Recaps

Ling Feiran followed Pashan through a hidden sewage pipe to the refugee settlement, where she uncovered brewing anger against the Quarantine Zone. After a refugee was struck by a Patrol Team vehicle, the crowd surged toward the Containment Net, and Ling Feiran rushed back to the inpatient building, fearing unrest there too.

• Ling Feiran tracked Pashan in lizard form as he escaped the inpatient building and entered an abandoned factory's sewage pipe.
• Ling Feiran followed Pashan to the refugee settlement and saw him ask for Amir, then discuss plans with other refugees to obtain Cards and resist their treatment.
• Refugees reported that Ticha had been hit by a Patrol Team vehicle, and the crowd gathered angrily to confront the Patrol Team.
• Ling Feiran followed the refugees to the Containment Net, where a gunshot sounded, then hurried back toward the inpatient building.

Ling Feiran discovered that Amir’s music had spread musical notes to the nurses and was turning accumulated pain into hatred. After the Head Nurse was found dead, Ling Feiran stopped the staff from attacking the patients and explained that Amir’s music had driven the Head Nurse to suicide and was pushing vulnerable people toward extreme actions.

• Ling Feiran saw musical notes on Liu Wen and hurried with her to find the Head Nurse after warning that Amir’s music might be controlling people.
• Ling Feiran and the volunteers found the Head Nurse dead in her office, with the scene arranged to look like murder.
• Liu Wen and the other nurses erupted into rage and called for revenge against the patients as the notes intensified their emotions.
• Ling Feiran used her skill to calm the volunteers and told Liu Wen that the Head Nurse had died by suicide and someone wanted to throw the department into chaos.
• Ling Feiran explained that Amir’s music amplified negative emotions, and Liu Wen realized that the staff might have been controlled by it all along.

Ling Feiran organized the volunteers to contain the patients as Amir’s song stirred hatred and chaos through the inpatient department. While they injected patients with anesthetics, one patient revealed that he had taken the Head Nurse’s Card.

• Ling Feiran explained that Amir had used music to turn the Infected against the volunteers and had driven the Head Nurse to suicide.
• When the Guard Team did not answer and the patients began reacting to the song, Ling Feiran told the volunteers to gather, guard the exits, and obtain anesthetics.
• Ling Feiran and two volunteers went ward to ward, using their Cards to help her clear Amir’s influence as they tried to sedate the patients.
• A patient resisted an injection, broke free from the volunteers, and shouted that he had not killed the Head Nurse but had taken her Card.

Ling Feiran stopped a ward full of hostile patients from attacking the volunteers and tried to reform a terrified man who denied killing the Head Nurse. Meanwhile, refugees attacked the Patrol Team and the Iron Curtain Project site, prompting Pei Xianjue to send reinforcements.

• After a volunteer accused a bloodied patient of killing the Head Nurse, the patients stopped singing and advanced on Ling Feiran and the other volunteers.
• Yalana arrived with two children, and Ling Feiran asked her to translate while she used Purification on the children and helped get the patients to accept painkiller injections.
• When the five patients fell asleep, Ling Feiran said she wanted to use her skill to reform the remaining man, who insisted that he had not killed anyone.
• The Patrol Team captain told Pei Xianjue that hundreds of singing refugees were attacking, the Containment Net's electricity had failed, and more refugees were gathering at the Iron Curtain Project.
• Pei Xianjue ordered all Patrol Teams from the southeastern and southwestern coasts and every Guard Team in the city to reinforce the scene.

Pei Xianjue rushed to respond after refugees attacked the Patrol Team, then brought Huangfu Miaomiao with her when she feared the unrest might target her. As refugees occupied the Iron Curtain Array Construction Site and a soldier’s Protective Suit was damaged, Pei Xianjue ordered all available forces to surround the site and mount a rescue.

• Pei Xianjue suspected Xenomorphs were behind the refugees’ attack and turned back to collect Huangfu Miaomiao before heading to the front.
• Pei Xianjue learned that refugees had flooded the Iron Curtain Array Construction Site and trapped the soldiers stationed inside.
• Huangfu Miaomiao urged Pei Xianjue to use force against the refugees, while Baozi warned that doing so could amount to massacring civilians.
• Pei Xianjue privately considered how casualties could justify a military response and protect her political standing.
• Pei Xianjue learned that a soldier’s Protective Suit had been damaged in a physical clash and ordered all forces to surround the site and rescue the soldiers.

Poet manipulated the refugees’ emotions and drove them into a violent assault on the Patrol Team at the Construction Site, while a monster he called Pashan attacked the convoy. When reinforcements arrived, Poet left for the inpatient department to investigate why his musical “chords” had not worked; Baozi and Huangfu Miaomiao reached the site and sensed a mass of negative emotions.

• Poet conducted the refugees into attacking the Patrol Team, intensifying their rage and despair with his music.
• Poet tried to make a young Patrol Team member hate the refugees, but his notes revealed the team member felt no malice toward them.
• Pashan appeared as a many-headed, many-armed monster and flipped an armored vehicle, prompting Patrol Team members to fight back in their Second Forms.
• As Pashan began to shrink, Poet tried to summon his missing chords, then left across a steel wire when his music still received no response.
• Reinforcements from the Quarantine Zone and Pei Xianjue’s convoy arrived, while Baozi and Huangfu Miaomiao sensed the negative emotions near the Construction Site.

Pei Xianjue and Huangfu Miaomiao tried to stop the emotion-controlled refugees while searching for the Xenomorph behind the crisis. After a Drone spotted a suspicious tightrope walker heading into the city, Pei Xianjue redirected the convoy to investigate, but the enemy’s objective remained unknown.

• Baozi identified intense hatred among the refugees and warned that their emotions, and those of the Soldiers, had been affected by a Xenomorph.
• Pei Xianjue called for scarce mental-type volunteers, then ordered sound systems and Drones equipped with amplifiers to disrupt the music controlling the refugees.
• Pei Xianjue sent Baozi and two vehicles to support the Construction Site while her own convoy continued through the rain.
• Huangfu Miaomiao used the All-Seeing Eye and saw notes throughout the area near the refugee settlement, prompting Pei Xianjue to warn Baozi and dispatch Drones.
• Pei Xianjue reviewed Drone footage of a figure walking a tightrope into the city, ordered a search and security checks, and learned that the station, Warehouse, and engineers' Apartments were safe.
• Huangfu Miaomiao offered to use the All-Seeing Eye again to locate the tightrope walker as Pei Xianjue worried about the Xenomorph's hidden objective.

Huangfu Miaomiao used the All-Seeing Eye to locate the Second Inpatient Department, where Ling Feiran was exhausting herself purifying patients affected by the singing. The Poet attacked her, but Pei Xianjue arrived with reinforcements before he could finish the job.

• Huangfu Miaomiao spotted notes near a hospital and identified it as the Second Inpatient Department, prompting Pei Xianjue to order the driver there.
• Ling Feiran told Liu Wen to move the lucid patients away from the contagious singing and sent Yalana and the saints to guard the rooms where patients were still singing.
• The Poet appeared outside the building and announced that he intended to kill Ling Feiran for points.
• The Poet’s iron nails struck Ling Feiran, but her wounds healed, and he questioned how she had the Doctor’s skill and what connection she had to Feng Ling.
• The saints shielded Ling Feiran as the Poet prepared another attack, but Pei Xianjue arrived with reinforcements and ordered them to kill him.

The Hunters attacked the Bard, but he summoned a powerful Heroic Spirit Phantom and escaped after Meteor revealed the skill’s time limit. While fleeing through a sewage pipe toward the Molian River, the Bard sensed someone approaching and saw a ghostly woman emerge from the darkness.

• The Hunters shot at the Bard and dragged him from the eleventh floor, but he survived the fall and used a Recovery Syringe.
• The Bard activated Heroic Ballad, summoning a black-haired swordsman whose attacks injured the Hunters while their attacks passed through him.
• Huangfu Miaomiao warned the Hunters that the summoned phantom would disappear after twenty seconds, then hid when the Bard recognized her as Meteor.
• The Heroic Spirit Phantom dissipated, and the Hunters reported two serious injuries and seven minor injuries as the Bard escaped.
• The Bard crawled through a sewage pipe toward the Molian River and messaged the Drunkard that Meteor had ruined his performance.
• The Bard sensed danger in the pipe and saw a ghostly woman emerge from the darkness.

Ling Feiran confronted Poet in a pipe and demanded one of his Cards to ease her pain. She poisoned and killed him, and four Cards emerged from his body.

• Ling Feiran accused Poet of deceiving her and explained how losing Shao had left her in pain.
• Poet tried to attack Ling Feiran with Fatal Elegy, but the notes were torn apart by her Wraith form.
• Ling Feiran decided Poet's Card could keep her happy and transformed before chasing him through the pipe.
• Poet fled, but Ling Feiran's viruses weakened him and prevented him from logging out.
• Ling Feiran pinned Poet's hand with an iron nail, and Poet died after convulsing; four Cards emerged from his body.

Ling Feiran killed Amir, chose a Musician Card, and gave the remaining Cards to Yalana and her children so they could defend themselves. As rising floodwater swept Amir’s body away, Drunkard learned that the game character had died.

• Ling Feiran absorbed the Musician Card, which gave her a new skill and slightly increased her Card Deck’s growth.
• Ling Feiran called Yalana and offered her and her children the three remaining Cards.
• Yalana and her children absorbed the Cards and described their abilities, while Ling Feiran reassured her son that his ability to take items from Xenomorphs was justified.
• Ling Feiran led Yalana’s family out of the rising sewage pipe as rainwater carried Amir’s corpse away.
• Drunkard’s message failed, and she told Meteor that the game character had died.

After learning that Poet had died, Meteor and Drunkard discussed the loss of his Heroic Ballad and remembered how Black Spot’s decision to absorb the Hive had fractured the Star Society. They decided to use news of chaos surrounding Poet’s prematurely ended show to locate where he had been, leaving Meteor’s separated body still at risk.

• Drunkard told Meteor that Poet had died shortly after saying her body caused his grand show to end early, leaving Meteor as the only Reincarnation Vessel.
• Meteor lamented losing access to Poet’s Heroic Ballad, and Drunkard blamed Black Spot’s death on his reckless decision to absorb the incompatible Hive Card.
• Meteor and Drunkard recalled the Star Society’s early Maze raids, Black Spot’s generosity with Cards, and Meteor’s growth after absorbing All-Seeing Eye.
• Meteor remembered how Black Spot’s behavior changed after the team’s first Abyss Labyrinth raid, where he killed the Boss and Meteor claimed All-Seeing Eye.
• Drunkard searched Poet’s messages for his location, and Meteor suggested they watch the news for sudden chaos caused by Poet’s plans.

Meteor, Drunkard, and Cang Wu traveled through the wilderness with the Short-legged Sheep while discussing the Star Society’s former goal and how to fight Feng Ling. Meteor gave Cang Wu two Cards and revealed she had another plan, then the group reached a familiar snowy mountain range.

• Drunkard, Meteor, and Cang Wu left the car and brought the bound Short-legged Sheep with them into the wilderness.
• Cang Wu explained that he had joined the Star Society to see whether it could give every Player a Ticket, and recalled how its Players once farmed Points through Mazes.
• Cang Wu described his encounter with the Hidden Boss, and Meteor assessed his Cards and pointed out the weaknesses in his deck.
• Meteor gave Cang Wu Corrupting Insect and Poison Master, saying they could weaken enemies and counter the Hidden Boss’s recovery.
• Drunkard suggested using an Abyss Card against Feng Ling, but Meteor rejected the idea and said she had another plan.
• The group reached a snowy mountain slope, and Drunkard recognized the place.

Meteor and Drunkard returned to the Saint Imis Mountain Range and discussed Black Spot, their past failures, and why the Star Society’s plan to obtain Tickets had fallen apart. Meteor revealed that the Society had gained a major advantage using reusable Key Codes, while Cang Wu vowed to help her pursue a Ticket.

• Meteor showed Drunkard the Teleportation Array she had left near the Maze entrance in case she returned to search for Black Spot.
• Meteor explained that Black Spot may have survived by reaching the sea and traveling to Qingjiang City, where he encountered Feng Ling.
• Drunkard apologized for logging off during the search, and Meteor said the group had failed because they were willing to settle for Points instead of pursuing Tickets with full resolve.
• Meteor told Cang Wu that high-tier Cards and Rare Items were Key Codes obtained in advance, allowing Star Society members to win Scoreboard rewards and earn Tickets.
• Meteor explained that Messenger had distrusted her after suspecting the Key Codes caused a game Bug and had instead backed Short-legged Sheep.
• Cang Wu vowed not to betray Meteor and promised to risk her life in future efforts.

Meteor and Drunkard entered the ruined Hive Maze and discovered that Contaminants had survived by feeding on the Hive Remains. Feng Ling briefly sensed a connection to the Maze, but her feeling disappeared before she could identify its cause.

• Cang Wu pledged loyalty to Meteor, and Meteor had Drunkard transfer twenty thousand Points to her so she would have a way out.
• Drunkard accepted the Short-legged Sheep's Maze quest, and Meteor stepped through the Labyrinth Gate into the scorched Maze.
• Feng Ling sensed a strange call and flew with Ye Zheng and Green Weasel toward its source, but the feeling vanished and they returned to the airport.
• Drunkard found a tender shoot and a lizard in the ruined Maze, then summoned the Bone King and spotted more small Contaminants.
• Meteor explained that the surviving Contaminants could feed on nutrients in the Hive Remains.

Drunkard, Meteor, and Cang Wu discovered that dozens of enormous Contaminants were dormant beneath the ruined Abyss Mother Nest, and Meteor decided they should try to kill it again. In Guangnan Quarantine Zone, an assistant asked Pei Xianjue whether the preliminary report on the refugee riot needed revisions.

• Drunkard, Meteor, and Cang Wu inspected the ruined Abyss Mother Nest and found signs of the battle that had destroyed it.
• Cang Wu entered the water and discovered that dozens of huge Contaminants were still alive but dormant.
• Drunkard tested whether small Contaminants would approach an Administrator, and Meteor explained that they seemed to avoid Administrators.
• Meteor proposed that the three of them and the Maze try once more to kill the Abyss Mother Nest.
• An assistant read Pei Xianjue a preliminary report about the refugee riot in Guangnan Quarantine Zone and asked whether it needed revisions.

Pei Xianjue worried about the political consequences of the Inpatient Department crisis and went to oversee the interrogation of Pashan. Ling Feiran was appointed Head Nurse and arranged for Pashan to meet his mother, whose furious reaction began the confrontation.

• Pei Xianjue rejected any mention of the Inpatient Department in the public report and explained to Huangfu Miaomiao that the deaths of volunteer medical staff would have endangered her leadership and ambitions.
• Pei Xianjue met the nurses who helped stop the crisis and offered Ling Feiran the position of Head Nurse.
• Bao Changzhi told Pei Xianjue that Pashan had transformed into the Hundred-Armed Giant during the riot and was suspected of involvement in Wen Yi's death.
• Ling Feiran asked Pei Xianjue to let Pashan meet his mother, Yalana, who had become Ling Feiran's believer.
• Yalana entered the interrogation room, saw her cuffed son, and slapped him while accusing him of killing someone.

After Pashan was captured for his role in the Quarantine Zone riot, investigators learned that the Xenomorph Amir had manipulated him and preyed on suicidal patients. Ling Feiran uncovered the tragedy behind Wen Yi’s death and resolved to keep living.

• Yalana scolded and embraced Pashan during his interrogation, while he denied killing a nurse and said she had been pregnant and suicidal.
• Baozi told Pei Xianjue that Pashan had used the Hundred-Armed Giant's ability to destroy vehicles before being captured alive.
• Ling Feiran identified Amir’s recovered objects as trophies and explained that he used music to drive traumatized people into despair.
• The Inspector reported that the nurses’ deaths had been ruled suicides, and Pei Xianjue proposed sending Pashan to the Construction Site for labor reform.
• Ling Feiran read Wen Yi’s diary and learned that she had lost her family in an accident and had been pregnant when she died.
• Ling Feiran remembered that Feng Ling’s Card had saved her and resolved never to seek death again.

As Feng Ling searched for the Abyss Mother Nest and a way to advance her Abyss Form, she warned Huangfu Miaomiao that the Star Society's Bishop might be reborn in Meteor's body. Pei Xianjue agreed to arrange a Crystal Coffin for Miaomiao, but an urgent call left her visibly shaken.

• Pei Xianjue handled refugee resettlement and flooding while Huangfu Miaomiao spoke with Feng Ling and Ye Zheng by video call.
• Feng Ling and Ye Zheng told Huangfu Miaomiao that Feng Ling had sensed the Abyss Labyrinth and was searching for it by plane with Kite.
• Feng Ling warned Huangfu Miaomiao that Short-legged Sheep might be reborn in Meteor's body if she died again, and that Feng Ling might encounter Meteor during her search.
• Feng Ling proposed placing Huangfu Miaomiao in the Crystal Coffin to suspend her injuries and possibly make the system treat her body as an invalid Reincarnation Vessel.
• Pei Xianjue offered to contact Huang Yi and arrange transport of the Crystal Coffin, then dropped her documents after answering a call.

Pei Xianjue learned that anomalous weather suggested Mazes were merging with reality, while Feng Ling and Ye Zheng cleared Contaminants from an abandoned farm. After Green Weasel revealed it was too late to remove the creatures fused into Ye Zheng, the two turned to burning a granary full of Monsters.

• Pei Xianjue told Feng Ling and Ye Zheng that satellite observations had detected abnormal thunderstorms that might be caused by a Maze merging with reality.
• Feng Ling provoked Ye Zheng into venting her anger by fighting Contaminants at an abandoned farm, where Ye Zheng killed Bat Monsters and Feng Ling watched.
• Feng Ling read Green Weasel's message, “Too late,” and understood that the creatures fused into Ye Zheng's genes could not be removed.
• Ye Zheng found a discarded gun and suspected a recent Cleansing Operation had failed at the farm.
• Feng Ling pointed out Monsters hiding in a granary, then she and Ye Zheng set it on fire to kill them.

Feng Ling stayed overnight at an abandoned farm as Huang Yi’s team withdrew and the Quarantine Zone faced growing threats. After helping local forces clear Contaminants, she continued toward the source of her unsettling sensations, leaving Port Boltz aboard Kite.

• Feng Ling learned that Huang Yi’s team had been ordered to withdraw because suspected Mazes had been detected and reinforcements were needed at home.
• Feng Ling sensed a troubling tug again and discussed advancing into Abyss Form with Ye Zheng, while Green Weasel slept through her questions.
• Kite arrived at dawn with Cat Spider and Big Worm, and local officials offered Feng Ling gifts and asked for help clearing Contaminants.
• Feng Ling used her pressure to immobilize the Contaminants so her Human-faced Crows and Cat Spider could feed on them.
• Huang Yi told Feng Ling she would have to travel the rest of the way alone, and Kite carried Feng Ling and her companions out over the sea.

Pei Xianjue weighed whether to suspend the Iron Curtain Project as two Mazes threatened to spread pollution, then ordered construction to continue alongside evacuations and combat preparations. Back at her residence, Huangfu Miaomiao offered to use her All-Seeing Eye to help review the combat team roster.

• Inspectors collected data from designated points, and the Research Institute used it to predict pollution spreading from two Mazes within two weeks.
• Department heads debated bombardment, patrols, combat teams, worker safety, and whether to continue the Iron Curtain Project.
• Pei Xianjue learned the project needed at least thirty-seven days to complete and decided to push it forward while evacuating people without Cards and forming combat teams.
• The Quarantine Zone issued an emergency notice, and sirens and phone alerts spread panic among residents.
• Pei Xianjue returned home and reviewed the proposed combat team roster, while Huangfu Miaomiao offered to use her All-Seeing Eye to help.

Huangfu Miaomiao agreed to help investigate the spreading pollution, and Pei Xianjue joined the expedition despite her fears. In Mogu Country, the team entered a mysterious fog that the Parrot believed came from a newly opened Maze, and Huangfu Miaomiao spotted a weakness above Pei Xianjue.

• Huangfu Miaomiao agreed to delay using the Crystal Coffin and help Pei Xianjue investigate, while Pei Xianjue promised to accompany her.
• Pei Xianjue organized two reconnaissance teams to search Langlabang Forest and Beiya Mountain for pollution leaks.
• The Research Institute reported rapidly spreading fog in Mogu, and the Parrot told Pei Xianjue that it likely came from a Maze trial only Players could clear.
• Pei Xianjue led Huangfu Miaomiao and the expedition convoy into Mogu Country, where they reached the fog after several hours on the road.
• Huangfu Miaomiao used the All-Seeing Eye and pointed out “Weakness +1” above Pei Xianjue.

Huangfu Miaomiao and Pei Xianjue investigated the foggy contaminated area, where a weakness effect steadily drained people’s strength. After the team discovered that holy light and fire could repel a Soul Eater, Pei Xianjue ordered them back to the Quarantine Zone to revise their plans before entering the Maze.

• Huangfu Miaomiao found that the fog inflicted increasing weakness, but Pei Xianjue and the others initially felt no effects.
• Pei Xianjue led the team on foot through the fog, where they found a mutated deer weakened by the contamination.
• Huangfu Miaomiao observed that an Exorcist Knight’s Holy Light Technique reduced weakness and dispersed the fog, though its energy would last only about twenty minutes while protecting everyone.
• A Soul Eater attacked the deer, and Pei Xianjue drove it away with fire after the holy light revealed its fear of light.
• Pei Xianjue ordered the team to return to the Quarantine Zone and revise its configuration before launching an expedition into the Maze.

Pei Xianjue’s team returned from the fog and discovered that Mountain Lice from another Maze had altered the road. Huangfu Miaomiao confirmed the creatures were unrelated to the fog’s monsters, leaving Pei Xianjue to prepare for the danger of two Mazes nearby.

• Pei Xianjue led the team out of the fog, where two Soul Eaters stopped following them.
• Wang Xunmei discussed how fog made exploring and fighting difficult, while Huangfu Miaomiao offered to use her Card Skill to search the Maze for clues.
• Dove insisted she had not lost her way, and Pei Xianjue suspected that part of the Maze might have merged with reality.
• The team found a Mountain Louse whose group had built tower-like structures that changed the appearance of the road.
• Huangfu Miaomiao examined the Mountain Louse’s memories and confirmed it came from another Maze, prompting Pei Xianjue to worry about the two Mazes being close together.