Recaps

Feng Ling and Ye Zheng reached Baniga, where they learned more about the spreading Maze contamination and discussed the coming game restart. After traveling onward, Feng Ling sensed a Maze nearby and wondered whether it was hers.

• Feng Ling rested with Ye Zheng and their companions on an uninhabited Baniga island after four days of flight.
• Feng Ling and Ye Zheng discussed the frequent Maze openings, Meteor, and the approaching game restart, and Feng Ling resolved to become the strongest game Boss.
• Baniga officials welcomed Feng Ling, gave her intelligence about neighboring countries, and arranged a ship for her group.
• Feng Ling and her companions crossed the sea and reached a country whose residents were fleeing despite contamination affecting only a small area.
• Feng Ling sensed that a Maze was close and examined Baniga's footage, but she was unsure whether it was hers.

Feng Ling and Ye Zheng traveled to a city overrun by parasitic Monsters to investigate how they infected people. After Feng Ling killed a Monster imitating Little Third Child, the surrounding Contaminants turned toward her and questioned her in unison.

• Feng Ling and Ye Zheng reviewed footage of Monsters mimicking terrified expressions and discussed the unknown way they parasitized hosts.
• Feng Ling set off on Kite with Ye Zheng and their companions, following the Abyss Labyrinth's pull toward the contaminated area.
• After three days of travel, Feng Ling and Ye Zheng reached a city where Red Dots crowded the streets and signs of an ineffective military quarantine remained.
• Feng Ling landed near an industrial park with Third Child and the little sheep to observe the motionless Contaminants.
• When a Contaminant began imitating Little Third Child, Feng Ling cut it in half and saw tentacles wriggling from its wound.
• The nearby Contaminants and the severed corpse turned toward Feng Ling and repeatedly asked in unison why she had killed them, frightening her.

Feng Ling and Ye Zheng investigated the Parasite Humans in an industrial park and discovered that the creatures could survive dismemberment and imitate people. They left the threat unresolved as the Parasite Humans began copying Ye Zheng.

• Feng Ling killed the Parasite Humans in the industrial park, and she and Ye Zheng found that large corpse pieces remained alive while smaller pieces died.
• Feng Ling removed and cut apart the Parasite Humans' organs, causing their tendrils to wither, but Green Weasel could not identify the creatures.
• Feng Ling and Ye Zheng found dozens of Parasite Humans in a marigold field, where the creatures tracked Feng Ling with their eyes.
• The Parasite Humans imitated Feng Ling, so she cut them apart despite Ye Zheng's warning to investigate their parasitic mechanism.
• Ye Zheng discovered that the Parasite Humans' tangled tendrils let them fuse and heal unless their organs were destroyed, then crushed one as it began to imitate her.

Feng Ling and Ye Zheng entered the city center to investigate the Parasite Humans and the Maze’s possible Boss. After Feng Ling attacked the creatures, they claimed their human hosts were still alive within them, and the chapter ended as the child Parasite Human’s tendrils surged toward her.

• Feng Ling and Ye Zheng flew toward the city center, where they found plants flourishing abnormally and Parasite Humans standing motionless along the roads.
• Feng Ling attacked the Parasite Humans after they began imitating her and Ye Zheng, despite Ye Zheng urging caution.
• The Parasite Humans asked why Feng Ling was killing them and insisted they wanted to live.
• Feng Ling killed a child Parasite Human, but it claimed the people they had parasitized had become part of them and were not dead.
• Ye Zheng warned Feng Ling as the child’s tendrils surged, and Feng Ling jumped back and hurled a car at it.

Feng Ling and Ye Zheng struggled to understand the Maze’s Parasite Humans and searched for clues about its Labyrinth Master. Green Weasel’s research into the spring goddess Inanna gave Feng Ling a new theory, and she ordered Great Kite to fly onward toward an unknown destination.

• Feng Ling destroyed the child in the car with a Grenade, then silenced the Parasite Humans’ chorus by blasting the nearby hosts with more Grenades.
• Feng Ling and Ye Zheng discussed whether the Labyrinth Master could be spread across countless Parasite Humans and decided to retreat rather than risk killing them all.
• Feng Ling, Ye Zheng, Green Weasel, and Third Child returned to the golf course, where Great Kite carried them away; Feng Ling noticed she could no longer sense the Abyss calling.
• Green Weasel showed Feng Ling and Ye Zheng its research identifying Inanna as the possible God of Spring and Life, whose Maze might follow the seasonal myth of her descent into the underworld.
• Feng Ling theorized that the Labyrinth Master might not be in the current area and ordered Great Kite to fly forward, promising to explain her destination later.

Feng Ling and Ye Zheng found an entrance to the Maze and investigated its dense forest by bombing it and scouting with a Human-faced Crow. Feng Ling discovered that the Labyrinth Boss’s roots connected the living things throughout the forest, but lost her link to the crow and realized the creature was very similar to her.

• Feng Ling recognized the Maze entrance by the increasingly lush vegetation and flew through its boundary with Ye Zheng.
• Feng Ling bombarded the forest with Grenades and a Rocket Launcher, then observed that the Red Dots showed no response to the explosions.
• Feng Ling sent a Human-faced Crow into the forest, where it found an organ-like object wrapped in roots that connected to the plants and soil.
• Feng Ling inferred that the roots came from the Labyrinth Boss and could lead her to it, but the mental link to the crow was severed.
• Feng Ling told Ye Zheng that the Labyrinth Boss resembled her in absorbing flesh-and-blood energy, controlling clones, regenerating, and existing everywhere.

Feng Ling and Ye Zheng found the missing Human-faced Crow fused with an organ and escaped the encroaching tentacles on Kite. Feng Ling sacrificed half her palm to test the creatures, which began growing a grotesque copy of her, and she left it to develop so they could observe the Labyrinth Boss's abilities.

• Feng Ling and Ye Zheng searched the woods and found the Human-faced Crow trapped in tentacles and fused with an organ.
• Feng Ling tore the organ free and smashed it, while Ye Zheng warned her about the tentacles closing in around them.
• Feng Ling summoned Kite, and she and Ye Zheng climbed away from the tentacles.
• Feng Ling cut off half her palm and watched the tentacles surge toward the blood and use it to grow a copy of her.
• Ye Zheng urged Feng Ling to destroy the growing creature, but Feng Ling chose to keep watching, while Green Weasel displayed a note about life creation.

Feng Ling burned part of the Maze to drive its moving Red Dots into the open, then killed a giant lizard. When Green Weasel identified its Card as a Siamese Crocodile, Feng Ling realized someone had deliberately fed Cards to a creature that did not belong in the Maze.

• Feng Ling and Ye Zheng decided to burn the Maze's fleshy growths, and Ye Zheng crushed a malformed creature resembling Feng Ling.
• Green Weasel supplied gasoline, and Feng Ling used the Great Kite to set the forest ablaze.
• Feng Ling spotted three lizard-like creatures fleeing the fire; two disappeared before she caught and killed the last one.
• Ye Zheng warned Feng Ling that the lizard was not the Labyrinth Master, and Green Weasel identified its Silver Card as an Intermediate Card for a Siamese Crocodile.
• Feng Ling concluded that the lizard did not belong in the Maze and that someone had deliberately fed it Cards.

Feng Ling and Ye Zheng suspected that the lizards had been given Cards from the Hive Labyrinth and pursued them after leaving the God of Spring and Life's Labyrinth. Feng Ling was struck by the Hive's mental pain while attacking a lizard, and Ye Zheng killed it as Feng Ling struggled to regain control.

• Feng Ling suspected the lizard's Siamese Crocodile Card came from the Hive Labyrinth and that someone had deliberately fed it the Card.
• Feng Ling and Ye Zheng returned to the real world on Great Kite and spotted many Contaminants ahead that Feng Ling suspected had escaped from the Hive Labyrinth.
• Feng Ling and Ye Zheng chased and attacked the two lizards, using their powers to stop them from fleeing.
• The Hive's lingering mental pain froze Feng Ling as she attacked, so Ye Zheng killed the lizard herself.
• Feng Ling recovered and told Ye Zheng that she had sensed the Abyss Labyrinth more strongly than before.

Feng Ling and Ye Zheng rested after Feng Ling froze during a fight with a lizard, then considered how to deal with the remaining Contaminants and prepare for her advancement. Green Weasel proposed that Feng Ling's inability to harm certain creatures came from inherited genes, and encouraged her to overcome the restriction through willpower.

• Feng Ling and Ye Zheng decided to rest rather than pursue the distant Contaminants, while their creatures ate the two dead lizards.
• Feng Ling proposed hatching Akash, Lord of the Sand Throat, from her final egg, but Ye Zheng warned that hatching it could leave her vulnerable to Meteor.
• Ye Zheng suggested waiting for a lone lizard, and Feng Ling argued that she could still move and use Mental Intimidation despite her earlier freeze.
• Ye Zheng gave Feng Ling the analysis Green Weasel had typed, which theorized that the old Hive's genes prevented her from harming its Contaminants.
• Feng Ling wondered whether willpower could overcome the restriction, and Green Weasel assured her that she could.

As the fog threatened to spread across the Molian River, Pei Xianjue took command of an expedition to clear the Fog Maze, bringing Huangfu Miaomiao and the Crystal Coffin. The team prepared to depart heavily armed, while Huang Yi stayed behind at the Quarantine Zone.

• Huang Yi urged the Quarantine Zone leaders to prioritize clearing the Fog Maze before its fog and Soul Eaters crossed the Molian River.
• Huang Yi argued that Huangfu Miaomiao should join the mission, but Pei Xianjue decided to lead the team herself and leave Huang Yi to hold the Quarantine Zone.
• Pei Xianjue told Huangfu Miaomiao she would bring her into the Maze, and Miaomiao eagerly anticipated earning Feng Ling's praise.
• Pei Xianjue added bodyguards, heavy weapons, food, and water to the expedition and chose to bring the Crystal Coffin despite its size.
• After preparations were complete, Pei Xianjue's team assembled two heavy trucks on Molian River Bridge and set off for the Maze.

Pei Xianjue led the subjugation team through the fog toward the Maze while Huangfu Miaomiao used a Rare Item to bring the Crystal Coffin along. They found a hidden statue that revealed the Maze’s Boss was Chaos, then lit its brazier and received a protective light.

• Pei Xianjue gathered the team at an evacuation point and let Huangfu Miaomiao test whether her Golden Egg could carry the Crystal Coffin.
• The team advanced through terrain altered by Mountain Lice while Light Element members used Holy Light Technique to keep Soul Eaters away.
• Huangfu Miaomiao caught up with Pei Xianjue and used her All-Seeing Eye to spot a hidden statue beneath a Mountain Louse Tower.
• Huangfu Miaomiao read a clue identifying Chaos as the Maze’s first will, and Pei Xianjue lit the statue’s brazier.
• The brazier’s jade-like bones burned with radiant light, making the team feel safe.

Pei Xianjue’s team searched the Maze for another statue and struggled to understand how to carry the brazier’s protective flame. After Dove realized their distance from the starting point was not changing, Soul Eaters ambushed the team, and Huangfu Miaomiao identified the mist-spraying creature’s ability to inflict Weakness.

• Pei Xianjue’s team discovered that the brazier’s flames could only burn while its special bone remained inside, so they continued searching for another statue and more braziers.
• As the team rested, Dove told Pei Xianjue that her compass’s Mark point had not changed distance despite their long walk.
• A large Soul Eater sprayed dense fog over the team, allowing smaller Soul Eaters to attack; one bit Dove’s shoulder before Pei Xianjue and the Dawn Swordsman drove the creatures off.
• The priest treated Dove’s weakened shoulder and arm, while Lin Pengpeng noted that the Soul Eaters could be harmed by fire and blades.
• Huangfu Miaomiao observed Weakness stacks on several teammates and concluded that the mist-spraying Soul Eater could inflict them.

Pei Xianjue led her weakened team back to a statue to rest and reasoned that they should follow its gaze. The route led them to a second statue and a Gothic Bell Tower Safe Zone, leaving the team able to continue toward the Labyrinth Boss.

• Pei Xianjue checked her team's condition after the Soul Eater attack and ordered Dove to lead them back to a marked place to rest.
• Pei Xianjue drove off pursuing Soul Eaters with flames from her curved blades as the team's holy light weakened.
• The team reached the first statue, rested by its brazier, and Pei Xianjue suggested following the direction it faced.
• Pei Xianjue led the team into the fog in that direction, and they found a second statue and a Gothic Bell Tower Safe Zone.
• Huangfu Miaomiao confirmed the team had found the right route, while Lin Pengpeng added Pei Xianjue's observation quote to her collection.

Huangfu Miaomiao and Pei Xianjue uncovered clues that linked Kaos, the Soul Eaters, and the Maze’s stone statues, while Huangfu Miaomiao found bone fragments that strengthened Light Element skills. After finding the third statue, they concluded that locating all twelve would lead them to the Radiant Altar and a way to defeat Kaos, then Pei Xianjue led the team toward the fourth statue.

• Huangfu Miaomiao read the second statue’s clue and reasoned that Kaos was the Labyrinth Boss, whose powers involved mist.
• Pei Xianjue rested the team, while Huangfu Miaomiao found five bone fragments in a chest beneath the Bell Tower’s old bell and distributed them as Light Element buffs.
• Huangfu Miaomiao considered drawing away one of Meteor’s Cards and agreed to let Feng Ling decide when they met.
• Pei Xianjue led the team toward the third statue, where Huangfu Miaomiao found a clue explaining that the Twelve Prophets built the Radiant Altar to disperse Kaos’s mist.
• Huangfu Miaomiao concluded that the Twelve Prophets were the stone statues and that the Radiant Altar could help them defeat Kaos, so Pei Xianjue led the team toward the fourth statue.

Pei Xianjue’s team followed the final clue into the densest fog, found a chain leading up a stone pillar, and spotted the dormant Labyrinth Boss, Primordial Chaos - Chaos. On the pillar’s platform, Huangfu Miaomiao identified a skeleton as one of the Twelve Prophets, and Pei Xianjue prepared to burn it to ignite the altar.

• Huangfu Miaomiao read the twelfth statue’s clue, and Pei Xianjue rallied the team to find and light the Radiant Altar.
• Pei Xianjue found a buried iron chain in a pit and followed it with Huangfu Miaomiao, Wang Xunmei, and the Dawn Swordsman to a tall stone pillar.
• Pei Xianjue and the others climbed the pillar and found a dried skeleton on its platform.
• Pei Xianjue spotted the enormous dormant Labyrinth Boss, and Huangfu Miaomiao identified it as Primordial Chaos - Chaos.
• Huangfu Miaomiao recognized the skeleton as one of the Twelve Prophets and suggested burning it to light the altar.
• Pei Xianjue agreed and summoned flames in her palm.

Pei Xianjue’s team lit all twelve Prophet’s Remains, clearing the altar of mist and forcing the Labyrinth Boss to shrink and reveal its true form. The Boss attacked Pei Xianjue as the team prepared to fight it.

• Pei Xianjue led the team around the twelve stone pillars to light the Prophet’s Remains and discussed how to fight the floating Labyrinth Boss.
• Pei Xianjue divided the team into four groups led by Light Element teammates and assigned each group a stone pillar.
• Pei Xianjue lit the final Prophet’s Remains, and their holy radiance drove away the altar’s mist.
• The Labyrinth Boss shrank to ten meters, took on a solid form, and was revealed as the Primordial Chaos God, Chaos.
• Huangfu Miaomiao ran behind the remains and told everyone to hide as the Boss pounced, but Pei Xianjue drew her twin blades and ordered the team to kill it.

Pei Xianjue’s team fought the Labyrinth Boss, which attacked by releasing dense fog that extinguished the Prophet’s Remains and weakened anyone outside their radiance. After the Boss attacked Team Three, it charged Pei Xianjue’s team again, leaving several members badly weakened and unable to fight.

• The Labyrinth Boss ambushed Pei Xianjue’s team in dense fog, and Pei Xianjue stopped Wang Xunmei from chasing it off the platform.
• Huangfu Miaomiao identified weakening effects on Wang Xunmei, Lin Pengpeng, and Zhang Lu after the Prophet’s Remains went dark, and Pei Xianjue warned the other teams about the Boss and its fog.
• Lin Pengpeng and the others found that their wounds kept bleeding until the radiance reduced their weakening, while the injured Boss returned to the altar’s center.
• The Boss attacked Team Three, extinguished their Prophet’s Remains, and retreated after leaving two people lightly injured.
• The Boss charged Pei Xianjue’s team again, and the team struck it hard enough to make it retreat, but Lin Pengpeng and Wang Xunmei collapsed as Pei Xianjue struggled to stay standing.
• Huangfu Miaomiao dragged Lin Pengpeng behind the remains and reported that her and Wang Xunmei’s weakening values had risen above 60.

Pei Xianjue deduced how the Prophet’s Remains could protect the teams from Chaos and coordinated a rotation of attacks and healing. After Group Four wounded Chaos, a massive figure rose from the Red Mist beyond the altar, leaving the teams facing a new threat.

• Huangfu Miaomiao pulled weakened teammates behind the Prophet’s Remains and used runes to reduce their weakness while Pei Xianjue warned Group Three to take cover.
• Pei Xianjue realized the remains created a safe zone behind them and ordered the teams not to relight them while Chaos was attacking.
• Pei Xianjue inferred that Chaos weakened when the altar’s radiance was active and organized the groups to alternate attacks, lighting, and healing.
• The Exorcist Knight struck Chaos with holy light, and Huangfu Miaomiao confirmed that it was bleeding again.
• As Chaos turned toward Pei Xianjue’s group, the earth shook, and a massive figure rose from the Red Mist beyond the altar.

The Corrupted Giant Mountain Demon appeared at the altar, forcing Pei Xianjue’s team to flee as Chaos escaped. Pei Xianjue was overwhelmed by Mountain Lice, and the team lost contact with her while regrouping at the Bell Tower Safe Zone.

• A giant Mountain Demon entered the altar, destroying stone pillars and driving Soul Eaters into the fog-filled area.
• Pei Xianjue ordered the team to retreat along the iron chains, but Chaos fled and the Mountain Demon pursued them.
• Pei Xianjue found Lin Pengpeng holding Huangfu Miaomiao and Dove above a fissure, then rescued Dove as the ground collapsed.
• Mountain Lice erupted from underground and engulfed Pei Xianjue and the others; before losing consciousness, she told them to go to the Safe Zone.
• The divine healer took over the team at the Bell Tower, but attempts to contact Pei Xianjue failed, and Lin Pengpeng broke down crying.

Ling Feiran learned that Pashan had escaped the Second Inpatient Department and set out to seek approval to find him before nightfall. Meanwhile, Huang Yi learned that the fog was rapidly approaching the Molian River and ordered a rescue squad formed to search for General Pei, with evacuation planned if rescue failed.

• Yalana told Ling Feiran that Pashan was missing and showed her the electronic shackle he had broken.
• Ling Feiran deduced that Pashan had likely headed toward Mogu and promised Yalana she would apply for a pass to search for him.
• Ling Feiran's calls to the Logistics Department failed to secure approval, so she decided not to wait as darkness approached.
• Huang Yi and the department heads learned that the fog had expanded and could reach the Molian River within forty-eight hours.
• Huang Yi ordered a squad assembled to search for General Pei and said the Quarantine Zone would be sealed and evacuated if rescue proved impossible.
• A sudden chill swept through the command center, and Huang Yi felt creeped out without seeing anything.

Ling Feiran left before Huang Yi’s search team was ready and crossed the Molian River with Pearl to look for Pashan. After night fell and they found no sign of him, they heard several people arguing nearby.

• Ling Feiran asked Huang Yi for permission to cross the Molian River, but vanished before he could include her in the upcoming search team.
• Ling Feiran made arrangements at the inpatient department and crossed the river with Pearl, who used her Juggler Card to walk across a steel wire.
• Ling Feiran and Pearl followed Yalana’s map toward Pashan’s home while traveling through the fog.
• As night fell, Ling Feiran repeatedly purified black qi around Pearl, but the pair found no trace of Pashan and the road disappeared into barren mud.
• Ling Feiran and Pearl heard several people arguing in the distance and went to investigate.

Lin Pengpeng and the Bell Tower team debated whether to rescue General Pei or return to the Quarantine Zone, until Ling Feiran arrived with Pearl and brought news that the fog had expanded. Ling Feiran interpreted the weakening radio signal as a sign that General Pei might still be alive and moving, then offered to search for her.

• Lin Pengpeng urged the team to rescue General Pei, and most of the team members silently joined her side despite the Divine Priest's concerns.
• Someone knocked on the Bell Tower door, and Lin Pengpeng opened it to find Ling Feiran and Pearl looking for a missing boy.
• Ling Feiran told the team that the fog had expanded and Huang Yi could not assemble another extermination squad soon.
• Lin Pengpeng proposed rescuing General Pei and, if that failed, luring the Mountain Demon into a fog-free area and attacking it with a grenade launcher.
• Ling Feiran reasoned that the weakening radio signal might mean General Pei was moving nearby, then offered to search for her.

Ling Feiran and Lin Pengpeng searched the ruined altar for Pei Xianjue, then followed a Human-faced Crow into the overlapping Maze of the Mountain lice. They found evidence that the creatures were carrying away the dead and spotted the enormous Mountain Demon, the Maze’s Boss.

• Ling Feiran and Lin Pengpeng searched the crack beneath the altar, but Ling Feiran found no sign of Pei Xianjue and suspected the Mountain lice had taken her.
• A Human-faced Crow appeared and led them through the fog, shedding half its body to keep going.
• They crossed an invisible boundary into the Mountain lice’s Maze, where the creatures carried away a dead companion to mix with soil and rotting grass.
• Ling Feiran followed the Mountain lice carrying the corpse, while Lin Pengpeng pointed out the distant Mountain Demon, which appeared as a vast mountain of stone.

Ling Feiran entered the Mountain Demon to search for Pei Xianjue and found her unconscious with Huangfu Miaomiao and Pashan. After healing them, Ling Feiran withdrew into Wraith form, and Huangfu Miaomiao offered her a raincoat.

• Ling Feiran calmed Lin Pengpeng and reasoned that the motionless Mountain Demon had gone dormant.
• When Lin Pengpeng could not reach Pei Xianjue by radio, Ling Feiran entered the hollow Mountain Demon to search for her.
• The Mountain Demon began to rise, and Lin Pengpeng climbed onto its body while Ling Feiran searched its tunnels.
• Ling Feiran found Pashan near death and healed him, then discovered Pei Xianjue and Huangfu Miaomiao and healed them too.
• Huangfu Miaomiao woke and handed Ling Feiran a raincoat identical to Feng Ling's.