Recaps

The Witch left Huangfu Miaomiao with three bald men and went to meet a helicopter, while the men stopped to rest and learned that the Hidden Boss had attacked the Stadium gathering site. Huangfu Miaomiao realized her rope had fallen loose but hesitated to escape, fearing the Dove Bell would let the Star Society find her again.

• The Witch ordered the three bald men to keep taking Huangfu Miaomiao toward the Teleportation Array, then left after checking the helicopter pickup location on her Virtual Screen.
• The bald men stopped at an overturned Truck, rummaged through its scattered supplies, and settled down to eat and rest.
• One bald man read on the Forum that the Hidden Boss had killed over a hundred people at the Stadium after the Star Society sent Squirrel to ambush it; the men learned Black Panther was dead and Red Demon was offline.
• Huangfu Miaomiao woke enough to worry that Feng Ling would search for her at the Underworld Labyrinth, then noticed the rope had fallen away from the man assigned to hold it.
• Huangfu Miaomiao considered using her Cards to outrun the bald men but doubted she could escape the Star Society while carrying the Dove Bell.

Huangfu Miaomiao escaped her captors by using her Assassin Card and a Flashbang, but a Wild Boss emerged from the river and attacked the bald men. She reached the riverbank as the monster killed one pursuer and struck the others with its black water.

• Huangfu Miaomiao used the hot meal container to distract the bald men, then ran from them with her Assassin Card’s speed trait.
• Her speed faded as the bald men closed in, and she fell into a river while trying to escape.
• Huangfu Miaomiao dropped a Flashbang into the river, blinding the bald men and giving herself a moment to reach the opposite bank.
• A monster rose from the river, and Huangfu Miaomiao fled as it crushed one bald man and sprayed black water over the other two.
• One bald man tried to log out while the other choked on the corrosive black water.

Huangfu Miaomiao survived the Fish Monster’s attack by using White Priest to silence it, then bound it with Gleipnir’s Binding. She discovered the monster was the Blind Man in the Parking Lot, who remembered Feng Ling, and tried to persuade him to help her escape Paradise.

• The Fish Monster ate the three bald men and absorbed the Cards inside them, causing its Corruption Value to soar and driving it into a frenzy.
• Huangfu Miaomiao used White Priest twice on the Fish Monster, then found Gleipnir’s Binding and confirmed with All-Seeing Eye that the monster was silenced.
• Huangfu Miaomiao tied Gleipnir’s Binding around the Fish Monster, and it stopped attacking after the Silenced state ended.
• The Fish Monster sobbed and called for Feng Ling, so Huangfu Miaomiao probed its memories and recognized it as the Blind Man in the Parking Lot who had taught her to drive.
• Huangfu Miaomiao told the Blind Man that she had once been Feng Ling’s assistant and urged him to help her escape Paradise so they could see Feng Ling.

Huangfu Miaomiao discovered that the Fish Monster was Fang Ye, whose memories had returned despite his pretending otherwise, and promised to help him escape Paradise. As they headed for the Quarantine Zone, Fang Ye weakened from thirst, and Huangfu Miaomiao left him briefly to search nearby houses for water.

• The Fish Monster transformed into a mutated man who asked why Feng Ling had not saved him.
• Fang Ye remembered his past as a human, his time with Feng Ling and White Cat, and how he had ended up in Paradise.
• Fang Ye said he and White Cat were people without names, while Huangfu Miaomiao promised to help him escape and recover his identity.
• Huangfu Miaomiao led Fang Ye toward the Quarantine Zone, planning to follow the coast to Molian River Bridge.
• Fang Ye grew weak and dehydrated as they traveled, so Huangfu Miaomiao went to nearby houses to find water.

Huangfu Miaomiao searched for water to keep Fang Ye’s Fish Monster alive as they traveled toward the sea. When Players attacked the Fish Monster and hunted Huangfu for a bounty, she abandoned her chance to escape and returned to help it.

• Huangfu Miaomiao found clean water and used Meteor’s Card Deck and Gleipnir’s Binding to quiet the Fish Monster and give it water.
• Huangfu Miaomiao led the Fish Monster toward the sea, then searched an abandoned Vacation Villa and found a Swimming Pool.
• Players arrived looking for Huangfu Miaomiao, whose capture alive carried a three-thousand-Point bounty, and attacked the Fish Monster.
• Huangfu Miaomiao started to flee but turned back after hearing the Fish Monster roar.
• Huangfu Miaomiao threw her last Flashbang at the four Players, then grabbed the Fish Monster’s rope and urged it to escape with her.

Huangfu Miaomiao and the Fish Monster fled from pursuing Players, but a wrong turn trapped them on a cliff above the sea. The Fish Monster sacrificed itself to save her, leaving Huangfu Miaomiao stranded atop its body in the water.

• Huangfu Miaomiao realized she had taken the wrong road and led the Fish Monster through the vegetation toward the coast.
• The Fish Monster questioned its strength and worth, while Huangfu Miaomiao cried about missing Feng Ling and her companions.
• The four Players caught up and wounded the Fish Monster with arrows, driving Huangfu Miaomiao and it toward a cliff.
• With nowhere left to run, the Fish Monster launched itself and Huangfu Miaomiao off the cliff into the sea.
• The Fish Monster brought Huangfu Miaomiao to the surface, told her it had finally become a hero by saving her, and fell silent.

In Yilanka, the Messenger and the General discussed Meteor, Huangfu Miaomiao, and how to deal with the Hidden Boss, while the Bishop demanded that they form a team to kill it. The General then received word that the Hidden Boss had arrived outside the quarantine zone.

• The Messenger revoked the bounty on Huangfu Miaomiao after sensing that her body had drifted out to sea, and he and the General discussed Meteor’s likely search for Cards to counter him.
• The Witch told the Messenger and the General that the Bishop wanted to see them, and they went upstairs to his heavily guarded room.
• The Bishop ordered the Messenger to investigate the Hidden Boss and worried that Squirrel’s ambush might not have increased its Corruption Value.
• After the Bishop angrily demanded a suppression squad, the General received a call and learned that the Hidden Boss was outside the quarantine zone.

Bishop ordered his group to find a way to kill the Hidden Boss, whom they suspected was Abyss, despite her Life Source Pillars allowing her to revive. Outside Yilanka’s isolation zone, Feng Ling called Su Yuqing while Kite drifted past a Drone warning her to leave the country’s airspace.

• Witch, Messenger, and the general discussed the old campaign against Abyss and learned that destroying her Life Source Pillars was necessary to prevent her revival.
• Messenger proposed investigating the Hive Ecopark in Qingjiang City, where Life Source Pillars might be located, but the general warned that guards, Inspectors, and a Player-detecting device would make infiltration difficult.
• Bishop promised his family’s support and unlimited living Points to anyone who helped him safely go offline, then ordered Messenger to make arrangements.
• Feng Ling and Kite drifted along the edge of Yilanka’s isolation zone as a Drone warned her to leave its airspace.
• Feng Ling reached Su Yuqing by phone and told him that Yilanka’s Drone was trying to drive her away.

Feng Ling’s unexpected flight into Yilanka drew the attention of its military, prompting Su Yuqing and the Embassy to seek a peaceful way to handle the situation. She displayed her country’s flag to deter the Drones while waiting near the border, still intent on pursuing the Star Society.

• Su Yuqing told Feng Ling that Drone footage of her and the Contaminants had made international news, and asked why she had entered Yilanka.
• Feng Ling explained that she had tracked Xenomorphs to the border and suspected a core member of the Star Society was in Yilanka.
• Su Yuqing reported Feng Ling’s situation to his superiors, and the Embassy began negotiating with the Yilanka Military while urging her to avoid conflict.
• Su Yuqing advised Feng Ling to display her country’s flag, so Ye Zheng and Li Qing used Ye Zheng’s tablet to show an image of it.
• Feng Ling mounted Great Kite with the tablet and flew toward the Drones, which kept their distance as she checked the news on her phone.

Feng Ling learned that Yilanka had denied her passage despite suspicions that its royal family was connected to the Star Society, and Su Yuqing proposed that she feign a Corruption Value crisis to enter the country. Feng Ling agreed to pursue the Star Society’s captured Administrators so she could save Miaomiao, and asked the Supervision Bureau for bombs.

• Feng Ling read hostile Yilanka news reports and found Chinese commenters mocking Yilanka rather than defending it.
• Su Yuqing told Feng Ling that negotiations had failed and Yilanka refused to let her enter or accept outside help against the Xenomorphs.
• Feng Ling shared the Star Society’s approximate location, and technicians identified it as General Singel’s Mansion, linking the Star Society to Yilanka’s royal family.
• Su Yuqing suggested that Feng Ling pretend her Corruption Value had gone out of control so a supposed apprehension team could secretly support her entry.
• Feng Ling said she wanted the Administrators held by the Star Society so she could rescue Miaomiao, then asked Su Yuqing for bombs.

Feng Ling and her companions considered ways to cross Yilanka’s military quarantine without fighting, then received a mysterious note that might reveal the Administrator’s location. They were left unsure whether the clue was genuine or a trap.

• Feng Ling told Ye Zheng and Li Qing about Su Yuqing’s plan, and Ye Zheng objected to forcing a way through the military line.
• Feng Ling and her companions discussed using the Human-faced Crows to monitor the Xenomorphs, but worried that the birds could be detected and lost.
• Feng Ling proposed hatching a Giant Devouring Earthworm to tunnel beneath part of the Military Restricted Zone, and Ye Zheng and Li Qing agreed it was worth trying.
• A frightened Human-faced Crow delivered Feng Ling a note showing a rough layout of the General’s Mansion and an exclamation mark beside one room.
• Li Qing suggested the marked room might contain the Administrator, while Ye Zheng warned that the note could be a trap.

Feng Ling and her companions hunted through the woods, where she killed a powerful Tiger Contaminant and discovered that Meteor had been following them in Miaomiao's body. Meteor proposed cooperating to kill the Messenger and offered to use her concealment ability to get them into the General's Mansion.

• Feng Ling dismissed the note as a trap and sent the Little Third Children into the forest to flush out prey.
• The Cat Spider and Human-faced Crows hunted the fleeing animals, and Feng Ling killed a massive Tiger Contaminant with her Steel Blade Tentacles.
• Feng Ling noticed an unusual Red Dot and exposed Meteor, who had been hiding nearby in Miaomiao's body.
• Meteor said she wanted to kill the Messenger and knew where the Labyrinth Administrator was being held in the General's Mansion.
• Meteor offered to get Feng Ling's group into the mansion unseen, and Li Qing identified her Gargoyle and Witch cards, including the Witch's Blessing ability.

Feng Ling tested Meteor’s concealment Blessing and learned how its cognitive limits worked. After the test, she used the dead tiger to incubate the Great Earthworm and prepared to name the new creature.

• Feng Ling questioned Meteor about the Star Society, and Meteor explained its origins and its experienced founding members.
• Meteor used her Blessing to conceal Feng Ling, but Feng Ling’s voice broke the effect and revealed its limitations.
• Feng Ling and Ye Zheng concluded that concealment could help them travel unseen but would fail if Feng Ling spoke or attacked.
• Feng Ling incubated the Great Earthworm inside the dead tiger, producing a striped, tiger-headed creature with a retractable body.
• Feng Ling rubbed the creature’s head and invited the others to help give it a name.

Feng Ling named the newly hatched Contaminant Tiger Worm and fed it so it could dig a tunnel beneath the Military Restricted Zone. As she and the others headed toward the Containment Net to keep the Star Society from suspecting her plans, Feng Ling questioned Meteor about why she had not tried to impersonate Little Skeleton and kill her.

• Ye Zheng recoiled from the tiger-headed Contaminant, and Feng Ling named it Tiger Worm.
• Cat Spider and the Human-faced Crows fed Tiger Worm, which rapidly ate meat and soil and expelled dry, brick-shaped droppings.
• Meteor told Feng Ling that she had crossed the restricted zone through the Quarantine Zone and explained that Star Society's Messenger could escape using a costly Teleportation Array.
• Feng Ling decided to have Tiger Worm dig while she walked toward the Containment Net, making the Star Society think she remained trapped outside the Military Restricted Zone.
• Feng Ling noted that Meteor kept her distance and asked why she had not pretended to be Little Skeleton to lower Feng Ling's guard and steal her Hidden Boss Card.

Feng Ling prepared a campsite and posted taunting updates to provoke the Star Society into lowering its guard, while arranging photographs for a Nine-Grid. As Li Qing worried about Feng Ling’s mark on Meteor and his own uncertain future, Ye Zheng suggested boiling skulls to improve the photos.

• Feng Ling ordered Third Child and Cat Spider to destroy and scrap nearby Drones, then had Li Qing set up a tent and Ye Zheng gather firewood.
• Feng Ling posted three provocative updates aimed at Yilanka’s embassy, the National Xenomorph Safety Supervision Bureau, and the Star Society, adding photographs of the Drone wreckage and her companions.
• Feng Ling and Ye Zheng staged a smoky, eerie photograph, then planned to wait for the Armadillos before completing the Nine-Grid without revealing Feng Ling’s Second Form.
• Feng Ling warned Meteor not to sneak off and left to photograph animal carcasses, while Li Qing realized Feng Ling had secretly placed a Mark on Meteor.
• Li Qing worried that Meteor might become Feng Ling’s next target and questioned whether staying with her would bring him closer to his dream.
• Ye Zheng suggested putting skulls in the pot to make better photographs, leaving Li Qing stunned.

Feng Ling and Ye Zheng prepared to attack the Star Society and questioned Meteor about its members and past campaign against the Abyss Mother Nest. Meteor identified Black Spot as a dead former attacker, then learned Feng Ling had taken his monstrous remains home; Feng Ling hesitated to reveal what happened to him.

• Feng Ling said Big Worm would finish digging by nightfall, and she and Ye Zheng planned to attack the Star Society then.
• Meteor recalled how the Star Society had killed Labyrinth Administrators in Daling Forest, causing Maze contamination to spread and bringing an Investigation Team into conflict with them.
• Feng Ling and Ye Zheng asked Meteor about the Star Society's Players, Cards, strengths, and weaknesses, and Meteor began recounting the campaign against the Abyss Mother Nest.
• Meteor explained that Black Spot's Brave Card made him stronger against powerful opponents and let him survive at critical health, but his genes collapsed after he digested the Abyss Card and he died.
• Meteor said her Thousand-Faced God Card let her become Black Spot and match his attack power, then asked Feng Ling what he had looked like when she encountered him.
• Feng Ling admitted she had taken the huge, shapeless monster home because she was curious, and she silently worried that telling Meteor she had flushed Black Spot down the toilet would ruin their cooperation.

Meteor told Feng Ling and Ye Zheng about the Star Society members, explaining how Black Spot died and describing the remaining players’ Cards and abilities. The discussion left the Messenger as their main known threat, while Ye Zheng asked Meteor to explain the Bishop next.

• Meteor explained that Black Spot’s Corruption Value rose to 57% after he digested an Abyss Card, and that his rampage made his death inevitable.
• Meteor said Black Spot killed the Blacksmith and absorbed her Card, while the Drunkard later went offline and cut contact with the team.
• Meteor described the Messenger’s changed Card Deck and powerful skills, including Doomsday Judgment, flight, and an air-based defensive shield.
• Meteor explained that the Doctor specialized in healing and the Witch in transformation, manipulation, and curses; she added that the Poet had disappeared but still appeared online.
• Ye Zheng asked Meteor to tell them about the Bishop.

Meteor explained that Bishop’s Demon King Card could revive through one of five surviving Reincarnation Vessels, including the body Huangfu Miaomiao was using, so Bishop had to survive the operation. Feng Ling and Ye Zheng planned their assault on the General’s Mansion and argued over protecting its soldiers, until Su Yuqing’s call revealed that a Temporary Supervision Team was coming to take control.

• Meteor revealed that Bishop’s Demon King had five surviving Reincarnation Vessels and might revive in Huangfu Miaomiao’s body, so she urged them to keep Bishop alive.
• Feng Ling and Ye Zheng agreed to target Messenger and locate the Labyrinth Administrator while discussing how to handle the soldiers at the General’s Mansion.
• Feng Ling and Ye Zheng argued about whether to spare the soldiers, and Li Qing quoted Rustam’s last words about protecting the weak.
• Su Yuqing called Feng Ling, who learned that a Temporary Supervision Team had arrived in Yilanka to arrest her and take control of the scene, including the soldiers.

Feng Ling and Ye Zheng prepared to provoke Yilanka while awaiting Huang Yi’s team, as Sritaya joined the operation. At the General’s Mansion, the General and the Witch worried about the crisis and asked what to do just as the Messenger arrived.

• Feng Ling explained that Huang Yi would lead a joint Supervision Bureau and Sritaya operation, then posted increasingly erratic threats online to provoke Yilanka.
• Ye Zheng checked official statements confirming that the Supervision Bureau would dispatch a team and Sritaya would support the operation.
• Feng Ling and Ye Zheng decided to wait several hours for Huang Yi’s team to arrive before acting.
• General Singel rejected calls about the crisis and discussed the Hidden Boss, the Bishop, and the game with the Witch.
• The Witch saw Feng Ling’s post and the comments revealing that Sritaya’s Embassy had accused Yilanka of harboring Xenomorphs and persecuting a Hunter.
• The General urged the Witch to ask the Messenger what to do, and the Messenger appeared in the doorway and demanded to know what they meant.

The Messenger, the Witch, and the General debated how to protect the Bishop and defeat the Hidden Boss, whose presence had crippled the Star Society’s plans. After the Witch threatened to withdraw unless the Messenger proved the campaign could succeed, the Messenger ordered the General to prepare the General’s Mansion with explosives and heavy weapons to welcome the Hidden Boss.

• The Messenger rejected the Witch’s suggestion that she and the General stay behind, insisting she remain with the Bishop and maintain his body.
• The Witch urged the Messenger to make the Bishop undergo Rebirth using the Doctor as a Vessel, but the Messenger warned that Rebirth would not protect the Bishop while the Hidden Boss lived.
• The Messenger proposed assembling an Expedition Team and recruiting the Drunkard, but the Witch argued that the Star Society lacked enough people and that Meteor had once attracted experts through faith.
• The Witch told the Messenger she regretted not logging out and threatened to withdraw from the campaign unless he defeated the Hidden Boss.
• A soldier reported that His Majesty the King was demanding the Messenger answer a dedicated line, and the General feared the Supervision Bureau would force its way in.
• The Messenger told the General to use his privilege to fill the General’s Mansion with bombs, cannons, and missiles to welcome the Hidden Boss.

The Messenger pressured the General into preparing to blow up the General’s Mansion while the Witch arranged to strengthen herself and evacuate the Bishop. Meanwhile, Feng Ling’s team entered Big Worm’s tunnel to approach the Mansion, leaving the others in position as Huang Yi’s team arrived in Sritaya Country.

• The Messenger ordered the General to prepare to destroy the General’s Mansion and said he would keep watch over the Bishop while the Witch arranged for the Doctor to help evacuate.
• The Messenger used his Mental Pressure to force the General to comply, and the Witch offered him potions to make his subordinates more obedient.
• Feng Ling planned the team’s approach: she and Meteor would find the Messenger, Ye Zheng would seek the Administrator, and the others would provide backup or maintain the Hidden Boss illusion.
• Feng Ling called Huang Yi to compare their progress, then led Ye Zheng and Meteor into Big Worm’s nearly two-kilometer tunnel toward the General’s Mansion.

Li Qing received a cryptic message from Administrator No. 77 asking whether he wanted to help Meteor, while the Star Society prepared to relocate its people and Cards. Starlight warned that death was near at the General’s Mansion, leaving the Witch to ask whether the Banshee could sense her own death.

• Li Qing read the Player Forum, received a message from Administrator No. 77 about helping Meteor, and replied by asking what No. 77 knew.
• General Singel watched trucks arrive at his Mansion as the Witch waited for the Messenger and the Card she hoped to claim.
• The Doctor and Starlight returned by helicopter, and the Doctor asked the General what was happening with their relocation.
• Starlight stopped before entering the Mansion and warned that many people would die there unless its staffing and security improved.
• Starlight explained that her Banshee Card passively warned of nearby death, and the Witch asked if it could foretell Starlight’s own death.

Starlight warned the General that the undead’s cries foretold widespread death as the group headed to the Mansion. Meanwhile, Feng Ling, Ye Zheng, and Meteor infiltrated the Mansion to locate and abduct the Maze Administrators, but their plan was exposed when a Parrot cried for help.

• Starlight told the General that different undead cries foretold different kinds and scopes of death, and said he might learn more by digesting Cards.
• Feng Ling secretly filmed the Players entering the Mansion and sent Huang Yi a report about the guards and the people inside.
• Meteor explained that the Administrators’ Dove Bells would alert the Messenger if they were moved, and that the Messenger would reveal the Teleportation Array by fleeing with the Bishop.
• Feng Ling, Ye Zheng, and Meteor climbed into a fourth-floor room, where Meteor killed the Player guarding the Administrators and opened a window for the others.
• Ye Zheng packed the animals serving as Administrators into sacks and tied up the larger ones, but a Parrot screeched for help.

Feng Ling and Ye Zheng raided the Mansion to seize the Labyrinth Administrators, but the Messenger intercepted Feng Ling and attacked her with an Air Shield. After a rocket buried Feng Ling in rubble, the Messenger ordered the Bishop taken to the Teleportation Array and the Mansion blown up.

• Ye Zheng escaped through the window with the Administrator while Feng Ling killed two Players and drew the Mansion’s forces into chaos.
• The Messenger flew after Ye Zheng, but Feng Ling struck him down with her Mental Power Field and fought against his Air Shield.
• Feng Ling broke free of the Air Shield and taunted the Messenger while testing it with her Steel Blade and tentacles.
• A rocket hit Feng Ling and exploded, tearing apart the Mansion and burying her beneath the rubble.
• The general urged the Messenger to activate the Teleportation Array, and the Messenger sent the Witch with the Bishop while ordering the Soldiers to destroy the Mansion.

The Messenger held off Feng Ling’s Second Form while the Witch fled with the Bishop, but he refused to log off as the Hive’s creatures joined the attack. When Huang Yi’s team approached, the Messenger rose with the Air Shield and left Starlight and the four Paladins exposed to Feng Ling’s blades.

• The Messenger ordered the Witch to protect the Bishop and escape while he stayed behind to face the Hidden Boss.
• Feng Ling’s Mental Pressure froze the group, and her Steel Blade wounded Starlight and the Doctor as the Hidden Boss emerged in its Second Form.
• The Messenger transformed into a six-winged Angel, threw the general toward Feng Ling, and rallied the players with Starlight’s Wail skill and Angel’s Judgment.
• Feng Ling battered the Air Shield while Stone Balls, a Tiger Head Worm, and Human-faced Crows joined the assault; the Messenger refused Starlight’s plea to log off.
• As Huang Yi’s team approached, the Messenger flew upward with the Air Shield, leaving Starlight and the four Paladins to be cut down by Feng Ling’s blades.