I don't really get why she didn't take GCC with her. Just because that would have made it harder to get past the Snake guards? I guess she's still transitioning from office worker to field agent, and her first instinct is still to go call for help, but it didn't look like getting him out of there would have been any harder than walking out on her own.
I guess so, but also it might just be that she's resentful of Guo Changcheng for some reason/thinks this will be an excellent learning experience for both him and her uncle or something?

the woman's voice and the crying is from passersby on the street, and the "If you keep being like this, I'll leave" was Kunlun saying goodbye to Da Qing in Ye Olde Haixing Era
Ah, thanks! So it's a combo of several actually-happened things.

Ooh, I didn't pick up on that. What are you basing it on?
Lin Jing tells Zhao Yunlan that it's (somewhat) common for some Dixingians to be overwhelmed on the surface and lose control of their powers. Zhao Yunlan responds to this as if it's completely new information for him.

I love this episode. I could watch ZYL beat his head against Shen Wei's flimsy-yet-implacable denials all day! And I adore everything about ZYL's cartoon sketches of Professor Shen and the Envoy -- possibly my favourite part is the fact that the cartoon Envoy is about twice as tall as cartoon Professor Shen.
I know! Shen Wei keeps dodging less and less artfully and Zhao Yunlan's patience wears more and more thin! And then the cartoon sketches – though Professor Shen is a bit taller than the Envoy due to wearing shoes with a heel on them, so the height gap should be the other way round. Or maybe Zhao Yunlan has picked up on the Envoy's foreboding presence and added a few dozen centimeters to account for the attitude? :P