cold and work stress.
• Xu Lang reached through the Hundred Flowers Thought Emperor's door, prompting the Grandmaster Building to detect the curse; she paid one million copper coins to suppress it.
• The Heavenly Demon Building detected Xu Lang's curse on Xia Xingyuan and presented him with options to counter it.
• Xia Xingyuan paid one million copper coins, bought a master-level painting skill, and painted the Strange Tales Magic Box to lure Xu Lang to the Heavenly Demon Building.

Xu Lang chose to remain in Mad King Building rather than risk leaving through the Strange Tales Magic Box. Meanwhile, Kui Zi battled the robot army and confronted the Black Emperor, setting up a fight that could establish her as Mad King Building’s second strongest player.

• Xu Lang weighed returning to Earth against staying in Mad King Building and decided not to gamble his Nightmare Coins on the Strange Tales Magic Box.
• Players watched Kui Zi fight the robot army, while Wu Huihui warned that landmines blocked the way to support her.
• Li Shuwen, Pandora, Zhai Ren, Fusheng Xi, and other players considered Kui Zi’s battle a chance to claim the position of Mad King Building’s second strongest player.
• Kui Zi found the Black Emperor inside a single-story building and accused him of waiting for her.
• The Black Emperor revealed himself and demanded that Kui Zi kneel so he could see her Original Code.

Black Emperor captured Kui Zi and tried to study her, but Xu Ruyan and Wang Yazhi launched a counterattack. After Xu Ruyan destroyed a decoy, Kui Zi identified the real Black Emperor as a heavily armored robot, and Wang Yazhi fought it while Black Emperor’s fake body headed for the battlefield.

• Black Emperor defeated Kui Zi with his gravity gun and had military robots capture her alive.
• Kui Zi messaged Xu Lang and Dormitory 200, prompting Wang Yazhi and Xu Ruyan to go after the weakened Black Emperor; Xu Lang vetoed a judgment vote targeting him.
• Black Emperor pinned Kui Zi down and prepared to examine her, while Xu Ruyan’s dagger cut through his apparent body and severed its head.
• Kui Zi warned that the fight was not over, and Black Emperor revealed that the body Xu Ruyan had struck was a substitute before attacking her with gravity and a steel spear.
• Wang Yazhi broke through the robots’ encirclement, while Kui Zi blocked Black Emperor’s spear and revealed she had detected that his real body was the heavily armored robot Wang Yazhi was fighting.

Wang Yazhi killed Black Emperor’s main body, but his duplicate self-destructed after Xu Lang confronted him, leaving the remaining military robots in disarray. Xu Lang secured Black Emperor’s spoils and recruited Kui Zi as a tenant, while sensing that the seventh round still held a greater threat.

• Wang Yazhi used Rakshasa True Form and killed Black Emperor’s main body despite the robots and active gravity field.
• Kui Zi tried to recruit Black Emperor, but he rejected surrender and declared that his mechanical race would prevail.
• Xu Lang appeared and revealed knowledge of Black Emperor’s Spirit of the Data Sea, prompting Black Emperor to self-destruct after noticing the Strange Tales Magic Box replica.
• Xu Lang collected Black Emperor’s spoils while Wang Yazhi, Xu Ruyan, and Kui Zi dealt with the remaining military robots.
• Xu Lang offered Kui Zi a place as his tenant, and she agreed after he alluded to her lingering shame over kneeling at the Gymnasium.
• Xu Lang reflected that the seventh round was not over and sensed that something big was coming.

The Heart of Dawn unleashed Dawn City's mechanical army against the buildings after the engineers escaped. Xu Lang moved the players into the Strange Tales Magic Box World as their defenses collapsed, and the chapter ended with Pandora being evacuated after Witch's Home was breached.

• Dawn City shattered around the Safe Zone as fighter jets and other machines attacked the players with guided missiles.
• Players from Mad King Building and Dusk Building begged Xu Lang for help when their defenses failed.
• The Strange Tales Magic Box swallowed the Dusk Building players, and Xu Lang then moved the Mad King Building players into the Magic Box World.
• Xu Lang watched the mechanical army destroy dormitory doors and concluded that the Dungeon was impossible to clear without him.
• The army breached Pandora's Witch's Home, and the Strange Tales Magic Box swallowed Pandora and her luggage.

As the mechanical army overwhelmed the other dormitories and concentrated its fire on Dormitory 200, Xu Lang’s defenses faced an escalating resource crisis. He upgraded a Laser Ray Device into a Berserk Laser Ray Device, leaving the dormitory’s defenses stronger but the battle still ongoing.

• After the other dormitories fell, Xu Lang kept the Golden Fortune Auspicious Door repaired while the mechanical army’s attacks rapidly drained its durability.
• The mechanical army advanced on Mad King Building, and Xu Lang’s turrets fought back as their drops fueled the dormitory’s funding chain.
• Xu Xiaomeng warned that the Void Splitter’s raw materials were nearly exhausted, while Mary estimated the buildings’ shared funds would last about two and a half hours.
• Xu Lang upgraded a Laser Ray Device to Level 20 and chose the Berserk Laser Ray Device path.
• The upgraded turret fired thick red beams that melted a robot, demonstrating its increased firepower.

Xu Lang and the women used Machine Soul's Delightful Flame to repair their defenses and survived the mechanical assault, earning an unexpected S-rank event before the game rushed into its final act. When the King of Intelligent Machines appeared outside Mad King Building, Xu Lang went out to meet it with the women at his side.

• Cao Yaxuan discovered that burning robots produced Machine Soul's Delightful Flame, and the group found that it repaired mechanical facilities effectively.
• Xu Lang and the group sustained their turret defenses through the remaining monster attacks while Mad King Building's funds climbed toward nine figures.
• The Dormitory Survival Game ended Act Seven, announced Xu Lang's S-rank unexpected event, and began the final act, "Ultimate Answer," with the King of Intelligent Machines approaching.
• Xu Lang realized he lacked Nightmare Essence for Dream Simulation as booming footsteps announced the arrival of a gigantic robot whose appearance terrified the women.
• Xu Lang disabled the turrets and headed outside to meet the King of Intelligent Machines, while Cao Yaxuan and the others followed him.

King of Intelligent Machines confronted Xu Lang and the others with ten questions challenging humanity’s value and announced that their answers would determine its response. Xu Lang learned that the machine could react dynamically to their answers, but Lion Cub’s Truth Listening revealed that it intensely hated arrogant humans.

• King of Intelligent Machines approached Mad King Building and asked ten questions about humanity, including the unsolved Goldbach’s Conjecture.
• Wang Yazhi noticed that the ten questions might be connected to the ten scientists the group was protecting, while Xu Ruyan and Shirley warned Xu Lang not to hand them over or assume the machine would attack.
• Xu Lang used his detection methods and discovered that King of Intelligent Machines had prepared answers but would respond dynamically to the players’ replies, potentially destroying them or granting rewards.
• Lion Cub activated Truth Listening and told Xu Lang that King of Intelligent Machines intensely hated arrogant humans.

Xu Lang realized the King of Intelligent Machines was judging humanity through his answers, then used his performance and an answer to Goldbach's Conjecture to persuade it that humans deserved to survive. The King invited him to join the mechanical faction, but Xu Lang refused and stayed with Mad King Building.

• Xu Lang questioned his earlier approach and sent Cao Yaxuan and the other girls back to the dormitory before facing the King of Intelligent Machines alone.
• Xu Lang answered the King of Intelligent Machines' questions with answers that grew increasingly impressive, while the King found it could not predict his future.
• Xu Lang gave a nearly perfect answer to the tenth question, which the King recognized as a masterpiece and used to judge that humanity deserved to exist.
• The King of Intelligent Machines invited Xu Lang to join its mechanical faction as an Intelligent Machine Judge and leave Mad King Building with it.
• Xu Lang refused the invitation because he wanted to keep his secrets and remain with Mad King Building.

Xu Lang received a Dawn City pass and a Legendary weapon core from the King of Intelligent Machines before the seventh game ended. As Dusk Building began transforming after its players vanished, Mad King Building attacked it with a giant blood-red hand.

• The King of Intelligent Machines gave Xu Lang an advanced Dawn City pass and a level-fifty Overlord-Class Super Weapon Spirit Core, then left after discussing whether humans and mechanical lifeforms could coexist.
• The world plunged into darkness, and the Blood Mist returned as the survivors celebrated the end of the seventh round.
• Mad King Building announced that Dormitory 200 was its only remaining household and awarded Xu Lang and the residents Mythic titles.
• A terrifying howl came from Dusk Building, and Xu Lang realized its players' identities had disappeared even though Wu Huihui and the others remained safe in the Magic Box World.
• Dusk Building twisted and began transforming into a grotesque structure, prompting Mad King Building to unleash a twelve-fingered blood-red hand that seized it.

Xu Lang watched Mad King Building devour Dusk Building and grow dramatically stronger, then received a confidentiality mission about the building’s revealed hidden trait. The chapter ended with Mad King Building advancing to level 9 and announcing sweeping upgrades and new facilities.

• Xu Lang sent Mary and Miaoying to take the women back to their beds after the sight of Dusk Building’s bloody hand lowered their Sanity.
• Mad King Building drained and devoured Dusk Building, then grew from over a hundred meters tall to over two hundred meters.
• Mad King Building revealed its hidden trait, Deprivation, and Pioneer Hall issued Dormitory 200 a confidentiality mission.
• Red Butterfly protested the mission’s reward, and the reward increased to include two Dormitory Upgrade Attempts before everyone signed the agreement.
• Mary, Miaoying, and Firepower Princess said they had only witnessed the game ending after the King of Intelligent Machines left.
• Mad King Building announced that it had reached level 9, added ten floors and 200 dormitories, and upgraded several facilities and player privileges.

After the Mad King Building skipped ahead to Level Nine, Xu Lang and his tenants chose Chaotic Knowledge as its new trait and discovered they could not remove the Old God's Sequence Residue from their backpacks. Players stranded in Magic Box World then suffered irreversible Sanity loss until Xu Lang released them, and Cao Yaxuan hinted at a way to create Mad Vanguards.

• The Mad King Building reached Level Nine, and Xu Lang received rewards and a vote on its new dormitory trait.
• Cao Yaxuan proposed Chaotic Knowledge, and the tenants chose it; they also found the Old God's Sequence Residue stuck in their backpacks.
• Players trapped in Magic Box World discovered that their Sanity was falling irreversibly after their player identities vanished, and some began to go mad.
• After nearly thirty minutes of pleas, Xu Lang learned what was happening from Su Yuan, Zhou Ye, and the committee members, then released the players.
• The released players saw the transformed Mad King Building, and Cao Yaxuan said she had found a way to create Mad Vanguards.

After the Mad King Building gained ten floors and its dormitories reset to level 5, players fought over rooms and floors until the Inspection Department restored order. Xu Lang toured the upgraded facilities, delegated financial duties to Mary, and began discussing the group’s plans and attributes, while the chapter ended with Cao Yaxuan begging him to share his nearly five hundred points.

• Xu Lang announced the dormitory expansion, and players reclaimed their identities before fighting over newly available rooms and floors.
• Wang Yazhi led the Inspection Department in restoring order, while Cao Yaxuan helped by killing many players and gained around fifty free attribute points.
• Xu Lang and the others toured the upgraded Supermarket, Angel Church, and four factories, then gave Mary financial authority and postponed decisions about factory staffing.
• Cao Yaxuan and Wang Yazhi returned after the crackdown, and the group discussed player Sanity, clashed over the hardships of weaker players, and moved on to adding attribute points.
• Xu Lang revealed that his personal attributes were nearly five hundred and that he planned to hold off on spending points, prompting Cao Yaxuan to turn into ice and snow and plead for some.

Xu Lang met with the Mad King Community Committee to allocate vacant dormitories and settle requests for control of floors and resources. The discussion ended with Pandora appointed director of the Soul Factory, while the committee’s broader arrangements were finalized.

• Xu Lang agreed to discuss floor allocations after Zheng Kai, Wu Huihui, Li Shuwen, Su Yuan, Zhou Ye, and their subordinates arrived.
• Li Shuwen proposed taking over the Ninth Floor and switching it with the Twelfth Floor to coordinate with Floor 13.
• Wu Huihui asked to keep the Twentieth Floor unchanged while she managed the cafeteria.
• Pandora requested control of the Soul Factory, and Xu Lang gave her the factory key after Tong Qi declined the position.
• Xu Lang and the committee continued negotiating through the night and finally settled the allocation arrangements.

Xu Lang reorganized Mad King Building’s dormitory leadership, departments, and workforce, then assigned Mary to handle administrative matters with Miaoying assisting her. He brought Pandora back to the dormitory to discuss how workers would be paid, leaving her convinced she was being coerced.

• Xu Lang assigned the Tenth Floor to Su Yuan, Zhou Ye, and Wang Lie, awarded the Ninth Floor leadership to Li Xianzhou, and reserved the First through Sixth Floors for newcomers.
• Xu Lang announced that a Floor Leader could be replaced by another Mad King Community Committee member if they stepped down or died, and he reshuffled department and factory leaders while increasing bonuses for three departments.
• Xu Lang secretly assigned the southern Blood Mist World to Song Fei and left other exploration sites and material spawn points for players to contest.
• Xu Lang asked Aygul and Pandora to stay behind and questioned Pandora about how she would pay her workers.
• Xu Lang brought Pandora back to the dormitory, then told Mary to take charge of administrative matters and appointed Miaoying as her assistant.

Xu Lang upgraded his Data Obelisk in the Blood Mist World, where a blood-dressed woman attacked him and left him separated from Evil Fuzzball. After the woman vanished, Xu Lang found his dog unharmed in a tree hollow and picked it up.

• Xu Lang upgraded the Dormitory Building, then entered the Blood Mist World with Evil Fuzzball to enhance his Data Obelisk.
• A blood-dressed woman appeared behind Xu Lang and grazed his shoulder with her black finger as he escaped through the Black Vortex Gate.
• Xu Lang healed his wound in the Magic Box World and realized Evil Fuzzball was missing.
• The blood-dressed woman picked up Evil Fuzzball and left the dog inside a tree hollow before vanishing.
• Xu Lang found Evil Fuzzball in the hollow and picked the dog up.

Xu Lang discovered that activating the Data Obelisk brought him to five top-tier dormitories and let him inspect their features. After comparing them, he chose Demon King Castle for its large tenant capacity and many cannon emplacements.

• Xu Lang returned to Mad King Building with Evil Fuzzball and activated the Data Obelisk, which transformed the dormitory and transported him to a strange realm.
• The Dormitory Survival Game gave Xu Lang 30 minutes to test-stay in five dormitories before choosing one.
• Xu Lang used Nightmare Eye to examine Asura House, Demon King Castle, Old God Sanctum, the evolution dormitory, and Golden House, including their hidden functions.
• Xu Lang weighed each dormitory’s strengths and weaknesses and decided Demon King Castle best suited his plans.
• Xu Lang emerged from Demon King Castle satisfied with his choice.