Recaps

Feng Ling killed the surviving Fishman’s human ally aboard a fishing boat and confronted the injured Fishman, who had helped plot against her. She dressed in spare clothes and demanded to know why it had not logged out.

• Feng Ling killed the Fishman that had feigned death and tracked the surviving Fishman to a fishing boat.
• The surviving Fishman told the man aboard that the Hidden Boss had transparency and that their intelligence had been wrong.
• As the boat drifted into the river, the man refused to log out, and Feng Ling appeared behind him and tore off his lower jaw.
• Feng Ling ignored the Silver Card, put on spare clothes, and asked the terrified Fishman why it had not logged out before threatening, “Want to die?”

After interrogating a wounded Fishman, Feng Ling learned that someone at the Mengjia Hotel had sold information about her and sent the Fishman there to demand compensation. Zhou Diao arrived by helicopter to bring her back to shore, but Feng Ling refused to climb the rope ladder until he went up first because he smelled strange.

• Feng Ling questioned the wounded Fishman and learned that a Player named Moon Shadow had sold information about her through the Mengjia Hotel.
• Feng Ling ordered the Fishman to return to the hotel and demand compensation, threatening to kill it if it did not arrive within two hours.
• The Fishman turned back into a fishtail and escaped into the river as a helicopter searched for Feng Ling.
• Zhou Diao spotted Feng Ling on the bloodied fishing boat and descended on a rope ladder after spraying himself with mosquito repellent.
• Zhou Diao warned Feng Ling not to absorb any more Cards because she was already at 29%, then offered to take her back to shore.
• Feng Ling covered her nose and refused to climb until Zhou Diao went up first because he smelled strange.

Feng Ling prepared to attack the Xenomorph information sellers at Mengjia Hotel after recovering from a severe injury. She arranged for Huangfu Miaomiao to enter the hotel with a livestream camera while Su Yuqing deployed personnel nearby.

• Feng Ling told Su Yuqing that she had killed three of the four Xenomorphs who came after her and planned to deal with the rest at Mengjia Hotel in two hours.
• Feng Ling rested in Zhou Diao’s minivan and asked Huangfu Miaomiao to search the Player Forum for information about the Hidden Boss and its sellers.
• Su Yuqing reported that personnel were waiting near Mengjia Hotel, and Feng Ling proposed cutting the power and having Little Skeleton scout the hotel with a livestream camera.
• Feng Ling told Huangfu Miaomiao that she had to kill every Xenomorph who knew about the Hidden Boss, while Su Yuqing and Zhou Diao left to prepare for the operation.
• Zhou Diao said he was excited for the coming fight, and Su Yuqing reflected on the burdens of the operation.

The Fishman returned to Mengjia Hotel and confronted Old Mo and Moon Shadow over the failed intelligence and his dead employer and brothers. Afterward, Feng Ling decided to eliminate the Xenomorphs tracking her and gather flesh and blood to hatch her two Hives, leaving to find food.

• The injured Fishman reached Mengjia Hotel, obtained a spare key card, and went to meet Old Mo instead of entering room 410.
• The Fishman told Old Mo and Moon Shadow that their intelligence about the Hidden Boss was inaccurate and demanded compensation for his dead employer and brothers.
• Old Mo offered 200 Points, but Moon Shadow proposed killing the Fishman, so Old Mo allowed her to do it outside the hotel while promising the Fishman protection for 20 Points per day.
• After the Fishman returned to his room, Feng Ling concluded that she should kill the Xenomorphs, especially the one tracking the Boss, and decided to hatch her two Hives early.
• Feng Ling messaged Daoist Priest Li that she would return the next day, searched for nearby markets, and got out to find food and fresh meat.

Feng Ling struggled to find fresh flesh for incubation until a stray cat led her and Huangfu Miaomiao to its sick kittens. She incubated two dead kittens, creating new creatures, while the others still needed help.

• Feng Ling abandoned her plan to raid a supermarket after realizing its meat lacked blood, and she considered taking the Hive to a hotel instead.
• Huangfu Miaomiao fed a stray orange cat, which led them to four kittens in an alley.
• Feng Ling found that two kittens were dead and promised to seek a Doctor for the living ones and find them owners if they survived.
• Feng Ling used her Silver Ring Cards to incubate the two dead kittens, transforming them into an Eight-Legged Black Cat and a winged White Cat.

After incubating a nest, Feng Ling recovered from her chest wound and created a Cat Spider and Cat Owl. At Mengjia Hotel, Su Yuqing organized a raid on the Xenomorphs and assigned Feng Ling, Zhou Diao, and Huangfu Miaomiao their roles as the operation neared.

• Feng Ling recovered from her wound, collected the Cat Spider and Cat Owl, and explained that they had been created from the kittens' flesh and blood.
• Feng Ling entrusted the two kittens to the Supervision Bureau Doctors, who agreed to care for them.
• Su Yuqing briefed Feng Ling and Zhou Diao on the hotel layout, evacuation plan, and upcoming power cutoff, while the team spotted a suspicious armless man leaving through a window.
• Su Yuqing assigned Huangfu Miaomiao to scout the Xenomorphs on the upper floors and promised her protection from identity-based trouble in his jurisdiction.
• Su Yuqing told Feng Ling and Zhou Diao to enter through a first-floor window and reach the backup generator, and the three set off toward Mengjia Hotel.

Huangfu Miaomiao entered Old Mo’s hotel room seeking help, but Moon Shadow recognized her and revealed that Old Mo wanted the Idol she was believed to know about. A power outage cut off Su Yuqing’s view as Feng Ling and Zhou Diao began clearing the hotel, and they encountered something on the third floor.

• The dwarf warned Old Mo that the Hidden Boss was approaching, and Old Mo told him to notify the hotel guests.
• Huangfu Miaomiao found the unmarked room 414 and asked Old Mo whether he could hire a Player stronger than the Hidden Boss.
• Moon Shadow recognized Huangfu Miaomiao and restrained her, saying Fatty had claimed she knew the Maze’s location.
• Old Mo’s body transformed and attacked Huangfu Miaomiao, insisting that finding the Idol would solve their problems.
• The power went out, and Su Yuqing told Feng Ling that Huangfu Miaomiao had been captured in room 414.
• Feng Ling and Zhou Diao killed the front desk attendant in the machine room, then headed upstairs as Su Yuqing ordered the Special Forces to evacuate the guests; on the third floor, Feng Ling spotted something on the wall.

Feng Ling discovered the hotel’s upper floors were engulfed by strange mold-like organisms and suspected a Contaminant was present. On the fourth floor, she exposed a group of Xenomorphs lying in wait and used a grenade to attack them before retreating behind the stairwell door.

• Feng Ling found the fifth and sixth floors blocked by thick slime-mold-like growths, photographed them, and reported a suspected Contaminant to Su Yuqing.
• Feng Ling returned to Zhou Diao on the fourth floor, where he noted that no guests had emerged despite the power outage.
• Feng Ling lured a Xenomorph out of a room, killed it, and questioned it about search or tracking abilities.
• Feng Ling caught a small Xenomorph who claimed that Shorty could detect the Boss's location, then saw more than a dozen Xenomorphs emerge into the hallway.
• Feng Ling distracted the Xenomorphs with a promise to share Points, threw a grenade, and retreated through the stairwell door as Zhou Diao complained that she did not fight fair.

Feng Ling fought two armored Knight Xenomorphs in the darkened building and realized she needed a blunt weapon to defeat them. She found Huangfu Miaomiao trapped in a room and demanded a hammer.

• Feng Ling threw a second grenade, then joined Zhou Diao in stopping an armored Xenomorph from escaping downstairs.
• Feng Ling faced a Catfish Monster, two Knight Xenomorphs, and a trapped Bloodsucking Worm Woman in the fourth-floor corridor.
• The Knight Xenomorphs attacked Feng Ling, and she used her Bone Blades and Fangs and Claws to fight back while her Cat Owl and Cat Spider distracted one of them.
• Feng Ling helped bring down one knight, but realized her weapons were too weak against its armor and remembered Little Skeleton could provide a hammer.
• Feng Ling searched the wrecked rooms, found Huangfu Miaomiao hanging upside down among fleshy vines, and asked her for a hammer.

Feng Ling and Huangfu Miaomiao fled as a rapidly growing, eye-covered slime mold engulfed the hotel. Trapped in a room with the mold closing in, Huangfu Miaomiao finished digesting a Silver Card while Feng Ling tried to buy them time.

• Feng Ling and Zhou Diao killed the Knight Xenomorph, then Feng Ling spotted a small figure escaping and warned Su Yuqing that a Xenomorph might have gone downstairs.
• Feng Ling returned to room 414 and found slime mold growing into Huangfu Miaomiao's flesh and spreading across the hotel; the mold swelled and grew eyes as Zhou Diao reported seeing eyes upstairs.
• Feng Ling dragged Huangfu Miaomiao through the mold-filled corridors, used a Grenade to escape a blocked room, and urged Huangfu Miaomiao not to give up and log out.
• Feng Ling found the Bloodsucking Worm Woman's remains and Silver Card, pushed Huangfu Miaomiao to digest it, and brought her and the two creatures into a room at the end of the corridor.
• Feng Ling smashed the window and sent the Cat Spider and Cat Owl outside, then asked Huangfu Miaomiao if she had finished digesting the Card while she cut at the mold closing in overhead.

Feng Ling tried to escape the Slime Mold while hunting Shorty, then escaped the collapsing fourth floor with help from Su Yuqing’s team. She survived the blast and fall, and Shorty died, but the threat of the Slime Mold remained.

• Huangfu Miaomiao used Ghost Shadow to turn into a black shadow, while Su Yuqing told Feng Ling to evacuate and offered to blast open the building’s outer wall.
• Feng Ling discovered that the Slime Mold avoided Cards and lured it into absorbing one, confirming that it was close to collapse; she planned to bring down the fourth-floor ceiling.
• A flashlight exposed Feng Ling’s position, and Shorty and Old Mo discussed her presence with the Boss as Feng Ling attacked Shorty on the fifth floor.
• Feng Ling severed Shorty’s limbs and jaw, escaped the Slime Mold’s grasp, and threw a Flashbang to signal Su Yuqing’s team.
• A rocket blast shook the hotel and hurled Feng Ling through a window; she landed outside, injured, where Zhou Diao and the others rushed to her.

After the destruction of Mengjia Hotel, Su Yuqing and Ye Zheng discussed the Maze’s spreading pollution and Ye Zheng’s upcoming mission inside it. Elsewhere, Fang Ye killed the injured Fishmen and reached for the Card that emerged from his body.

• Su Yuqing ordered the bombardment of Mengjia Hotel until the building collapsed and the Slime Mold inside was destroyed.
• Ye Zheng read Su Yuqing’s report about the Xenomorph den and learned that he planned to request a bonus for Feng Ling.
• Su Yuqing and Ye Zheng discussed the Maze’s pollution spreading into the real world and Ye Zheng’s impending assignment to the Investigation Team.
• After escaping the hotel, the Fishmen watched it collapse, then went to an alley to inject himself with a Potent Recovery Agent.
• Fang Ye ambushed and beat the armless Fishmen to death, then reached for the silver Card that appeared.

Fang Ye obtained the Fishmen Card after attacking a weakened Xenomorph and decided to join the Supervision Bureau. As Qingjiang residents speculated about the previous night’s operation online, Su Yuqing received word that Fang Ye had come to see him.

• Fang Ye struck down the weakened Xenomorph, took its syringe, and obtained the Fishmen Card.
• Fang Ye decided to go to the Supervision Bureau at dawn and sign up to become an Inspector.
• Photos of the ruined Mengjia Hotel and unusual creatures from the evacuation spread online, prompting speculation about the operation and Qingjiang’s new Inspector.
• Su Yuqing regretted how easily online comments could misrepresent the report he had submitted and fielded calls from other branches asking about extra personnel.
• The receptionist told Su Yuqing that Fang Ye wanted to see him about something important.

Fang Ye asked to join the Supervision Bureau after gaining a Card, but his mediocre assessment and doubts about becoming an Inspector left him undecided. Su Yuqing then visited Feng Ling's lively hospital ward with news to share, though the chapter ended before he revealed it.

• Su Yuqing recognized Fang Ye as one of the people rescued from the underground pit and agreed to meet him.
• Fang Ye told Su Yuqing that he had gained a Card and wanted to become an Inspector, so Su Yuqing explained the application process and sent him for an assessment.
• Fang Ye received mediocre test results and hesitated to pursue the role after learning he might need training before going on missions.
• Fang Ye left without deciding whether to apply, and Su Yuqing and his assistant remarked that Feng Ling was exceptionally gifted.
• Su Yuqing visited Feng Ling's ward, where Feng Ling played on her phone and Huangfu Miaomiao ate snacks, then offered Feng Ling good and bad news.

Feng Ling learned about her Xenomorph rewards and recovery, then asked Su Yuqing to arrange a boat so she could enter the Maze despite her injuries. Su Yuqing reflected on how quickly she had grown and learned about her unusual past.

• Su Yuqing told Feng Ling she had killed eleven Xenomorphs and applied for her bonus, but the reward per Xenomorph had fallen to 800,000.
• Feng Ling showed Su Yuqing that only three segments of her Bone Blade and Fangs and Claws remained, while Huangfu Miaomiao explained that digesting the Blood Worms Card had restored her arm at a cost of 2% Corruption Value.
• Su Yuqing told Feng Ling that Fang Ye had absorbed a Card and wanted to join the Supervision Bureau.
• Feng Ling asked Su Yuqing to contact the River Patrol Team so she could enter the Maze, explaining that her Corruption Value was 29%.
• After leaving the ward, Su Yuqing and his assistant discussed Feng Ling’s combat instincts and rapid growth, and the assistant admitted he admired her.
• Su Yuqing’s assistant recounted Feng Ling’s background, including her orphanage childhood, fighting training, Nursing Home job, and recent work as a sparring partner.

After learning that the Supervision Bureau had wiped out the Xenomorph gathering at Mengjia Hotel while the Hidden Boss remained alive, Li Qing suspected Aisha had survived and possibly joined forces with the authorities. He deleted her from his contacts and received an ominous divination, while Feng Ling traced the mysterious light to Sanqing Mountain and found she could no longer message the Daoist priest.

• The Qingjiang Branch announced that it had killed twelve Xenomorphs and one Class A Large Contaminant at Mengjia Hotel, prompting online commenters to speculate about the concerned citizen who helped.
• Li Qing read the announcement and reasoned that Aisha, the Hidden Boss, was still alive because no system notice had announced her defeat.
• Li Qing recalled telling Bean Paste to flee to Yunhai City and wondered whether he had been deceived.
• Li Qing decided that Aisha could protect herself and deleted her from his friend list to avoid exposing his identity.
• Li Qing cast an inauspicious hexagram on Sanqing Mountain, and two Taoist priests advised him to stay put rather than go down the mountain.
• Feng Ling identified Sanqing Mountain as the location of the mysterious light, then discovered that Aisha's account could no longer message the Daoist priest.

After Feng Ling discovered that Li Qing had deleted and blacklisted her, she set out for Sanqing Mountain intending to confront him before entering the Maze. A stop at the Supervision Bureau introduced her to the Hunter Alliance Plan and its Contribution Value system, leaving her equipped with a new phone and a warning about the dangers of Corruption Value.

• Feng Ling failed to contact Li Qing and became furious after learning that Weasel01 had blacklisted her on the Exo-Star Forum.
• Feng Ling decided to find Li Qing on Sanqing Mountain and demand an explanation for deleting her.
• Feng Ling booked an RV and headed toward Sanqing Mountain, but Su Yuqing persuaded her to visit the Supervision Bureau to collect her bonus and gifts.
• Su Yuqing gave Feng Ling a specialized phone that accessed the internal Hunter Forum, showed Contribution Points, and stored up to two Cards.
• Su Yuqing showed Feng Ling a Blue Pill in the phone for emergencies and explained that civilian Hunters were trusted to control their own Corruption Value during the Hunter Alliance Plan's trial phase.

Feng Ling collected weapons from the Supervision Bureau and set out with Huangfu Miaomiao for Sanqing Mountain, where she hoped to learn about the Idol. On Children's Day, they arrived at the Scenic Area and learned that families were bringing their children to pray for protection from Xenomorphs.

• Feng Ling exchanged her Contribution Value for Grenades, a military Drone, and a terrain Detector before leaving with Su Yuqing's warnings about the Maze and the lack of a rescue team.
• Huangfu Miaomiao described her plan to use a Maze's Safe Zone, but Feng Ling pointed out that humans could not simply hide or log out.
• Feng Ling considered how beings might unknowingly endanger those beneath them, then comforted Huangfu Miaomiao by ruffling her hair.
• Feng Ling and Huangfu Miaomiao reached the Scenic Area amid Children's Day parent-child tours.
• A young mother told Feng Ling that her family had come to Sanqing Mountain to pray for their children's safety from Xenomorphs.

Feng Ling searched for Li Qing, a Taoist priest on Sanqing Mountain, and learned that the priests came down to the foot of the mountain. Li Qing’s divinations warned of danger, and when he spotted a Hidden Boss warning, he fled from Feng Ling.

• Feng Ling left Huangfu Miaomiao and the Cat Spider and Cat Owl in the RV while she went to find Li Qing.
• A shop clerk told Feng Ling that the Taoist priests were at Sanqing Palace on the mountain or came down after work.
• Li Qing cast two divinations, first drawing Bo Gua and then the more ominous Kan Gua, before agreeing to go down the mountain for milk tea with two fellow priests.
• At the foot of the mountain, Li Qing saw a warning that a Hidden Boss was nearby and ran away.
• Feng Ling recognized Li Qing, chased after him, and shouted for him to stop.

Li Qing fled from Feng Ling after she marked him, then returned to face her and was forced into her car. There, Huangfu Miaomiao recognized him as a Labyrinth Administrator and revealed that she and Feng Ling had been searching for the Maze.

• Feng Ling stopped Li Qing as he tried to flee, but a furry creature distracted her and he escaped into the woods.
• Li Qing realized Feng Ling’s Mark remained on him, considered his divination, and decided to confront her instead of continuing to run.
• Feng Ling marked Li Qing’s trail and waited, then took him to her car when he returned.
• Feng Ling shoved Li Qing into the car, where Huangfu Miaomiao recognized him as a Labyrinth Administrator.
• Huangfu Miaomiao explained that Administrators opened Mazes and said their discovery meant the Maze was nearby.

Feng Ling forced Li Qing to sign Huangfu Miaomiao’s Demon Contract and questioned him about the Maze. Li Qing identified when and where he could open it, but revealed that the Administrators responsible for preventing its pollution from spreading had been killed.

• Feng Ling confronted Li Qing about posting Xenomorph information on the human Forum, and he said he had acted to help people as the game’s balance collapsed.
• Feng Ling had Huangfu Miaomiao offer Li Qing a contract requiring both of them to be honest, and Li Qing accepted under threat.
• Feng Ling asked where the Maze was, and Li Qing identified Goddess Peak about twenty minutes before sunset as the place and time he could open it.
• Li Qing said he did not know what was inside the Maze because it changed constantly, though its contents were shaped by local geology, species, and culture.
• Feng Ling asked whether pollution from the Maze could spread outside Sanqing Mountain, and Li Qing said it could and that the responsible Administrators had been killed.

Feng Ling learned from Li Qing that Players had killed many Labyrinth Administrators, leaving at least forty Mazes to spread Pollution and merge with the real world. She warned Su Yuqing that the Pollution could contaminate anyone without a Card, and the chapter ended with him realizing Ye Zheng might already have known.

• Li Qing told Feng Ling and Huangfu Miaomiao that at least one-third of the 122 Labyrinth Administrators had been killed by Players, likely in an organized effort to make Mazes spread Pollution.
• Li Qing explained that Cards protected their holders from Maze contamination, while creatures without Cards were vulnerable to genetic mutation.
• Feng Ling called Su Yuqing and reported that at least forty Mazes worldwide were spreading Pollution and that researchers entering them could be contaminated.
• Li Qing said abnormal Administrator shutdowns made Mazes merge with the world, and that killing a Maze's Labyrinth Master would stop the Maze from spreading further.
• Su Yuqing had his clone warn Ye Zheng to reorganize the Investigation Team and keep researchers out of Mazes, then asked whether she already knew.

Feng Ling and Huangfu Miaomiao headed with Li Qing toward Goddess Peak to enter the Maze, but Huangfu Miaomiao was recognized by a little girl from the family she had logged into. After they returned the child to her parents, the girl's mother called Huangfu Miaomiao a monster, and Straw Hat Boy reported that a Hidden Boss was following the Labyrinth Administrator.

• Su Yuqing told Ye Zheng that the Maze's pollution came from the Labyrinth Administrator's death, but Ye Zheng refused to cancel the next day's operation.
• Feng Ling posted warnings about the Maze on the Exo-Star Forum and Hunter Alliance Forum, then took Huangfu Miaomiao and Li Qing toward Goddess Peak with the two pets.
• Feng Ling paid Li Qing's cable car fare, and the group continued toward the peak through the crowded Scenic Area.
• A little girl named Huangfu Shasha ran up to Huangfu Miaomiao and called her big sister, so the group turned back to find the child's parents.
• The girl's mother snatched her away, called Huangfu Miaomiao a monster, and wept after the group left.
• Straw Hat Boy told someone over the phone that he had found the Labyrinth Administrator and that a Hidden Boss was following it.

Feng Ling, Huangfu Miaomiao, and Li Qing climbed toward Goddess Peak while discussing Huangfu Miaomiao’s rejection by the family whose daughter she had replaced and the differences between their worlds. Li Qing explained the local legend and his Diviner Card, and Feng Ling asked Huangfu Miaomiao to ask him what Card she should consume.

• Straw Hat Boy told someone he planned to test the couple and their daughter, despite being warned that confronting a Hidden Boss was unnecessary.
• Feng Ling reassured Huangfu Miaomiao that the family had rejected her because she was not their daughter, and Huangfu Miaomiao explained that people in her world were raised in Breeding Pods and had no families.
• Li Qing described how Breeding Pods accelerated human growth, and Huangfu Miaomiao said she was seven years old by Feng Ling’s measure.
• Li Qing pointed out Goddess Peak and recounted the legend of Yao Ji, Meng Long, and Giant Python Peak.
• Li Qing explained that his Card was Diviner and that studying Daoist culture helped him choose Cards to consume.
• Feng Ling asked Li Qing what Card she should consume, then told Huangfu Miaomiao to ask him instead.

Feng Ling discussed the Hive and the Maze with Li Qing while waiting for reinforcements, then a transformed monkey abducted Huangfu Miaomiao’s little sister. Huangfu Miaomiao chased after them, and Li Qing was stunned that the Maze seemed to have contaminated an animal despite his watch.

• Feng Ling admitted she did not understand the Hive, and she and Li Qing puzzled over its relation to Cards and Corruption Value.
• Pei Xianjue of the Qingjiang City Abomination Safety Supervision Branch called Feng Ling and arranged to bring reinforcements to her location.
• Li Qing estimated that the Maze entrance would open around 6:50 p.m. and warned that they needed to clear tourists from the Mountain by 4 p.m.
• Feng Ling urged Li Qing to enter the Maze with them, explaining that humans wanted to eliminate the Labyrinth Master rather than repeatedly explore for Points.
• A monkey nearly as tall as a person seized Huangfu Miaomiao’s little sister and leapt through the trees, so Huangfu Miaomiao turned into a shadow and pursued it.
• Feng Ling challenged Li Qing about the monkey’s contamination, but he insisted the Maze could not have contaminated animals while he was guarding the Mountain.