Chapter Summaries

Zhao Xun reunited the three [Thief] players and completed his personal mission by giving the Rabbit King's lover the Rabbit Princess's Aquamarine Necklace. Their collaborative mission then tasked them with stealing the King's scepter, overthrowing his regime, and proclaiming themselves rulers, so the group began planning how to learn more.

• Zhao Xun used Hypnosis to send the Rabbit Princess away, learned Glasses Girl's personal mission, and discovered that the Chief Dancer was the Rabbit King's lover.
• Zhao Xun hypnotized the Chief Dancer and gave her the Aquamarine Necklace, completing his personal mission and earning 100 points and 100 hours of survival time.
• Zhao Xun returned for Glasses Girl and led her out of the palace to meet Scarred Man in the Garden.
• The three [Thief] players received a collaborative mission to steal the Rabbit King's scepter, use it to mobilize the palace military, overthrow the King, and proclaim themselves rulers.
• Zhao Xun planned to investigate what the scepter did and what counted as claiming the throne, while Scarred Man offered to question patrolling soldiers and Glasses Girl offered to ask the King's lover for information.

Zhao Xun investigated how a new Rabbit King could be proclaimed and learned that an edict announcing the new ruler was required. At the banquet, he uncovered details of the [Servant] faction’s mission and noticed that the Rabbit Princess had changed dramatically after eating meat.

• Zhao Xun agreed to investigate the accession procedure while Scarred Man and Glasses Girl pursued their own leads, and he suspected only one player might ultimately become king.
• Zhao Xun hypnotized Gray Rabbit and learned that a new ruler needed an edict announcing the Kingdom’s new ruler, then rested and asked Gray Rabbit to help him at the banquet.
• At the banquet, Zhao Xun hypnotized the Rabbit King's maid and learned that five players had the [Servant] role and were gathering meat to feed the Rabbit Princess.
• Zhao Xun observed the Rabbit Princess arriving with oily fur, a bulkier body, vivid red eyes, and rapid breathing, and suspected the meat was affecting her.

At the banquet, the Rabbit Princess erupted over her stolen necklace and began eating a Rabbit Guard, throwing the palace into chaos. Zhao Xun hypnotized the Rabbit King and led him, Scarred Man, and the girl with glasses to the Rabbit King’s Study, where he asked them to share what they had discovered.

• The Rabbit King began the banquet while the Rabbit Prince and several players remained absent, and Zhao Xun suspected the factions had missions targeting the royal rabbits.
• The Rabbit Princess accused a dancer of stealing her treasured necklace, but the dancer could not identify who had given it to her.
• The Rabbit Princess attacked a Rabbit Guard and ate him, prompting the guests to panic and block the banquet hall’s main doors as they fled.
• Zhao Xun hypnotized the Rabbit King and led him out through a servants’ door, with Scarred Man following and the Rabbit King’s maid leaving when Zhao Xun told her to go.
• Zhao Xun found the girl with glasses, brought her and Scarred Man to the Rabbit King’s Study, and asked them to report what they had learned while the hypnotized Rabbit King sat unresponsive.

Zhao Xun learned how the Rabbit King’s army and Emerald Scepter worked, then forced the king to reveal how to issue a decree that would recognize a new ruler. After having the Rabbit King write three separate decrees, Zhao Xun kept them in his pocket, leaving Scarred Man uneasy about trusting him.

• Glasses Girl and Scarred Man told Zhao Xun about the Rabbit King’s three scepters, the army’s commanders, and the soldiers’ divided loyalties.
• Zhao Xun confirmed their information with the hypnotized Rabbit King, who admitted he had not known one unit secretly served the Rabbit Prince.
• Zhao Xun had the Rabbit King retrieve the Emerald Scepter and explain that posting a decree outside the palace gates would recognize a new king.
• The Rabbit King resisted abdicating but yielded to Zhao Xun’s hypnosis and agreed to write a decree.
• Glasses Girl asked that all three players be named, so Zhao Xun had the Rabbit King write three separate decrees and then pocketed them.
• Scarred Man suggested that each player keep their own decree, signaling his concern that Zhao Xun might not share them.

Zhao Xun kept the three Decrees, killed the Rabbit King, and began mobilizing the Palace’s soldiers while Glasses Girl and Scarred Man left to complete their personal missions. He gathered three commanders’ troops and learned that the Rabbit King’s commander was at the Banquet Hall and the Rabbit Prince’s commander was dead.

• Zhao Xun convinced Scarred Man that he had earned the Decrees, and Glasses Girl persuaded Scarred Man to apologize and let Zhao Xun keep them.
• Zhao Xun killed the Rabbit King with a fireball, startling Scarred Man and Glasses Girl with his use of fire.
• Zhao Xun headed out to mobilize the soldiers while Glasses Girl ran to the Banquet Hall to complete her mission involving the Rabbit Queen, and Scarred Man went upstairs to pursue his own mission.
• Zhao Xun used the King’s Emerald Scepter to command soldiers to take him to their commanders, killing those who refused.
• Zhao Xun gathered the three commanders who obeyed the Scepter and their troops, learned the Rabbit King’s commander was at the Banquet Hall, and reassigned soldiers who had served the Rabbit Prince’s commander.

Zhao Xun took command of the Rabbit Soldiers, ordered them to hunt down threats, and burned a group of dissenters before heading to the Banquet Hall. There he confronted the rampaging Rabbit Princess and discovered that her defenses isolated damage, leaving her alive despite his flames piercing and spreading through her body.

• Zhao Xun used the Emerald Scepter to claim the throne and ordered the Rabbit Soldiers to gather loyal troops and eliminate anyone who resisted.
• When a group of Rabbit Soldiers questioned his authority and asked after the Prince, Zhao Xun burned them alive and warned the others not to challenge him.
• Zhao Xun entered the Banquet Hall, where most of the occupants were dead, and learned from Glasses Girl that the players could barely hurt the rampaging Rabbit Princess.
• Glasses Girl told Zhao Xun that she had failed to persuade the Rabbit Queen to leave, leaving her personal mission incomplete.
• The Rabbit Princess charged Zhao Xun, who pierced her heart with a flaming spear; she showed no fear and praised the smell of the burning wound.
• Zhao Xun spread tiny flames through the Rabbit Princess's body and inferred that her ability isolated damage, preventing attacks from causing fatal internal injuries.

Zhao Xun discovered that only a specially made Prince's Sword could kill the frenzied Rabbit Princess, and learned how to assemble it. He sent an orangutan to retrieve the Rabbit King's crown jewels while the Rabbit Princess continued approaching him.

• The Rabbit Princess survived Zhao Xun's attacks and grew more excited, but a hidden mission revealed that only the Prince's Sword could kill her.
• Zhao Xun hypnotized Hip-Hop Man and learned that he and Crew-Cut Man had killed the Rabbit Prince; Crew-Cut Man handed over the prince's longsword.
• The longsword failed to hurt the Rabbit Princess, and Zhao Xun learned that the Prince's Sword had to be made from the Rabbit Prince's spine and the gems from the Queen's and King's crowns.
• Zhao Xun ordered his orangutan to retrieve the gems from the Rabbit King's crown while the Rabbit Princess kept advancing toward him.

Zhao Xun negotiated with Hip-Hop Man and Crew-Cut Man over the Rabbit Prince’s spine, then killed Crew-Cut Man after learning Zhao Xun had ruined his assassination mission. He helped the plate-carrying servant complete a collaborative mission, leaving the Rabbit Princess questioning the Rabbit Queen’s confession.

• Hip-Hop Man offered Zhao Xun medicine in exchange for time to complete his collaborative mission, but Crew-Cut Man refused to offer anything.
• Crew-Cut Man revealed that his personal mission was to assassinate the Rabbit King, whom Zhao Xun had already killed, so Zhao Xun stabbed him with the Rabbit Prince’s sword.
• Zhao Xun took the Rabbit Queen’s crown remotely, but the plate-carrying servant pleaded for time to complete his mission involving the Queen.
• The Rabbit Queen voluntarily surrendered her crown and revealed that the Princess was the child of the Rabbit Duke and herself, completing the servant’s collaborative mission.
• The Rabbit Princess stopped approaching and asked the Rabbit Queen, “Are you lying?”

The Rabbit Queen fled the Banquet Hall with Glasses Girl as the Rabbit Princess killed the Rabbit Duke and turned her attention to Zhao Xun. Zhao Xun completed the Prince’s Sword with Hip-Hop Man and approached the injured Rabbit Princess, suspecting she did not know about her fatal weakness.

• Glasses Girl told the Rabbit Queen that the Rabbit King had been involved with the Chief Dancer, then persuaded her to flee with her.
• The Rabbit Princess called everyone trash, chased the Rabbit Duke, and killed him while the Rabbit Queen escaped with Glasses Girl.
• Zhao Xun had an orangutan gather the crown’s gemstones, then used fire and lightning to damage the Rabbit Princess and slow her down.
• Hip-Hop Man set the gemstones into the Rabbit Prince’s spine, completing the collaborative mission and the Prince’s Sword.
• Zhao Xun approached the limping Rabbit Princess with the sword, and she assumed he had come to offer himself as food.

Zhao Xun killed the Rabbit Princess with the Prince's Sword, claimed the Rabbit throne, and dealt with the Rabbit Soldiers who opposed him. After sparing rabbits who swore sincere allegiance, he left the Banquet Hall to await the results of his orders at dawn.

• Zhao Xun pierced the Rabbit Princess with the Prince's Sword, causing her to dissolve and earning the hidden mission reward and the special item [Mad Rabbit].
• Zhao Xun declared himself the new King with the King's Decree and burned the Rabbit Soldiers who challenged his claim.
• The Rabbit Marquis swore sincere allegiance under Hypnosis, and the surviving rabbits followed suit, so Zhao Xun spared them.
• Scarred Man and Glasses Girl told Zhao Xun they had completed their personal missions, and Glasses Girl asked about their collaborative mission.
• Zhao Xun said the soldiers would gather at the Palace gates at dawn, and Scarred Man and Glasses Girl followed him there to wait.

Zhao Xun discovered that rebel soldiers remained in the Royal Palace and ordered the Rabbit Soldiers to search again, threatening to burn the palace if they failed. As he waited for their report, he ate with Glasses Girl and Scarred Man and inspected his newly acquired Mad Rabbit item.

• At dawn, Zhao Xun posted the Decree and realized the rebel soldiers had not all been dealt with because no mission completion notification appeared.
• Zhao Xun sent the Rabbit Soldiers to search the palace again and warned that he would burn it down if they had not finished by ten.
• Zhao Xun ordered food and a chair, then shared the leftovers with Glasses Girl while Scarred Man went to the kitchen to find more food.
• Zhao Xun read the Mad Rabbit item details and considered using the relentless hunter in future fights.

Zhao Xun killed Scarred Man and Glasses Girl after they failed to take the throne, then became king and planned to deal with the remaining threats before the game ended. He ordered the Rabbit Soldiers to search the Palace and summoned the Rabbit Marquis, leaving with him after finding the Jewelry Room safe still open.

• Zhao Xun gave Scarred Man and Glasses Girl their decrees, but Scarred Man failed to become king because the Rabbit Soldiers said the current king had to die first.
• Zhao Xun beheaded Scarred Man, then killed Glasses Girl with a Flame Arrow, and the Rabbit Soldiers pledged loyalty to him.
• Zhao Xun assessed which players could still clear the game and ordered half the Rabbit Soldiers to find the hidden humans, bringing cooperative ones to dinner and executing those who resisted.
• Zhao Xun killed the Rabbit Queen, burned the Rabbit King’s corpse in the Study, and summoned the Rabbit Marquis for a walk.
• Zhao Xun led the Rabbit Marquis to the Jewelry Room and found the safe still open.

Zhao Xun looted the Royal Palace by having the Rabbit Marquis willingly give him its valuables, then arranged for the remaining nobles and players to stay under watch. After dinner with Hip-Hop Man and the tray-carrying manservant, he expected the missing players to make their move that night.

• Zhao Xun had the Rabbit Marquis sincerely give him the palace jewelry, weapons, gold ornaments, and practical clothing, then stored them away.
• Zhao Xun placed his adoptive mother's ashes, still inside their garbage bag, into a ceramic jar to serve as an urn.
• Zhao Xun ordered the nobles to remain in the palace for a celebratory banquet three days later and told them to dine in their rooms meanwhile.
• Hip-Hop Man and the tray-carrying manservant joined Zhao Xun for dinner, while a Rabbit Officer reported that two other players had escaped and two remained missing.
• Zhao Xun ordered the Rabbit Officer to keep searching and suspected the missing players were hiding and planning an ambush for that night.

Zhao Xun survived a maid’s assassination attempt in the Rabbit King’s Palace and continued gathering useful supplies. After learning Hip-Hop Man and the Tray-Carrying Servant had also been attacked, he took medicine from the storeroom and secured three crates for himself.

• Zhao Xun assigned Hip-Hop Man and the Tray-Carrying Servant a shared guest room, then went to sleep in the Rabbit King’s bedchamber with Baboon and Orangutan guarding him.
• A Rabbit King’s maid entered the bedchamber disguised as a shadow and stabbed the Rabbit Queen’s corpse, but Zhao Xun killed her with her own blade and burned her remains.
• Zhao Xun heard screams from Hip-Hop Man and the Tray-Carrying Servant’s room, and the next morning learned that both had suffered minor injuries while their attacker had been killed.
• Zhao Xun used the Rabbit King’s keys to open the medicine storeroom and learned that the other keys led to underground death-row cells holding imprisoned rebels.
• Zhao Xun gathered three crates of medical supplies, unlocked his fifth Storage Slot, and had the mottled black rabbit willingly give the crates to him.

After clearing a survival game, Zhao Xun returned to the Endless Train and learned that Wu Wei had died in a merged dream game. A Jie delivered Wu Wei’s warning about the veteran player who killed him, leaving Zhao Xun with the killer’s description and A Jie angry at Zhao Xun’s transactional outlook.

• Zhao Xun stored his supplies, ate while he waited, and cleared the game before returning to Car 5.
• Zhao Xun learned that the train would reach its Sixth Stop on December 29 and decided to join the next platform game.
• A Jie told Zhao Xun that Wu Wei had died in a merged dream game at the hands of a veteran player.
• A Jie explained that the veteran player used a cursed Clay Effigy bearing a victim’s full name to kill them, and described the short, buzz-cut man with six fingers on his right hand.
• A Jie revealed that Wu Wei had wanted Zhao Xun warned about the killer, then accused Zhao Xun of caring only about what he gained in return.

Zhao Xun heard that Su Tiantian had killed the fake Whistle, then joined the Hide-and-Seek School platform game. After the players received a task to find number tags and silver medals, Zhao Xun organized them into a search, and they began choosing areas.

• A Jie delivered Wu Wei's final message to Zhao Xun, then left to attend to his own affairs.
• Su Tiantian told Zhao Xun she had killed the fake Whistle and asked if he would join the next platform game; Zhao Xun said he would.
• Zhao Xun replenished his supplies, slept, and disembarked at the Hide-and-Seek School platform with ten other players, including Hip-Hop Man and Dog-Chewed Hair.
• The game rules assigned the group a first-stage task to find eleven number tags and five silver medals before six in the morning.
• Zhao Xun proposed dividing the school into search areas and settling any fight over medals after regrouping; the other players agreed and began choosing areas.

Zhao Xun searched his classroom building and every rooftop, finding number tag 10 and two silver medals, then helped Hip-Hop Man finish searching the Dormitory Building. At the gathering, players began exchanging number tags, and Zhao Xun asked everyone else to reveal their numbers, saying he had a reason.

• Zhao Xun and five primates searched a classroom building, where they found number tag 10 and a silver medal marked with a six-pointed star.
• Zhao Xun searched all ten rooftops with the primates, who found a second matching silver medal on the Library Building roof.
• After Zhao Xun offered help, Hip-Hop Man asked him to search the unfinished Dormitory Building, and Zhao Xun summoned ten primates to speed up the search.
• Zhao Xun and Hip-Hop Man finished searching the dormitory, where the baboon found number tag 5, and they hurried to the sports field.
• Hip-Hop Man gave number tag 8 to the woman in the red down jacket, while Zhao Xun gave number tag 5 to Glasses Man and kept number 10.
• Zhao Xun asked the players who still had number tags to disclose their numbers, then said he had a reason for asking.

Zhao Xun secured Short-Ponytail Man’s silver token before the players received the second-stage rules and began planning their hunt for the NPCs. The first round started with the players as pursuers, and Zhao Xun ended by revealing that he had three silver tokens.

• Zhao Xun hypnotized the players to learn their number tags, then took Short-Ponytail Man’s silver token by hypnotizing him.
• The players completed the first-stage task, received 50 points each, and got the hint, “The heights are too cold to bear.”
• The second-stage rules established alternating seven-hour rounds in which players and NPCs chased each other, and the players became the pursuing team in the first round.
• The players debated what the hint meant, while Zhao Xun suggested capturing an NPC to seek answers and killing NPCs as quickly as possible.
• Zhao Xun proposed that higher-numbered players help obstruct the NPCs and that players with silver tokens take the greatest risks, then revealed that he had three tokens.

Zhao Xun led the players into the first round of the chase, where they found a math teacher NPC and tested how he could be fought. The teacher transformed the classroom into a dangerous storm of furniture, and Zhao Xun prepared to strike him with a lightning whip as Number One warned that he could not kill him.

• Zhao Xun organized the players, assigning Number One to stay with a silver-token holder during the next round and recommending that the group hunt together in the first round.
• Zhao Xun led the players into a classroom, where they found a math teacher NPC writing problems on the blackboard.
• Zhao Xun asked the math teacher for his weakness, but his hypnosis had no effect, so he attacked with fire.
• The math teacher transformed and unleashed a sonic assault while making the desks and chairs whirl through the classroom, forcing the players to cling to the walls.
• Zhao Xun anchored himself with an iron chain and changed his flaming sword into a lightning whip, as the monkey-faced Number One warned him that he could not kill the teacher.

Zhao Xun discovered that the Math Teacher’s life was tied to a piece of chalk, and Monkey-Faced Man broke it to kill him. The group searched the campus for another NPC, but found no one and began considering where the remaining NPCs might be hiding.

• Zhao Xun tested the Math Teacher’s body and classroom objects, then deduced that the chalk was his weakness.
• Zhao Xun restrained the Math Teacher while Monkey-Faced Man broke the life-bound chalk, causing the teacher to split apart and turn to dust.
• The Campus Broadcast announced the Math Teacher’s death and that 10 NPCs remained; the players regrouped and searched nearby classrooms.
• Zhao Xun and the others searched two classroom buildings but found no second NPC.
• Short-Ponytail Man suggested searching secluded hiding places, while Glasses Man argued that a systematic sweep would save time.