Chapter Summaries

The 749 Bureau and its allies gathered to bury Mondo and honor his sacrifice. Sing Sing and Director Wang vowed to hunt down Miss Sinister and Silver Peak, leaving the conflict unresolved.

• Sing Sing stopped Storm and Riptide from using their powers to intensify the rain at Mondo’s funeral.
• Uncle Biao delivered a eulogy for Mondo, who had died protecting his comrades from Sugar Man.
• Colossus called Mondo a hero and saluted his tomb, while Wolverine left an unlit cigar as a tribute.
• Sing Sing admitted that Mondo’s death weighed on him, then told Director Wang that their enemies were still at large.
• Director Wang vowed that the 749 Bureau would hunt down Miss Sinister and Silver Peak for attacking their people.

Director Wang appointed Sing Sing to direct the 749 Bureau’s Spring Festival gala, and Sing Sing pitched several wildly dangerous programs before settling on an interstellar-themed space show. Sing Sing left to arrange the venue, while Director Wang worried the gala might not leave the bureau building intact.

• Director Wang told Sing Sing that he had to organize a gala featuring the bureau’s new overseas recruits and give him three days to submit a program list.
• Sing Sing eagerly accepted after Director Wang hinted that a successful gala could help him become a full division chief.
• Sing Sing proposed a bloody duel between Sabretooth and Wolverine, but Director Wang rejected it as unsuitable for New Year.
• Sing Sing pitched a weather-and-construction spectacle and a romantic X-Men stage drama, and Director Wang dismissed both plans.
• Sing Sing proposed an interstellar show featuring Magik, Devil Dinosaur, Moon-Boy, and fireworks, and Director Wang approved it with a warning not to cause a diplomatic incident.
• Sing Sing ran off to arrange the show and asked about his promotion, while Director Wang threatened to send him to guard the pond if he caused trouble.

Sing Sing organized a charity football match between the 749 Bureau and a team of Mutants, appointing Logan as the Mutants’ coach. Logan accepted the challenge after seeing Sing Sing’s kung fu team, while Sing Sing planned to get Wenxi to make special protective boots.

• Sing Sing realized he could combine Mutant powers and football into a profitable New Year Cup and summoned A Le and Old Goldhead to discuss it.
• Logan struggled to escape a tense confrontation between Silver Fox and Mariko, then rushed to Sing Sing’s office after hearing a false emergency announcement.
• Sing Sing told Logan he would coach Mutants United in a charity football match, and Logan objected to the proposed lineup and its family drama.
• Sing Sing described the 749 Kung Fu Football Team and challenged Logan, prompting Logan to accept the coaching job and promise to train the Mutants the next day.
• A Le worried that the Mutants would overpower the 749 Bureau, but Sing Sing said Wenxi would make special football boots and insisted the match would be decided on the field.

Li Qianhuan traded gossip about Magneto and the X-Men for braised eggs, while Sing Sing recorded the stories and plotted to use them for the 749 Bureau’s benefit. The chapter ended with Sing Sing planning to recruit Magneto and exploit his connection to Lorna for investment.

• Li Qianhuan told Sing Sing that Lorna was Magneto’s biological daughter, and Sing Sing considered using the revelation to approach Magneto.
• Li Qianhuan shared gossip that Cyclops wore his visor to hide a receding hairline and Iceman had once frozen his dormitory after wetting the bed, while Sing Sing wrote it down.
• Baobao panicked over the dangerous gossip and began glowing red, but Sing Sing stopped him by feeding him a hot braised egg.
• Sing Sing explained that he planned to use his notebook to pressure influential mutants for sponsorship money, and Li Qianhuan accused him of plotting blackmail.
• Sing Sing declared Magneto a family member of the 749 Bureau because Lorna worked there and vowed to recruit him for an investment project.

As the year-end turmoil eased, the 749 Bureau recruited Ueda Kenji and Gambit, repaired Colossus’s arm, and prepared for Logan’s trip to Canada. Deadpool reported that the Hellfire Club had allied with Silver Peak, while Yan Shuangying departed on a secret mission with Ling Ling Yi, leaving Director Zhou to focus on the New Year Cup and Spring Festival gala.

• American politicians disowned Silver Peak after its researchers exposed the consortium’s crimes, and Japan signed a costly compensation agreement with China before Mariko, Yukio, and Saeko Busujima left.
• Ueda Kenji recovered and signed on as a temporary 749 Bureau employee, while Gambit agreed to join if the bureau helped Jacqueline or Little Jacob Gavin escape Miss Sinister.
• Jiang Si repaired Colossus’s mechanical arm, adding a high-frequency blade but no grenade launcher.
• Director Wang approved Logan’s leave to visit Alkali Lake in Canada, and Logan ordered Daken to come with him after the New Year.
• Deadpool reported that Silver Peak had withdrawn to its remaining strongholds and teamed up with the Hellfire Club, and he said he knew Miss Sinister from a past job.
• Yan Shuangying revealed that he and Ling Ling Yi were partners on a top-secret mission, then left with Sing Sing’s tea; Director Zhou turned to the New Year Cup and Spring Festival gala.

The 749 Bureau’s New Year Cup brought its Kung Fu Football Team and Starfire Mutants United together for a chaotic match. Deadpool acted as referee, and the game began after he sabotaged the coin toss.

• Soft Serve Amy and Wandering Girl Edith sold snacks to the packed crowd at the stadium.
• Director Wang rallied the 749 team, whose players vowed to fight without holding back, while Wolverine Logan urged the mutants to unleash their powers.
• Sing Sing and Riptide faced off in the tunnel before Deadpool crashed onto the field and announced himself as referee.
• Commentators Zhan and Zhang introduced the teams’ lineups, including Yan Shuangying in goal for the 749 team and Geggebu for the mutants.
• Deadpool tossed a gold watch that sank into the mud, then blew his whistle to start the New Year Cup.

Deadpool imposed absurd new rules on the soccer match, turning it into a superpowered brawl between the Kung Fu Team and Starfire Mutants United. With the first half nearing its end and the score tied 10-10, Sing Sing prepared to show the visiting team what the Kung Fu Team could do.

• Deadpool banned ordinary foot passes, and Toad Lao Mo and Mayfly Luke Shaw scored for Starfire Mutants United within seconds.
• Sing Sing equalized with a powerful internal-energy volley, after which Deadpool required goal celebrations and disallowed Chan Ka-kui’s goal when he refused to dance.
• Ororo scored with lightning, Shi Xiaoyan curved a shot into the goal with her umbrella, and Sif Veer won a penalty by faking a foul.
• Players from both teams traded attacks as the score climbed to 10-10, while Deadpool scattered banana peels and antipersonnel mines across the field.
• Sing Sing slipped on a banana peel, brought Daken down with Deadly Scissor Legs, and focused on Li Qianhuan with one minute left in the first half.

Yan Shuangying caught Mutants United’s final attack, then dribbled through their defense and scored the winning goal just before halftime. Deadpool controversially allowed the goal, and both teams went into the break furious.

• Yan Shuangying caught Lao Mo and Luke Shaw’s powerful shot with one hand.
• Yan Shuangying sprinted up the pitch, evaded Riptide and the other defenders, and reached Mutants United’s penalty area.
• Yan Shuangying beat Colossus and Daken before shooting past Geggebu to put the Kung Fu Team ahead 11–10.
• Deadpool threatened to deduct points because Yan Shuangying did not dance, then exempted him and ended the first half.
• Sing Sing complained to Director Wang about Deadpool’s refereeing, while Wolverine berated Mutants United in their locker room.

Both teams made halftime substitutions and resumed their chaotic match, which turned on Sing Sing’s failed shot after Polaris moved the goal. Deadpool ruled the goal stood and deducted a point from the Kung Fu Football Team, while Wolverine prepared to sub himself in.

• Both teams sent six substitutes onto the field, including Li Hongqi, David, Duan Shuiliu, Tony, Hua Xinwu, Madam Hu, Petra, Harry Kane, Wandering Girl, and Magik.
• David stole the ball from Riptide, but Magik, Duan Shuiliu, Petra, and Harry Kane helped send it back and forth through the field.
• Madam Hu directed Tony to confront Colossus and Hua Xinwu to pressure Wandering Girl as the ball changed hands amid the brawl.
• Sing Sing distracted Polaris with a cheesy pickup line, dribbled past her, and fired at the open goal.
• Polaris lifted her team’s goal out of the ground, sending Sing Sing’s shot into the stands and smashing Gambit’s betting table.
• Deadpool ruled that the goal stood, deducted a point from the Kung Fu Football Team after Duan Shuiliu insulted him, and Wolverine demanded to substitute himself into the match.

Logan joined the football match and helped turn it into an increasingly chaotic contest between Mutants United and the Kung Fu Team. Sing Sing and Polaris scored simultaneously in the final moments, leaving the game tied at 20–20 as the exhausted players celebrated.

• Deadpool substituted Logan for Daken, and Logan charged upfield with the ball despite handling it.
• Ororo flooded the right wing with rain, but Duan Shuiliu kicked the ball back toward Mutants United's half and Madam Hu scored to tie the match at 12–12.
• The teams traded goals as the match descended into a brawl, and the score reached 19–19 with one minute remaining.
• Yan Shuangying blocked Logan's powerful shot, sending the ball to Sing Sing, who blasted it through Mutants United's defenses and into the net.
• Polaris used her powers to lift Mutants United's goal and send it crashing into the Kung Fu Team's goal, scoring at the same time as Sing Sing.
• Deadpool ended the match at 20–20, and the players from both teams laughed together while Director Wang praised the match as team building.

The 749 Bureau held a Spring Festival gala where its agents and guests performed songs, comedy, and displays of their powers. Everyone joined together for the finale, having celebrated the New Year onstage.

• Jiang Si raised the gala stage as Sing Sing and A Le opened the show with a comic Shaolin kung fu song.
• Mayfly performed “Wings of Steel,” moving Jiang Si to tears over the wings he had built.
• Toad and Sand Rat performed a crosstalk routine about their abilities and wished everyone peace and plenty.
• Colossus sang a Soviet heavy-metal version of “My China Heart,” earning praise from Director Wang and Uncle Biao.
• Polaris, Li Qianhuan, Ororo, and Logan demonstrated their powers in a series of special performances.
• Sing Sing led the agents, guests, and family members in a group rendition of “Unforgettable Tonight.”

On the first day of the Lunar New Year, Sing Sing cooked a feast for Polaris, Soft Serve, and the 749 Bureau crew while fending off Deadpool and Professor Jiang Si. The celebration ended with Deadpool teleporting away with Sing Sing’s Huazi and announcing he would go after Miss Sinister.

• Polaris made Sing Sing cook diguo chicken by threatening to donate his hidden savings to buy washboards.
• Deadpool fled into the kitchen to escape Professor Jiang Si’s attempts to extract his bone marrow, and Sing Sing promised to take him to the lab after the holiday.
• Sing Sing prepared a New Year feast that the gathered 749 Bureau crew enjoyed together.
• The old gatekeeper used his power to stop Sabretooth from faking a cold to avoid post-holiday work.
• Deadpool appeared with a sack, said he would twist off Miss Sinister’s head as a New Year’s present, and admitted he had taken Sing Sing’s carton of Huazi before teleporting away.

Sing Sing arranged jobs for the new Awakened recruits and redirected online attention toward their public service, but Deadpool’s call revealed a dangerous alliance involving Silver Peak and the Hellfire Club. In the lab, Sing Sing learned that a cross-dimensional bounty had been placed on Stephen Chow, offering permanent sponsorship rights to a Mojoverse prime-time slot.

• Uncle Biao and Director Wang told Sing Sing to promote the Awakened as national workers rather than influencers, and Sing Sing planned work documentaries for them.
• Sing Sing assigned Ichirai Hisako to test heavy machinery, Petra to join Harry’s underground river team, Longneck to recruit support, and Daken to the Border Anti-Drug Squad, where Logan forced him to sign on.
• Wandering Girl promoted the Awakened’s work videos online, and Li Qianhuan joined the organization after seeing the public’s response.
• Deadpool called Sing Sing from California, reporting that Silver Peak was meeting with the Hellfire Club and that he was trapped in a sewer while under attack.
• Da Vinci showed Sing Sing a crystal from the dismantled livestream ball that displayed a cross-dimensional bounty on Stephen Chow, offering permanent Mojoverse prime-time sponsorship rights for his capture.

Sing Sing prepared for a trip to the United States, collecting upgraded gear and a message from Ling Ling Yi before planning his recruitment and other objectives. He left determined to find Deadpool, rescue Jacqueline, investigate the Hellfire Club, and recruit Magneto.

• Jiang Si gave Sing Sing a newly upgraded suit, while Da Vinci offered him several bizarre inventions that Sing Sing rejected.
• Da Vinci gave Sing Sing three talismans from Ling Ling Yi, and Sing Sing took two military daggers before leaving.
• Sing Sing reviewed his recruitment list and planned to expand his team in the United States.
• Sing Sing wrote down four goals: retrieve Deadpool and target Silver Peak, rescue Jacqueline for Gambit, investigate the Hellfire Club, and recruit Magneto.
• Sing Sing prepared his clothes and false identity as Zhou Dafu and resolved to pursue his plans in the United States.

A Le disguised Sing Sing as the sleazy used-car dealer Zhou Dafu so he could travel to Wendover, Utah, without being recognized. After Magik sent him through Limbo, Sing Sing reached Wendover and got off the bus in a vast salt wasteland, still searching for Jacqueline or Little Jacob Gavin.

• A Le transformed Sing Sing into Zhou Dafu, a bald, gold-chain-wearing used-car dealer headed to Utah.
• Sing Sing asked Gambit for information about Jacqueline and Little Jacob Gavin, and Gambit could only name Wendover, Utah.
• Magik opened a portal through Limbo, where demons chased Sing Sing before he escaped onto a road near Wendover.
• Sing Sing convinced a suspicious sheriff he was in town to buy pickup trucks, then learned a Greyhound bus would pass through.
• Sing Sing rode the bus to Wendover and stepped out into an endless white salt wasteland.

Sing Sing bought a battered Ford in Wendover and met with Old Feng, who warned him about disappearances and unlicensed trucks heading to the abandoned Wendover Air Force Base. As Sing Sing drove onto Interstate 80, a floating MOJO-TV machine followed him.

• Sing Sing tried to buy coffee and strong beer, but a convenience-store owner refused and threatened him with a shotgun.
• Sing Sing bargained Jimmy down from eight thousand dollars to twelve hundred for a leaking Ford and got half a tank of gas included.
• Sing Sing visited Old Feng Sichuan Cuisine and used a coded food order to meet Old Feng privately.
• Old Feng told Sing Sing that about twenty people had disappeared near Interstate 80 and that unlicensed container trucks were heading to the abandoned Wendover Air Force Base.
• Sing Sing drove onto Interstate 80 and noticed a floating MOJO-TV machine following him.

Sing Sing fought off two Mojoverse hunters who had attacked him for a livestream, then sent them into Magik’s Hell Dimension. After claiming their teleportation bracelets and a hoverbike, he accidentally launched the bike skyward.

• Lightning Billy and Thunder Jack chased Sing Sing in hoverbikes, shot at his car, and cornered him on the salt flats.
• Sing Sing defeated Billy with his Pig Butchering Knife, then knocked Jack unconscious after Jack ruptured Sing Sing’s silicone disguise.
• Sing Sing interrogated Billy, learned the hunters had arrived through a dimensional passage and were assigned missions by an anonymous system, and took both teleportation bracelets.
• Sing Sing called Magik, who opened a portal, and he threw Billy and Jack into the Hell Dimension.
• Sing Sing tried the stolen hoverbike, accidentally sent it shooting upward, and left Magik calling after him about dinner.

Sing Sing reached the abandoned air force base, disguised himself in a black suit, and silently took down its guards. He learned that the base was being evacuated to New Mexico, while a few Mutants remained in cryo-pods below.

• Sing Sing changed into a black suit, struggled to fit a Hover Motorcycle into his Mini Dimensional Box, and broke its handlebar.
• Sing Sing reached the abandoned air force base and spotted Baldy among the armed guards overseeing an evacuation.
• Sing Sing ambushed the three mercenaries leaving their shift and took their tactical vests and rifles.
• Sing Sing confronted the three guards at the air-raid shelter, and Baldy recognized the two-yuan fruit knife and panicked.
• Sing Sing questioned Baldy and learned that the woman had left, the main group was moving supplies and test subjects to an underground shaft in New Mexico, and Mutants remained in cryo-pods below.
• Sing Sing knocked Baldy unconscious and prepared to enter the air-raid shelter.

Sing Sing infiltrated Silver Peak’s air-raid shelter, discovered that Little Jacob Gavin had been taken to the Hellfire Club, and freed a group of prisoners. After defeating twelve guards, he came face-to-face with a fully crystallized person.

• Sing Sing knocked out two Silver Peak researchers and found a file identifying Little Jacob Gavin as a courier.
• He freed more than twenty prisoners, including three young people whose collars had suppressed their abilities.
• A researcher told Sing Sing that Lady had used Jacob’s shapeshifting genes and that Miss Sinister had taken him to the Hellfire Club three days earlier.
• Sing Sing defeated twelve armored private soldiers who had responded to the alarm.
• An explosion-proof door burst apart, and a completely crystallized person appeared before Sing Sing.

Sing Sing fought off Prism and his armed men, then confronted Vanisher and Arclight as they arrived. He produced a yellow talisman and told them to stay, leaving the confrontation poised to begin.

• Prism told Sing Sing that a woman had sent him to capture him alive for a hundred million, and Sing Sing tried to negotiate a share of the bounty.
• Sing Sing shot Prism, but Prism absorbed and returned the bullets’ energy; Sing Sing then cracked Prism’s crystal arm with the Pig Butchering Knife.
• Prism ordered the exoskeleton soldiers to fire, but Sing Sing deflected their bullets and knocked them down with throwing knives.
• Sing Sing chased Prism through the hallway, cut a shard from his body, and demanded to know what he wanted before Vanisher and Arclight appeared between them.
• Vanisher and Arclight confronted Sing Sing, and Vanisher questioned whether he had come alone; Sing Sing laughed and held up a yellow talisman, telling them to stay.