Chapter Summaries

Sing Sing used a talisman to trap Vanisher and fought the three X-Men in the air-raid shelter, defeating Vanisher and Arclight while cutting Prism in half. He bound Arclight and asked Prism whether his two halves could heal.

• Sing Sing's talisman blocked Vanisher from leaving the corridor, and Sing Sing realized Vanisher could still teleport short distances inside it.
• Sing Sing fought Arclight and Prism, then used his Qi-powered Pig Butchering Knife to cut Prism in half and struck Vanisher into the wall.
• Arclight smashed Sing Sing into a wall, but he stood back up and battered Vanisher against it until he left a bloodstain.
• Sing Sing threw knives into Arclight, sealed her acupoint, and knocked her to the floor.
• Prism surrendered, and Sing Sing bound Arclight before asking Prism whether his halves could heal.

Sing Sing freed Juggernaut from a heavily secured cell, but Juggernaut accidentally knocked him unconscious while trying to thank him. After Sing Sing woke outside, three bounty hunters arrived and threatened to take both him and Juggernaut to the Moqiao Arena.

• Prism revealed that the shelter was evacuating because the Brotherhood of Mutants had made it unsafe, and he admitted another mutant was imprisoned below.
• Sing Sing found Juggernaut chained in a room marked as an SSS-level threat and cut through the reinforced door with his blade technique.
• Sing Sing released Juggernaut, who charged into him and knocked him unconscious before carrying him and the others outside.
• Juggernaut apologized to Sing Sing after he woke, explaining that he had meant to thank him and had carried the injured people to safety.
• Three bounty hunters arrived, recognized Sing Sing from his bounty image, and decided to take both him and Juggernaut to fight at the Moqiao Arena.

Sing Sing and Juggernaut defeated three hunters, after which Sing Sing tried to recruit Juggernaut into the 749 Bureau. Juggernaut left to follow a mysterious voice, while Sing Sing turned to question Prism and Arclight about Little Jacob Gavin.

• Sing Sing fought off attacks from the triangle monster, the six-armed hunter, and the fire man as Juggernaut charged into battle.
• Juggernaut killed all three hunters in less than ten seconds, and Sing Sing, Prism, and Arclight watched in shock.
• Sing Sing offered Juggernaut a job with the 749 Bureau, but Juggernaut said a voice in his head was compelling him to find something.
• Juggernaut gave Sing Sing a worn red headscarf as proof he would keep his promise, then left with a chicken leg.
• Sing Sing sat down beside the captured Prism and Arclight and began questioning them about Little Jacob Gavin.

Sing Sing forced Prism to reveal Deep Well’s location and purpose, then took Arclight and Prism to Old Feng’s restaurant before heading into the wasteland. Deep Well sent two artificial humans after him, and the chapter ended with them confronting Sing Sing on the desert highway.

• Sing Sing interrogated Prism, who revealed that Deep Well was a testing site where little Jacob’s consciousness and shapeshifting gene had been processed, and gave him the entrance and password.
• Sing Sing brought Arclight and Prism to Old Feng’s restaurant, where they secured the captives in the cellar and Sing Sing prepared to travel into the wasteland.
• At Deep Well, the commander activated the Zone D contingency plan and sent artificial humans Number 07 and Number 08 to retrieve Sing Sing’s corpse.
• Sing Sing drove toward Deep Well until Number 07 and Number 08 caught up in an SUV and shot his truck off the road.
• Sing Sing faced the two artificial humans, who looked like Wolverine and Sabretooth and had matching claws and fangs.

Sing Sing defeated two Silver Peak Wolverine and Sabretooth clones, then encountered Silver Peak soldiers trying to capture a young woman. He killed their squad leader and leaped from the canyon cliff toward the remaining soldiers.

• Sing Sing assessed the Wolverine and Sabretooth clones, then defeated them with a powerful palm strike and disabled them before packing their remains away.
• Sing Sing drove away from the battlefield and heard an explosion and gunfire coming from a nearby canyon.
• Sing Sing saw Silver Peak soldiers attacking a young woman, who fought back before tranquilizers and electric nets weakened her.
• The squad leader approached the trapped woman and threatened to kill her as his soldiers covered the area with their guns.
• Sing Sing cut off the squad leader's head from above and leaped from the cliff toward the startled Silver Peak soldiers.

Sing Sing rescued Christina from Silver Peak’s Cleaners and tested her story before deciding to take her along. As they headed toward an abandoned mine, a strange blood-covered harpoon struck nearby and released a blue electrical arc.

• Sing Sing defeated the Silver Peak tactical squad and freed Christina from an electrified net.
• Christina told Sing Sing that Silver Peak’s Cleaners had raided the Morlock settlement and that she had escaped when others helped her.
• Sing Sing questioned Christina about whether she had betrayed her people, then decided she had passed his test and gave her water.
• Sing Sing introduced himself as Stephen Chow and agreed to take the unsteady Christina with him, warning her to keep three meters away when they slept.
• A blood-covered harpoon landed a hundred meters away, releasing an eerie blue arc of electricity.

Sing Sing stopped during his escape with Christina to cook a meal, then confronted Stinger, the Marauder Cleaner Christina blamed for the Morlock massacre. After mocking Stinger’s talk of genetic superiority, Sing Sing faced a sudden harpoon attack.

• Sing Sing set up a barbecue in the ruins and persuaded Christina, who had gone two and a half days without food, to eat.
• Christina told Sing Sing about the Morlock Settlement’s meager food and her disastrous cooking.
• Stinger emerged from the shadows and joined them by the fire, prompting Christina to identify him as the butcher who massacred the Morlocks.
• Stinger defended the massacre as natural selection and claimed Silver Peak had given him a platform to prove his beliefs.
• Sing Sing mocked Stinger’s philosophical excuses for killing, so Stinger drew a glowing harpoon and attacked him.

During Christina’s interview, Stinger attacked her, forcing her to awaken her strength before he overwhelmed her. Sing Sing intervened and cut through Stinger’s harpoon, but Stinger unleashed five more weapons and prepared a deadly attack.

• Sing Sing introduced Christina and Stinger as partners in the leaderless group discussion, then Stinger lunged at Christina with his harpoon.
• Christina dodged Stinger’s attacks, awakened her power, and hurled a huge rock at him, but he pierced her shoulder with a harpoon and shocked her into submission.
• Stinger raised his main harpoon to kill Christina, but Sing Sing blocked the strike with his Pig Butchering Knife.
• Sing Sing sliced through Stinger’s battle harpoon and forced him to retreat, then checked that Christina was still alive.
• Stinger released the five spare harpoons from his back and gathered purple-black energy for another attack.

Sing Sing defeated Stinger with a series of improvised barbecue tricks and martial arts, then discovered the assassin carried a communicator marked with the Hellfire Club's emblem. After Stinger died hinting that a great purge had begun, Sing Sing recruited Christina on the spot and offered to take her back to China.

• Stinger's guided forks failed to trap Sing Sing, who knocked them aside and countered his close-range attack with a powerful kick.
• Sing Sing blinded Stinger with charcoal dust and tricked him into stabbing a slab of pork belly before seizing and disabling his arm.
• Sing Sing punched Stinger into the ground and sealed his meridians while Christina approached, wounded.
• Sing Sing found a black communicator bearing the Hellfire Club lily emblem as Stinger died after warning that a great purge had begun.
• Sing Sing gave Christina a China 749 Bureau recruitment card and told her she had passed the interview and would return to China with the organization.

Sing Sing and Christina discovered that the supposed Deep Well was the Number Seven Containment Tower and entered its deadly maze. Sing Sing cut a straight path through the defenses and reached the elevator to the second-floor experiment Core Zone.

• Sing Sing exposed the Number Seven Containment Tower by probing the salt flat, photographed it, and sealed its entrance with warning tape.
• Sing Sing and Christina entered the tower, where its automatic door locked behind them and the Ouroboros Dynamic Containment Maze activated.
• Sing Sing gave Christina compressed lamb rations and used his Pig Butchering Knife to slice through the maze walls.
• Sing Sing destroyed the maze’s traps and Gauss machine guns as he carved a direct route through the tower.
• Sing Sing and Christina reached the elevator to the second-floor experiment Core Zone, and Sing Sing corrected Christina by calling himself a government public servant.

Sing Sing and Christina entered Deep Well’s rainforest arena, where Sing Sing butchered three Silver Peak chimeric beasts with his Pig Butchering Knife. After the furious commander ordered the clone army awakened, Sing Sing and Christina climbed toward the third level.

• Sing Sing and Christina emerged into the rainforest arena, where the commander taunted them with three chimeric beasts.
• Sing Sing sprayed himself with beast-attracting floral water, drew the Ligers’ attacks, and killed and expertly butchered all three.
• Christina watched in shock as Sing Sing packed away the tenderloin and condemned Silver Peak for tampering with protected animals.
• The commander smashed his tablet and ordered the emergency protocol to awaken every dormant pod and release the combat clones.
• Sing Sing beckoned Christina to follow him up the ladder toward the third level, and she hurried after him.

Sing Sing used Wenxi’s pink brainwave-disrupting hair dryer to make Silver Peak’s Lady Deathstrike clones dance and fight one another. As he and Christina neared the elevator to the fourth floor, the device burned out, leaving them surrounded by hundreds of hostile clones.

• Lady Deathstrike clones emerged from glass pods on the third floor and charged at Sing Sing and Christina.
• Sing Sing activated Wenxi’s Peppa Pig hair dryer, which overrode the clones’ commands with a square-dance song.
• The dancing clones disrupted the charging ranks and began attacking one another, while Silver Peak’s technicians failed to regain control.
• Sing Sing and Christina crossed the chaotic hall toward the fourth-floor elevator as Sing Sing criticized the clones’ dancing.
• The hair dryer broke down near the elevator, and the clones turned their attention to Sing Sing and Christina.

Sing Sing protected Christina and slaughtered the Lady Deathstrike clones, then mocked Silver Peak through a security camera. He and Christina took an elevator into a water tank, where Sing Sing guessed that the creatures swimming outside could make good fish with pickled mustard greens.

• Sing Sing used a broken hair dryer to attack a clone, then kept Christina behind him as he fought the Lady Deathstrike clones.
• Sing Sing killed the clones with his knife, throwing blades, and powerful kicks, while Christina watched in amazement.
• After the last clone fell, Sing Sing cleaned himself up, challenged Silver Peak through a security camera, and entered an elevator with Christina.
• The elevator rose through a glass tank as shadowy creatures swam outside, and Sing Sing joked about cooking them for the cafeteria.

Sing Sing saved Christina from the shattered walkway and fought the biochemical sharks and frogmen underwater. He reached her on the glass wall, leaving Christina stunned by his abilities.

• Sing Sing used an inflatable collar from his suit to keep himself and Christina afloat after the walkway collapsed.
• Sing Sing killed an attacking biochemical shark with a grenade, then glued Christina's life preserver to the glass wall to keep her safe.
• Sing Sing dove underwater and disabled the lead frogman with his Tendon-Separating and Bone-Dislocating Hand.
• Sing Sing used Half-Step Crushing Fist to kill a second frogman while sharks and the remaining frogmen surrounded him.
• Christina feared Sing Sing had died, but he emerged from beneath a frogman and walked up the glass wall toward her.

Sing Sing and Christina escaped the aquarium and entered a martial-arts-themed floor, where Sing Sing fought two cybernetic Japanese swordsmen. After disabling one and taunting both, he faced their rage-fueled, overclocked pincer attack.

• Sing Sing climbed out of the aquarium with Christina and found an arena decorated like a historical martial-arts hall.
• The commander revealed two cybernetic swordsmen trained with the instincts of seventeen kendo masters and challenged Sing Sing to fight them.
• Sing Sing stopped the first swordsman's powerful downward slash with Wing Chun tan sau and punched him in the nose, sending machine oil gushing.
• Sing Sing grabbed a wooden staff and struck the first swordsman, then parried the second swordsman's attacks while mocking both men.
• The two swordsmen overheated, disabled their safety protocols, and doubled their speed as they launched a pincer attack against Sing Sing.

Sing Sing and Christina cleared the tower’s increasingly absurd obstacle levels, while Sing Sing collected useful mechanical parts and began skipping levels by cutting through the ceilings. After overcoming eighty-one trials, they reached the door marked “Control room,” and Sing Sing kicked it open.

• Sing Sing dismantled two mechanical samurai, gathered usable parts, and followed Christina up to level 5.
• Sing Sing and Christina crossed the timed field of floating blocks, evaded explosive red blocks, and escaped the piranha-plant staircase.
• They cleared the swinging chain-ball track, spring-mushroom room, spiked rollers, and poisonous fog maze.
• Sing Sing cut through the ceiling of level 10 to bypass the teleportation pipe maze, and the pair continued through more obstacle levels.
• After clearing eighty-one trials, Sing Sing and Christina reached the control room door, and Sing Sing kicked it.

Sing Sing fought his way through Silver Peak Consortium’s command room and demanded to know where Jacob and Doctor Nathan were being held. Before he could get answers, a beastlike Coyote and the revived Stinger confronted him.

• Sing Sing dodged the six exoskeleton soldiers’ gunfire and killed them with coins after one weapon jammed.
• Sing Sing stopped the commander from pressing the explosives button and questioned him about Jacob and Doctor Nathan.
• Coyote attacked Sing Sing from behind, tearing his specially made suit.
• Stinger entered the command room alive and unharmed, shocking Christina, and challenged Sing Sing with his harpoon.

Sing Sing fought Stinger and Coyote, discovering that Silver Peak's bionic armor and energy weapons could withstand his attacks. As Stinger and Coyote launched a coordinated assault, Sing Sing stood his ground and reached into his breast pocket.

• Stinger revealed that his brainwave data had been backed up and his new body was a fourth-generation bionic composite, while Coyote attacked Sing Sing.
• Sing Sing dodged Coyote's pounce and struck at him, but Coyote's subdermal honeycomb armor absorbed most of the force.
• Stinger attacked with his energy-charged fork, and Sing Sing deflected the thrust before knocking him several meters away, though Stinger remained unharmed.
• Stinger unleashed a purplish-red energy field that disintegrated a desk, and Sing Sing used a thrown jacket to spot gaps where the energy streams intersected.
• Stinger sent a crescent of energy at Sing Sing as Coyote pounced from above, and Sing Sing reached into his breast pocket without moving his feet.

Sing Sing used the Whimsical Gun’s reverse-firing mechanism and a surprise attack to defeat Coyote and Stinger, then demanded to know where little Jacob was. He threatened to torture the two injured creations while the commander remained silent.

• Sing Sing dropped the Whimsical Gun as Coyote lunged, and Coyote picked it up and aimed it at him.
• The gun fired backward into Coyote’s face, and Sing Sing struck Stinger from behind with a metal rod.
• Sing Sing explained that he had deliberately baited Coyote and pointed out the gun’s reverse-firing warning label.
• Sing Sing pulled the fruit knife from the commander’s hand and demanded to know where little Jacob was.
• When the commander refused to answer, Sing Sing threatened Stinger and Coyote with torture.

Sing Sing and Christina defeated Stinger and Coyote at the D-7 Test Site, but the wounded commander activated the facility’s self-destruct sequence. With the underground fusion gel set to detonate, they had only seconds to escape.

• Stinger attacked Sing Sing while Coyote, too injured to fight, turned on Christina.
• Christina activated Dust Angel and slammed Coyote to the floor, then subdued him.
• Sing Sing dodged Stinger’s attacks, struck through his armor, cut apart his trident, and stripped the flesh from his right leg before kicking him into a wall.
• The commander triggered the D-7 Test Site’s self-destruct sequence, starting a ten-second countdown to the fusion gel detonation.