Chapter Summaries

Onion died after falling into a fissure, and First Military Academy Principal Middleton abandoned the rescue after nearly being killed by the Kerr Armored Scorpion. Middleton then confronted Qin Su and aimed a weapon at the injured Temple, while He Muzhi stepped in to stop him.

• Qin Su ordered Fourth Military Academy Class 6 to retreat as Middleton frantically attacked the fissure where Onion had fallen, drawing the Kerr Armored Scorpion’s assault.
• Middleton’s soldiers died while searching for Onion, and Middleton withdrew after the scorpion nearly killed him, leaving Onion behind.
• Middleton brought the surviving First Military Academy Class 6 students to face Qin Su, stared at him with hatred, and asked, “Why?”
• Temple emerged alive but badly injured, and Middleton had him brought aboard the warship before aiming a weapon at his head.
• He Muzhi asked Middleton to wait and secretly messaged the Fourth Military Academy principal and his family; Aiseboer learned Onion was dead and fainted.

Aiseboer revived the Fourth Military Academy’s dormant livestream account and broadcast the confrontation between He Muzhi and Middleton to the Federation and beyond, forcing Middleton to put away his weapon. He Muzhi brought Temple aboard and, following Qin Su’s orders, kept the First Military Academy under the livestream’s watch as both sides moved toward the Kerr Armored Scorpion.

• Zhang Minglang revived Aiseboer with a stimulant, and Aiseboer ordered a wide-reaching livestream under a sensational title about Qin Su and Middleton competing over the Kerr Armored Scorpion.
• Aiseboer handed control of the livestream to He Muzhi and told staff to show everything without blind spots, while Qin Su realized the broadcast had dragged him into the confrontation.
• As the livestream opened, Middleton put away his weapon aimed at Temple, and viewers across the Federation and beyond saw the tense standoff.
• He Muzhi ended his call with his grandfather, then asked Qin Su for permission to bring Temple along; Qin Su agreed, and Jeffrey and Sophia helped Temple aboard the warship.
• Middleton suspected Qin Su had engineered the public pressure, while He Muzhi redirected the scene toward the Kerr Armored Scorpion and kept the camera on the First Military Academy.
• Qin Su ordered He Muzhi to give viewers a clear look at every First Military Academy member, and He Muzhi moved the livestream closer as Middleton’s people wondered how to respond.

Middleton tried to sabotage Qin Su’s plan to lure the Kerr Armored Scorpion into a terrain trap, while Qin Su’s classmates pretended to struggle against First Military Academy’s interference. After Qin Su’s deception drew Middleton away, Qin Su reached the depression he had chosen as the creature’s resting place, though the outcome of his plan remained uncertain.

• Middleton publicly promised to protect Erato’s residents, then sent most of First Military Academy’s Class 6 students toward the front lines as expendable fighters.
• Qin Su secretly shared his route plan with Fourth Military Academy’s Class 6 and ordered them to act as if First Military Academy’s soldiers were thwarting their efforts to lure the Kerr Armored Scorpion.
• Middleton countered their apparent plan by directing his soldiers to drive the creature toward a less suitable area, while Qin Su’s classmates performed outrage and Qin Su secretly rescued them from danger.
• Middleton sensed the deception and ordered his soldiers to stop; Qin Su then told his classmates to resume the lure, while Raymond provoked Middleton and He Muzhi followed along.
• Qin Su used a First Military Academy ship to block Middleton, then reached the depression he had chosen as the Kerr Armored Scorpion neared its destination.

Qin Su used the First Military Academy's spaceship to collapse the ice and bury the Kerr Armored Scorpion, then escaped the abyss and left with Class 6. The First Military Academy was stranded without its spaceship and had to face the prospect of meeting Qin Su and Class 6 again at the Jump Point.

• Middleton and the First Military Academy dodged the approaching spaceship while Qin Su positioned himself beneath it and prepared layers of protection.
• Qin Su told Class 6 to retreat, then dropped the spaceship into the hollowed ice, causing the ground to collapse and the Kerr Armored Scorpion to fall into the resulting abyss.
• Qin Su emerged from the pit, used the spaceship to pin the Kerr Armored Scorpion, and smashed the surrounding ice until the creature was buried.
• Qin Su reminded Middleton that the livestream was still running, called their actions cooperation, and departed with Class 6.
• Class 6 thanked the First Military Academy for its cooperation before leaving, and the stranded First Military Academy realized it still had to return to the Jump Point without its spaceship.

Middleton returned to the Jump Point Platform and found the First Military Academy’s ships stripped of supplies, then fainted after hearing a survivor claim Qin Su had forced Onion into the fatal mission. The survivor was killed and his death covered up as an assassination attempt, while Qin Su opened the cabin door and Class 6 saw the corpse.

• Middleton ordered the First Military Academy group back to the Jump Point, and he briefly stopped at the place where Onion had died to say goodbye before leaving Erato.
• Qin Su reclaimed the Life Points spent on the spaceships and confiscated the First Military Academy’s remaining tools, then waited in his rest cabin for Middleton’s return.
• Class 6 returned to the Jump Point Platform, confirmed Qin Su was resting, and celebrated his actions across social media as speculation about his motives spread.
• Aiseboer predicted the Zerg military academies would eventually be merged into regular military academies as families mobilized against the Zerg to curry favor with Qin Su.
• Middleton found the First Military Academy’s ships stripped of supplies and questioned a survivor, who accused Qin Su of forcing Onion into the mission and using the academy’s weapons to kill him.
• Middleton fainted in anger, and his secretary had the survivor shot and falsely declared him an assassin; Qin Su opened the cabin door, and Class 6 saw the corpse being thrown out.

After the First Military Academy abandoned a student’s corpse and fled the Jump Platform, Qin Su’s classmates interpreted the incident as a lesson in ruthlessness, while Qin Su rested and let them finish the purge without him. Back at the Fourth Military Academy, rumors falsely blamed him for crippling Aiseboer, who then asked Qin Su to shield him from meeting demands; Qin Su agreed and examined the network of people he could influence.

• Cui Yan’s nephew was accused of trying to assassinate Middleton, and Cui Yan threw the student’s corpse from the Jump Platform after the First Military Academy’s survivors refused to take it aboard.
• He Muzhi recorded Cui Yan and the people who had blocked him, while Class 6 decided Qin Su had meant for them to learn ruthlessness from Middleton.
• Middleton ordered the First Military Academy’s spaceships to leave, and Qin Su finally rested; he later left Class 6 to clear the remaining purge zones without him.
• Aiseboer stayed away from the landing site and spread the impression that Qin Su had threatened him, while rumors claimed Qin Su had beaten and crippled him.
• Aiseboer, whose leg was actually injured in an accident, asked Qin Su to deal with repeated invitations to meetings; Qin Su refused to promise advance notice but agreed to handle the invitations.
• After Qin Su left, Aiseboer and his staff speculated about his motives, while Qin Su reviewed his relationship network and focused on a name at its top.

Aiseboer saw powerful Federation figures stop targeting him after Qin Su intervened, while He Muzhi and Halton parted ways after discussing Halton’s choice to join the He Family. During the vacation, factions purged the remaining Zerg, and the chapter ended with Xuan Jingcheng arriving at the First Military Academy and learning that it had fallen into disgrace.

• Aiseboer confirmed that Qin Su’s influence had reached the superiors of the people who sent him messages, and he began imagining Fourth Military Academy becoming the First Military Academy.
• He Muzhi saw Temple off with the He Family, then spoke with Halton, who said he had rejected other military districts to accept a position arranged by the He Family.
• Halton left after He Muzhi said he would have chosen Qin Su’s arrangement, while He Muzhi wondered whether Qin Su was testing Halton and wanted him near the He Family.
• During the vacation, factions learned they had all been ordered to stop targeting Aiseboer, competed for Qin Su’s favor, and helped eliminate the Zerg profit chain and remaining Zerg.
• Xuan Jingcheng transferred into the First Military Academy early, introduced himself as a member of the Xuan Family’s main family, and asked why the campus was nearly empty.
• The students mocked Xuan Jingcheng and told him he was out of touch, but he asked them to explain what had happened to the First Military Academy.

Xuan Jingcheng used the First Military Academy’s decline as cover to kill five students, while Qin Su avoided choosing a destination for the Fourth Military Academy’s merger. As the merger decision approached, He Muzhi worried over Qin Su’s absence and Temple’s departure, and the academies’ leaders faced the final choice between the First and Fourth Military Academies.

• Xuan Jingcheng overheard First Military Academy students discuss the academy’s decline and their families’ indifference, then decided to kill them and murdered five students that night.
• Aiseboer fielded inquiries from Military Districts about the Fourth Military Academy’s merger and told them to ask Qin Su, while Qin Su refused to choose because Aiseboer was the principal responsible for the decision.
• Qin Su took leave until the merger was complete and saw that Xuan Jingcheng had returned under a new name and identity, then noted that the First Military Academy would likely be merged into a bottom-tier academy.
• The merger was confirmed, and Fourth Military Academy students debated whether the school should choose prestige or sentiment as Qin Su remained absent and He Muzhi could not locate him.
• He Muzhi told Lailisi, Lin Yin, and Samuel that Temple had left without warning and admitted he had begun to consider a relationship with him; Lin Yin reassured him that people could have more than one kind of bond.
• The Fourth Military Academy’s leaders gathered around a screen displaying the First Military Academy and Fourth Military Academy as they faced the final merger choice.

Aiseboer held a real-name vote, and the Fourth Military Academy won the merger with the Zerg Fourth Military Academy, prompting its relocation. While Qin Su prepared for the move and planned how to advance He Muzhi’s future, he secretly reassigned Xuan Jingcheng to a distant planet.

• Aiseboer revealed that Qin Su had not given him or the other interested parties an answer, then made the meeting vote on which academy would receive the Zerg Fourth Military Academy.
• The Fourth Military Academy won by six votes, and Aiseboer arranged the merger and relocation while the other academies reacted to the news.
• Qin Su erased traces of himself from the old dormitory, settled into his assigned room, collected images of the new campus, and planned how to influence future vacancies and votes for He Muzhi.
• Patrick asked Qiu Pang why Qin Su maneuvered people gradually instead of making them puppets, and Qiu Pang suggested Qin Su wanted his pieces to act on their own.
• Qin Su manually assigned Xuan Jingcheng to the planet farthest from the normal Fourth Military Academy, and Xuan Jingcheng reacted with disbelief when he saw the placement.

Qin Su returned to the Fourth Military Academy and announced that he was recruiting students from the Class of 26 into Class 6, drawing a huge crowd to the 66F Zone. As the existing Class 6 students feared they had been cast aside, Qin Su waited to assess his chosen recruits and the academy principal asked Aiseboer whether Qin Su had told him about the plan.

• Qin Su finished rendering the Fourth Military Academy and began preparing a list of outstanding students from the Class of 26.
• Xuan Jingcheng was sent with other Class of 27 students to the remote 299th Military Academy on Leichakan, while the relocated students from the former Zerg Fourth Military Academy were assigned to classes at the new Fourth Military Academy.
• Qin Su used the training-ground broadcast to invite students from the Class of 26 to join Class 6 and directed them to the 66F Zone before eight o'clock.
• The announcement sent students rushing toward the 66F Zone, while Class 6 worried that Qin Su planned to replace or dismiss them; He Muzhi urged them to follow and find out.
• Qin Su waited on a raised platform as the crowd gathered, maintaining a cold demeanor and secretly lowering the temperature to heighten his imposing presence.
• The current Fourth Military Academy principal asked Aiseboer whether Qin Su had told him about the recruitment plan.

Xu Zhen handed Aiseboer responsibility for the Class of 26, while Qin Su began selecting new members for Class 6. The chapter ended with Class 6 flaunting their closeness to Qin Su as he wondered why they were excluding him from their rivalry.

• Xu Zhen assigned Aiseboer to oversee the Class of 26 and kept his premium Luffa Tea as he tried to take it back.
• Qin Su welcomed the gathered students, then gave interested Class of 26 students three minutes to enter a selection area.
• Lailisi, Lin Yin, and Samuel entered immediately, and Qin Su arranged the candidates with suitable Class 6 students.
• After the countdown, Qin Su announced that selected candidates could join Class 6 by defeating a current member in a challenge.
• Sophia told Huang Pu that Class 6 had researched the students through Qin Su's information, prompting their classmates to show off their special connection to him.

Sophia defeated Huang Pu, and Qin Su used the Class 6 selection matches to protect former Zerg Fourth Military Academy students and discourage bullying. As he continued eliminating candidates according to their weaknesses, Xuan Jingxi suspected he was choosing people for He Muzhi rather than himself.

• Sophia spoke for Class 6, then defeated Huang Pu in under a minute and eliminated him from consideration.
• Qin Su paired Raymond with Blumer, and Blumer tricked Raymond out of the match circle; Blumer concluded Qin Su had deliberately favored him.
• Class 6 students won three matches against current Fourth Military Academy students while former Zerg Fourth Military Academy students won three, persuading onlookers that Qin Su was protecting the newcomers.
• Qin Su then called candidates in order and matched them with Class 6 students who could counter them, prompting eliminated students to accuse him of favoring people he liked.
• Xuan Jingxi considered Qin Su's control over the selections and suspected he was choosing candidates for He Muzhi.

Xuan Jingxi suspected Qin Su had chosen decent people for Class 6 to create a future rivalry with He Muzhi, but Qin Su dismissed the theory as he oversaw the final matches. After welcoming the new students, Qin Su publicly contacted Aiseboer to arrange their transfers, leaving the gathered students stunned and one newcomer asking what Class 6 would do the next day.

• Xuan Jingxi theorized that Qin Su had selected people close to He Muzhi to provoke a future conflict, while Qin Su saw the speculation in the bullet comments and rejected it.
• Lailisi, Lin Yin, and Samuel won their matches and joined Class 6 as the day’s recruiting ended with 500 new students.
• Qin Su welcomed the new Class 6 members and opened a video call with Aiseboer in front of the crowd.
• Qin Su sent Aiseboer the recruited students’ list and asked him to arrange their class transfers, and Aiseboer agreed and delegated the work to his assistant.
• Qin Su dismissed everyone, but a new Class 6 student asked what the class would do the next day.

Qin Su navigated his first day at the Fourth Military Academy, where Class 6’s divided groups and growing rumors surrounded him. Mei Qingyu began an assassination exercise pitting the original 499 Class 6 members against the 500 new members, with Qin Su and Mei Qingyu secretly serving as the targets.

• Qin Su answered Jim’s question by deferring to Teacher Mei, then left while using Electronic Eyes to watch the students’ reactions.
• He Muzhi defended Qin Su, while Raymond bluntly told the Fourth Military Academy students that Qin Su would not care enough to hold a grudge against them; rumors about the exchange later spread to the 299th Military Academy.
• Qin Su arrived early at the 23O Zone, where Mei Qingyu ordered Class 6 to change into Training Uniforms and announced assassination training.
• Mei Qingyu assigned Qin Su to manage the original 499 members and herself to manage the 500 new members, then privately told Qin Su that she and he would be the teams’ assassination targets.
• Qin Su accepted the assignment and prepared to brief his team before the five-hour competition began.

Qin Su and Mei Qingyu planned opposing assassination exercises, with Qin Su secretly using his knowledge of Class 6 and the academy’s terrain to prepare Team 2. After taking his place as the military officer target, he watched both teams’ progress and prepared to test his training by holding off his classmates when they reached him.

• Qin Su designated his original Class 6 students as Team 2, showed them his full deployment plan, and then sent each student only the information relevant to their assignment.
• Mei Qingyu planned Team 1’s deployment while Qin Su finished his own plan early using terrain maps he had studied in advance.
• Mei Qingyu and Qin Su entered separate Passageways, and Qin Su reached the banquet-hall target room, where he changed into a military uniform and memorized the room’s layout.
• Qin Su watched Team 1, where Raymond distracted opponents by arguing over a height-increasing insole, while his teammates searched them and seized weapon parts.
• Qin Su watched Jeffrey reveal that he had hidden a weapon behind his custom-made ecological pad, then resolved to prolong the final confrontation with Team 2.

Team 2 caught up to Team 1 after Raymond’s antics delayed the opposing team, then reached the final checkpoint with only He Muzhi, Sheng Shuang, Sophia, and Jeffrey remaining. They entered the room prepared to face an unknown assassination target, only to discover that their target was Qin Su.

• He Muzhi led Team 2 through another checkpoint while Qin Su watched both teams and Raymond’s insults kept Team 1 occupied.
• Jeffrey’s over-the-top act helped Team 2 pass Raymond’s checkpoint, and the group continued toward the final room.
• After four hours, He Muzhi, Sheng Shuang, Sophia, and Jeffrey reached the final door, while Qin Su prepared to greet them inside.
• The four debated who their target might be, then He Muzhi organized a cautious entry with a test pellet, a Smoke Bomb, and Jeffrey directing from cover.
• The group entered through the smoke, and Qin Su made a noise before revealing himself as their assassination target.

Qin Su began the assassination drill by provoking He Muzhi, Sophia, Sheng Shuang, and Jeffrey into attacking, then evaded their coordinated traps and countered them. After disarming Jeffrey, Qin Su left him facing the threat of his weapon as the magazine fell to the floor.

• Qin Su waited for the four to attack, then hurled a candelabrum at He Muzhi, who dodged behind his wooden cover as Qin Su deliberately spared him.
• He Muzhi ordered Plan A and threw a miniature bomb, but Qin Su struck it with his lighter and watched the team as they shifted positions.
• Qin Su moved beneath the chandelier, where He Muzhi and the others fired at him; Qin Su dodged their shots and used his cap to reveal a concealed cutting weapon among the attacks.
• Qin Su threw a chair at Jeffrey, then lunged toward him while the others fired; he struck Jeffrey's wrist and aimed Jeffrey's weapon at him.
• Qin Su moved the weapon, but no gunshot came; Jeffrey opened his eyes to see the magazine fall in front of him.

Qin Su outmaneuvered He Muzhi, Jeffrey, Sophia, and Sheng Shuang during their assassination exercise, disarming them and destroying their chandelier trap before they could use it. With thirty-eight minutes of the exercise remaining and the four left without weapons, he told them to enjoy what came next.

• Qin Su unloaded Jeffrey's gun, fired it empty against his forehead, and used the distraction to evade the other three's attack.
• Qin Su escaped across the banquet hall, disarmed the group, and dodged their attacks as the furnishings shifted around them.
• Qin Su recognized the four's plan to trap him beneath the chandelier and secretly repositioned their ropes while taking their weapons.
• Qin Su pulled the chandelier down onto the hidden net, destroying Plan B, then landed safely out of danger.
• Qin Su told the disarmed four to enjoy the next thirty-eight minutes, leaving them terrified of what he would do next.

Qin Su defeated He Muzhi, Sophia, Sheng Shuang, and Jeffrey in the assassination exercise, then left the wrecked banquet hall to check his injuries. As the teams gathered outside, Raymond arrived and accused them of mistreating Team 2’s newcomers.

• Qin Su disarmed the four opponents, threw them from the gallery, and fought them across the shifting banquet hall while using its furnishings and their trap to his advantage.
• At the five-hour countdown’s end, Qin Su used the red carpet to engulf the exhausted four, and the broadcast announced that both teams had earned a point.
• Qin Su went to the changing room to assess his injuries as Team 1 gathered at the exit and speculated about why Team 2 had not emerged.
• Mei Qingyu and the students saw Qin Su standing amid the wreckage, and the four opponents crawled out from under the carpet.
• Qin Su changed clothes, greeted the four, and started to leave with them before Raymond arrived and accused the others of unfairly bullying Team 2’s newcomers.

Qin Su left the morning’s assassination exercise and told Raymond to keep up the good work, while Class 6 celebrated by stripping the banquet hall of everything Qin Su had touched. After healing his injuries, Qin Su prepared for the possibility that Class 6 would soon make him Team 1’s assassination target.

• Raymond realized Qin Su was Team 2’s assassination target, but Qin Su later praised him and left without reprimanding him.
• Mei Qingyu announced that Class 6 would gather in the 66F Zone at two for a review of the morning’s exercise.
• After Mei Qingyu extended the banquet hall’s closing time, Class 6 students fought over and carried off objects Qin Su had touched, prompting a flood of posts online.
• Xuan Jingcheng saw photos of He Muzhi’s bruises and began lifting equipment in his dorm, while Qin Su healed his injuries in Growth Repair Fluid and learned why his favorability points were rising.
• The Fourth Military Academy’s cleaning crew found the banquet hall stripped bare, and Qin Su prepared to bring technology products in case he became Team 1’s assassination target.