Recaps

Huangfu Miaomiao met Xiao Shu at Guangshan City's port and paid for both of their passage to Mogu. As the Players were sealed inside a Container to be loaded onto a ship, she thought of Feng Ling and hoped her mission would go smoothly.

• Huangfu Miaomiao reached the port and met Xiao Shu, who was waiting for her near the yellow Containers.
• Xiao Shu told Huangfu Miaomiao that they were the last two teammates still traveling to Mogu and complained about how difficult it was to earn Points.
• Xiao Shu tried to bargain with the burly man for two ship spots, but the man demanded forty Points and refused to lower the price.
• Huangfu Miaomiao paid forty Points for both fares, and she and Xiao Shu entered the Container.
• The burly man warned the Players to stay quiet, then workers sealed the Container, leaving Huangfu Miaomiao to think of Feng Ling and pray her mission went smoothly.

Huangfu Miaomiao and Xiao Shu reached Mogu by lifeboat and began a quest to capture Golden Deer Stag Beetles. Meanwhile, Ling Feiran decided to volunteer at the Quarantine Zone, and Feng Ling planned to find her Cards to help her escape danger.

• Huangfu Miaomiao endured a rough, overcrowded lifeboat ride from the freighter to Mogu with Xiao Shu and the other Players.
• After landing, Huangfu Miaomiao and Xiao Shu received a Zone Quest to capture seven Golden Deer Stag Beetles and headed toward the woods.
• Ling Feiran told Feng Ling she planned to volunteer at the Quarantine Zone, and Feng Ling warned her about the dangers before supporting her decision.
• Feng Ling asked Li Qing about finding Ling Feiran low-Corruption escape Cards, then decided to apply to the Supervisor General Bureau for Cards.

Feng Ling negotiated with Su Yuqing for a Wraith Card, and he secured the Research Institute’s approval for a two-for-one exchange. Su Yuqing then recruited her as a Technical Advisor for an urgent international operation against a rapidly growing Locust Plague, leaving Feng Ling worried that she would have to postpone taking Feifei to the Quarantine Zone.

• Feng Ling proposed trading two Intermediate Cards or promising a future Labyrinth Boss Card for the Wraith Card, and Su Yuqing explained that the Research Institute controlled the Card supply.
• Su Yuqing contacted his superiors and Dou Shuran, who helped secure approval for Feng Ling’s two-for-one exchange, provided an Observer was present when she digested the Card.
• Su Yuqing visited Feng Ling at the Eco-Park and showed her documents about Locusts that had escaped the Maze and were migrating toward the country.
• Su Yuqing asked Feng Ling to join the international rescue operation as a Technical Advisor, and she agreed to the Wraith Card arrangement.
• Su Yuqing said the teams would leave that night and the Wraith Card would arrive by helicopter the next day, while Feng Ling worried she could not take Feifei to the Quarantine Zone.

Feng Ling left for Eshia as part of a multinational rescue operation, intending to find a place to build her own Maze. When the Locusts attacked the airport just as her plane arrived, the Hunters began their first battle, and Leland fled toward the rest area in alarm at the prospect of Feng Ling releasing her pressure.

• Feng Ling boarded a military transport plane with Ye Zheng, Li Qing, and her creatures, and Su Yuqing asked her to act carefully during the joint operation.
• Feng Ling told Ye Zheng she would return and planned to use the contaminated territory to establish her own Maze and forces.
• Hunters from several countries gathered at Eshia Military Airport while Huang Yi prepared them for the Locust threat.
• An alarm announced that Locust scouts had reached the airport, and Huang Yi ordered the Hunters to fight them.
• Leland transformed into a giant and battled the Locusts, but he panicked and ran toward the rest area when Feng Ling's plane came into view.

Feng Ling arrived in Eshia with Ye Zheng and Li Qing, where Leland’s prank and the locust attack brought the Tidal Wave Squad and Xu Yiming into the story. Captain Huang Yi called the Hunters to a meeting, warning that the locust swarm’s main force would arrive within twelve hours and had to be intercepted at Erge Pasture.

• Leland ordered the Hunters to drive the remaining locusts toward the plane, while Captain Huang Yi watched and learned their combat patterns.
• When the plane landed, Leland threw a locust at the figure he mistook for Aisha, but Ye Zheng’s Second Form revealed she was a Contaminant; the real Aisha then came out of the plane.
• Feng Ling recognized Xu Yiming, who explained that the rescue operation was the Supervision Bureau trainees’ final assessment and offered to take her to Captain Huang Yi.
• Feng Ling joined the meeting on the airport’s second floor while Ye Zheng and Li Qing waited below; Captain Huang Yi announced that the locust swarm’s main force could arrive within twelve hours.
• Captain Huang Yi said the Hunters had to intercept the swarm at Erge Pasture before it arrived.

Huang Yi assigned Hunters to defend eight positions against the approaching locust swarm, while Feng Ling was made a Technical Advisor free to act wherever needed. The convoy entered the Pastoral Area, where the locusts were already approaching across the plain.

• Huang Yi divided the Hunters into groups based on their abilities and assigned Feng Ling to act freely as the operation’s Technical Advisor.
• Feng Ling traveled with Ye Zheng, Li Qing, Cat Owl, Cat Spider, and the Human-faced Crows as the convoy headed toward the Pastoral Area.
• Feng Ling and Ye Zheng discussed the Hive’s possible advancement and the threat of Xenomorphs, while Li Qing asked about contacting Miaomiao.
• Huang Yi warned that the convoy would meet the locust swarm in twenty minutes and ordered the groups to prepare for battle.
• The convoy passed herders and farmhouses before reaching an open plain where a dense locust swarm approached through billowing dust.

Huangfu Miaomiao and Xiao Shu completed their quests and traveled through the contaminated outskirts toward Sand City, where they hoped to join their teammates and enter the Maze. They found the teammates’ car at a gas station and knocked on its door.

• Huangfu Miaomiao struggled to catch one last Golden Deer Stag Beetle, and Xiao Shu caught it for her so she could claim her quest reward.
• Huangfu Miaomiao and Xiao Shu entered the deserted, heavily contaminated city and rode a motorcycle toward Sand City until it broke down.
• As they neared Sand City, they passed Players selling Golden Deer Stag Beetles and Patterned Pythons, but Xiao Shu refused to spend their Points on the pythons.
• Xiao Shu and Huangfu Miaomiao used the license plate number their teammates had sent to find the right car at a gas station and knocked on its door.

Huangfu Miaomiao and Xiao Shu joined a Star Society team entering the Abyss Labyrinth, and Miaomiao alerted Li Qing to its location. Li Qing went to find Feng Ling, only to discover her making music with a Locust alongside the Cat Spider.

• The Star Society Leader arrived carrying a caged Senior Labyrinth Administrator, and Xiao Shu and Huangfu Miaomiao rode in the vehicle’s trunk.
• The team reached a lake at night, where Huangfu Miaomiao recognized the Maze entrance and sent Li Qing her location.
• The Leader accepted the Maze mission and led the team onto a dark forest path into the Abyss Labyrinth.
• Li Qing read Miaomiao’s messages and left the Military Truck to find Feng Ling and tell her about the Labyrinth.
• Ye Zheng took Nutrient Paste from Li Qing, who then spotted Feng Ling and the Cat Spider playing a Locust-wing duet.

Feng Ling considered hatching stronger Contaminants to take on the Abyss and the Star Society while the Rescue Team rested after fighting the Locusts. Meanwhile, Huangfu Miaomiao and her teammates faced floating fanged heads in the Maze.

• The Eshia Army burned the dead Locusts overnight as Feng Ling and Li Qing discussed the Abyss Administrator’s capture and the Star Society’s power.
• Feng Ling decided she might need to hatch stronger creatures, then scolded Third Child for eating too many Locusts and pulling scraps from its body.
• Feng Ling went to sleep in the truck beside Ye Zheng, while Li Qing messaged Huangfu Miaomiao to stay hidden and reply when safe.
• Huangfu Miaomiao and her teammates encountered floating fanged human heads that Whiskers called the Maze’s easiest monsters.
• Whiskers smashed two heads into the ground, and Xiao Shu handed Huangfu Miaomiao a branch before attacking the monsters.

Xiao Shu and Huangfu Miaomiao earned Points by hunting Head Monsters in the Abyss Labyrinth, then returned to the Safe Zone exhausted. They asked the Leader about future Maze visits and the Star Society, but he warned them that their strength limited which Mazes they could enter.

• Xiao Shu and Huangfu Miaomiao trapped and killed Head Monsters together, earning enough Points to pay the two-hundred-Point head fee.
• The Players hunted Head Monsters through the night, and Xiao Shu and Huangfu Miaomiao earned over six hundred Points before returning to the Safe Zone at dawn.
• The Leader pointed out a nearby lake where Manola could be hunted, and Whiskers agreed to rest for half an hour before leading the Players there.
• Xiao Shu asked to book another visit, but the Leader said the week's slots were full and told him to try again next week.
• Huangfu Miaomiao and Xiao Shu added the Leader as a friend and asked about other Abyss Labyrinths, but he said they were full and warned they were only strong enough to grind monsters.
• Xiao Shu asked whether they would need to become very strong to join the Star Society.

Huangfu Miaomiao and Xiao Shu hunted Manola Fairies in the Maze, then struggled to decide what to do next after leaving. At the Gas Station, Huangfu Miaomiao saw a one-eyed Elite Monster who seemed familiar and panicked that he might recognize her.

• The Leader said Star Society favored Players with control- or parasitic-type abilities and Squirrel Cards, and the group left the Safe Zone to hunt monsters.
• Whiskers and the other Players criticized Star Society’s fees and motives while Huangfu Miaomiao suggested it wanted to fight the system.
• The group hunted Manola Fairies by the lakeshore, earned only a few hundred Points each, and paid the Leader before leaving the Maze.
• Huangfu Miaomiao and Xiao Shu returned to the Gas Station, where Xiao Shu considered joining an open-world team and the two looked for somewhere to rest.
• Huangfu Miaomiao saw a one-eyed Elite Monster repairing a car, hid behind Xiao Shu, and worried that the man recognized her.

Huangfu Miaomiao worried that One-Eye might recognize her, but learned he had lost his memory and was connected to the Star Society. Meanwhile, Feng Ling’s team faced a worsening Locust outbreak and was ordered to destroy Egg Sacs in the town.

• Huangfu Miaomiao complained to Li Qing about her undercover mission and feared One-Eye might expose her identity.
• Huangfu Miaomiao learned that White Cat had brought One-Eye to the Gas Station and that he had lost his memory.
• Huangfu Miaomiao saw the Leader leave with One-Eye and the caged Abyss Administrator, then decided to get a car and follow them.
• Feng Ling’s team struggled against agile Locusts as wind weakened the Drone’s anesthetic spray and buildings limited the Airdrop Bombs.
• Huang Yi ordered the team to equip Flame Guns and eliminate the Egg Sacs in the town ahead.

Feng Ling’s team continued clearing locusts in Eshia as the swarm drove some insects across the border into Grulu. Leland openly declared his admiration for Feng Ling, while bedraggled local Hunters watched the Rescue Team from a hillside.

• Feng Ling spotted Blue Dots near the border and learned from Huang Yi that they were likely Grulu Hunters, whose country had collapsed amid the Locust Plague.
• Feng Ling reached the border and saw that locusts were fleeing through the Containment Net into Grulu.
• Leland followed Feng Ling in his Second Form, scattering locusts and Egg Sacs while explaining Card advancement and asking her to consider partnering with him.
• Feng Ling rejected Leland’s advances, and Huang Yi reminded him that the Public Channel was open.
• Gene pointed out local Hunters on a hillside, where the poorly equipped group watched Feng Ling and the Rescue Team.

Feng Ling prepared to guard a valley where uninfected Grulu residents sheltered underground while the Locust Plague spread above. After hearing about Miaomiao’s lead on the Star Society, Feng Ling suggested that underground might be a safer place to investigate.

• Feng Ling noticed four Grulu Hunters disappear from her Third Perspective and inferred that they had entered a cave underground.
• Huang Yi asked Feng Ling to guard the valley entrance during the next day’s operation, and she agreed to assign her two Mental Power Field Contaminants if needed.
• Huang Yi explained that workers and their families were sheltering in the mine, but Eshia could not easily relocate them or confirm they were uninfected.
• Feng Ling heard the residents singing underground and reflected that they had little choice but to endure the contaminated world above.
• Li Qing told Feng Ling that Miaomiao had found Blind Man, a human connected to the Star Society, and wanted to follow him to locate its headquarters.
• Feng Ling warned that Little Skeleton might be discovered if she searched aboveground and suggested investigating from underground instead.

Feng Ling tasked Huangfu Miaomiao with gathering intelligence while undercover in Paradise, and Li Qing told her to stay hidden for at least another week. After Huangfu Miaomiao learned that Xiao Shu needed treatment at a distant Star Society clinic, she seized on the trip as a chance to begin her mission.

• Feng Ling gave Huangfu Miaomiao three levels of intelligence-gathering tasks and warned her to escape underground if she encountered a Player with search abilities.
• Li Qing told Huangfu Miaomiao to remain undercover and contact them if an emergency arose, prompting her to angrily complain that they had not planned her rescue.
• Huangfu Miaomiao decided to start with the easiest task of gathering information on Paradise and its Players, but planned to warn Xiao Shu before Feng Ling arrived.
• Xiao Shu returned to the Coffee Shop with a badly injured leg after temporary teammates abandoned him, and Huangfu Miaomiao urged him to seek treatment.
• When Xiao Shu said the Doctor was at a Star Society clinic more than eighty kilometers away, Huangfu Miaomiao insisted they go and told him to arrange an appointment.

Huangfu Miaomiao struggled to find a ride to the Clinic until Blind Man offered her a free electric car and taught her to drive. She confirmed that he remembered nothing about her, then learned only that she could find him at the Star Society.

• Huangfu Miaomiao failed to find a Player willing to take her to the Clinic and worried that hiring a driver would attract suspicion.
• Blind Man approached Huangfu Miaomiao, offered her a free electric car, and taught her how to drive it.
• Blind Man asked whether Huangfu Miaomiao had met him before, and she denied it while he explained that he had lost all his memories.
• After confirming the car had enough charge to reach the Clinic, Huangfu Miaomiao asked where to find Blind Man for future repairs, and he told her to look for him at the Star Society.

Huangfu Miaomiao took Xiao Shu to Manluo Country so he could have his injured leg treated, while Li Qing and Feng Ling discussed the Players’ gathering places and the danger of attacking the Star Society. At the Rescue Team’s camp, a team member went missing, and Leland warned Feng Ling that something was watching them.

• Huangfu Miaomiao drove Xiao Shu toward the Star Society’s Clinic and reassured him that she had prepared six Patterned Pythons for their Zone Quest in Manluo Country.
• Li Qing told Feng Ling that Miaomiao had located a second Player gathering place in Kusuo City, and Feng Ling proposed using the coordinates to attack the Star Society before Li Qing warned that the high-level Administrator could be harmed.
• Feng Ling and Li Qing listened to the unsettling singing from the valley while the Cat Spider and Cat Owl stayed near the Rescue Team’s truck.
• Leland told Feng Ling that a Group Six team member had gone missing and that he felt watched, while Gene warned that a hidden force might prevent them from finding the missing person.
• Huang Yi walked over from the tents as the camp prepared to respond to the disappearance.

After Lisa disappeared, Feng Ling and the Rescue Team considered whether a hidden monster had taken her. Huang Yi learned that a Giant Devouring Earthworm lived deep in the Mine Cave and suspected it was connected to Lisa’s disappearance.

• Huang Yi, Gene, Feng Ling, and Leland discussed Lisa’s disappearance and considered whether a hidden Contaminant or one of their own had killed her.
• Leland arranged for the Hunters to sleep closer together and take turns on watch, while Feng Ling marked him with spider silk in case he was the killer’s next target.
• The Rescue Team spent the night without incident, then resumed fighting the Locust swarm in groups after Huang Yi warned them not to separate.
• Feng Ling asked Huang Yi about the Mine Cave, and he revealed that Grulu locals believed a Giant Devouring Earthworm lived deep underground.
• Huang Yi said a traveler had taught the locals a nightly song to keep the earthworm below, but he suspected it might have taken Lisa.

Feng Ling considered what kind of Fourth Contaminant to hatch while helping clear the locusts, but the Rescue Team soon reported Gene and Kairi missing. The search uncovered a deep hole where they had likely fallen, and Huang Yi barred Leland from entering until it had been surveyed.

• Feng Ling abandoned her idea of investigating the Giant Devouring Earthworm and continued killing locusts with her Contaminants.
• Feng Ling asked Ye Zheng what to hatch as her Fourth Contaminant, and Ye Zheng mocked her and her pets for being lazy, greedy, and unruly.
• Huang Yi reported that Gene and Kairi from Team Eight were missing and asked Feng Ling to cover Team Six's vacant area.
• Feng Ling sent Third Child's Human-faced Crows to search for the missing men and left Ye Zheng to guard the valley.
• The Rescue Team found a deep hole with scratch marks in a private residence, and Huang Yi sealed off the area.
• Leland demanded to enter the hole, but Huang Yi threatened to remove him from International Rescue if he disobeyed before the hole was surveyed.

Feng Ling used her Eye of Horus to send Human-faced Crows into an artificial underground hole while Huang Yi ordered Tidal Wave Squad back to its mission. After the first scouts died in the darkness, she sent another crow carrying a small light into the tunnels.

• Leland demanded a survey of the hole before returning to combat, but Huang Yi ordered Tidal Wave Squad to resume fighting the Locust, and Evelyn urged Leland to trust the Commander.
• Feng Ling sent two Human-faced Crows into the hole, while Huang Yi determined that its blackened soil showed it had been artificially created.
• Feng Ling grew an eye from her palm, attached it to a Human-faced Crow, and used shared vision to explore the dark, branching tunnels until the crow died.
• Feng Ling created another eye on the back of her hand and sent a fourth Human-faced Crow underground with a miniature nightlight after her earlier scouts failed to return.

Feng Ling explored the tunnels with the Human-faced Crow, found a pit filled with remains, and learned that a Big Mouth Monster had killed it. Huang Yi sealed the entrance with explosives, but Grulu Hunters accused the Rescue Team of endangering their people and acting out of greed.

• Feng Ling sent the Human-faced Crow through the tunnels and found a deep pit filled with bones, fur, clothes, and shoes.
• A Big Mouth Monster attacked and swallowed the Human-faced Crow before Feng Ling could react.
• Feng Ling told Huang Yi that she had found no sign of Kairi, Gene, or Lisa and suspected the three were dead.
• Huang Yi ordered Soldiers to demolish the abandoned building and bury the tunnel entrance until the Locust Plague crisis was over.
• Grulu Hunters confronted Huang Yi, claiming the explosion harmed underground residents and accusing the Rescue Team of greed and complicity with Eshia.
• Huang Yi endured their accusations and ordered the Soldiers to keep filling in the entrance.

Feng Ling used her Human-faced Crows to search the town for underground entrances while Huang Yi moved the Camp after conflict with the Grulu People. The crows found two hunters inside a house with an underground hole, and Feng Ling asked Li Qing to help communicate with them.

• The Grulu hunters tried to argue with Huang Yi, but Eshia's Soldiers stopped them, and the eerie singing began again in daylight.
• Feng Ling asked the secretary to translate the song, then offered to search the town's sealed buildings with Human-faced Crows.
• Feng Ling noticed a Grulu hunter watching her and heard Leland report that Gene's earpiece signal had briefly returned before disappearing again.
• Feng Ling suspected the Grulu People had taken Gene's earpiece to eavesdrop on the Public Channel, and her crows found buildings with underground holes.
• Huang Yi moved the Camp from the southeast to the northwest of the valley, and Feng Ling told Li Qing that the missing team members might have been eaten by the underground Monster.
• The Human-faced Crows found two hunters inside a house with an underground hole, and Feng Ling asked Li Qing to communicate with them using his language modules.

Feng Ling fell into the sinkhole while rescuing a Grulu Hunter, and Ye Zheng and Li Qing sought a safer route to reach her. At the bottom, Feng Ling survived the fall but was attacked by the two Hunters.

• Feng Ling grabbed a Grulu Hunter who was slipping into the sinkhole, but his immense weight dragged her down with him.
• Li Qing panicked as Feng Ling fell, and Ye Zheng arrived and urged him to calm down.
• Li Qing divined that Feng Ling was in the direction of the valley, so Ye Zheng and the Cat Spider headed for the Mine Cave.
• Feng Ling landed at the bottom of the cave, injured and bloodied, while the two Grulu Hunters remained unharmed.
• The two Grulu Hunters stabbed Feng Ling in the abdomen with knives, and she taunted them that the wounds would not kill her.

Feng Ling forced two Grulu hunters to guide her through the dark caverns, but a Giant Earthworm ambushed them and one hunter attacked her with a grenade. She survived the blast, killed the remaining hunter, and the worm escaped deeper underground.

• Feng Ling found Gene's earpiece on the two Grulu hunters, disabled their Achilles tendons, and forced them to lead her toward the surface.
• Feng Ling used Human-faced Crows to drive the wounded hunters through the dark passages.
• A Giant Earthworm ambushed the hunters and devoured one after he lunged at Feng Ling.
• The surviving hunter charged Feng Ling with a lit grenade, and the explosion drove the Giant Earthworm deeper into the cave.
• Feng Ling survived the blast, then slit the surviving hunter's throat after he called her an unkillable monster.

Ye Zheng and Li Qing tried to reach the Mine Cave, where Huang Yi and Eshia's general arrived to search for missing rescue team members. After Ye Zheng used her Mental Pressure to force the Grulu Hunters to cooperate, the group followed a suspicious old man into another mine entrance, and Ye Zheng urged Li Qing to ask Huang Yi for more troops.

• Li Qing caught up with Ye Zheng at the Mine Cave, where the Grulu Hunters lowered their weapons after he explained the situation but refused to let them use the lift.
• Huang Yi and Eshia's general arrived with Soldiers, and the general ordered the Grulu Hunters to lead them underground to search for missing team members.
• A Grulu Hunter warned that a Giant Devouring Earthworm had made the tunnels dangerous and objected to Eshia using the search as a pretext to occupy the Mine.
• Ye Zheng knocked down a Grulu Hunter and released Mental Pressure that forced everyone except Huang Yi to their knees, prompting the Grulu Hunters to summon their leader.
• Li Qing discovered that the old leader's Card was Swordsman and warned Ye Zheng that he seemed suspicious.
• The old man led the group toward another Mine Cave, and Ye Zheng told Li Qing to ask Huang Yi to send more people.