Recaps

Wen Jie and Director Tu Gang discussed the growing efforts to identify and target First-Test Users after the First Incident. Tu Gang asked Wen Jie to lend him computer experts to help protect the users, but Wen Jie refused.

• Wen Jie reviewed an investigation report from Tu Gang about missing and unverified First-Test User identities and rising searches for information about the First Incident.
• Tu Gang described attempts by departments, companies, and individuals to access protected records and surveil First-Test Users and their families.
• Wen Jie and Tu Gang noted that the First Incident's timing and domestic victims made its users especially conspicuous to those seeking unusual factors.
• Tu Gang said the higher-ups wanted to gather First-Test Users and improve their security, then asked Wen Jie for twenty or thirty experienced computer specialists.
• Wen Jie refused to lend staff, and the two men ended their tense discussion with shouting and banter.

Li Yun visited a covert tabletop role-playing forum where people discussed clues about Infinite Worlds and the God-chosen Heroes. After sharing several hints and granting the forum’s designers invitations, he ordered the Main God to begin releasing a more open version of its official website ahead of schedule.

• Li Yun browsed the forum’s disguised discussions and saw users seeking tickets, portals, and information about God-chosen Heroes.
• Li Yun created an account as Divine Emperor Yuri despite the forum’s registration rules and posted hints about Hero-class Units, teleportation, Holy Light, and the Magic Web.
• The forum’s users and administrator [Judge] noticed Divine Emperor Yuri’s rule-breaking account and failed to mute him.
• Li Yun told the Main God to give the forum’s primary designers visitor invitation slots but to exclude its financial backers.
• Li Yun instructed the Main God to release a low-openness version of the official website using a model planned for after ten rounds.

Shen Taiguang struggled to contain the spreading unrest caused by a mysterious user identity and its valuable slot, as rumors and greed destabilized Northwestern Jinxi. He was interrupted by news that the special official website had lifted access restrictions for non-users.

• Shen Taiguang reviewed a case that had grown from a strange fraud investigation into a conflict involving clans, companies, and more than forty people.
• Investigators traced the conflict to a married couple, the husband's user identity, and a slot that had attracted offers, favors, and family pressure.
• Shen Taiguang learned that rumors about the anomaly were spreading and that people were growing envious, desperate, and distracted.
• Shen Taiguang began reading a confidential Special Affairs Investigation Bureau document about the situation.
• A longtime Bureau veteran rushed to Shen Taiguang and reported that the special official website had lifted access restrictions for non-users.

Shen Taiguang and the Network Processing Center discovered that the Main God Platform’s official website had opened to non-users, exposing its previously hidden sections. Unable to access or control the site, Shen ordered his staff to document it and monitor public opinion while awaiting higher-level instructions.

• Shen Taiguang rushed to the Network Processing Center, where staff had gathered around a newly accessible webpage.
• Zhang Baihe showed Shen the Main God Platform website, whose announcement declared that access restrictions for non-users had been lifted.
• Zhang Baihe and the other technicians explained that the page vanished when no one looked at it, left no browsing records, and crashed computers that tried to probe its address.
• Shen Taiguang ordered staff to record the website, test whether it could be photographed, monitor online discussion, and return to their posts.

Government officials and experts assessed the rapidly spreading platform, concluding that its technology exceeded their ability to monitor or contain it. As the site expanded access and released videos of mission footage, the officials warned that they had little time to prepare before the information reached the public.

• Experts told officials that the platform could not be blocked and might be able to observe even their secure meeting.
• A report said the platform had ended unified newcomer selections and was instead recruiting users sporadically, while overseas coverage was being suppressed.
• The presenter showed a video of a battered man fleeing through a rainforest during a survival mission.
• A second video depicted a grim ancient-style town, and the presenter said the platform was using videos to attract visitors.
• The presenter urged leaders to prepare to release information soon, warning that the country that acted first might gain an advantage but risk a public crisis.

Wang Lei and Wu Shaoyou watched footage of people fleeing through Tokyo as military forces attacked a gigantic creature hidden in smoke. The recording ended with a buzz-cut Chinese man hearing a mission to survive for three days before [NXT] awakened.

• Wang Lei showed Wu Shaoyou a video of panicked crowds fleeing through a Japanese city.
• Wu Shaoyou and Wang Lei noticed a buzz-cut Chinese man struggling through the crowd as explosions and building collapses spread behind them.
• The camera turned toward the smoke and revealed helicopters and fighter jets firing on an enormous shadow.
• A massive claw swept through the smoke, collapsing part of a high-rise and nearly striking a fighter jet.
• The buzz-cut man muttered that his Newcomer Trial mission was to survive three days in Tokyo before [NXT] awakened.

Wang Lei and Wu Shaoyou watched a video that appeared to show a real Space Beast attack and realized its Chinese dialogue could not fit an ordinary Nexus Ultraman production. They searched for the video’s source, left with the frightening possibility that the events were real and connected to a main quest.

• Wang Lei and Wu Shaoyou replayed a video in which a Mandarin-speaking man mentioned NXT and a Space Beast during a terrifying attack.
• Wang Lei and Wu Shaoyou questioned whether the fleeing people and their reactions could have been convincingly staged or generated with CG.
• Wu Shaoyou realized that “Space Beast” was a Mandarin translation term absent from the original story and noted that the man had also mentioned a “main quest.”
• Wang Lei searched for the video’s original URL while Wu Shaoyou recognized a similar unsettling feeling from looking up an infinite-flow novel weeks earlier.

Fang Yishu questioned Ning Yu about a strange video advertising a mysterious “slot,” then revealed she had been holding one for her and needed to explain the situation. She left Ning Yu preparing to hear more, while suggesting she might take temporary leave from school.

• Ning Yu slipped out of class and confronted Fang Yishu about a video offering a large reward for a “slot.”
• Fang Yishu asked Ning Yu to show her the video, but it had disappeared from Ning Yu’s viewing history.
• Fang Yishu used an unusual persuasive power on Ning Yu, then stopped when she realized what was happening.
• Ning Yu noticed Fang Yishu’s changed appearance and compared her eyes to Li Yun’s.
• Fang Yishu said she had been holding a slot for Ning Yu and warned that she might take temporary leave from school.

Fang Yishu revealed her newly awakened psychic abilities to Ning Yu and warned her that strange changes were spreading through the world. She invited Ning Yu to learn more before deciding whether to get involved, and they left the dorm to talk over malatang.

• Fang Yishu floated a thermos lid and animated a charging cable to show Ning Yu that she had changed.
• Fang Yishu explained that her abilities came from a valuable slot and warned Ning Yu that supernatural developments were becoming more common.
• Fang Yishu showed Ning Yu the details of her First-Tier Psychic Talent and said she was taking leave to adapt and avoid attention.
• Fang Yishu used a floating pen to warn Ning Yu to keep the revelations secret, especially online.
• Ning Yu wondered whether psychic abilities could make her taller and thinner, and Fang Yishu laughed before inviting her to discuss everything over malatang.

Li Yun reviewed the Main God Website’s vast network of users and its growth before pausing for breakfast at a shop. After he left, the owner discovered that the milk bottle Li Yun had given Bubble was labeled “Baby Milkshake.”

• Li Yun sensed the connections formed by more than thirty-five million Main God Website visitors and glimpsed the despair of a disabled boy praying for a miracle.
• The Main God system reported that visitor numbers might need to reach eighty to ninety million for transfer costs to balance, and gave updates on invitations and user levels.
• Li Yun stopped analyzing the network when the shop owner brought him rice noodles, then ate breakfast while Bubble stared at him.
• Bubble called Li Yun pretty and questioned how he pulled objects from his pocket; Li Yun gave her a bottle of milkshake before leaving.
• The owner asked Bubble about the bottle and read its label: “Baby Milkshake.”

Tang Yuyang tested a Daoist cultivation method in a government-built artificial spiritual-energy environment and completed its first heavenly cycle. His success left researchers celebrating and eager to verify the result, while he emerged exhausted and reluctant to leave the chamber.

• Tang Yuyang struggled to guide his internal energy along the new meridian route as he practiced the cultivation method in the meditation chamber.
• Cool spiritual energy entered his body as he meditated, and he eventually felt qi complete a cycle up his spine from his dantian.
• Researchers recorded the first observed subtle forward energy flow in test subject T-01 during the sixth technique test.
• Tang Yuyang left the chamber drenched in sweat, and Professor Pan hurried to ask whether he had succeeded.
• Tang Yuyang confirmed that the technique had begun operating and reflected on the rare treasures sustaining the artificial spiritual-energy environment.

After Tang Yuyang’s apparent breakthrough, researchers compared his progress with the other cultivation test subjects and found that prior cultivation-related enhancements gave users a major advantage. The chapter leaves the team worried that even a supposedly accessible method may be too difficult for ordinary people to practice, while they continue searching for a broadly usable path.

• Researchers moved Tang Yuyang into a machine for an urgent examination after his breathing stabilized.
• Researchers monitoring the quiet room found that most ordinary test subjects showed no meaningful progress, while several enhanced users began drawing in spiritual energy.
• The team concluded that users with prior cultivation foundations advanced far faster than ordinary people attempting the same methods.
• Researchers recognized that the Daoist method’s low entry difficulty did not mean it was universal, and worried it might not help the wider public.
• Professor Pan and the other experts returned to studying cultivation materials as they sought a reliable method that could be taught broadly.

Governments and online platforms quietly worked to contain the spread of a mysterious video website without openly denying its existence. Shen Taiguang’s exhausted team flooded the internet with edited videos and search diversions, but reports of people seeking login access continued.

• International exchanges and cooperation projects became unusually scarce as governments kept a low profile.
• A streamer drew viewers by releasing edited videos from the mysterious website, helping its material spread across online platforms.
• Shen Taiguang received reports that search systems and topic reviews had been adjusted to steer users toward edits and away from the original website.
• Overworked staff created hundreds of videos and planned to expand the number of creator accounts to obscure the source.
• Staff reported that people were posting requests to buy login access, and the team recorded their accounts and IP addresses for follow-up.

MI6 learned that the item codenamed Holly, identified as a White Dragon Heart, was being transferred to a new confidential unit, threatening the agency’s control over it. Sir Rufus ordered Barnaby to leak the news to consortium families and draw them into the struggle.

• Barnaby read the formal notice transferring Holly to another confidential internal unit.
• Barnaby reported that Holly’s previous holders had died or surrendered it, while MI6 lost six investigation teams in the pursuit.
• Sir Rufus learned that Doctor Andrews had joined the Holly project as a technical liaison and ordered MI6 to support him and plant more people in the unit.
• Sir Rufus assigned Barnaby to leak news of Holly to consortium families within three days and pull them into the conflict.

Barnaby inspected the dangerous living object codenamed Holly and witnessed its powerful beat release aether. Its full name was revealed as the White Dragon: Heart of Vortigern the Vile King.

• Barnaby visited the underground facility to inspect Holly and request preliminary research documents.
• The protective-suit man explained that Holly's random beats could kill nearby people and warned that outsiders had targeted the facility.
• Holly began another beat, and Barnaby struggled against the overwhelming pressure as a brilliant flash filled the chamber.
• Black, smoke-like aether surged around Holly before flowing back into it, while researchers rushed to collect samples.
• The protective-suit man revealed Holly's likely full name: White Dragon: Heart of Vortigern the Vile King.

Officials discussed the growing number of failed Visitors and the risks of their trauma and renewed attempts to enter the Newcomer Trial. Meanwhile, online searches for invitation slots and sellers’ conspicuous displays of sudden wealth fueled a new trending topic.

• An instructor briefed uniformed officials on a failed Visitor whose traumatic experience in the Newcomer Trial had left him severely disoriented.
• The instructor explained that failed Former Visitors could re-enter the trial using invitation slots and that many were already trying to obtain them.
• As controls eased and information spread, posts seeking slots, selling information, and offering analysis flooded the internet.
• A user who had sold slots flaunted his sudden wealth online, drawing attention after his post reached Tieba's homepage recommendations.
• The user deleted the post, but his attempt to cover up only heightened suspicions and helped launch a new trending topic.

Netizens uncovered evidence that Main God Space and its user slots were real, turning a wealth-display post into a spreading online controversy. As media outlets amplified searches, leaks, and striking videos, the snowballing discussion began to boil over.

• After the original poster deleted his post, netizens investigated his sudden rise from factory worker to wealthy user and circulated details about slots and Main God Space.
• Netizens found the strange official website and Main God Forum, verified that the site worked without an internet connection, and spread claims about entering Main God Space in dreams.
• Posts demanding an explanation spread across platforms, drawing in influencers, curious users, spectators, and opportunists.
• Weibo, Tencent, Baidu, Zhihu, and other major sites promoted coverage as users noticed that searches for related terms were being filtered.
• Media outlets circulated screenshots and clips from leaked videos, including scenes of a forest escape, a golden sword, a waterfall leap, a sacrificial altar, and a cyberpunk pursuit.

After selling a Main God Space slot and showing off his sudden wealth online, Xu Jingwei watched his post go viral and feared the consequences. As he hid his new bank card, the authorities remained focused on a more serious situation worsening amid spreading rumors.

• Xu Jingwei recalled selling his slot to a wealthy local man and receiving money, property, and a luxury car.
• After drinking, Xu Jingwei posted photos of his car and bank balance, hinting that a slot had changed his fate.
• Netizens spread his post, investigated his identity, and flooded him with messages and threats.
• Xu Jingwei panicked over being exposed and hid his new bank card beneath the sofa cushions.
• The relevant departments treated Xu Jingwei's online bragging as low priority while a more serious situation rapidly worsened.

Li Yun watched a fabricated television interview used to cast doubt on the online evidence, while the Main God reported that governments were preparing public announcements about anomalous phenomena. The story left him concerned about the capabilities of the intelligent brain and a wetware superbrain project.

• Li Yun criticized the old scientist's disguise in a televised interview that discussed extraterrestrial life and other dimensions.
• A notice announced a special press conference for September 15 to address online anomalies.
• The Main God told Li Yun that Amerika planned a related press conference two or three days earlier and that current reports were preliminary groundwork.
• Li Yun concluded that domestic authorities had been forced to act first, while Amerika was positioning itself to reveal the truth on its own terms.
• The Main God reported that the Bear had detected traces of Red Queen's network intrusion and that a wetware superbrain project was preparing to use people as consumable resources.

Li Yun received a visit from detective Hu Dingjun and two officers, who questioned him about his identity and abilities as a second-round Main God User. After they left, the Main God suggested that Li Yun’s tea had affected the visitors more strongly than he realized.

• The Main God warned Li Yun that authorities had identified him and that local personnel would arrive to investigate.
• Hu Dingjun inspected Li Yun’s courtyard, then questioned him about his background and status as a second-round Main God User.
• Li Yun demonstrated his electrical ability and said he had already given away his spare slot, then declined Hu Dingjun’s offers to sell future slots through official channels or move to a secure base.
• Hu Dingjun drank Li Yun’s bitter tea and briefly entered a state of stillness before finishing his cup and leaving with the other officers.
• Li Yun asked why Hu Dingjun had snapped out of the mental suggestion, and the Main God noted that the tea might affect others differently than it affected Li Yun.

Fang Yishu trained her mental perception in the apartment she shared with Ning Yu, while Chen Ruiping struggled to control a newly awakened cutting ability. The chapter left Chen Ruiping under covert surveillance as observers identified him as a likely high-priority target.

• Fang Yishu extended her perception through nearby buildings and practiced focusing on distant people until she reached her limit.
• Fang Yishu stopped training, spoke with Ning Yu, and stole some of her blueberries.
• Chen Ruiping resumed sleeping outdoors after his uncontrolled ability split a tomato and cut into the table.
• Chen Ruiping sensed that someone was watching him, but found no one when he looked around.
• A hidden observer reported Chen Ruiping as a likely high-priority search target and requested an internal personnel investigation.

Quincy Wallington announced that a recurring shared-dream phenomenon affecting people across the world was supernatural and had first appeared at East University. The United States demanded access for an international research expedition, while Wu Shaoyou, Wang Lei, and Li Anshan reacted to the announcement in their dorm room.

• Quincy Wallington told reporters that shared dreams had affected at least hundreds of thousands of people and urged Americans experiencing them to contact federal public hospitals.
• Quincy said the phenomenon had originated at East University and accused a foreign country of secretly detaining British citizen Raymond Mortimer.
• Quincy announced that the federal government had asked the United Nations and East University to permit an international scientific expedition to investigate the phenomenon.
• At four in the morning, Wu Shaoyou and Wang Lei finished watching the translated press conference and excitedly discussed its claims of supernatural activity.
• Li Anshan startled Wu Shaoyou and Wang Lei, then complained that they had watched the major news without inviting him.

Du Qifeng investigated the worldwide reaction to a White House press conference that revealed the Main God Platform and supernatural phenomena. He discovered that foreign reports about earlier missions had been heavily censored, while newly resurfaced information singled out the first-round users and drew intense attention to them.

• Du Qifeng watched and rewatched a viral video of Quincy Wallington discussing collective dreams and supernatural phenomena at a White House press conference.
• He downloaded foreign reports and analyses about the anomalous events, noting that some accounts contained more detailed information than he could find domestically.
• Du Qifeng noticed that the reports repeatedly emphasized the first round of missions and its users, making them targets of worldwide attention.
• He traced older foreign discussions to the second round of missions and found that reports had once been dismissed before largely disappearing.
• Du Qifeng concluded that foreign authorities had extensively censored information about the missions, and saw that old posts and scraps were now resurfacing as popular material.

As the abnormal coma phenomenon drew intense attention online, Du Qifeng worried about whether to use his Main God invitation slots to bring his parents into the trials. The public waited anxiously for September 15th, when domestic news was expected to bring more clarity.

• Recently created accounts flooded leaked posts, and Russian forums saw a sharp rise in discussion of the abnormal coma phenomenon.
• Du Qifeng judged that most people sharing dream experiences had only experienced ordinary or bizarre dreams, not Main God trials.
• Online users argued over whether the phenomenon was an American fabrication or an Eastern Country conspiracy, while domestic discussions shifted into private groups.
• Du Qifeng considered using his two invitation slots to bring his parents into the Main God trials but feared they might face zombies without protection.
• The public focused its attention on September 15th as the awaited date for news from home.

Qian Yisheng and Hu Dingjun visited Li Yun to invite him to watch a live broadcast of a press conference at the Shu Capital International Convention Center. Afterward, Qian privately considered Li’s composure unusual and provisionally raised his assessment of him.

• Qian Yisheng and Hu Dingjun delivered Li Yun an invitation to attend the next morning’s press conference broadcast.
• Li Yun accepted the invitation and asked about preparations and dress code.
• Qian told Li Yun that a car would collect him at six thirty the next morning and asked him to rest early.
• In the car, Qian asked Hu Dingjun what he thought of Li Yun’s behavior during their visit.
• Hu suggested Li might have changed after what users experienced, and Qian agreed that his demeanor had been notably poised.
• Qian noted that Li Yun’s calm gaze reminded him of an authority figure and provisionally raised Li’s assessment by one level.