Chapter Summaries

Class 6 returned to Setini Palace after Kanasen’s death and used the media attention to assert their standing while refusing to reveal exactly what they intended to do with his body. As excluded classmates rushed to catch up, He Muzhi gathered the others around Kanasen’s corpse and widened the livestream view, leaving their next move poised to begin.

• Class 6 students decided to gather at Setini Palace after Kanasen’s death, while the excluded students argued about being left out and hurried toward Clyus.
• Sophia and Raymond arrived with their classmates, faced a crowd of media, and announced that they had come for Kanasen while insisting Qin Su knew about their actions.
• Sophia gave brief answers before leaving, while Raymond deflected reporters’ questions with jokes and insults, drawing the excluded students’ anger.
• The crowd focused on Kanasen’s corpse as Lawrence and the other late arrivals reached the palace and learned that the students already there controlled Clyus.
• Raymond joined his classmates, Jeffrey handed him a weapon, and He Muzhi widened the livestream camera to show the assembled group around Kanasen.

Class 6 disposed of Kanasen and his followers’ ashes in Clyus’s sewage system, using the spectacle to frighten their opponents. Afterward, Sophia proposed that the class divide up and secure Joint Council votes for He Muzhi in the presidential election, exposing the competition among classmates while Qin Su remained absent.

• He Muzhi and Class 6 burned Kanasen and the other skeletons, then Lailisi had the cleaning robot bag their remains.
• He Muzhi led one group of Class 6 members, while Sophia stayed behind with another, and they followed Orlina into Clyus’s underground waste system.
• He Muzhi emptied the ashes into the bubbling sewage, and the livestream ended as the purification system cleared the stench.
• After Orlina left, Class 6 joked about appearing unhinged, then fell silent when Raymond mentioned Qin Su.
• Sophia proposed that Class 6 divide into groups to secure Joint Council votes for He Muzhi, prompting classmates to consider their competing political ambitions.

Alice and the other Class 6 students openly rejected alliances and agreed to compete on their own, while He Muzhi and Sophia promised not to hold their choices against them. After the class dispersed and the presidential candidate list appeared without Qin Su, Class 6 and the Federation reacted with relief or disappointment, leaving the election contest underway.

• Alice argued that everyone should rely on their own abilities, and He Muzhi agreed that their competition would not damage their friendships.
• Sophia said she and her family would stay out of the students’ plans, while classmates joked openly about envying He Muzhi and Sophia’s good fortune.
• He Muzhi, Sophia, and the others left Clyus without speaking to the waiting media, and reporters redirected their attention to Lawrence’s arriving group.
• Lawrence and his companions portrayed themselves as hurt and blameless before the cameras, but online viewers mocked their performance.
• On May 6, interested members of Class 6 announced their presidential candidacies, and the May 7 list did not include Qin Su.
• Class 6 members and people across the Federation and beyond reacted to Qin Su’s absence from the candidate list, with Federation citizens lamenting that he was not running.

As the Federation presidential election began, Qin Su stayed off the candidate list while secretly tracking Class 6’s relationships with candidates and managing his public image. He appeared to the Real World Viewers and began sorting election networks to anticipate what would happen next.

• The primary list closed without Qin Su, and the first round of ordinary voting began on May 11 as candidates’ reputations and vote counts shifted amid rumors and scandals.
• Qin Su analyzed election developments and Class 6’s ties to candidates, then appeared on camera in a carefully composed pose to attract the Viewers’ attention without revealing his efforts.
• The Real World Viewers celebrated Qin Su’s appearance and debated whether he was still watching over Class 6.
• After observing three hours of voting, Qin Su eliminated candidates unlikely to advance and updated his estimates of how closely Class 6 members were connected to candidates on his controlled list.
• Qin Su generated network pages for those relationships and moved the smallest networks into a separate document.

Qin Su discovered that Lawrence and others planned to exploit Kamila Planet’s Satina faith to provoke a mass suicide and smear Class 6, so he mobilized Modified Humans to monitor the sect’s locations. He found that the believers had omitted him from their denunciation list because they revered or feared him as “God,” leaving his classmates to bear the blame.

• Qin Su reviewed his classmates’ information pages and footage, then used keyword markers and reader comments to identify Lawrence’s plan.
• Qin Su learned that Lawrence and others intended to incite Satina believers to commit mass suicide in Leopold City Central Square and blame Class 6 for the Zerg’s extinction.
• Qin Su added Satina locations to a priority watch list and ordered Modified Human squads to monitor the sect’s branches and factions.
• Qin Su searched the believers’ denunciation list repeatedly but found that his name was missing.
• Qin Su watched videos of Satina believers calling him “God” and realized they had excluded him while accusing his classmates.

Qin Su stopped Temple and the other Class 6 operatives from interfering with the Satina Church’s planned mass suicide, then watched as the followers emerged from the sewers in Leopold City Central Square. The chapter left the followers gathered in the square as a live broadcast began on the big screen.

• Qin Su decided to go to Leopold and prevent the Satina Church’s planned deaths from being blamed on Class 6.
• Temple and operatives sent by Class 6 members found themselves trapped, unable to use their Optical Brains, after Qin Su’s people and ghosts blocked them.
• Class 6 members realized their people had been cut off, but some still headed toward Leopold City Central Square after Qin Su lifted the physical restrictions.
• Qin Su watched the square from a church spire and prepared to gather attention with the Comic Capture Camera.
• At 8:30, explosions opened holes beneath the square’s big screen, and Satina Church followers covered in insects poured out of the sewers.
• The big screen switched from advertisements to a live broadcast of the Satina followers gathering in the square.

Qin Su watched the Satina Church begin a sacrifice in Leopold City Central Square and trapped the rushing Temple outside the square with an isolation barrier. The Church’s leader began naming Class 6 members as the sacrifice’s targets while Temple, unable to contact his allies, feared Qin Su had turned against them.

• A StarNet livestream showed Satina believers gathering in the square as bugs swarmed around fleeing and curious civilians.
• Temple hurried toward the square in a seized warship, while other Class 6 members struggled to reach the scene through city traffic.
• Qin Su, disguised with dirt and darkened skin, watched from above and activated an isolation barrier that stopped Temple’s warship outside the square.
• Temple suspected Qin Su had raised the barrier and wondered whether he had sided with the Satina Church, but his attempts to contact He Muzhi, Lailisi, Lin Yin, and Samuel failed.
• The Satina leader welcomed the barrier as a sign of the Zerg’s favor and began reciting the names of people whose sins the sacrifice would redeem, including He Muzhi, Sophia, and Jin Yue.

Class 6 members watched the Satina Church’s sacrifice preparations and tried to work out why Qin Su had sealed off Leopold City Central Square. Their classmates realized Lawrence and his group were missing and suspected Qin Su had taken them, while the sacrifice speech reached its final words and Qin Su prepared to enter.

• Class 6 members joined a video call and speculated that Qin Su’s barrier had separated the Satina Church followers from outsiders for a fight or a crackdown.
• Jeffrey warned the others not to assume Qin Su was protecting them, unsettling classmates who hoped their Class Monitor still favored them.
• Sophia asked where Lawrence and his group were, and He Muzhi and other classmates admitted they had secretly tried to find or capture them without success.
• Class 6 members concluded Lawrence and his group might be with Qin Su, while He Muzhi felt reassured that Qin Su had not abandoned them.
• Freeman finished the Satina Church’s pre-sacrifice speech, and Qin Su checked his appearance before making his entrance.

Qin Su interrupted the Satina Church’s sacrifice ritual and turned the church’s own bug-control methods against Lawrence and the other Class 6 members who had plotted to ruin their classmates. As the crowd watched, the bugs devoured Lawrence’s group, while the church believers mistook Qin Su’s actions for proof that he supported them.

• Qin Su summoned a gale that disrupted Freeman’s ritual, then stopped it and revealed a group of hooded captives inside the barrier.
• Temple and Class 6 recognized Lawrence and several other classmates among the captives, while Qin Su waited for the drug dispersed by the wind to take effect.
• Qin Su had the captives unhooded and announced that the sacrifice would begin, as ghosts released their hold on Lawrence and the others.
• The drug drew bugs from across the plaza toward Lawrence’s group, while Freeman and the other believers praised Qin Su and mistook his actions as support for their church.
• The bugs covered and devoured Lawrence and the others as Qin Su watched, leaving the onlookers silent and afraid.

Qin Su completed the Satina Church sacrifice in Leopold Square, then revealed that he had killed the worshipped bugs and used the spectacle to send Class 6 a chilling message. He vanished as the isolation layer opened, leaving the church believers engulfed by the collapsing piles of dead bugs.

• Qin Su used a snap to command the bugs to stop eating the sacrificed believers, then confined them inside the isolation layer as a countdown began.
• The bugs died all at once, shocking the Satina Church believers and turning the crowd's fear into relief.
• Qin Su aimed the Electronic Eye at himself and looked toward the absent members of Class 6, who understood his gaze as a possible warning.
• Qin Su opened the isolation layer amid fierce winds, vanished from the crowd's sight, and left the spire secured with additional locks.
• After the wind stopped, the piles of dead bugs collapsed and poured over the Satina Church believers.

After Qin Su left the Satina Church believers buried under insect corpses, Leopold’s citizens seized the chance to take revenge while the Mechanical Police remained disabled. Qin Su secretly watched, gave participants a ten-second window to flee, and restored the patrols just as the countdown ended, leaving the onlookers waiting to see what the police would do.

• The citizens recognized that Qin Su had controlled the insect corpses and turned their anger toward the Satina Church believers, recalling the church’s sacrifices and its victims.
• With the Mechanical Police absent, citizens rushed the believers, while livestream viewers argued over the revenge and speculated that Qin Su had disabled the patrols.
• Qin Su secretly watched the stream, released his control over the Mechanical Police patrols, and set a ten-second countdown so participants could escape before the police returned.
• Many attackers fled before the countdown ended, while curious bystanders stayed to see the consequences and discussed the penalties they might face.
• Qin Su checked the tower room’s locks and surveillance devices, then added an overlooking Electronic Eye to his regular monitoring list.
• The first Mechanical Police arrived as the countdown reached zero, and the remaining onlookers watched them expectantly.

After Qin Su’s intervention stopped the sacrifice, Class 6 debated whether he still cared about them, while He Muzhi avoided being trapped into answering directly. Qin Su reconsidered his scheme to manipulate the presidential election, left his classmates to pursue their own ambitions, and departed the Comic World, assigning 777 to watch over them.

• The Mechanical Police collected the bones and bodies without arresting the curious crowd, while citizens speculated about Qin Su’s actions and Lawrence’s death.
• Temple sent He Muzhi recordings from his Optical Brain, and Class 6 members concluded that Qin Su’s intervention had protected them from further blame and attacks.
• Raymond dodged questions about Qin Su’s feelings, and He Muzhi answered Anthony that Qin Su’s treatment depended on whether Class 6 had changed.
• Qin Su abandoned his plan to steer the presidential election toward He Muzhi, deciding that his classmates should have the chance to pursue their own outcomes.
• Qin Su told 777 to monitor Class 6 while he was away, then left the Comic World; 777 opened his extensive instruction folders and realized how cautious and controlling he was.

After the Federation’s first general vote, Qin Su returned to Comic World and checked what had happened in his absence, while manipulating System 777’s attention away from his private records. As the second-round candidates began a ten-day speaking tour, Class 6 and the other candidates faced each other in tense silence aboard their shared spaceship.

• The first-round election results were published, and Federation citizens noticed that He Muzhi had ranked first in votes while discussing the dead and eliminated participants.
• Qin Su reviewed System 777’s activity log and found that 777 had spent most of his absence browsing the entertaining material Qin Su had planted in his database.
• Qin Su checked reports from the Modified Humans and ghosts stationed across Comic World, then reassured 777 while privately resolving to keep distracting him.
• The Federation’s second-round voting began on May 17, and the successful candidates later formed a group that started traveling between planets to give speeches.
• The non-Class 6 candidates sat together aboard the spaceship and kept their distance from Class 6, while Class 6 crowded He Muzhi into the center of the remaining seats.
• The candidates stared at one another in silence as the accompanying media struggled to decide how to record the tense scene.

Class 6 and the senior candidates spent their journey competing over etiquette and retaliating against one another, while Class 6 used the trip to win public attention. At the final stop, the other candidates fled in exhaustion, and Patrick called the trip the safest candidate-group journey he had ever taken, prompting suspicion from his companions.

• Class 6 and the senior candidates silently refused to speak first during their opening meeting, leaving the media and viewers to watch the standoff.
• When the meeting ended, Patrick led the seniors toward the Rest Pods, while He Muzhi and Class 6 followed closely to prevent either side from gaining an advantage.
• He Muzhi claimed the first pod on the left, and Class 6 took the neighboring left-side rooms while Patrick and the seniors settled on the right.
• He Muzhi apologized to Class 6 in a private group call, and the classmates agreed to mirror the seniors' actions and answer their veiled insults during the campaign speeches.
• Over nearly ten days, Class 6 repeatedly outmaneuvered and mocked the seniors, who eventually stopped provoking them and endured the trip in misery.
• At the final stop, the seniors fled while the media gathered around Class 6, and Patrick remarked that it had been his safest candidate-group trip, making his companions suspicious.

Patrick tried to justify praising Class 6 after the campaign speeches, while Class 6 and Patrick’s group traded silent provocations as they passed. The Federation’s presidential election advanced to the council meeting at Atopulai Palace, where council members’ unusual Optical Brain checks and their reactions to Patrick raised questions about what they had received.

• Patrick defended his praise of Class 6 by pointing out that no one had been injured during the campaign speeches, and his companions pretended to agree.
• Class 6 passed Patrick’s group under media attention, exchanged mocking looks with them, and left the older candidates standing alone.
• Netizens speculated about Qin Su’s identity and whether they had misunderstood his intentions, while Qin Su noted that his plans would preserve his status as a god.
• The Federation announced the planet-based candidate groups, selected the vice president, and gathered the Joint Council at Atopulai Palace for the presidential election on June 6.
• He Muzhi crossed the corridor with the presidential candidates while thinking about something Patrick had sent Lin Yin, and council members later wondered why so many people were repeatedly checking their Optical Brains.

As the council waited to choose a president, its members speculated about the group repeatedly checking their Optical Brains and their ties to Qin Su. Qin Su finally messaged them, but his instruction to “Do as you please” left them more confused than before as the meeting began.

• Wan Heng tried to get Heloise to reveal what she and others were waiting for, but she called out his own repeated Optical Brain checks and walked away.
• Xuan Jingxi noticed the council members gathering around her, while the others speculated that the group had formed an alliance to choose between Patrick and He Muzhi.
• Qin Su sent the waiting members the message “Do as you please,” leaving them uncertain how to vote and worried about how he might react.
• Xuan Jingxi led her companions into the council chamber, while Wan Heng and the others guessed that the group had received a secret threat from Qin Su.
• Qin Su watched the members’ baffled reactions and opened a spreadsheet to record their conduct as the presidential candidates noticed the council’s changed expressions.

The Federation’s Joint Council elected He Muzhi president after Qin Su let the councilors choose freely, rather than using his influence to guarantee a victory. He Muzhi privately tested the councilors’ reactions and prepared for his inauguration, hoping Qin Su would attend.

• Atelina opened the conference, and the councilors voted for the presidential candidates after weighing Qin Su’s instruction to follow their hearts.
• He Muzhi won with the highest approval rating, while the Class 6 candidates were pleased that Qin Su had not forced the result in his favor.
• Atelina announced He Muzhi’s inauguration, and the Class 6 candidates left him to face the crowd of congratulating councilors.
• He Muzhi met Lin Yin and Samuel, then invited councilors who had supported different candidates to a private meal and bluffed that Qin Su had given them freedom to choose.
• He Muzhi told Lin Yin and Samuel that his suspicions about Qin Su’s decision were confirmed, then prepared for the inauguration and wondered whether Qin Su would attend.

He Muzhi was inaugurated as president of the Planetary United Federation, but Qin Su stayed away from the ceremony and He Muzhi faced a barrage of questions about him afterward. Qin Su secretly arranged a seat at the Class 6 dinner and appeared in the doorway just as He Muzhi was about to speak.

• Lin Yin and Samuel left through a secret passage while He Muzhi stayed behind to prepare for his inauguration.
• He Muzhi took the oath, delivered his inaugural address, and began his presidency without Qin Su attending.
• After the parade, reporters questioned He Muzhi about Qin Su, Class 6, and his policies, and he carefully sidestepped personal and controversial questions.
• Qin Su returned to the Comic World, secretly arranged a seat opposite the head of the banquet table, and distracted Temple to hide the change.
• He Muzhi arrived at the Class 6 dinner shortly before nine and took his seat, believing Qin Su had not come.
• The banquet doors opened before He Muzhi could speak, and Qin Su stood in the doorway.

Qin Su attended He Muzhi’s banquet for Class 6, congratulated his classmates, and then told them he was leaving their lives for good. After he departed, He Muzhi led the disappointed class back to dinner, where they continued in a subdued silence.

• Qin Su arrived at He Muzhi’s banquet, kept Class 6 from crowding around him, and took the seat opposite He Muzhi.
• Qin Su congratulated He Muzhi and the rest of Class 6, then began eating with them while the students struggled to act naturally around him.
• Qin Su stood and told Class 6 it was time for him to leave, then said, “May we never meet again,” and walked out.
• He Muzhi and the other students hurried into the corridor after Qin Su, but He Muzhi told them Qin Su was gone and led them back inside.
• He Muzhi continued the dinner with robot servers as Class 6 sat in a heavier, quieter mood.

After Qin Su left Class 6, its members hid their distress behind a meal and used misleading StarNet posts to make the public think he had met with them privately. Back in the Real World, Qin Su resumed studying the comic and recording details, determined to stay occupied by watching Class 6 and the Comic World indefinitely.

• Class 6 silently ate the food delivered by the Machine Service Team, while He Muzhi pretended to work on his Optical Brain and the others opened theirs in privacy mode.
• Temple received an urgent notice and dodged the Service Team members' questions by pretending he had to leave for an emergency.
• Members of Class 6 posted misleading accounts of their dinner, prompting StarNet users to mock their attempt to save face and speculate about Qin Su's relationship with them.
• He Muzhi avoided posting, while Class 6 members noticed they had all been browsing the same trending topics; Modified Humans and political figures also envied the class's apparent closeness to Qin Su.
• Qin Su returned to the Real World, caught up on the comic, and recorded important details as he tried to keep himself busy and resolved to keep watching Class 6 and the Comic World.