Recaps

Feng Ling tracked the Gu Worm Master, reunited with Feng Shao, and found the Maze entrance with the Crow. After entering the Maze, her group faced waves of Rat Monsters and searched for safer ground, ending at a Jewelry Shop with an Altar bearing a God of Wealth Idol.

• Feng Ling pursued the Gu Worm Master through a flooded subway and to South Sea Wharf, where she killed the Xenomorph and recovered its Cards.
• Feng Ling learned more about Star Society’s efforts to pollute Mazes, then reunited with Feng Shao and Ling Feiran and heard that Mother Feng had died.
• Feng Ling’s group found the Maze entrance with the Crow, and authorities evacuated the surrounding area before they entered.
• Inside the Maze, Feng Ling fought Humanoid Rats through the night and used a Drone to discover a vast city, a giant woman rising from the sea, and a breathing Corpse Mountain.
• Rat Monsters trapped Feng Ling’s group in a building, and Ye Zheng lost control and burned them with her White Flame before Feng Ling sedated her.
• With their Truck damaged, Feng Ling led the group toward a street Huangfu Miaomiao had found, where they sheltered in a Jewelry Shop and discovered an Altar bearing a God of Wealth Idol.

Feng Ling’s group rescued Huangfu Miaomiao from the flesh-covered Mountain, discovered the procession and its offerings were tied to the Labyrinth Master, and began trying to disrupt that cycle. As Ye Zheng’s Corruption and the Mark’s effects strained the team, they reached a stone altar where she lowered her Corruption Value, then continued toward a Safe Zone to plan their next move.

• Feng Ling followed the Wandering Deity Procession to the Mountain, where she and Ye Zheng found Huangfu Miaomiao fused into its flesh and uncovered Little Skeleton and a treasure chest.
• Feng Ling and Ye Zheng repeatedly cut at the Mountain to free Huangfu Miaomiao, eventually pulling her out despite severe injuries, and Li Qing revealed that the Star Society planned to spread Maze genes into the city.
• The group worshipped Idols, awakened Safe Zones, and tried to destroy the Mountain with explosives, but it survived and formed a hateful procession from bodies and the wishes trapped inside it.
• Li Qing explained that the Labyrinth Master had Marked Feng Ling and Ye Zheng, and Feng Ling later watched a Pseudo-God eat a corpse before the Rat Monsters carried it away in the sedan chair.
• The Mark manifested Feng Ling’s and Ye Zheng’s fears, and Feng Ling and Ye Zheng fought after Ye Zheng demanded another sedative, stopping only when the Wandering Deity Procession approached.
• Feng Ling’s group smashed offering tables and used Xu Yiming’s camera to watch the procession change course, while Feng Ling asked Xu Yiming to request powerful weapons from Han Xu.
• At a stone altar, Feng Ling urged Ye Zheng to remove high-Corruption Cards, and both women lowered their Corruption Values while Ye Zheng warned Feng Ling about her lack of restraint.
• After Rats approached, Feng Ling proposed attacking the Labyrinth Master, and Ye Zheng rejected her plan and took her upstairs at a café Safe Zone to speak privately.

Feng Ling and Ye Zheng defeated the Labyrinth Master, escaped the Maze, and encountered a Xenomorph attack in the floods outside. As Feng Ling headed toward Qingjiang with new plans to use her crows, public controversy over her and Pei Xianjue continued.

• Feng Ling and Ye Zheng fought over who would kill the Labyrinth Master, then rested overnight before heading into the Maze’s center.
• Feng Ling and Ye Zheng fought the Pseudo-Gods and used Feng Ling’s hatching ability to expose the Black Flood Dragon, which Feng Ling helped Huangfu Miaomiao kill.
• Feng Ling absorbed the South Sea Flood Dragon Card, gained new abilities, and left the Maze with her companions after rescuing the Cat Spider and naming the Undead Raven.
• Su Yuqing and Zhou Diao faced growing public backlash over Feng Ling’s disappearance, while Pei Xianjue learned that her mother’s criticism had worsened the controversy.
• During a torrential rainstorm, Feng Ling and Ye Zheng fought a shapeshifting Multi-headed Leech, and Feng Ling took its living eye and challenged Starlight through a livestream.
• Starlight and Gray Squirrel hired Fang Ye and He Su as Hunter bodyguards and considered staging an attack that appeared to come from a Contaminant.
• Feng Ling learned that the Leech had targeted the Cards on her phone, then prepared to travel to Qingjiang as the Flower Convoy offered an escort.
• Feng Ling proposed using Third Child’s vast flock to scout for people with eyes on their collarbones, while Pei Xianjue struggled with the damage her mother’s remarks had done to her reputation.

Feng Ling used a public investigation of Jingnan City's Corpse Dismemberment Case as cover while searching for Starlight, and she joined the local Inspectors on patrol. After a Crimson Ghost Centipede was exposed and killed, Starlight realized Feng Ling's ties to the Inspectors were complicating his plans and turned Fang Ye into a captive audience for her destruction.

• Feng Ling reunited with Pei Xianjue, gave her and Baozi Human-faced Crows as messengers, and later denied online rumors that they had fallen out.
• Feng Ling used Li Qing's divination to trace Starlight toward Jingnan City and worked with Sang Yin to make her trip appear connected to the Corpse Dismemberment Case.
• Feng Ling arrived in Jingnan City, met He Xing Luo, He Yue Ning, and Bai Lu, and was appointed the city's search consultant for the case.
• While reviewing the case files, Feng Ling noticed the victims' bodies showed almost no blood or gore, then sent Huangfu Miaomiao to follow Fan Ze after he left for the Medical Area late at night.
• Feng Ling set up camp at Maple Leaf Lake and told Ye Zheng that she planned to catch Starlight in an abandoned tunnel, while learning that Ye Zheng had trained Bai Lu and Bai Shuang.
• On patrol with the Twins, Feng Ling watched them kill a man who transformed into a Crimson Ghost Centipede, and nearby residents' photos of the corpse spread online.
• Gray Squirrel showed Starlight a photo of Feng Ling at the scene and complained that her Inspector connections obstructed their plan to obtain the Puppeteer.
• After Fang Ye attacked him, Starlight kept Fang Ye locked in the study and said he would spare him so he could watch Feng Ling be destroyed.