Chapter Summaries

Mu You traveled toward Qubai Mountain and found a moving, radish-shaped plant that Cola identified as a mandrake. They searched the mountainside for it, and Cola warned that its cry could put nearby creatures to sleep.

• Mu You packed supplies, left a note for Xiao Ya and Lin Xue, and hired a taxi to Qubai County Town.
• Mu You used Warhawk to scout the route and saw soldiers and police blocking the entrance to Qubai Mountain.
• Mu You spotted a white radish-like plant running through the forest, paid the driver, and hurried into the woods to find it.
• Mu You changed into the Night Watchman's Skin, put on the Invisibility Cloak, and searched the grassy area where he had seen the plant.
• Mu You brought Cola out of his backpack and asked him to identify the plant.
• Cola identified it as a mandrake and warned Mu You that its cry could put nearby creatures to sleep.

Mu You and Cola found and safely collected a mandrake after its cries nearly hypnotized them. They then spotted a player fighting an armored brown bear, and Mu You weighed whether to intervene before the player was killed.

• Cola found the buried mandrake and pulled it out, causing its cries to knock Cola unconscious and nearly put Mu You to sleep.
• Mu You rewound time with the Pocket Watch, stopped Cola from pulling the mandrake, and pulled it out himself with his ears plugged.
• Mu You put the mandrake in his backpack, where it stopped crying and escaped to burrow into the grass.
• Two young men arrived at the patch and realized an unaffiliated player had disturbed the ground and taken something.
• Mu You and Cola followed Warhawk to a clearing, where they found a player fighting an armored brown bear.
• Mu You watched the badly injured player struggle to defend himself and considered whether to help.

Mu You saved Duanpu from a Storm Bear and helped him kill it, then learned that players had a forum app with guides and tutorials. The discovery left Mu You wondering who had given him the USB drive containing his game.

• The Storm Bear shattered Duanpu’s shield and nearly killed him before Mu You blasted it away and struck its hind leg with the Bone-Shattering Knife.
• Mu You teleported out of the bear’s attack and peppered it with arrows while Duanpu healed and joined the fight.
• Mu You and Duanpu coordinated their attacks until Mu You landed the final arrows and killed the level 7 Storm Bear.
• Duanpu offered Mu You both valuable bear paws, but Mu You accepted only one and planned to collect the rest of the carcass later.
• Duanpu asked to add Mu You through the player forum, and Mu You learned that the forum app came with the game download.
• Mu You realized his copied game files lacked the forum app and wondered who had left him the USB drive.

Mu You escaped the Abnormal Investigation Bureau and ventured deeper into the mountains to hunt magical creatures. He and Cola entered a strange, web-covered area, and Mu You suspected something had been influencing their minds.

• Duanpu told Mu You about the player forum and invited him to explore together, but the Abnormal Investigation Bureau arrived and ordered them to leave.
• The bureau warned that a newly discovered A-rank anomaly site lay nearby and threatened to arrest anyone who stayed.
• Mu You teleported away with the brown bear's corpse before the bureau could stop him.
• Mu You continued hunting monsters in the forest while Cola complained about the sticky, filthy surroundings.
• Mu You noticed the dense webs, secretions, eggs, and remains around them and wondered whether something had manipulated their minds to lead them there.

Mu You and Cola discovered a deadly spider nest and escaped a vast swarm of newly hatched spiders, but Mu You stopped to search for the Broodmother Spider. As the swarm closed in, the Fool Card began glowing and time slowed around him.

• Mu You found the recently dead skeletons of two enforcers and recovered their equipment, including a warning that the area was a Grade A Anomaly Site and a creature detector.
• Mu You activated the detector, but its red display concealed the danger: countless spiders hatched around him and Cola, who flattened the first spider.
• Mu You teleported away with Cola, but the spiders pursued them, and Cola explained that a Broodmother Spider controlled the swarm.
• Mu You used Apparition and increased his Agility while fleeing, but spiders surged in from both behind and ahead.
• Mu You stopped on a boulder, deciding they had to find and kill the Broodmother Spider before his Magic Power ran out.
• Time slowed around Mu You, and the Fool Card in his pocket began to glow.

Mu You used the Fool card’s time barrier to slaughter the swarm of spiders, then killed the Broodmother Spider and discovered a rare mutated spider egg. He left the battle exhausted but much stronger, with the Gluttonous Demon Spider egg in hand.

• Mu You realized his stats and reckless choice had activated the Fool Barrier, giving him an hour of slowed time to fight.
• Mu You fired more than ten thousand arrows inside the barrier, killing tens of thousands of spiders before the barrier ended.
• Mu You found that the game had disconnected inside the barrier, then used his experience to level up twice and redistribute his stats.
• The Broodmother Spider arrived and Mu You killed it with help from Cola’s illusions.
• Mu You found a pink egg among the Broodmother Spider’s eggs and identified it as a rare Gluttonous Demon Spider that could grow by devouring monsters.

Mu You contracted the Gluttonous Demon Spider, whose Devour ability consumed the remains of the spider nest and raised it to level 1. He then tracked the mind-controlling creature into the forest, while Zhang Yang’s force discovered that the anomaly site had already been cleared.

• Mu You converted the Gluttonous Demon Spider egg into a Familiar and activated its Devour ability.
• The Gluttonous Demon Spider consumed the slime and spider remains, reached level 1, and remained incubating.
• Mu You stored the egg in his backpack and set off with Cola to find the mind-controlling creature detected north of them.
• Zhang Yang briefed his team on the dangers of the Broodmother Spider nest and prepared to lead an assault.
• A scout reported that the spider nest was shrinking, and Zhang Yang sent reconnaissance players into the forest.
• The scouts reported that the spiders, eggs, and nest were gone, and Zhang Yang learned someone had cleared the anomaly site.

Mu You and Cola found and captured a Wicked Mother Bird whose gaze could control people, then discovered that its nest held ten Chocobo eggs. Mu You left thrilled by the valuable find and learned that the bird had stolen the eggs to incubate them.

• Cola alerted Mu You to a purple bird near their location, and Mu You spotted it guarding a nest in a tree.
• Mu You tried to knock the bird from its nest with stones, but it controlled him with its gaze until Cola pounced on it and broke its hold.
• Mu You blindfolded the captured bird and climbed up to retrieve its nest, finding ten unusually large eggs inside.
• Cola identified the eggs as Chocobo eggs, and Mu You realized their potential value.
• Cola explained that the bird was a Wicked Mother Bird that stole other birds’ eggs because it liked incubating them.

Mu You kept the Wicked Mother Bird and its eggs in his backpack space, then followed military helicopters to a large battle in the forest. He discovered that the soldiers and three players were fighting the Werewolf, whose weapons he recognized.

• Mu You moved the tree and nest into his backpack space, released the Wicked Mother Bird, and let it continue incubating its eggs there.
• Mu You tried speaking to the bird and warned it not to use its ability, then left the backpack with Cola.
• Mu You and Cola searched the forest for hours but found almost no magical creatures, so Mu You considered going home.
• Military helicopters flew overhead, and a radio transmission announced that a target had been sighted; Mu You followed the helicopters with the Warhawk.
• Mu You saw soldiers and three trench-coated players fighting a Werewolf, then recognized the Werewolf by his Chain Claw and saber.

Mu You and Cola reached the battlefield and discovered that Werewolf and the military were fighting over a Unicorn whose blood could restore lifespan. Mu You chose to try to steal the Unicorn while also seeking a way to make Werewolf use up his last summon, and prepared a plan with Cola.

• Mu You watched Werewolf summon a Sanctuary Knight with a statue, and the knight held off the ten government players while Werewolf attacked the foal.
• Werewolf wounded the foal with his Chain Claw, causing it to grow into a giant Unicorn and leap above the trees.
• Cola explained that Unicorn blood could restore any creature's lifespan, making the Unicorn effectively priceless.
• Mu You and Cola hid near the battlefield and saw the military players begin to overpower the Sanctuary Knight while Werewolf drove the wounded Unicorn toward collapse.
• Mu You decided to prioritize stealing the Unicorn over helping the military kill Werewolf, then called on Cola to carry out a difficult mission.

Zhang Yang’s team struggled to capture the Unicorn while Werewolf overwhelmed them, until a mysterious caller revealed Werewolf’s weakness and a trap beneath a northern tree. The team lured Werewolf into the traps and shot his heart, but he activated a transmitter and shielded the Unicorn as the barrage continued.

• Zhang Yang watched his ten players falter against Werewolf and considered ordering gunfire that could kill the Unicorn.
• A caller claiming to be Goshawk told Zhang Yang that Werewolf’s heart was his weakness and that traps lay beneath the large tree to the north.
• Werewolf defeated the Unicorn, seized it, and stuffed it into a sack as Zhang Yang’s team opened fire.
• Zhang Yang redirected the gunfire to drive Werewolf toward the northern tree, where wooden traps snapped shut around his legs.
• The team fired at Werewolf’s heart, damaging it and weakening his regeneration.
• Werewolf pressed a button on his transmitter instead of using his statue, then shielded the Unicorn with his body.

Mu You rescued the injured Unicorn and escaped the mountain with Cola, while the Black-Robed Man saved the Werewolf and discovered he had been tricked. The Black-Robed Man gave the Werewolf one month to kill a traitor before the Global Open Beta began.

• Mu You used an Air Cannon to free the Unicorn from the military’s encirclement, then chased it through the woods until he knocked it unconscious with a Mandrake and stored it in his backpack.
• Mu You met Cola at the Spider Forest and learned that a Black-Robed Man had rescued the Werewolf with Apparition.
• Mu You decided to leave the mountain quickly, carrying the Unicorn and the Gluttonous Demon Spider in his backpack as the police prepared to search the area.
• The Black-Robed Man gave the Werewolf a healing potion, then revealed that the bundle he had taken contained a Demon Rabbit corpse rather than the Unicorn.
• The Black-Robed Man berated the Werewolf for failing his missions and ordered him to kill a traitor within one month, before the Global Open Beta began.

After escaping Qubai Mountain, Mu You returned to the Pet Shop, where Lin Xue and Xiao Ya had waited up for him. He treated the wounded Unicorn and checked on his other Magical Creatures, then wondered how he would feed the growing menagerie in his backpack.

• Mu You and Cola slipped past the police cordon at Qubai Mountain and made their way back to the Pet Shop.
• Mu You found Lin Xue and Xiao Ya waiting for him; Lin Xue took the sleeping Xiao Ya home and told Mu You his purchases were in the upstairs storeroom.
• Mu You entered his backpack’s interior and cleaned and bandaged the wounded Unicorn, which allowed him to treat it.
• Mu You discovered the Gluttonous Demon Spider had reached level 2 and fed it the stored Bear Corpse to fuel further growth.
• Mu You checked the wary Wicked Mother Bird and wondered what to feed it, the Unicorn, and the future Chocobo.

Mu You reached Mist Mountain in the game and was killed by a powerful Man-Eating Flower. He summoned a stronger Thunder Warhawk, used its lightning attack to defeat the flower, and found its bulb and seeds.

• Mu You arrived at Mist Mountain and encountered a level 11 Man-Eating Flower that killed him and his Warhawk.
• Mu You rewound time and meditated until his crystal overflowed with Magic Power.
• Mu You summoned a level 8 Thunder Warhawk and tested its loud lightning attack on a tree.
• Mu You commanded the Thunder Warhawk to attack the Man-Eating Flower from above until it died.
• Mu You searched the Man-Eating Flower's remains and obtained one bulb and three seeds.

Mu You accepted an old woman’s request to find her missing herb-gatherer grandson and climbed Mist Mountain with the Warhawk, defeating several monsters along the way. Near a cliff, his Pumpkin Lantern revealed signs that an herb gatherer had fallen while picking a plant, possibly uncovering the grandson’s fate.

• Mu You put away the Man-Eating Flower Bulb and Seeds, then accepted the old woman’s quest to find her missing grandson.
• Mu You used the Time Pocket Watch and the Warhawk to defeat mountain monsters, gather materials, and reach level seven.
• Mu You followed a clue revealed by the Pumpkin Lantern to a cliff where an herb gatherer may have fallen while collecting a medicinal herb.
• Mu You wondered whether the fallen herb gatherer was the old woman’s grandson and why he had not returned after a month.

Mu You found the Herbalist’s remains in the swamp and recovered several items, including a new skin that gave him a daily potion-making quest. He left with a Healing Ointment recipe he could use to complete it, but the Herbalist’s spacious backpack was damaged and unusable.

• Mu You searched the swamp for the Herbalist, then used Lucky Dust to brighten his Pumpkin Lantern and locate the corpse.
• Mu You retrieved the Herbalist’s bones and recovered a sickle, a skin, a Healing Ointment recipe, and a damaged backpack.
• Mu You equipped the Herbalist Skin’s quest, which offered one year of lifespan for brewing a potion or ointment each day.
• Mu You realized the sickle could produce herb essence and that the Healing Ointment’s ingredients were easy to obtain.
• Mu You learned that the Herbalist’s Backpack contained a vast sealed space but could not be used because its shell was damaged.

Mu You merged the Herbalist's damaged backpack into his own and discovered the new space contained a flowing stream. At the Farming Elder's cottage, he rewound after seeing the reward for telling her the truth, then put on the Herbalist's skin and chose to knock as her grandson.

• Mu You merged the Herbalist's Backpack with the Night Watchman's Backpack, expanding its capacity and revealing a stream inside the added space.
• Mu You found the Unicorn and Wicked Mother Bird drinking from the stream and bottled some water to have it tested.
• Mu You returned to the Farming Elder's cottage and saw that telling her the Herbalist was dead earned him a Harvest Bull Horn, while leaving her grief-stricken.
• Mu You used the Pocket Watch to rewind, changed into the Herbalist's skin, and discovered its Medicinal Sense talent.
• Mu You chose to wear the Herbalist's skin and knock on the cottage door.

Mu You chose the Herbalist identity, gaining daily meals that restored his stamina and granted attribute points, then gathered herbs before turning to his first real-world potion-brewing attempt. He prepared his basement and considered combining the Fool Card with his Time Pocket Watch, but still needed a way to activate the barrier at home.

• Mu You ate the Farming Elder’s five-color rice porridge, restoring his HP, MP, and action points and gaining one free attribute point.
• Mu You chose the Herbalist identity for its daily meals and long-term benefits, then used his improved herb perception to gather common spiritual plants until his action points ran out.
• Mu You left the game, bought medicinal herbs, gathered his laboratory equipment, and prepared his basement to brew a magic potion.
• Mu You planned to combine the Fool Card’s time-accelerating barrier with his Time Pocket Watch to extend his rewind window, but wondered how to activate the barrier in his safe home.

Mu You tested how to activate the Fool Barrier and used its time-slowing effect to brew a Magic Potion. After 422 failed attempts, he finally produced a stable medicinal paste, but it was black instead of the recipe’s prescribed bright green.

• Mu You tested the Fool Barrier with a handgun and found that a bullet moved too quickly for him to brew a potion before it reached him.
• Mu You built a delayed firing device and discovered that a genuine belief that he was in danger triggered the barrier.
• Mu You prepared potion ingredients and began brewing with meadowsweet, ginseng powder, and distilled water, but the mixture exploded.
• Mu You repeatedly rewound time, found that angelica paired best with meadowsweet, and adjusted his brewing technique through hundreds of attempts.
• On his 422nd attempt, Mu You completed the brewing process without an explosion, producing a portion of black medicinal paste.

Mu You brewed an inferior Healing Ointment that smelled terrible but healed the Unicorn’s wounds. Cola explained that Magic Potions required magical flames, leading Mu You to suspect the Herbalist had a suitable stove at home.

• Mu You brewed a batch of inferior Healing Ointment and applied three batches to the Unicorn, healing all its wounds.
• The Unicorn rushed to the stream to wash off the ointment’s smell, while Mu You wondered how to improve the potion.
• Cola came downstairs after the odor woke him and told Mu You that Magic Potions needed magical flames.
• Cola described Fire Spirits, magic oil lamps, and magic fireplaces as possible sources of magical flames.
• Mu You realized the Herbalist might own a magic stove because he brewed potions to complete his daily task.