Chapter Summaries

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.

Feng Ling fled the Messenger’s Doomsday Judgment as its blinding light and the Bombs’ explosions devastated the General’s Mansion. She endured the attack by repeatedly creating Water Mist and relying on the Hive’s self-repair, while Huang Yi’s team prepared to move in as the Messenger’s energy dwindled.

• The Messenger rose into the sky and stopped, prompting Feng Ling to realize he might unleash Doomsday Judgment alongside the Bombs.
• Feng Ling ran away from Huang Yi’s approaching convoy as the heat intensified and her companions fled the battlefield.
• The Messenger became a blazing sphere of light, which burned Feng Ling and the Yilanka Soldiers before the Bombs exploded.
• Feng Ling curled into her Serpent Body, drew on the Hive’s self-repair, and repeatedly created Water Mist to withstand the light.
• Huang Yi’s analyst reported that the Messenger’s energy was weakening while Feng Ling’s remained stable, and Huang Yi ordered the team to prepare to finish the fight.

After the Messenger’s judgment devastated the area, Huang Yi’s team tried to finish it off, but a Stitched Beast rescued it and fled through a Teleportation Array. Feng Ling pursued the pair into the array, leaving Huang Yi to secure its entrance.

• Huang Yi’s team crossed into the scorched grounds and approached the weakened Messenger, planning to have their sniper attack after its protective halo faded.
• An enormous Stitched Beast burst from the mist, grabbed the Messenger, and charged Huang Yi’s team after they opened fire.
• Feng Ling emerged from the mist and pinned the Stitched Beast with her tentacles, but it shed layers of its body and escaped with the Messenger.
• Feng Ling pursued the Stitched Beast through the ruins, summoning her Contaminants while the chaos around it disrupted her senses.
• Feng Ling plunged into the Teleportation Array, followed by the Human-faced Crows and then the Tiger Head Worm.
• Huang Yi arrived as the array faded and ordered his team to surround it and keep living creatures away.

Huang Yi sealed off the Teleportation Array and learned that Ye Zheng was fighting Huangfu Miaomiao nearby. Ye Zheng returned after suspecting Meteor had deceived her, only to discover Meteor had killed the Labyrinth Administrators and kept one alive as a supposed gesture of cooperation.

• Huang Yi ordered his team to secure the Teleportation Array and told Sritaya's general that the Contaminants must not be provoked.
• Huang Yi's team found footage of Ye Zheng fighting Huangfu Miaomiao six kilometers away.
• Ye Zheng escaped the General's Mansion with the Labyrinth Administrators, but grew anxious about Feng Ling and debated whether to return.
• Meteor caught up with Ye Zheng and claimed Feng Ling was in danger, so Ye Zheng handed Meteor the animals and raced toward the Mansion.
• Ye Zheng suspected Meteor's warning was false, turned back, and found the Labyrinth Administrators dead.
• Meteor said she had spared the Underworld Labyrinth Administrator and insisted that killing the others had not broken their agreement.

Ye Zheng fought Meteor while trying to protect the last Labyrinth Administrator, and Meteor provoked her with revelations about her past. After Li Qing intervened and Meteor attacked him, Ye Zheng regained control, and Meteor escaped after returning the Administrator and promising to trade back Miaomiao’s body.

• Ye Zheng and Meteor clashed, but Ye Zheng held back when Meteor used the bag containing the last Labyrinth Administrator as a shield.
• Meteor accused Ye Zheng of treating Miaomiao like a pet and revealed that she had founded the Star Society and planned Paradise’s construction.
• Meteor provoked Ye Zheng by calling her a monster and exposing her role as a Contaminant, nearly driving her to lose control.
• Li Qing warned Ye Zheng that Meteor was trying to make humans turn against each other, so Meteor attacked him and stabbed him through the heart.
• Ye Zheng regained her senses as Meteor threw her the bag and escaped through a drainage ditch, promising to trade back Miaomiao’s body.

After Meteor escaped, Li Qing told Ye Zheng that Meteor had been a Xenomorph impersonating Miaomiao and urged her to warn Feng Ling. Number 77 revealed that Meteor had tried to kill the Labyrinth Administrators to force the glitched game to settle, while Ye Zheng struggled with her own sense of being a monster.

• Ye Zheng treated the injured Tree Shrew Administrator with a Recovery Potion while Li Qing warned that its body was failing and told her to contact Feng Ling about Meteor.
• Li Qing summoned Number 77, a Green Parrot, which explained that Meteor had deliberately exposed the group to Xenomorphs and had been imprisoned in Hell after the other Players opposed her plan.
• Number 77 explained that the game’s quarterly settlement had glitched, trapping the Administrators, and that a Player could earn a Ticket to Central City by ranking first and meeting the Abyss Boss conditions.
• Ye Zheng realized that conquering the Mazes could let Administrators log out without being killed, but Number 77 said Meteor had hurried to force settlement because she feared losing her first-place ranking.

Ye Zheng learned that Meteor had killed eight Senior Administrators and seven ordinary Administrators, and concluded that the Short-legged Sheep had to survive to keep Meteor trapped in the world. With Feng Ling missing inside a Xenomorph’s Teleportation Array, Huang Yi prepared to take the surviving Administrators into key protection, while Ye Zheng asked to be flown up to the enormous Kite.

• Ye Zheng questioned the Parrot, which explained that Meteor wanted Administrator deaths to trigger the game’s self-repair program and that the game would continue while the Short-legged Sheep remained alive.
• Ye Zheng concluded that the Short-legged Sheep could not die if Meteor was to remain trapped in the world.
• Huang Yi arrived with the Surveillance Team, which counted eight dead Senior Administrators, seven dead ordinary Administrators, and two burned animal attendants.
• Ye Zheng warned Huang Yi that Pollution Spread could occur in seventeen Mazes and that the Abyss Boss entering the real world would cause a major disaster.
• Huang Yi told Ye Zheng that Feng Ling was missing after entering a Xenomorph’s Teleportation Array and said he would take the Parrot and Green Weasel for key protection.
• A huge Kite flew overhead, and Ye Zheng asked Huang Yi to arrange a helicopter so she could reach it.

Ling Feiran traveled by special train to the Quarantine Zone, where Wang Xunmei helped her connect with the other volunteers. Wang Xunmei discovered Feng Ling on Ling Feiran’s friend list, leaving her shocked.

• Ling Feiran boarded the volunteer train and reflected on why she had chosen to work in the Quarantine Zone.
• Wang Xunmei introduced herself to Ling Feiran and shared candy as other volunteers, including Lin Pengpeng, Li Yu, and Zhang Lu, joined them.
• The volunteers discussed their teams and Cards, and Ling Feiran explained that she could treat illnesses caused by viruses.
• Wang Xunmei taught Ling Feiran how to add friends, then spotted Feng Ling’s name on her phone and reacted in disbelief.

Ling Feiran told Wang Xunmei and the others that Feng Ling was an old acquaintance and asked them not to reveal their connection. Their conversation was interrupted by news footage of Feng Ling battling Xenomorphs in Yilanka, where the attack left no survivors and the creatures disappeared.

• Ling Feiran explained that she had known Feng Ling as a child but had not seen her in more than ten years, and asked Wang Xunmei, Li Yu, Lin Pengpeng, and Zhang Lu not to call them friends or tell anyone about their connection.
• Zhang Lu described Ling Feiran as a highly sensitive introvert, and Wang Xunmei and the others agreed to keep her connection to Feng Ling private.
• A passenger announced that Feng Ling was fighting in Yilanka, and Ling Feiran and the others watched footage released by the Supervisor General Bureau.
• The footage showed Feng Ling's Six-winged Angel battling a Flood Dragon Serpent called the Messenger as Steel Blades struck its Air Shield.
• The Messenger rose into the air and unleashed light across the area, while the Flood Dragon Serpent retreated and distant people screamed.
• The news anchor reported that the General's Mansion was in ruins, no signs of life had been found, and the Xenomorph and Hunter responsible had disappeared.

Ling Feiran anxiously searched for news about Feng Ling after learning that Feng Ling and the Xenomorph were missing in Yilanka. Online reports suggested they had vanished while pursuing a terrifying monster, and a multinational Drone relay race began following Kite’s tail in hopes of finding them.

• Ling Feiran called Feng Ling but could not reach her, and her companions urged her to wait for more information from the Supervision Bureau.
• Ling Feiran messaged Su Yuqing for details, but Su Yuqing did not reply, leaving Ling Feiran helpless and anxious.
• Ling Feiran read online comments claiming Feng Ling pursued a monster and the Xenomorph eastward before they all suddenly vanished.
• Ling Feiran joined Smoked Roe’s livestream, where viewers watched Kite’s tail from a Drone and called for help when the Drone began running out of range.
• Netizens from Yilanka and Sritaya joined viewers from other countries in relaying Drones to follow Kite and search for Feng Ling.

Feng Ling pursued the Stitched Beast and Messenger into a sandstorm that disabled Third Perspective and trapped her among regenerating Pottery Men. She escaped with help from her Human-faced Crows and Tiger Head Worms, but emerged unable to identify the Messenger’s trail.

• Feng Ling followed the Stitched Beast and Messenger into the sandstorm, where Third Perspective failed and she lost sight of their Red Dots.
• Feng Ling destroyed a Pottery Man by smashing its pottery jar, but the fight left her disoriented inside the storm.
• Feng Ling tried to escape the sandstorm, fought off several more Pottery Men, and feared she would be buried in the accumulating sand.
• Feng Ling heard the cries of her Human-faced Crows and Tiger Head Worms, followed their presence, and reached the storm’s edge.
• Feng Ling burst out of the sandstorm and regained Third Perspective, but Red Dots covered the desert and she could not locate the Messenger.