Chapter Summaries

In a simulation dream, Xu Lang received a dynamic facility-deployment model from the King of Intelligent Machines and recreated it for the Mad King Building. With the new plan in place, the building lifted its midnight ban on Players leaving, sending them rushing into the crimson-mist night.

• The King of Intelligent Machines admired Xu Lang, offered him a chance to join the mechanical faction, and gave him a chip containing a dynamic facility-deployment model.
• Xu Lang returned to the Mad King Building and used the model to create a complete plan, assigning Kui Zi responsibility for future deployment and adjustments.
• Kui Zi explained that the model adapted to changing dormitory ratios and could raise Players' survival rates by at least 35.5% while increasing resource accumulation by 18.4%.
• Kui Zi formed the Mad King Building Planning Department with planners and executors from the Residents' Committee.
• At midnight, Players received word that the restriction on leaving the building had ended, and most dormitory doors opened as Players rushed outside while employees stayed inside.

Mad King Building players spent the night buying upgraded supplies, while Zhang Dahai led scouts to a church where they gained a sunrise baptism and discovered new potions. The Residents’ Committee then issued construction missions and lifted restrictions on merit collection, and Mad King Building’s facility deployment finished smoothly under Kui Zi’s watch.

• Mad King Building players rushed to buy upgraded goods, rapidly spending their assets to increase their strength.
• Zhang Dahai led Ye Fan, Chen Kui, and other scouts to the church, where the Madonna Statue’s sunrise baptism raised their base attributes.
• Zhang Dahai advised the group not to buy pioneering potions or enter the Blood Mist World, and a player confirmed that the Blood Mist Morning Post had issued the same warning.
• The Residents’ Committee posted restricted construction missions with generous rewards, and players quickly claimed them as more turret and dormitory missions appeared.
• After the dormitory missions were released, the Merit Building’s restrictions were lifted so players could collect merit orbs and use them to upgrade their dormitories.
• Kui Zi oversaw Mad King Building’s facility deployment throughout the night, and the plan finished smoothly as she recognized Xu Lang’s understanding of the players.

Xu Lang and Kui Zi discussed the growing exploration effort before Xu Lang turned to developing Mad King Building’s new facilities. He examined the building map with Cao Yaxuan, Tong Qi, and the others, preparing to choose where to construct them.

• Kui Zi told Xu Lang that construction tasks had been claimed and that Players had begun entering Exploration Mode, and Xu Lang instructed the Intelligence Group to collect reports while allowing competing teams to clash.
• Xu Lang reviewed his Nightmare Coin earnings and attribute growth, then declined to upgrade the Mysterious Lord Meditation Art because his major Sequences still needed Nightmare Beds.
• Zhi Dong came to invite Xu Lang to eat, while Kui Zi rested on the sofa after spending time with him.
• Xu Lang showed Cao Yaxuan, Tong Qi, and the others the complete map of Mad King Building and explained that he could remotely control construction as its acting Building Lord.
• Xu Lang pointed out the Players entering exploration worlds on the map and opened the Building Center, revealing icons for a tower, a tent, and a mineral vein.

Xu Lang and the others examined the new Madness Spire, Madness Barracks, and Brass Mineral Vein, then discussed how to use their limited money and workforce. Xu Lang revealed that the Star Realm Base had improved, but they could not return to Earth, and plans to conquer other Dormitory Buildings had to wait until the Mad King Building stabilized.

• Cao Yaxuan recognized that the new building mechanics made the safe zone resemble a tower defense game, while Tong Qi asked Xu Lang about the vacant plots.
• Red Butterfly proposed placing Madness Spires along the monsters’ approach, but Zhen Lu urged caution about costs and range.
• Xu Lang said they had at most fifty million to spend and that one Brass Mineral Vein would suffice because their employee population was limited.
• Kui Zi asked about the Star Realm Base, and Xu Lang explained that it now let people with sufficient madness capacity use it without sacrifices, but it still could not take them to Earth.
• Kui Zi proposed conquering other Dormitory Buildings for population, and Xu Lang said they would wait until the Mad King Building stabilized, new dormitories arrived, and thirty Floor Leaders were chosen.
• Kui Zi prepared to return to the Magic Box World, but Xu Lang and Tong Qi persuaded her to stay for coffee and breakfast.

Xu Lang and the women decided to build a mineral vein and summoned Pandora to discuss the changes after the factories merged into the Crazy Factory. Aygul told Pandora that her factory manager position was abolished, and Pandora burst into tears before Killer Bear explained that her outfit had made her more childlike.

• Xu Lang and the women chose to build a mineral vein first because the Mad King Building needed more resources.
• Xu Lang received Pandora at Demon King Castle after she changed into an outfit that enhanced her charm and altered her mental maturity.
• Aygul told Pandora that the factories had merged and her position as Soul Factory manager had been abolished.
• Pandora began sobbing, and Killer Bear explained that her outfit was affecting her behavior.
• Han Jisoo and Xu Lang recognized that Pandora's outfit made others feel protective and pity her.

Xu Lang and Han Jisoo appointed Pandora deputy factory director and worker leader, while Aygul organized the workers’ new mining jobs. As more dormitories moved into the Mad King Building, players accelerated their development in anticipation of a building war.

• Han Jisoo recommended Pandora as leader of the workers, and Xu Lang appointed her deputy factory director responsible for assigning workers.
• Aygul took Pandora upstairs to explain the workers’ new roles, while Killer Bear went with Zhi Dong for cookies.
• A mine entrance appeared near the Astrology Platform, and more than a thousand workers began mining under rules set by the Residents’ Committee.
• Returning players brought exploration information and losses, and dormitory 1-9 moved into the Mad King Building with seven veteran players.
• More dormitories, including several unique ones and a level-ten dormitory, arrived through the night, prompting players to fear a building war and intensify their efforts to gain resources.

Mad King Building players shocked the arena with their newly heightened strength, while Sky Dome Building players debated the building’s rise and Wang Kun’s defection. After hearing what had happened, Chu Tianhe entered the arena to duel a Mad King Building player.

• A Mad King Building player defeated a Finality Building opponent, entered the Madness Domain, and challenged anyone to a deathmatch.
• Another Mad King Building player accepted his wager match, and the two fought with lethal force as spectators watched in disbelief.
• Kunlun explained to Chu Tianhe and Yi Yun that the Mad King Building’s strength seemed tied to an S-rank Sequence and that the Sky Dome Building’s planned expedition had been delayed.
• Kunlun told Chu Tianhe that Wang Kun had accepted an invitation from the Black Merchant Kabi and transferred to the Mad King Building.
• Chu Tianhe silenced the Sky Dome Building players and entered the arena to duel the Mad King Building player.

Chu Tianhe questioned Mad King Building players in the Ironblood Arena and learned that Xu Lang had exposed the building's mistreatment of them. Meanwhile, Xu Lang considered new ways to expand the Mad King Building's influence and sent Zhi Xia to contact Midnight Fiend Zero and search for radio stations.

• Chu Tianhe defeated Wang Ao without drawing his sword and questioned him about the Mad King Building players' increased strength.
• Wang Ao credited the Building Lord with protecting the players and condemned the Mad King Building for hiding features and mistreating them.
• Wang Ao warned Chu Tianhe not to use Xu Lang's true name, so Chu Tianhe killed him and awaited another challenger.
• Xu Lang approved Fusheng Xi's plan to use arena duels to implant dreams in players from other buildings, though he doubted it would work.
• Xu Lang found that he could not summon a Wanderer through a Vortex Gate and considered trading resources with Midnight Fiend Zero.
• Xu Lang messaged Zhi Xia to wait for Midnight Fiend Zero on the Blood Mist Mutual Aid Society Radio Station and search for new stations.

Xu Lang fused an Epic madness skill for himself and reviewed the Mad King Building’s growth and worsening Sanity problem. After learning that players were being contaminated by Mad Filth, he went outside to investigate.

• Xu Lang fused Madness: Hellblood Demon God, an Epic skill that could repeatedly boost his attributes, and reflected on the intelligence of powerful enemies like Azazel.
• Xu Lang checked his Nightmare Coin income and cultivation gains, then decided to upgrade the Nightmare Bed before investing in rare charm-boosting items.
• Kui Zi told Xu Lang that the copper mine had produced ten million Copper Coins in one day.
• Xu Lang checked the Mad King Building’s status and saw that its average Sanity had risen to 58, though the system still warned that Mad Filth was forming.
• Kui Zi reported that players were becoming contaminated by Mad Filth even without entering a state of madness, and Xu Lang hurried out of the Demon King Castle to investigate.

Xu Lang discovered that Mad Filth was spreading throughout Mad King Building and urgently began selecting Players for its mad professions. He ordered a building-wide election for Floor Leaders, leaving current leaders scrambling and candidates gathering to seek Wu Huihui’s support.

• Xu Lang used Nightmare Eye to identify Mad Filth as a shifting source of mental contamination and decided the building needed Cleaners, Mad Guards, and Floor Leaders quickly.
• Xu Lang told Mary to begin selecting Floor Leaders immediately, and Mary agreed to organize the process.
• Xu Lang announced an anonymous Floor Leader election, giving each Player one vote for their own floor and setting a six o’clock deadline.
• Li Shuwen worried that the old Floor Leaders had lost the Building Lord’s confidence and sent tenants to speak with landlords and Sword Saint’s group.
• Wang Tingting, Nie Xiaozhu, and Wu Huihui discussed the thirtieth-floor election, and Wu Huihui went outside to meet the young women gathered for her.

Players across the Mad King Building scrambled to secure support as each floor prepared to elect a Floor Leader. Su Yuan became the Twentieth Floor’s first Floor Leader, and Mary gave him the duty of protecting its Mad Guard and Cleaner positions.

• Players campaigned for votes across the building, while Elder Fortune decided his dormitory would abstain and wait for a Floor Leader to be sent down.
• The Twentieth Floor elected Su Yuan as its Floor Leader, and he was summoned to the Demon King Castle conference room before six in the afternoon.
• Su Yuan accepted his office token and asked Xu Lang whether they still had a chance to return to Earth; Xu Lang said they did.
• Mary gave Su Yuan four Mad Guard tokens and four Cleaner tokens, explaining that Cleaners received explicit protection but Mad Guards did not.
• Mary identified Zhen Lu as the Cleaners’ leader and Xu Ruyan as the Mad Guards’ leader, while Zhen Lu swept outside the building.

Xu Lang explained the Floor Leader selection and confirmed that the Players would soon be able to return to Earth. After Zhi Xia discovered a radio station with hundreds of elite Players, the group heard its administrator begin broadcasting news from the three major war zones.

• Su Yuan praised Xu Lang’s Floor Leader selection rules, and Xu Lang confirmed that accountability for wrongdoing would be enforced to the maximum degree.
• Xu Lang told Su Yuan that returning to Earth was true and would happen soon.
• Pandora worried about being reelected as the twenty-ninth-floor Floor Leader, and Miaoying offered to help her secure the position.
• Cao Yaxuan tried to inspect Pandora’s outfit, but Zhi Xia interrupted to announce she had found a new radio channel.
• Zhi Xia discovered the Kindred Ghost Domain station, where Six-Eared Macaque began broadcasting news from the three major war zones.

After hearing Kindred Ghost Domain’s warnings about escalating dangers, Xu Lang learned that a mutation in the Ghost River could threaten Mad King Building. He planned to clear Exploration Mode and recruit a neighbor to help defend the building.

• Six-Eared Macaque broadcast warnings about spreading disasters and reported a Ghost River mutation and a recently advanced Dormitory Building near the Ghost Mausoleum.
• Shirley identified the Ghost River as likely the Heaven-Reaching River and warned that a powerful mystery from it could endanger the Dormitory Buildings in the Titan Ruins.
• Xu Lang told the women that Blood Mist Creatures were approaching and Mad King Building might have to face threats from much of the war zone.
• Xu Lang said Mad King Building needed a Mad Cannon Platform and planned to clear Exploration Mode after the Floor Leader took office.
• Xu Lang proposed recruiting a neighbor to help Mad King Building withstand the danger, while the women debated whether a recruited building would be too weak or too strong.

The chapter listed the floor leaders and details of their dormitories across all thirty floors. It ended with Wu Huihui identified as the Mad King and leader of the Demon-Subduing Temple on the thirtieth floor.

• Elder Fortune was listed as the first-floor leader of Fortune Residence, a dormitory that produced life-extending peaches.
• The chapter detailed the second through twenty-ninth floor leaders, their dormitories, and their abilities.
• Wu Huihui was listed as the thirtieth-floor leader of the Demon-Subduing Temple, a demon-slaying specialized dormitory.

Xu Lang reviewed the abilities and backgrounds of Mad King Building’s six floor leaders, including Wang Kun, who had willingly joined the building. After discovering that a newly elected floor leader had hidden a Jack of Clubs card, Xu Lang punished him and investigated the other leaders’ information and dormitories.

• Xu Lang prepared to publicize the floor leaders’ abilities and dormitory details, along with the Cleaners list and a rule forbidding anyone from harming them.
• Xu Lang described the six elite floor leaders, including Wang Lizheng’s resistance to mental contamination, Murong Wan’s danger foresight, and Zhou Fuzhou’s record of top-ten finishes.
• Wang Kun explained that he preferred the Transcendent life of the Blood Mist World to returning home, and Cao Yaxuan welcomed him to Mad King Building.
• Xu Lang obtained the Jack of Clubs from a floor leader who had concealed it, then sent the culprit to Grave Pasture for hiding an important item.
• Demon King Castle provided the floor leaders with equipment, name-change cards, and a chance to relocate their dormitories, and all thirty floor leader dormitories became unique dormitories.

After leaving Demon King Castle, the new Floor Leaders gathered with veteran Floor Leaders at Li Shuwen’s banquet, where a clash between Li Shuwen and Mundo revealed the newcomers’ strength and resilience. The gathering ended with both groups wary of one another.

• Mary promised the Floor Leaders that she would send them information about the Players on their floors, and Elder Fortune approached Li Shuwen’s group to ask for advice.
• Elder Fortune invited the others to Fortune Residence, but Li Shuwen proposed a banquet in the cafeteria instead, and the new Floor Leaders agreed to attend.
• Fusheng Xi shut the elevator doors on Li Shuwen and his companions, and Mundo mocked them before demanding to eat immediately.
• Li Shuwen fought Mundo in the cafeteria and beat him, but Mundo survived severe injuries and entered the Madness Domain before Li Shuwen forced him into a dream with Nightmare Apostle’s ability.
• The new and veteran Floor Leaders saw each other as formidable opponents and became wary of one another.

Zhang Dahai visited Xu Lang to borrow the Jack of Clubs and reported a hidden Angel Church setting that could increase attributes. Xu Lang approved the planned transfers and told Zhang Dahai to prepare the residents for a possible community of Dormitory Buildings.

• Mary told Xu Lang that Zhang Dahai wanted to visit, and Xu Lang invited him to the reception room.
• Zhang Dahai asked to borrow the Jack of Clubs so scouts and mercenaries could move to different floors, while Bai Wuya explained that he planned to join Zhai Ren’s mercenary system.
• Zhang Dahai told Xu Lang that Angel Church’s morning baptism had increased his attributes, and Xu Lang asked him to investigate it with Su Yuan and the others.
• Xu Lang lent Zhang Dahai the Jack of Clubs, warned that only he could bring out its full effect, and asked him to prepare the others for a possible community of Dormitory Buildings.
• After the visit, Zhang Dahai, Ye Fan, and Chen Kui headed to buy biochemical soldiers, while Bai Wuya left to discuss merging with Zhai Ren.
• Zhang Dahai reassured Ye Fan that Bai Wuya would not dare retaliate and urged his companions to show their strength in Mad King Building.

Xu Lang tested Koro’s adaptation to magma and prepared for trouble from a powerful new neighbor without spending Nightmare Coins. Meanwhile, Titan Building Players learned they would merge with Mad King Building in three days, and Titan Building’s leaders mocked Mad King Building after viewing it through the Titan Eye.

• Xu Lang tested Koro’s ability to adapt to magma, then went to sleep before midnight while worrying about the powerful new neighbor and his dwindling resources.
• Xu Lang left Gluttony Purgatory through a Vortex Gate and told the Ghost of Gluttony to train the Strange Tales for a possible battle.
• Meng Qingting’s Titan Building squad found Ghost River littered with corpses and decided to retreat after learning the advance team had disappeared.
• Titan Building announced that it would merge with Mad King Building in three days, prompting its Players to celebrate the chance to cross Ghost River and seize resources.
• Titan Building’s leaders activated the Titan Eye, saw Mad King Building, and laughed at its low level and limited territory.

Mad King Building announced its impending fusion with Titan Building and opened Exploration Mode, prompting players to rush in after the Residents' Committee confirmed the guidance and rewards were real. After reviewing the death count, Xu Lang refused to pursue the Zombie Assault world and turned to more important plans, as Cao Yaxuan and the others eagerly asked to enter the exploration world.

• Mad King Building's broadcasts announced a fusion with Titan Building and three days of open Exploration Mode, stirring confusion among the players.
• The Residents' Committee confirmed the announcements were trustworthy but warned players to stay alert, and explorers reported that a sprite would guide them to dangers and rewards.
• Players spent heavily on supplies and entered Exploration Mode, while Floor Leaders also organized teams and Xu Lang gave no assurances about survival.
• Xu Lang checked Mad King Building's status and saw 573 of 600 dormitories remained, with a population of 4,323.
• Kui Zi suggested finishing off the Zombie Assault world, but Xu Lang declined because he had more important things to do.
• Cao Yaxuan asked Xu Lang to let the girls enter the exploration world, and they watched him eagerly.

With the ban on world exploration lifted, Xu Lang’s companions chose different worlds to explore while he stayed at Demon King Castle to protect Mad King Building and rescue them if needed. The group prepared to set out, with Harlan and Saladin joining Aygul’s party to investigate the Rakshasa Ghost Kingdom.

• Xu Lang confirmed that the women could explore worlds again, and they eagerly began preparing to leave.
• Xu Lang said he would stay at Demon King Castle so Mad King Building would not be left undefended and he could rescue them through the Magic Box Curse.
• Cao Yaxuan chose Day-Night Ghost March, while Tong Qi invited Xu Ruyan and Red Butterfly to join her in Fierce Ghost Soul Return.
• Aygul, Golden Sand, Silver Sand, White Sand, and Gu Ya received Xu Lang’s permission to explore the Rakshasa Ghost Kingdom.
• Aygul asked to bring her father, and Xu Lang said Harlan and Saladin would accompany the group; he then asked whether anyone else needed supplies or help.