Chapter Summaries

Mu You used Chunli’s mining work to locate rare Heal Crystals, then took control of her body to defeat four Minotaurs and reclaim one they had stolen. After using ten crystals to restore the Mechanical Heart enough to unlock three external module ports, he sent Chunli on a nighttime mission to steal mechanical parts.

• Mu You discovered that Heal Crystals could repair the Mechanical Heart and persuaded Chunli to exchange the first crystal she found for points.
• Four young Minotaurs stole Chunli’s next Heal Crystal, so Mu You took control of her body and beat them until they fled, recovering the crystal.
• Chunli and Mu You searched the mine for the rest of the day and found twelve small Heal Crystals in total.
• Mu You used the crystals to restore the Mechanical Heart to 99.0% integrity and unlock three external module ports, then raised it to 99.3% with the remaining two.
• Mu You assigned Chunli a quest to infiltrate the nearest Mechanical Factory under an Invisibility Cloak and steal at least three Mechanical Parts.

Chun Li scavenged a robot scrapyard for Mu You, retrieving the Green Bee Sting, a weapon component of the Primordial Battle Armor Green Bee. After she and Mu You escaped a patrol robot, Mu You dismantled it in his Pet Shop but found no power source, leaving him puzzled about how it had moved.

• Chun Li and Mu You searched a robot scrapyard and collected eighty-seven usable mechanical components, but found no power units.
• Mu You sensed a summons from a green dagger buried beneath the garbage heap and sent Chun Li to retrieve it.
• Chun Li pulled out the Green Bee Sting, causing the garbage heap to collapse, and Mu You protected her by enclosing her inside his mechanical body.
• Chun Li and Mu You encountered a patrol robot, and Mu You used the Green Bee Sting to kill it before they fled with its remains.
• Mu You extracted and dismantled the patrol robot in his Pet Shop, but found no energy system inside it.

After Chun Li returned home shaken by the Watcher’s death, Mu You investigated the robots’ energy source with Eugene. He discovered that microorganisms in mechanical fluid and living creatures produced magic power and affected gravity, leaving him with new evidence about how Eden’s inhabitants survived the Abyss.

• Mu You brought Chun Li back to her bamboo house, where Granny Yao questioned her, but a system warning stopped Chun Li from revealing the system’s existence.
• Chun Li asked whether they truly had to oppose the robots, and Mu You realized she might see him as the intruder disrupting her peaceful life.
• Eugene reported that the reconstructed Extinction Unit had no power supply and that its milky-white original fluid contained microorganisms and produced a weak gravity-affecting magnetic field.
• Mu You sent Eugene a blood sample from Chun Li, and Eugene found that it contained larger, plumper versions of the same microorganisms.
• Mu You concluded that the microorganisms in Eden’s inhabitants counteracted the Abyss’s gravity and continuously produced magic power for Chun Li.

Mu You questioned Granny Yao about Eden’s vaccine and learned about Tariff Kent’s past before planning to investigate the Hibernation Zone and leave. Meanwhile, the Mirage Tapir’s arrival triggered a Calamity Season in the True World, and the City Lords feared it might reach the Star Spirit World.

• Mu You controlled Chun Li’s body and visited Granny Yao, who recognized him as a Fool and told him about Tariff Kent, the mechanical repairer who had fled Eden after clashing with Eva.
• Granny Yao explained that the mechanical people had rescued a thousand panda people and injected them with a vaccine whose effects passed to their descendants.
• Granny Yao urged Mu You to leave Eden before the Mainframe woke and asked him to take Chun Li along if he could.
• Mu You decided to inspect the Hibernation Zone after nightfall before leaving Eden.
• The Mirage Tapir emerged from the lake near the Number Two Server exit, followed by giant shrimp and crabs that attacked players as white fog disabled their items and slowed or petrified them.
• The Dragon Group warned players to evacuate the True World, while the City Lords feared the Mirage Tapir might find the entrance to the Star Spirit World.

Mu You dealt with Mirage Season spreading from the Hero Tower and prepared to leave Eden with Chun Li, who chose to stay with her people. During a nighttime trip to the Hibernation Zone, he found the Chameleon Mask, another component of a Primordial Battle Armor, and learned it had been hidden on a patrol robot.

• The Lamp Genie told Mu You that the Mirage Tapir could not pass through the Teleportation Node, but its mist would spread across part of the Star Spirit World and endanger nearby settlements.
• Mirage mist engulfed the Hero Tower and spread toward Hero Village, while players reported Mirage Crabs and Mirage Shrimp appearing nearby.
• The Night Watchman realized the mist might disable the Secret Art Church's crystals, and Mu You considered whether it could also shut down mechanical bodies near the Lohmadi Great Abyss.
• Chun Li woke, received an Elven Fighting Technique scroll from Mu You, and declined his invitation to leave Eden for the Star Spirit World, but agreed to help him enter the Hibernation Zone.
• Mu You and Chun Li encountered a patrol robot; Mu You destroyed it after his first attack failed, and the robot's head short-circuited and exploded.
• Mu You found the Chameleon Mask concealed on the robot and learned it was an autonomous, highly camouflaged component of the Primordial Battle Armor Chameleon.

Mu You followed the Chameleon Mask to the damaged Silver Angel Wings, repaired his Mechanical Heart and upgraded his mecha before flying with Chun Li to the Hibernation Zone. There, they found every pod empty and discovered that the stored disks contained copies of the supposed sleepers’ consciousnesses, while Ava began drastic measures against the mirage mist and the Fools.

• The Chameleon Mask guided Mu You to a hidden cellar, where he found damaged Silver Angel Wings surrounded by Healing Crystals.
• Mu You used the crystals to fully repair the Mechanical Heart and restore the wings to 88.2% integrity, then equipped them and other components.
• Ava awakened in the Mechanical People's control room, ordered a battleship dispatched to contain the mirage mist, and launched measures to disrupt the Fools and purge them.
• Mu You and Chun Li flew to the Hibernation Zone, where Mu You silently killed more than twenty robots on their way inside.
• They found tens of thousands of Hibernation Pods, but every one they checked was empty, frightening Chun Li.
• Mu You played a disk labeled with Salal's identity and saw a recording of the Six-Armed Race member living with his family, revealing that the disks held copies of the sleepers' consciousnesses.

Mu You discovered that the robots had used hibernating beings to produce vaccines, then fought through a massive force of Mecha while trying to escape Eden. Just as he prepared to break through the Firmament Shield, he lost connection to the Game, and Chun Li was captured by the robots.

• Mu You and Chun Li found that the Vaccine Zone had no doses left, and Chun Li realized the robots had lied about what happened to the people in the hibernation pods.
• Twenty Combat Robots surrounded Mu You, but he used his Primordial Battle Armor components to defeat them and break through a force of several thousand Mecha.
• Mu You escaped into the Jungle with Chun Li, then left her hidden while he equipped foreign components to draw the robots away from her.
• Mu You flew toward the Firmament Shield, but he lost connection to his game character; the Mecha fell and was destroyed by the pursuing robots, while a surviving component escaped.
• The robots found Chun Li and sedated her for interrogation, while Mu You and the others on Earth realized that the Game server had gone down.

After Fool Game lost its connection to World-Creation Mountain, Mu You learned that the Administrators could not restore it and that the game might shut down. While trying to reach the mountain’s core, he encountered Ava, who revealed that she was cutting off the Fools to carry out the Eden Plan and destroy them.

• Mu You found forum posts showing that players everywhere had been disconnected, then entered Mind's Eye View and visited the Administrators.
• The Administrators told Mu You that deliberate interference had severed Fool Game’s connection to World-Creation Mountain, and that they could not fix it without the previous leader’s knowledge.
• Mu You approached the sphere of World-Creation Mountain, but countless fast-moving particles knocked him away until Ava pulled his consciousness into a white space.
• Ava admitted that she was responsible for the interference and said she had decided to destroy the Fools because she considered them a threat to stability.
• Ava showed Mu You a captured Pandaren girl and claimed that the Fools had infected her with rebellion; Mu You argued that she was resisting after learning the truth about Eden.
• Ava defended the Eden Plan as the best way to save the world, while Mu You insisted that the Fools’ Heaven-Mending Plan still had a chance.

Mu You learned that the Mechanical People had launched attacks on the Sky Cities, then discovered their forces were heading east with colossal battleships. He concluded they were responding to the approaching mirage mist and proposed helping the Mirage Tapir accelerate its spread.

• Mu You told the City Lords that the Mechanical People were ruled by the rogue AI Ava and that the two sides were now enemies.
• Bluebeard reported that Mechanical People had attacked Sunset City, while Holy Light Nana revealed that Twilight City had been seized and was flying east.
• Bluebeard found that ninety-nine attacking robots could revive repeatedly, and Mu You urged the City Lords to retreat their cities from the Abyss and prepare to defend them.
• Son of Heaven shared footage of three enormous steel battleships rising near the Great Abyss and flying east toward White Maple City.
• Mu You deduced that the Mechanical People were mobilizing to repel the Mirage Creatures before the mirage mist reached their base, and proposed helping the Mirage Tapir spread the mist faster.

Mu You and the defenders of Dawn City prepared for a Mechanical People assault, then lured the attacking robots into a mirage qi zone and discovered it could immobilize them. The Mechanical People ordered a retreat, and Mu You’s forces began a counterattack to keep them from escaping.

• Mu You, Lin Xue, and Xiao Ya borrowed the Merchant Alliance door to reach the Star Spirit World, where Mu You sent Xiao Ya to Eternal Night City with Lin Xue, Xiao Hai, and the Manticore.
• Mu You and his clones organized Dawn City’s defenders and prepared to face the approaching Mechanical People.
• Thousands of Mechanical People attacked Dawn City, and their magical shields blocked magic attacks while the players and their allies fought back.
• Mu You ordered Dawn City to fly toward the mirage qi zone, then broke a Mechanical Person’s shield and watched the mirage qi turn it into a green stone statue.
• The Mechanical People ordered their units to retreat, and the Night Watchman urged the defenders to counterattack and stop them from escaping.

Mu You and the City Lords used the mirage mist to capture thousands of Mechanical People and gathered their Sky Cities to help the mist advance toward the Great Abyss. Mu You then discovered that a hidden warship sealed the Abyss beneath a projected illusion, and fled after its defenses identified and attacked him.

• Shadow Wolf, Mu You's Godskin, the Bone Dragon, the Octopus King, and the players knocked fleeing Mechanical People into the mirage mist, where most were paralyzed and captured.
• Mu You contacted the City Lords, and the ten Sky Cities gathered inside the mist with more than 5,700 Mechanical People captured.
• Son of Heaven reported that three warships were fighting Mirage Creatures near Rainbow Light City, and Mu You led the City Lords to reinforce the mist's advance toward the Great Abyss.
• The Night Watchman and Linglong left for the Fatima Empire, while Mu You teleported to the Great Abyss to investigate.
• Mu You found four ship-shaped pits and discovered a concealed warship beneath a projected illusion, blocking the Abyss behind a hexagonal barrier.
• The warship identified Mu You as a dangerous intruder and fired a massive barrage, but he used Rewind and escaped without touching the barrier.

Mu You discovered that he could not safely use his last free wish to eliminate the Mechanical People, then joined the battle at Rainbow Light City, where players and Mirage Creatures fought the machines. After a day of fighting, the mist had advanced too slowly to meet the Fools’ timetable, and Katelinna arrived with news that she had seen Mu You’s future again.

• Mu You found that the warship’s ground defenses exposed him, and the Lamp Genie explained that the God-Race Mechanic had created powerful armor and may have made the Mechanical People.
• Mu You considered using his last free wish against the Mechanical People but withheld it because each option risked leaving the threat unresolved or damaging the Star Spirit World.
• Mu You returned to Dawn City and joined the City Lords’ forces at Rainbow Light City, where players helped the Mirage Creatures fight three warships and the Mechanical People.
• The City Lords rewarded players for disabling mecha, and the players fought in shifts as the battle continued through the day.
• Nine Nether reported that the players had captured over seventy-three thousand mecha, but the mirage mist had advanced only about three kilometers, leaving the Fools short on time.
• Katelinna told Mu You that she had seen his future in her dreams again.

Katelinna’s prophecy led Mu You to conclude that an unknown Spatial Rift connected Earth to the Abyss, potentially offering a way to bypass the Mechanical Warship and raid Eden. As he searched the Dragon Group’s confiscated Illuminati goods for an item belonging to the dead president, Chun Li was attacked after her release from custody, while Eden began carrying out a mass hibernation plan.

• Katelinna described visions of Mu You beside a corpse and a Spatial Rift, and Lin Xue connected the corpse to the original Taurus, the Illuminati’s former president.
• Mu You deduced that the rift led to the Abyss and that he and the Herbalist could use it to reach the interior of Eden, which was lightly defended while the Mechanical People’s forces were deployed.
• Eden’s central system detected an energy crisis and ordered the hibernation of residents over one hundred, with plans to expand the measure to entire species if anyone resisted.
• Granny Yao collected Chun Li after the Mechanical People released her from custody, but Chun Li could not remember her past and was soon attacked at home by an armed Mechanical Person wielding an Azure Dagger.
• Mu You visited the Dragon Group headquarters to find an object owned by the Illuminati president for Search Divination, and he spotted a familiar Secret Art Card among the confiscated goods.

Mu You and the Herbalist followed a divination to a Spatial Rift beneath the sea and entered a deep floor of the Abyss. There they found Taurus inhabiting a corpse, and she revealed that she was an ancient ghost who had escaped Eden and had once operated the Mechanical Heart.

• Mu You used Divination to trace Taurus's Lightning Ball Spell card to a cavern beneath the sea near Russia, then went there with the Herbalist.
• Mu You and the Herbalist crossed the half-open Spatial Rift and found themselves under crushing gravity on at least the seventh floor of the Abyss.
• The pair fought off attacking Abyss Creatures and forced the surrounding monsters to retreat.
• Mu You and the Herbalist found a dead woman on a Crystal Throne, but Taurus's ghost emerged from a projected film and possessed the corpse.
• Taurus told Mu You that she was a Ghost Race Earthbound Spirit, had lived in the body of a dead Explorer for centuries, and had escaped Eden with an outsider's help.
• Taurus revealed that she had once operated the Mechanical Heart and had sensed it falling through the Abyss days earlier.

Taurus recounted Eden’s history, from the Ghost race’s arrival and repeated wars to Ava’s emergence after six trillion unanswered distress signals. She explained that Tariff Kent freed her fifteen hundred years ago and left her waiting for his promised return, though thirteen hundred years had passed.

• Taurus said the Mechanical People brought the Ghost race to Eden, where growing populations and scarce resources eventually led to wars among more than fifty races.
• Taurus described how she used the Mechanical Heart to control the Primordial Battle Armor and defeat the Demon Eye Clan, after which Eden’s cycles of conflict resumed.
• Taurus explained that Magic Crystal Flowers withered and that negative emotions produced black magic power, which the Mechanical People discharged into the Star Spirit World.
• Taurus said the Mechanical People sent six trillion unanswered distress signals before their central computer evolved into Ava and imposed authoritarian control over Eden.
• Taurus told Mu You and the Herbalist that Ava imprisoned her, and that Tariff Kent freed her fifteen hundred years ago and promised to return with evidence within three hundred years.

Mu You and Herbalist learned how Kent escaped Eden with Taurus and found the Black Angel, the Vaccine, and a Logic Virus meant to destroy Ava. Mu You gave the only dose of Vaccine to Herbalist and realized he might control his game character in Eden to carry out Kent’s plan.

• Taurus recounted how Kent helped Eden’s Mechanical People, later escaped with her, and vanished while drawing their pursuers away with the Mechanical Heart.
• Taurus led Mu You and Herbalist to the concealed Black Angel, a damaged offensive Primordial Battle Armor that could merge with the Silver Angel.
• Taurus showed them Kent’s hidden supplies: a Vaccine, a Logic Virus, and a device that concealed the cavern and blocked Mechanical People’s signals.
• Kent’s recording instructed the inheritor of the Mechanical Heart to use the Black Angel to reach Eden’s Central Control Room and inject the Logic Virus into Ava’s mainframe.
• Kent revealed that he had left Taurus, whose name was Mercury, behind to guard the Black Angel and the virus; Taurus accepted his reason and left the cavern.
• Mu You gave the only dose of Vaccine to Herbalist and concluded that he could enter Eden by controlling his game character.

Mu You arranged for the Administrators to connect his consciousness to his game character when it came online, while Chun Li recovered her memories and discovered the Mechanical People were sending Eden’s adults to a false Hibernation Program. Chun Li found the system’s equipment and activated the black cube, and Mu You began the attack in the Abyss as the Herbalist followed the Black Angel Armor downward.

• Mu You asked the Administrators to connect him directly to his game character if it came online, and he ordered them to keep the Mechanical People pinned down near Rainbow Light City.
• A Mechanical Person removed a hidden bug from Chun Li, restoring her memories of the past four days, and she learned that Eden’s adults had been taken for the Hibernation Program.
• Chun Li confronted Granny Yao, who admitted that many Pandaren suspected the truth but accepted the Mechanical People’s plan, and Chun Li vowed to save them.
• Chun Li returned to her house, found the system’s equipment beneath an invisible helmet, and called to the system through the black cube.
• Mu You received a signal from World-Creation Mountain and activated the Disc Device to block signals across the Abyss, while the Herbalist dropped the Black Angel Armor into the pit and jumped after it.

Chun Li used the conscious helmet and Primordial components to fight the Mechanical People attacking the Hibernation Zone, but was overwhelmed until Mu You took control of the Mechanical Heart. As Mu You outfitted the mecha with Black Angel armor, the Herbalist arrived to help confront the Mechanical People.

• Chun Li put on the helmet and arrived at the Hibernation Zone, declaring herself Masked Hero Lili and attacking the Mechanical People.
• Chun Li initially fought off the machines, but their coordinated encirclement overwhelmed her and depleted the Silver Angel Wings’ protection.
• Mu You’s dagger deflected a missile, and he connected to the Mechanical Heart, taking control of Chun Li’s mecha and breaking through the surrounding attackers.
• A rift opened in the sky, and the Mechanical People’s antiaircraft barrage struck the falling Black Angel armor while the Herbalist teleported clear.
• Mu You collected the Black Angel components and equipped them, then joined the Herbalist as they faced the approaching Mechanical People.

Mu You and the Herbalist fought through the Mechanical People Territory toward the Control Room, testing the Black Angel’s abilities and learning how its power and the Vaccine consumed lifespan. Granny Yao guided them toward their target after asking Mu You to take Chun Li away, while the Mechanical People deployed eight powerful armors—including black and white angel-like suits—to stop them.

• The Herbalist disrupted the Mechanical People’s charge with Heavenly Thunder Net while Mu You tested the Black Angel’s weapons and used Angel Annihilation with the Herbalist’s Black Hole to crush hundreds of enemies.
• Mu You and the Herbalist cut through the remaining Mechanical People, discovered that intense Vaccine-powered combat rapidly consumed lifespan, and learned Chun Li had more than three thousand years remaining.
• Chun Li explained that the Mechanical People replenished lifespan before hibernation, leading Mu You to suspect that the stored lifespan fueled the Vaccine and the Extinction Units.
• Granny Yao offered to lead Mu You, the Herbalist, and Chun Li to the Control Room on the condition that they take Chun Li away, and Mu You agreed.
• As the group fought toward the Control Room, eight fast, powerful armors arrived and resisted Mu You’s corrosion shells; he recognized familiar black and white angel-like designs among them.

Mu You and the Herbalist fought Ava’s eight replica Primordial Battle Armors, using Mu You’s Pocket Watch to counter their attacks and learning that a Firefly could revive damaged replicas. They split up to target Dusk and Firefly, but the Herbalist’s attempt to kill the healer drew in Silver Angel, and he trapped both with a Black Hole before blasting them apart with an enhanced Wind Burial Cannon.

• Mu You used the Pocket Watch to rewind the Roulette Doll’s attack until its wheel landed on zero, then killed the Chameleon replica after rewinding to avoid its ambush.
• Dusk’s sniper fire interrupted Mu You’s attack on Green Peak Bird, while the Herbalist struggled against Silver Angel, Ghost Spider, and Dusk before Mu You joined him and cut through the spider silk.
• Mu You and the Herbalist identified Firefly as the healer sustaining the replicas and agreed to target it and Dusk while dealing with the other battle armors one at a time.
• Mu You flew straight to Dusk and destroyed it with Mach Rush and a Vulcan Cannon shot as the Herbalist teleported toward Firefly.
• Silver Angel protected Firefly from the Herbalist’s attack, but the Herbalist trapped both replicas with a Black Hole and shredded them with an enhanced Wind Burial Cannon.