After he and ZhongLi are done fishing and having fun outside, they return to the palace.
Before they head to the kitchen, Woopino decides to go upstairs to get his Mike Wasowski plush, feeling like to keep it close when they cook and have dinner later.

As he walks inside the room, he finds the bed a complete mess. He approaches it to check for his plush. He sees one of its arms sticking from under the bed and pulls it out, but he also notices that the silken sheets and blankets are all dirty of blood and mysterious white stains. Of course he doesn't know what the latter are, but the blood upsets him beyond any measure. He starts to cry.

Beside wanting to lure the crew of the Astral Express to the place for their own plans, the Stellaron Hunters have something else in mind too.
Accessing the Xianzhou Luofu isn't as easy as it is to land on planets. The plan of the Stellaron Hunters is to give Cloud Knights and the powerful security of the place a hard time, by sending multiple people all in the same time and in different locations all over the fleet.
With the Trailbrazers joining too, they expect the security to split and go haywire, making it harder for them to locate the actual Stellaron Hunters.

Kafka gathers all their "guests" from Nortrig for the purpose. Each one of them is teleported in a different location all over the Xianzhou Luofu, far from each others too.
WooPil, in particular, is sent straight in the middle of Exalting Sanctum. Maybe out of pity since he is just a child and they count that nobody would harm him, or just to cause the bigger mess without caring, hard to figure out what is in Kafka's heart.

Needless to say, when he appears out of nowhere, in the middle of the crowd, when there is already a situation of emergency due to the Stellaron itself… the people don't take it very positively.
They hurry to warn the Cloud Knights to look into the matter.
WooPil gets scared by the reactions of the people, especially when he sees a bunch of big, armed men running towards him.
He instinctively runs to sneak and crouch among the barrels of a tavern nearby, in a clumsy attempt to hide, but everyone, including the guards, saw him.

The Cloud Knights reach him in no time and since they need to understand the situation, why and how an outlander little child appeared out of nowhere in their most secured ship, one of them aims to take away the backpack from him, to check the content.
WooPil struggles desperately to not let the stranger "steal" his backpack, but there is nothing he can do against an adult. He even ends up half-accidentally hit on the face by the Cloud Knight, which causes him a black eye.
After that, the little kitsune takes profit of the moment of awkwardness to slip away from the guards. But this time, he manages to turn into his super tiny version, which allows him to literally disappear and hide without being tracked.

WooPil ends up falling asleep almost right away, due to narcolepsy, and wakes up many hours later, from the cold of the night. There is not a sound anymore and everything is dark, which scares him a lot, but he is also starving and can't remain hidden there forever.
Hesitantly and silently, he crawls out of the empty pot inside of which he had taken shelter and once out, he returns of his original form. It's rare that he manages to control his power so well, but for once, it turned out handy.

WooPil sneaks around in the square of the Exalting Sanctum and returns to that same tavern he had seen earlier, that is now closed and deserted.
Not knowing how else to get any food now that he was deprived of his backpack, he starts to search the ground around the tables, to find any scrap that could have fallen there.
He tends to have very strong hunger attacks that make him desperate quickly.

— WooPil.
He is 11. His back story changes but I won't write about it.
He and Chan never dated.
What is inside his soul makes it extremely difficult for him to make a direct use of magic, regardless his first element is magic. He has not yet learnt to make his tail invisible due to it.

— Chan.
All the flopped plots never happened.
He and Cyno don't know they are demigods, were never in the Halls and never met the gods directly.
Chan started his job to map Nortrig and find treasures to sell to auction organisers.
He can multiply food and average objects with magic but not money, or the inflation would destroy the economies.

— Cyno.
Although he never officially worked as a guard, he often earns money by taking bounties on them, to track down criminals they failed to catch. He is not short on money.

— Skylar.
His plot with the demigods never occurred. Only himself, Daniel and the Gods know of their situation and circumstances.

— Others.
• TiHao died in the final battle together with the other old characters and other avatars.
• Haolin died even before that and never came back.
• KiNo never existed.
• Tino never existed.

Once they return on the starship, he receives the necklace Chan managed to hand to Miko and wears it right away.
He doesn't know that it has a device in it, he wears it because it has the geo symbol and he still worships Rex Lapis. Plus, he would never not valorise a gift, no matter the situation.

He is quite down that they didn't manage to meet Chan and the others in the water world. He remains by himself for some hours. When he is done depressing himself, he ends up messing around in Silver Wolf's room. They are pretty much roommates by now.
And that's how he accidentally accesses the Simulated Universe from the hacker's computer.
He has no idea what that is, but guesses it must be some super real life simulation videogame.

Almost as soon as he enters the SU, he meets Daniel. But this time, the other is, strangely, in a rather cute and reassuring form.
Daniel accompanies WooPil throughout the first domains, defeating enemies in his place, thus safely escorting him to the "final boss". — ever since Daniel started messing up with it, the SU became a chaotic mess, that no longer follows the same logics and rules as in game.
This version of SU for WooPil was surprisingly not scary and it didn't have any grim chest full of spiders, but rather, full of candies and cute things. Red flags.

As usual, before entering the final domain, Daniel disappears. And not because he has to interpret the final boss.
WooPil, now alone, finds himself in Guili plains. He doesn't know what place that is, but he recognizes that it must be somewhere in Liyue.
There is a big and majestic palace nearby and no corpses nor anything gruesome. It even looks like the palace is being inhabited.

WooPil curiously approaches the unguarded entrance and pushes the door, that is open.
To his absolute shock, he finds ZhongLi inside. But he doesn't look like the usual ZhongLi he knows, he is dressed much different from his current style and his tone and behaviour are very different too.

* Another path of the Simulated Universe will less the character to that same "final boss" where they will be able to meet WooPil.
It can be someone from either side, but probably better if it's someone from the Express, so he can tell them an important information.

He returns to the palace before it gets dark, as usual. He hopes nobody noticed that he went out alone — he doesn't know there are Jiwon's foxes following him around.
While he heads back to his residence, he notices there is a little fuss among the servants. He sees many of them hurrying around, clearly something out of ordinary happened.

He ends up overhearing something from a guard, saying to another that two servants were poisoned.
WooPil's heart skips a beat. His mind goes immediately to the two servants who were talking ill of him, even if he has no certainty it could really be them. But case wants that they are indeed the ones who were poisoned. Not a deadly poison, they are both alive, but they both feel terribly sick and are receiving medical treatment.

He can't help but feel worried. What if it's really those two and he ends up a suspect because they talked that way about him? That's the kind of absurd ideas that torment his mind pretty much all the time.
He speeds up to his residence and leans against the door after closing it, also taking his head in hands.
He still has the yellow medication on his face and other parts of his body.