Chapter Summaries

Zhao Xun, Death God, and Ice formed a plan to destroy the Endless Train's mastermind by targeting its heart, true body, and sculptures in the Real World. Zhao Xun returned to the train to summon Zhaozhao as reinforcements, and the chapter ended as she took hold of Ice's doll.

• Zhao Xun and Death God told Ice that the mastermind was invading the Real World through sculptures formed from dead residents and that destroying the sculptures could weaken it.
• Death God revealed that the mastermind had a hidden heart, whose location he had learned from a previous Train Conductor, and offered to lead them to it.
• Zhao Xun, Death God, and Ice agreed to attack the heart, the mastermind's true body in the Liao Family's ancestral hall, and the sculptures across the districts.
• Zhao Xun asked Ice for a Special Item that could summon a female player, and she gave him a doll that could bring one person to the Real World.
• Zhao Xun returned to the Endless Train, found Zhaozhao, and asked her to take hold of the doll.

Zhao Xun assembled a team to attack the mastermind, assigning Death God to destroy its statues and Ice to distract its true body while he searched for the hidden heart. After recruiting Zhaozhao, Xiao Hong, and A Mu and distributing support items, the three groups set off toward their targets.

• Zhao Xun brought Zhaozhao into the Real World and explained the plan, relying on her luck-boosting ability to help with the assassination.
• Death God offered to destroy the statues and used his eye to guide Zhao Xun to the hidden heart, while Zhao Xun volunteered to destroy it and Ice prepared to restrain the true body at the Liao Family ancestral hall.
• Zhao Xun summoned Xiao Hong and A Mu with the [Princess's Prince Pendant], and both agreed to join the attack.
• Zhao Xun sent Xiao Hong and A Mu with Ice to support her, then gave Death God two sections of the [Unyielding Bone] and received a defensive ring in exchange.
• The group split up, and Zhao Xun warned Ice not to attack the true body until he found the heart and cautioned everyone that the mastermind might weaken special items.
• Zhaozhao took Death God's eyeball and flew toward their destination with Zhao Xun, disguised as a sparrow, perched on her shoulder.

Zhao Xun and Zhaozhao reached the mountain behind the Contaminated Factory Zone and entered a cave to search for the mastermind’s hidden weakness. Meanwhile, Death God began attacking the sculptures in District Seven as part of the plan to weaken the mastermind.

• Zhaozhao flew with Zhao Xun to their destination, used her defensive items, and willingly drank a drop of [Scorching Blood] so Zhao Xun could trust her.
• Zhao Xun identified their location as the mountain behind the Contaminated Factory Zone and realized the mastermind had moved its true body there to guard its weakness.
• Zhao Xun and Zhaozhao followed Death God's eyeball to a cave, and Zhaozhao led the way with a flashlight while Zhao Xun watched behind her.
• Death God reached District Seven, marked the sculptures as targets, and fired missiles that struck them across the street.

Ice, Xiao Hong, and A Mu attacked the Liao Family Ancestral Hall and found the Sculpture summoning monsters like those from Car 17 of the Endless Train. While Ice fought to distract the mastermind, Zhao Xun and Zhaozhao pressed deeper into the Cave to find his weakness.

• Ice used a flying car to bring Xiao Hong and A Mu to the Liao Family Ancestral Hall, then blasted open its wall and revealed the Sculpture inside.
• Ice summoned her NPC allies to battle the monsters appearing from the altar and told the group that they confirmed the mastermind was behind the Endless Train.
• Ice recognized that the Car 17 monsters used powers like players' special abilities and fought them at range to divert the mastermind's attention.
• Zhao Xun noticed the monsters' movements falter, killed those blocking the way, and urged Zhaozhao to continue deeper into the Cave.
• Zhaozhao nearly fell on the sharp stones, and afterward wondered whether the hard eyeball she carried was a special item.

Zhaozhao and Zhao Xun fought through a deep Cave while following an eyeball that pointed the way, then learned that players' special items were weakening. Zhao Xun reassured Zhaozhao that only one aspect of each item's effect could be reduced and told her to keep the remaining antidote and body restoration pills for herself.

• Zhaozhao followed the eyeball into a low passage, where Zhao Xun transformed into a Ring-Tailed Lemur to move more easily.
• Zhao Xun spotted hidden tentacles overhead, burned them with Samadhi True Fire, and protected Zhaozhao as she crossed the passage; Zhaozhao took antidote pills, and Zhao Xun recalled the poisoned Pygmy Marmoset.
• At the next fork, Zhaozhao followed the eyeball into the rightmost Cave, and she and Zhao Xun continued past increasingly difficult monsters for nearly three hours.
• Death God reported that special items had weakened, and Ice, Xiao Hong, and A Mu confirmed that theirs had too.
• Zhao Xun concluded that most items had lost about a fifth of their effectiveness and that only one aspect of an item's effect could be weakened; he told Zhaozhao to keep the remaining antidote and body restoration pills for herself.

Zhao Xun and Zhaozhao reached the altar, where Zhao Xun destroyed the mastermind’s heart and survived the ensuing transformation. A month later, he returned to tell Zhaozhao he had become the being’s successor and was leaving to explore other worlds.

• Zhaozhao and Zhao Xun reached the valley altar, where Death God’s eyeball revealed traps and summoned powerful monsters.
• Zhao Xun used a Mimicry Doll and transformed into a Frog to reach the altar while Zhaozhao fought beside his decoy.
• The Frog used the Red Seal to open the wooden box, and Zhao Xun pierced the mastermind’s heart with Samadhi True Fire until it burst apart.
• Zhao Xun vanished as the mastermind died, and the players returned to the Real World after the Endless Train disappeared.
• A month later, Zhao Xun returned to Zhaozhao, explained that he had gained control of the mastermind’s power, and departed to explore other worlds.