Recaps

Zhao Xun survived his first days aboard the Endless Train, stealing abilities and navigating its missions before entering the Platform Game at Nairui Town. He uncovered the connection between Ruby and a living statue and began investigating the murders that had made Ruby a suspected witch.

• Zhao Xun boarded the Endless Train, acquired Devour, killed a monster to earn a ticket, and stole No. 013’s ticket to complete his first personal task.
• Zhao Xun fought Shen Yalong, bound him to a seat, and learned he could grow four extra arms.
• Zhao Xun killed No. 066 when the man attacked him, then acquired the weakened Blade Transformation ability from his ticket.
• Zhao Xun entered the Platform Game at Nairui Town and accepted a quest to obtain the Sculpture’s Heart.
• Zhao Xun learned from Xiao Ai that Ruby was a maid accused of witchcraft after Xiao Ai’s parents were murdered, then arranged with Lisa to enter the Duke’s Manor.
• Zhao Xun explored the manor and found a living statue that revealed she had saved Ruby from execution and believed Ruby was innocent.
• Zhao Xun accepted a hidden quest to discover why Ruby had been labeled a witch and clear her name, and the statue agreed to seek more information from Ruby.
• Zhao Xun avoided the guards and entered the banquet hall, where he saw the duke pull a frightened young female player into his arms.

Zhao Xun exposed the Duke, rescued Ruby and Sculpture, and stopped Shen Yalong from destroying Nairui Town before returning to the train. After learning his parents were dead and striking a bargain with Whistle, he entered the Princess Thorn game, where the players began cutting through a dangerous thicket toward the castle.

• Zhao Xun and Tiantian opened the Duke’s safe, copied its evidence of his crimes, and helped the residents learn that Ruby had been falsely accused.
• Zhao Xun and Sculpture rescued Ruby from the sleazy man, and Zhao Xun killed him before Ruby and Sculpture chose to leave town together.
• Zhao Xun found the Witch’s letter and stopped Shen Yalong from triggering the explosions that would destroy Nairui Town.
• Sculpture gave Zhao Xun her heart, and he received rewards for completing the town’s main quest and uncovering all its storylines.
• Back aboard the train, Zhao Xun learned from Whistle that the people in his photograph were dead and made a contract to help Whistle kill an enemy in exchange for finding out who killed his parents.
• Zhao Xun entered the Princess Thorn game with No. 015 and six other players, and the group voted to cooperate as they began clearing a path through the thorns.
• The Cloaked Man and the woman with twin ponytails helped the group survive attacks from vines and creatures, while Zhao Xun warned them not to lower their guard and gave Bald Scorpion Man one last chance.

Zhao Xun and the players searched the castle for the true Prince while defending the sleeping Princess from the Assassins. After the Prince awakened and the main quest was completed, the Princess turned against them, leaving Zhao Xun and the Cloaked Man to plan an escape with the Slightly Plump Woman.

• The players entered the castle, found five sleeping Princes with contradictory identity claims, and discovered that the real Princess was hidden in a secret chamber.
• Zhao Xun and the others investigated the Princes, survived an attack by the fake Princes transformed into werewolves, and Zhao Xun killed Bald Scorpion Man.
• Zhao Xun found the Princess’s diary, which exposed the Mountain Country and Water Country Princes as impostors, and the Cloaked Man killed them.
• The players discovered the real Prince chained in a hidden chamber, but Earring Woman and Cowboy ambushed them as the Prince was freed.
• Zhao Xun killed Earring Woman and Cowboy, then the Prince kissed the sleeping Princess and completed the main quest.
• The Princess woke and killed Crew-Cut Man, then she and the Prince revealed their plans to kill everyone in the castle and the hidden quest required the players to escape or hide until the game ended.
• Zhao Xun and the Cloaked Man escaped with the Slightly Plump Woman to a secret room, where they discussed using her ability to replenish their mental energy and the dangers of killing the Princess or Prince.

Zhao Xun escaped the castle with A Mu and Xiao Hong, then teamed with Wang Biao in the City of Light for a ten-stage quest that spiraled into a kidnapping and murder investigation. After Zhao Xun and his allies killed the attackers who targeted Yaya, the first stage of the quest chain ended, with the players told to wait until midnight on September 13.

• Zhao Xun killed the Princess and Prince, escaped the thorn thicket with A Mu and Xiao Hong, and earned the Prince Pendant and hidden-mission rewards.
• Zhao Xun upgraded Devour, agreed to take Xiao Hong along for two more games, and boarded the Endless Train with her for the Third Station game.
• Zhao Xun and Wang Biao were paired in the City of Light and found Yaya, a little girl separated from her parents, at the Maoye Building.
• Zhao Xun reunited Yaya with her parents, investigated their dispute, and used Water Control to force the boy who had cut Yaya’s hair to leave her kindergarten.
• Zhao Xun and Wang Biao completed the next quest stages by taking Yaya from kindergarten, demanding ransom, leaving her at a park, buying a gold necklace, and stopping two masked robbers.
• Zhao Xun gave the necklace to Yaya’s mother at the hospital and learned that Yaya had been gravely wounded after her abduction.
• Zhao Xun, Wang Biao, Xiao Hong, and Wu Wei joined forces at Yaya’s ICU, where a disinfectant smell knocked them unconscious and two men attacked.
• Wu Wei and Zhao Xun stopped the attackers, Zhao Xun killed the younger man with a poisoned needle, and the system declared all ten quests in the first stage complete.