Recaps

Han Xiao slaughtered a beast pack in close combat, drawing players’ attention back to the Mechanic Class, while Frenzied Sword arrived and accepted routine missions. The chapter ended as Daojianxiao pressured Frenzied Sword into a PK match, hoping to gain fame and attract Black Phantom’s attention.

• Han Xiao used his armor, roller shoes, and saber to kill the attacking wolves and pythons, impressing the watching players and inspiring Frenzied Sword.
• After the beasts retreated, Han Xiao collected experience and posted his fight’s recording on the forum, where Luosimen argued that the Mechanic Class was still useless.
• Frenzied Sword approached Han Xiao, accepted several gathering missions, and complained that he would rather dance.
• Daojianxiao confronted Frenzied Sword, bragged about his own reputation, and challenged him to a PK match.
• Frenzied Sword hesitated over fighting as a Mechanic, but Daojianxiao pressured him to agree while hoping to catch Black Phantom’s attention.

Han Xiao lent Frenzied Sword an Electrothermal Cutting Glove, which let him defeat Daojianxiao in a brief spar, then rejected Daojianxiao’s request to join him. As Han Xiao prepared to leave Green Valley Town after the players finished changing classes, the story shifted to Luosimen, a frustrated Mechanic who began warning the forums that the class was weak.

• Han Xiao remembered punishing a studio that had withheld his pay and lent Frenzied Sword an Electrothermal Cutting Glove for his duel with Daojianxiao.
• Frenzied Sword killed Daojianxiao with one strike, stunning the spectators and prompting him to ask Han Xiao whether he could buy the glove.
• Han Xiao added the Electrothermal Cutting Gloves to his shop for eighty thousand and fifteen favorability points, then rejected Daojianxiao’s request to join him.
• Han Xiao planned to leave Green Valley Town the next day, while a player posted a video of the spar on the forums.
• Luosimen, a closed-beta player who had chosen the Mechanic Class and learned Basic Weaponry, lost several PK fights and began spamming forum posts calling the class garbage.

Luosimen was banned from the forum after arguing about the Mechanic Class, while Han Xiao noticed the arrival of an Ofmera Family search party in Green Valley Town. He learned that Xiao Rui was searching for Zero and that the family had also heard about Black Phantom, leaving Han Xiao considering how the Ofmera Family might connect to an upcoming storyline.

• Luosimen argued with players defending the Mechanic Class and received a three-day forum ban for insulting language.
• Han Xiao read the forum exchange, then saw Overmela-emblazoned vehicles arrive at Green Valley Town as Bashas welcomed them.
• Xiao Rui, searching for Zero on behalf of Xiao Jin, rested in Green Valley Town and learned about the refugees and Black Phantom.
• Liu Cheng assured Xiao Rui that he could protect him even from Black Phantom.
• Han Xiao noticed the town's lookouts watching him and recalled that the Ofmera Family was tied to a wanderer warlords side storyline.

Han Xiao received the Green Valley Town Invasion Battle quest and used the approaching conflict to seek contact with Lü Cheng, who could lead him to four rare blueprints. He stopped Lü Cheng and Bashas from fighting, leaving the players astonished by his influence over both warlords.

• Han Xiao spent experience to max out three combat skills, gained three potential points, and obtained a portable Sunworm flamethrower blueprint.
• A player reported Lü Cheng's approaching army, and Han Xiao accepted the invasion quest while deciding to look for Lü Cheng.
• Bashas ordered the players to defend Green Valley Town, while Lü Cheng brought an armored force to take the town.
• Lü Cheng hesitated to attack the vagrants defending the town, and Bashas prepared to order a counterattack.
• Han Xiao walked between the two sides and told them to postpone the fight, prompting both Bashas and Lü Cheng to lower their troops' guns.

Han Xiao offered to help Lü Cheng resolve the refugee crisis and used Frenzied Sword to spread news that he had joined Lü Cheng’s faction. The announcement drew players to the faction, and Han Xiao recruited Meat Bun Hits Dog as an assistant and potential channel for influencing players.

• Han Xiao told Lü Cheng he would help persuade the refugees, and Lü Cheng agreed to leave the problem to him.
• Han Xiao gave Frenzied Sword the mission [Spread the Word], prompting players to hear that Black Phantom had joined Lü Cheng’s faction.
• Players reconsidered their choices and rushed to Lü Cheng’s camp, while Meat Bun Hits Dog joined first to film Han Xiao.
• Han Xiao invited Meat Bun Hits Dog to become his assistant, gave him a follow mission and a phone, and planned to use his videos to communicate with players.
• Han Xiao considered Frenzied Saber, Maple Moon, and Meat Bun part of his backup team and planned to recruit more elite players.

Bashas prepared Green Valley Town to fight Lü Cheng despite the defection of most of the drifters and Black Phantom’s support for Lü Cheng. During the assault, Liu Cheng intercepted Han Xiao and revealed an Esper ability that countered firearms, leaving Han Xiao badly struck as their fight began.

• Bashas learned that Black Phantom was helping Lü Cheng, but Xiao Rui persuaded him to order Green Valley Town’s forces to fight while arranging a possible retreat.
• Lü Cheng thanked Han Xiao for persuading most of the drifters to join him, and Han Xiao said they would fight without being ordered to.
• Lü Cheng’s troops and players launched a nighttime assault on Green Valley Town while Han Xiao watched from the sidelines.
• Liu Cheng charged Han Xiao and absorbed his bullets’ kinetic energy, causing them to deal no damage.
• Han Xiao used poison gas and electromagnetic skates to evade Liu Cheng, but Liu Cheng charged through the gas and knocked him into several players.

Han Xiao battled Liu Cheng, whose kinetic-energy ability turned the soldiers’ gunfire into a powerful weapon against him. Han Xiao exploited Liu Cheng’s need to defend Green Valley Town and blinded and badly burned him, then pursued him into the woods.

• Han Xiao struggled against Liu Cheng’s kinetic-energy-enhanced attacks and tried to damage him with poison gas and heated gloves.
• Liu Cheng absorbed gunfire from the combat vehicles and used the accumulated energy to send Han Xiao crashing into a vehicle.
• Han Xiao attacked the guards at Green Valley Town to draw Liu Cheng away from the soldiers, but Liu Cheng feigned exhaustion and struck at him.
• Han Xiao evaded Liu Cheng’s knee with his electromagnetic roller skates and fired a Light-Shaking Bullet into Liu Cheng’s eye.
• Han Xiao used [Overload] and [Willpower Burning] to burn Liu Cheng’s face, then chased the injured bodyguard into the woods.

Han Xiao killed Liu Cheng, pursued the fleeing Xiao Rui and Bashas, and learned that his original body had belonged to the Ofmera Family. He rejected the family connection, killed Xiao Rui, and left after burning the bodies.

• Han Xiao killed Liu Cheng and returned to Green Valley Town, where he found that Bashas and Xiao Rui had fled.
• Han Xiao caught up with their vehicle after it crashed, killed the four armed guards, and shot Bashas when Bashas asked to die.
• Xiao Rui showed Han Xiao evidence that his original body was Xiao Han, the son of Xiao Jin of the Ofmera Family.
• Han Xiao let Xiao Rui go, then shot him from behind and decided he would not inherit his original body's family ties.
• Han Xiao burned the corpses and left, thinking that his family was not in this world.

Xiao Jin learned that Black Phantom had helped Lü Cheng take Green Valley Town and warned Delo against provoking the assassin. After the battle, Han Xiao encouraged Lü Cheng to recruit the reviving wanderers to rebuild the town, while Meat Bun Hits Dog began planning a video about Black Phantom.

• Xiao Jin reported that Lü Cheng and Black Phantom had attacked Green Valley Town, and Delo ordered him to investigate Black Phantom without provoking him.
• Delo told Xiao Jin to deal with his son and cut ties to Germinal before war began.
• Lü Cheng occupied Green Valley Town, reassured its residents, and Han Xiao collected mission experience alongside Frenzied Sword and Meat Bun Hits Dog.
• Meat Bun Hits Dog learned from Frenzied Sword that Han Xiao had served in Stardragon and invited him to help make a video about Black Phantom.
• Han Xiao told Lü Cheng he had killed Bashas, then advised him to treat the reviving wanderers as mercenaries and use them to rebuild Green Valley Town.

Han Xiao traveled with Lü Cheng toward Black Pine and learned how superhumans had imposed a rough moral code on the wilderness after the Laopote Massacre. He recalled a repeatable boss and dungeon mechanics before the convoy reached Lü Cheng’s settlement.

• Han Xiao agreed to visit Black Pine with Lü Cheng, while players in Green Valley Town kept their missions and watched him depart.
• On the drive, Han Xiao asked why Lü Cheng had given Bashas time to prepare, and Lü Cheng explained that he would not slaughter defenseless refugees.
• Lü Cheng recounted the Laopote Massacre and how a superhuman later killed the warlord responsible and hundreds of mercenaries, deterring future massacres.
• Han Xiao explained that powerful self-styled heroes enforced a crude moral code, then remembered the mutated beast-king boss that could appear at Laopote’s ruins.
• Han Xiao considered the risks and uses of Dungeon Crystals and decided not to try one.
• After several hours, the convoy reached the enormous Black Pine settlement, and Lü Cheng welcomed Han Xiao.

Han Xiao visited the Black Pine settlement, discovered its Stone Spot Plague outbreak, and left Frenzied Sword and Meat Bun Hits Dog to investigate and contain it. He then prepared to travel onward, repairing his equipment and building new machines in Black Pine’s arsenal workshop.

• Lü Cheng showed Han Xiao and his companions Black Pine’s quarantine zone, where guards killed an infected resident who tried to escape.
• Han Xiao, Frenzied Sword, and Meat Bun Hits Dog received a mission to find the plague’s source, contain its spread, and cure the patients.
• Han Xiao arranged to borrow a workshop and materials, then assigned Frenzied Sword and Meat Bun Hits Dog long-term missions to handle the plague and improve their standing with Black Pine.
• After the banquet, Han Xiao arranged transport for his next trip and began repairing his armor, replenishing supplies, and manufacturing a Sunworm portable flamethrower.

Han Xiao negotiated with Lei Zhenyu, a retired mechanical master secretly sent by Old Man Lü to protect Lü Cheng, and agreed to trade a newly made Ghost Gauss Sniping Rifle for one of Lei Zhenyu’s advanced machines. Lei Zhenyu showed him four pieces of nanotechnology equipment, leaving Han Xiao to choose one.

• Han Xiao strapped on the Sunworm and considered integrating it into his planned light mecha.
• Lei Zhenyu offered to trade his guidance for Han Xiao’s Ghost Gauss Sniping Rifle, but Han Xiao demanded Advanced Knowledge instead.
• Han Xiao recalled that Lei Zhenyu was secretly protecting Lü Cheng for Old Man Lü and that his departure would help trigger the four-blueprint mission.
• Lei Zhenyu refused to teach Advanced Knowledge but offered one of his machines in exchange for a new rifle after learning Han Xiao had made the weapon himself.
• Lei Zhenyu showed Han Xiao four advanced nanotechnology machines: Nurse Type I biological particles, a U9 Colloidal Bulletproof Membrane, Femilo condensate, and PE-0 nano artificial fiber.

Han Xiao traded a Ghost Gauss Sniping Rifle for PE-0 nano artificial fiber, a key material for his Viper Light Mecha, and arranged to buy a Bonfire small reactor. After leaving Black Pine, he began assembling his original mecha while traveling to visit other newbie villages.

• Han Xiao exchanged a newly made Ghost Gauss Sniping Rifle with Lei Zhenyu for PE-0 nano artificial fiber and asked him to help purchase a Bonfire small reactor.
• Han Xiao gave Frenzied Sword two enhanced Kolog SPX handguns and urged him to learn melee skills before departing Black Pine.
• Lü Cheng ordered his assistant to look after Frenzied Sword and Meat Bun Hits Dog and investigate the strange refugees in Green Valley Town.
• Han Xiao flew to a Farrian base and boarded a transport plane to continue to the next newbie village.
• Han Xiao began building his original mecha aboard the plane, using his memories of other designs to plan its modules.

Han Xiao finished visiting the Southern Continent’s novice villages and earned a huge amount of experience, but his next class-change mission required five high-quality machines that would be difficult to produce. He spent much of his gains improving his skills, then flew toward the Western Continent to meet players and pursue a hidden mission.

• Han Xiao planned his mecha and other combat systems, then realized the Inhuman Incident was about to begin.
• Han Xiao visited the remaining three Southern Continent novice villages, attracting players and earning 9.023 million experience through class changes and skill sales.
• Han Xiao raised Apprentice Mechanic to level 15, but his class-change mission required five purple-quality machines with an energy level rating of at least 60.
• Han Xiao spent experience maxing Intermediate Mechanical Affinity and Basic Refinement, then chose the Western Continent as his next destination.
• Antonov warned Han Xiao to stay cautious in Red Maple and Ordifenna, and Han Xiao’s plane departed for the Western Continent.
• Players from other continents envied the Southern Continent players for having access to Black Phantom.

Bennett learned that Black Phantom had gone to the Western Continent and decided to use him to pressure Red Maple into supporting the Sanctuary Plan. Meanwhile, Germinal scientist Cerberus discovered that Ilex could die and reappear, and Ilex wondered whether to reveal the truth about players.

• Bennett found that he could not reach Black Phantom and decided to have him make Bennett’s position clear to Red Maple.
• Ilex remained confined by Germinal for more than twenty days, unable to level up while waiting for his punishment to end.
• Cerberus reviewed records of Ilex vanishing and reappearing, a phenomenon also observed among thousands of people in wanderer settlements.
• Cerberus ordered Ilex to cooperate with surgery, and Ilex died on the operating table before respawning in his room ten seconds later.
• Cerberus watched Ilex return alive and asked what kind of creatures people like him were, while Ilex considered telling Cerberus the truth.

Cerberus investigated the Inhuman Phenomenon, and Germinal’s leader ordered Inhumans captured for research and brainwashing. On the Western Continent, Han Xiao arrived to develop his Viper Mech and learned that the Sanctuary Plan had been accelerated.

• Ilex discovered that the system changed his words whenever he tried to reveal information about reality, while Cerberus collected his blood and began investigating the Inhuman Phenomenon.
• Cerberus studied the Pan-Cosmic Civilization Contact Treaty, documented the Inhumans’ unusual traits, and submitted his report to Germinal’s leader.
• Germinal’s leader recognized that Inhumans could be brainwashed and ordered them hunted on the Andia Continent, while blaming Zero for the lost opportunity to capture them elsewhere.
• Han Xiao arrived at Farrian’s base on the Western Continent to collect a Bonfire miniature reactor and visit beginner villages for experience as he continued building the Viper Mech.
• Han Xiao contacted Bennett about a Blood Pact Union bounty and learned that Germinal’s Sanctuary Plan had been moved forward after Red Maple refused to provide material aid.

Han Xiao arrived at a beginner village on the Western Continent and taught players the [Energy Refinement Method], prompting speculation that he was a developer-created newbie guide. The Southern Continent’s players and the Gods Guild realized their early advantage had faded, while players across Planet Aquamarine eagerly awaited his next visit.

• After speaking with Bennett, Han Xiao accepted the Dark Net mission to leave evidence of five corrupt Red Maple officials’ wrongdoing in their residences.
• Han Xiao’s transport plane landed near a Western Continent beginner village, where players recognized Black Phantom and crowded around him.
• Poseidon learned that Black Phantom had appeared on the Western Continent and worried that the Gods Guild’s Southern Continent advantage would disappear.
• Jupiter and the Gods Guild’s core members discovered Han Xiao had taught [Energy Refinement Method], a skill he had not taught on the Southern Continent, and lamented their bad luck.
• Western Continent players celebrated Han Xiao’s arrival, spread theories that he was a newbie guide, and rushed to learn [Energy Refinement Method].

Han Xiao capitalized on players’ need for the Energy Refinement Method, earning experience while giving Huaxia’s players an early advantage. Meanwhile, Meat Bun Hits Dog’s video about Black Phantom became a hit, deepening players’ interest in Han Xiao’s identity and past.

• Han Xiao taught the Energy Refinement Method to level-ten players for experience, knowing it gave them an advantage before their first advancement.
• Meat Bun Hits Dog released the first episode of Galaxy Adventure Diary, focusing on Black Phantom and drawing a growing audience.
• Meat Bun Hits Dog and Frenzied Saber discussed Han Xiao’s former ties to Stardragon, his connections to powerful factions, his strength, and his conflict with Germinal.
• Meat Bun Hits Dog showed footage of Han Xiao’s interactions with players, his rewards, and the missions available in Black Pine.
• The video became a major hit, and players increasingly regarded Han Xiao as an important NPC and speculated about his origins.

Han Xiao traveled to Xivler to buy a Bonfire small reactor, but discovered that Ordifenna agents had turned the café where he was waiting into a surveillance site. A mission warned him that the seller was a wanted fugitive and Han Xiao had been caught up in the pursuit, leaving him to decide how to handle the danger.

• Han Xiao arranged with the secretive seller to exchange payment for the Bonfire small reactor in Xivler in three days.
• Ordifenna agents surrounded several blocks after tracing a call and prepared to capture a fugitive expected to meet a trading partner.
• Han Xiao entered Ordifenna with a smuggler, disguised his appearance, and went to seat seven in a roadside café to await the seller.
• Han Xiao noticed suspicious behavior among people watching the café and received the Grade D mission Implicated, which required him to escape Ordifenna's pursuit.
• Han Xiao decided to stay at the café because leaving might draw attention and he still wanted the reactor.

Han Xiao completed the reactor deal and fought his way through Ordifenna’s pursuit. After losing his pursuers’ drones and vehicles, he was ambushed by Mag Leslie, a powerful gunner.

• Han Xiao bought the Bonfire Miniature Reactor, then shot the Ordifenna agents watching the deal and fled as the seller escaped in another direction.
• Ordifenna agents pursued Han Xiao, but he used his armor, weapons, Sunworm’s [Concentrated Jet], and roller shoes to escape their attacks.
• Han Xiao evaded Ordifenna’s special forces, stunned them with a Sonic Boom Grenade, and shot down the surveillance drones tracking him.
• Ordifenna’s commander ordered Mag Leslie to stop Han Xiao after the other squad lost the seller.
• Mag Leslie ambushed Han Xiao with an explosive shotgun blast, and Han Xiao identified him as a level 56 gunner.

Han Xiao fought Mag, an Ordifenna Gunner, and wounded him with a powerful sniper shot before escaping the city. Ordifenna identified the buyer's subordinate as Black Phantom and began investigating the buyer's identity.

• Han Xiao defended his roller shoes from Mag's fire and exchanged shots with him while retreating.
• Mag pinned Han Xiao against a wall with a barrage, but Han Xiao used the Repulsion Field Driver to escape the crater and shoot through Mag's bulletproof vest.
• Han Xiao withdrew as reinforcements approached, and Mag followed cautiously before losing him in the city's streets and alleys.
• Ordifenna agents searched for Han Xiao and matched his fighting style to Black Phantom, while Mag received medical treatment.
• Ordifenna's intelligence leaders reviewed the intercepted call and message and realized Black Phantom had been sent by the buyer.

After escaping Ordifenna’s agents and crossing the border, Han Xiao learned that his actions had caused trouble for Bennett but also completed a hidden requirement. He discovered the rescued merchant was Dean, gained access to his unusual goods, and received Dean’s Character Summon Card and a rare dungeon crystal.

• Han Xiao disguised himself, evaded the checkpoint search, and slipped out of Xivler with the smuggler’s help.
• Bennett called Han Xiao to complain that Ordifenna had contacted the organization’s leadership to condemn them and demand compensation.
• Han Xiao completed the hidden requirement to hold off Mag and help the mysterious merchant escape, earning experience, Dean’s favor, a Character Summon Card, and a level 30 Dungeon Crystal.
• The merchant introduced himself as Dean and offered Han Xiao a twenty percent discount on his unusual goods; they arranged to exchange selected machines in three days.
• Han Xiao examined Dean’s Character Summon Card and learned it granted the presence-suppression ability “You Can’t See Me.”

Han Xiao completed the Viper Kai, a customized light mech that strengthened his combat abilities, and headed to the Laopote Massacre site to test it. There, independent superheroes Yang Dian and Nid entered the beast-infested restricted zone to search for a missing exploration team.

• Han Xiao left the Olena Infiltration Plan dungeon crystal unused and bought the materials for his mech from Dean's men.
• Han Xiao spent five days building and naming his original blueprint Light Mech - Viper Modified, the Viper Kai.
• Han Xiao reviewed the Viper Kai's weapons, protective features, and combat enhancements, then decided to test it at the Laopote Massacre site.
• Yang Dian and Nid surveyed the mutated beasts at the restricted zone's edge and set out on foot to find the missing exploration team.

Han Xiao searched the forbidden zone for its beast king while using the Viper Kai mech suit and spider probes to map the area. He spotted a giant white lion as Yang Dian and Nid became trapped in a fissure beneath a broken cliff, with beasts gathering outside.

• Han Xiao entered the forbidden zone in the Viper Kai, scanned its creatures, and used stealth to avoid a group of bone-spiked beasts.
• Han Xiao sent spider probes toward the Laopote Ruins and saw Yang Dian and Nid flee from a herd of beasts.
• A giant white lion charged through the beasts, and Han Xiao recognized it as a likely beast king.
• Yang Dian and Nid ran toward a fissure, but the lion struck Yang Dian and broke his arm and several ribs before Nid dragged him inside.
• The beasts clawed at the fissure while Yang Dian treated his wounds and Nid recovered his strength.
• The white lion roared and began attacking the other beasts, triggering a fight among the herd.

Han Xiao rescued Yang Dian and Nid from the Mutant White Lion King and fought the beast using the Viper Kai mech. The battle continued as the two men watched, amazed by the mech’s power.

• Yang Dian and Nid prepared to fight the white lion together rather than sacrifice one of them as bait.
• Han Xiao shot the Mutant White Lion King in the left eye, drawing it away from the fissure where Yang Dian and Nid were trapped.
• Han Xiao used the Viper Kai to retreat while sniping, then switched to combat mode when the lion closed in.
• Han Xiao met the Mutant White Lion King head-on, drove it back, and struck it down with a powerful kick.
• Han Xiao continued attacking with the mech’s gauntlets and Sunworm while Yang Dian and Nid watched, unable to join the fight.